2013 Review

some other moments of 2013

 

OOC driving the Thundersodder @ Bergrennen 2013

Bergrennen 2013

We were recently invited over to the Bergrennen by some of our Norwegian friends, so we jump on a plane and headed to Norway.

JHU was kind enough to collect us from the airport, on arriving at Øystein's Paul and myself were both presented with a vehicle to drive over the weekend.

Some people went to extremes to make their cars even lighter ......

Nice view from Race H.Q.

Race H.Q. for the weekend.



We would like to say a BIG thank you to all our old friends and the new ones we made over the weekend, we really had a fantastic time in the mountains doing what we love to do best, hang out with other crazy minded VW friends and race old cars at scary speeds up a mountain.
We loved it so much we will be back next year, but maybe we will be driving our own cars next time..... watch this space!

New Blood

We would like to welcome "Der Fahrer" to the ranks of the OOC, he will be flying the Oldspeed flag for us up North!
He will be busy over the winter with all things Oldspeed on his zwitter...........

And the winner is.........

It's been a while since we last posted on our blog, but after the manic build up to The Petermax Müller Rennen and Hessisch Oldendorf we all decided to spend some quality time during the remainder of the summer with our families.

We had great fun in Germany this summer and a full report of the race will appear soon in VW publications, so that is why there is no report here.
All we can say is that The Oldtimer Oldspped Club managed to take the Petermax Müller trophy away from the Norsemen, although we know they will return at the next edition to try to take it back.....

There was some fantastic and crazy driving in the quest for the trophy and "Mad" Mic Duc was the winner in this 356.
Here the winner is tucked up for the winter and is in good company!
The first owner of the bike in the foreground was the maestro himself Petermax Müller!
What fantastic company for the Petermax Müller trophy until Mic will have to defend it in 2 years........

Petermax Müller Rennen

as most of you know it is nearly "that time" the Petermax Müller Rennen 

here is the latest news:

http://www.prototyp-hamburg.de/newsletter/newsletter92/

  PROTOTYP. NEWSLETTER. 92.

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  PETERMAX MÜLLER GEDÄCHTNIS RENNEN 2013.

Am Donnerstag, den 20. Juni 2013 startet wieder ein Petermax Müller Gedächtnis Rennen - diesmal vom Automuseum Prototyp nach Hessisch Oldendorf zum 6. internationalen Volkswagen Veteranentreffen, wo vom 21. bis 23. Juni 2013 über 800 Fahrzeuge erwartet werden!

Im Rahmen des Petermax Müller Gedächtnis Rennens werden für den frühen Mittwochabend (19. Juni) mehr als 20 historische VW- und Porsche-Fahrzeuge im Innenhof des Automuseums Prototyp - der zum Parc fermé wird - erwartet.

Der Start ist geplant für 11:00 Uhr am Donnerstag (20. Juni). Vom Innenhof des Museums geht es los nach Hessisch Oldendorf, wo u. a. bereits zwei Museumshighlights warten: der Weltrekordwagen von Petermax Müller sowie der Berlin-Rom-Wagen (38/42).

Teilnehmen dürfen historische VW- und Porsche-Fahrzeuge bzw. Fahrzeuge von Karosseriebauern auf Basis von VW- bzw. Porsche-Technik. Team Prototyp startet mit dem ältesten Denzel-Sportwagen, der noch existiert.

Wir laden Sie herzlich dazu ein, sich bei uns im Parc fermé die Fahrzeuge anzuschauen und auch den Start des Rennens mitzuerleben.

Weitere Informationen zum Rennen finden Sie unter www.petermaxrennen.org.

PROTOTYP GmbH 

Personen. Kraft. Wagen. 

Shanghaiallee 7 / beim Lohseplatz / HafenCity, 20457 Hamburg 

Tel. 040 - 39 99 69 68 - Fax. 040 – 39 99 69 89 

E-mail: info@prototyp-hamburg.de 

www.prototyp-hamburg.de 

Gf. Gesellschafter:

Dipl.-Ing. T. König

Dipl. Kfm. O. Schmidt

Translation basically reads:

On Thursday 20th June, is the Petermax Müller Memorial Race, this time the race will depart from the Prototyp Museum in Hamburg heading to the 6th international VW Meeting at Hessisch Oldendorf, where more than 800 vehicles are expected to attend.

There are more than 20 historical VW and Porsche vehicles already registered for the Petermax Müller Rennen and they can be seen from Wednesday evening (19th June) in the courtyard of the Prototyp museum, parked in "Parc Fermé" conditions.

The start of the Race is planned for the next day (20th June) around 11.00am. We will leave the court yard heading off towards Hessisch Oldendorf, where there will be already two of the museum "highlight vehicles" waiting for us, namely the original Petermax Müller world record car and the Berlin Rome car 38/42.

Registration is open to historical VW and Porsche vehicles or coach built vehicles based on VW and Porsche technology.

Team Prototyp will take part in the oldest surviving Denzel sports car.

We would like to invite you to come along and look at the vehicles in Parc Fermé and witness the start of the race.

More details at www.petermaxrennen.org.

ALSO

there will be a party on the Wednesday evening for all drivers navigators, guests and anyone else that would like to come, the party will be at the Prototyp museum, come along and be part of the fun either as a competitor or a spectator, to this event at an amazing venue as a warm up to the greatest VW show on the planet. If you have never been to Prototyp then this is something not to miss.......

We would also like to again say a BIG THANK YOU to Thomas and Oliver  for helping by backing the Rennen and opening the doors of their amazing museum.

Thanks guys, this would never have been possible without your backing.

Fuel, fuel everywhere!

After some fuel issues and nearly and engine fire, we have been busy looking for the source of the problem!
Der Brummbär is once again safe to drive and ready for some road testing.

Fine Tuning

Looks like someone is out practasing and doing some fine tuning on those bumpy country tracks in preparation for The Rennen :)

The Clock is Ticking !!

Not long to go now until The Petermax Rennen  Hessisch Oldendorf edition, so we thought we would take a few of our cars to Stamford Hall to drum up some interest in the race .....

Brush off those cobwebs!

Spring is nearly upon us and we are thinking about projects on our cars for this year.
Time to brush of those cobwebs and get back into the workshop and focus on getting prepared for the PeterMax Rennen.

What better way to inspire us to get into the workshop than look at the pictures from Mr Godwin's 4800km trip around Austria, Italy, Croatia, Bosnia and Albania last September.

The sun is shinning, the clocks going back and time to come out of hibernation and focus :)

OOC at Le Mans Classic

We recently attended the Le Mans Classic and due to unfortunate circumstances it was not possible to take all the cars we wanted.
The '54 Oldspeed Oval attended and flew the flag for the Oldtimer Oldspeed Club with a few laps of the famous track, weather conditions were wet, but the Oval performed well :-)
Along for the ride in the navigators seat was our good Norwegian friend Øystein, although he is usually happier in the drivers seat ;-)

Just what the Doctor ordered!

The eagerly awaited Speedwell 36hp (30hp) ratio rockers are finally ready to ship ;)
plug and play instant ponies :)

Holidays are over!

Well the summer holidays are nearly over, we have all had time to think about the direction of our projects and spend some quality time with family and friends.

Mr Godwin has recently just finished building his new garage and moving house, still some organizing to do, but soon it will be a fantastic work environment for oldspeed improvements :-)

Normal service has been resumed!

We have been away for a while now, not only working on our cars but with other things too.
We leave for Le Mans Classic in 4 days and it is all hands on deck to get cars ready in time....

Don't adjust your set!

We are focused with a plan and are busy behind the scenes, we shall return!
In the mean time we would like to wish all our viewers  HAPPY HOLIDAYS

Christmas Jingle...

Rob over at Pre67vw made this short animation, not too much we can say really except Fantastic!!

Christmas came early again!

We had a special delivery today, looks like we won't be getting bored over the holiday period, with some excellent reading to keep us occupied :-)

The Monte-Carlo Rally is the oldest and most famous rally in history, it should not be confused with "The Sunday driver Rallies" It takes place in the winter through some of the most mountainous treacherous conditions possible.
Over the years many teams have taken the challenge, known and unknown, anonymous and famous, amateurs and professionals, they have overcome countless obstacles to follow their dreams and participate in a Rally which is without equal, one who's very name reaches into the heart of every driver, navigator, mechanic, journalist, spectator and race steward.
All the greats have taken part and tried to win the Monte, Huschke von Hanstein, Petermax Müller and Vic Elford to name just a few.

Preview time!

A glimpse of things to come...... ;-)

Car of the Year

Congratulations to Prototyp Museum for winning The Car of the Year at the International Historic Motoring awards,with their Typ 60k10.
This really is a beautiful car, the ultimate Oldspeed race car and where it all began......

Mmmmm......

Public Holiday today, so back in the workshop thinking about one of next year's projects........

Ready for Winter Sports

Winter is just around the corner and we should all be preparing our cars for some fun, back in the 50's they had the right idea....
No prizes for guessing who the winner was :-)

The Holy Grail!

If you were lucky enough to attend the Porsche Race Car Classic, you would have seen two "guest stars".
For the ones that couldn't make it, here are a few pictures to enlighten you....

To some, they are the original Oldspeed race car, to other's the car that showed the way forward in the early 50's, but to most they are the "Holy Grail" of VW powered cars.
The cars in question if you didn't know is the Denzel, built by Wolfgang Denzel in Vienna, Austria.
Although their engines are highly modified the starting point was a 30hp VW  case.

Denzel was a competitor to Porsche in the early 50's and with their lightness and nimble handling they achieved worldwide recognition with their stunning win in the 1954 Alpine rally.

These hand built cars were manufactured over a ten year period, from 1949 - 1959, the prototype was built in 1948 and ran a Kübel chassis, in 1960 Denzel was convinced to make one more example before they closed their doors.
There was a total of only 75 cars produced, so as you can image they are as rare as hens teeth!

Here you see Tom & Mark's cars, the restoration of Tom's car only just finished at the eleventh hour in time to make it to the show..........

Hiding away

No sight or sound has been seen of "The Bachelor" of late, he has been locking himself away in the garage and we started to wonder why.
Recently acquiring some spy shots, we now know what he's been working on.
Looking good "B" hope it will be finished in time to make an appearance at Le Mans Classic next year, with the rest of us ;-)

What a mess......

The Pepco motor was opened yesterday to look inside and see what had occurred.
But as you can see it wasn't a pretty sight!
The crank snapped and started to move inside the case, subsiquently the pulley has eaten into the front of the case and destroyed it. On closer inspection of the case, we believe we know why and how the problem occurred.....

As we have good "standard mains" 30hp cases lying around The Professor will use one of these as a starting point to work his alchemy and rebuild the Pepco motor ready for Le Mans next year, producing more hp and reliability ;-)

We will keep you posted.......

Yet more R&D....

At last our manifolds arrived!
Belgian customs didn't really help, keeping them for nearly 5 weeks, oh the joys of bureaucracy.....
If you want to run P11's or Weber's on your Okrasa heads, then you will be needing a set of these :-)

I would also like to thank Ray, for listening to my endless whining ....

Porsche race car classic

It's only a week to go to the Porsche race car classic at Quail Lodge Resort, Carmel, California.
Some of the world's finest Porsche race cars will gather in unprecedented numbers, Gmünds, Glocklers, 550's 904's and more...
There is also rumored to be a couple of "special" guest star's ;-)
If you are in the area be sure to go check it out

Can we fix it?

YES we can!
Herr Blower's 30hp Pepco recently snapped it's crank and has joined the Q awaiting attention!
Soon to be rebuilt with even more hp ready for Le Mans Classic next year ;-)
We will keep you posted......

Last minute sunshine!

Taking advantage of the fantastic recent weather, the '54 was out and about for some final road testing in fast driving conditions before being put into hibernation for the winter.
After some tweaking the oil temperature is down 10ºC under fast driving conditions in warm weather, perfect for Le Mans Classic next year ;-)