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If you have some time to kill or are bored at work (ahem) then maybe you can pass the time with this little game we found on the Internet.
Blast around a cluttered desk in your little VW Beetle (even if it is a Newbie) and see how many levels you can get through.
If it isn't hard enough, maybe you should try the 'Expert' level.
It's quite an old game so don't worry that you can't check your rank and don't bother trying to enter the competition.
Just play for fun and post your score in our comments section below.
You can play the game below - just click your desired language to get started!
Unfortunately it wasn't that easy!
Despite a new adjustable beam and new tyres making the ride height about 3-inches higher than it used to be, the place we took the Fridolin to still couldn't get a jack underneath to do the tracking. It's still too low!
James has located another garage nearby that has a decent vehicle lift that will fit underneath so hopefully we will get better results.
More photos of the Fridolin can be found in the VolksWorld Photo Gallery
That's what I have to keep reminding myself anyway. This body prep malarkey doesn't half take a long time!
I busted out the sanding blocks again this weekend and prepped a few more areas on the Beetle. I think having to do it in stages (it lives outside and due to the weather I can't rub down the whole car at once or paint it in one go) isn't helping too much and slowing the whole process down.
Ho hum! Come August, I will hopefully be cruising about in it!
My painter is desperate to make a start on the car now so if all goes to plan (yeah right) it should be off to his workshop in the next few weeks.
The engine bay is looking rather tidy now - it should look good once painted up.
Here is the front arch after a coat of POR15. As with all the other arches, two coats of stone chip follwed and then a coat of primer. I want to keep things rust free!
You can see the full update of what work I did at the weekend in an upcoming issue of VolksWorld magazine. And don't forget, you can see a few photos of the build up so far in the VolksWorld Photo Galleries
Readers of our 20th Anniversary Special Edition might be pleased to read that the ex-Chris Jory Oval could well be hitting the show circuit once again some time in the future.
We revisited the original feature about the Oval, which appeared in Issue 1 back in '87, then tracked the car down to show readers the current state of the Oval, which was hidden at the back of someone's garden rotting away. It was in a really bad state - to the point you wouldn't even recognise it.
This sparked a mammoth number of phone calls to us in the office from people wanting to know where the car was and how they could get it so they could bring it back to its former glory. Initially, the car was not up for sale (the owner took a lot of convincing), but it has now exchanged hands. The new owner is none other than VW collector Russell Ritchie from Aberdeen, Scotland. This is great news! Hopefully, we will be seeing the car at The VolksWorld Show next year! Good luck with the project, guys!
Here is an interesting one for all you Fridolin lovers. While browsing the net (yep, that's us researching again!), we found a very cool thread on Volksforum.com.
Granted, it is all in Dutch, but luckily, the pictures tell the story. The long and the short of it is that the owner, known as Rudd, has gutted his Fridolin, built what looks like a custom chassis and whapped a great big Audi W12 engine in the middle! Yes, a W12! Its 6.0-litre capacity produces over 420hp in the A8, which of course has Audi's legendry Quattro set-up! So God only knows how quick this thing will be with the power delivered solely through the rear wheels.
Visit the link to check out the photos on the thread! It's total lunacy! We love it! www.volksworld.com/volksforumfrid
