Details...

I asked Udo to install a tow-hook in Germany because in Italy it's difficult to register it. Here are some pics.

These are the awful wires needed for emergency turn signals and operating of trailer or Eriba lights.

Tank gauge is not running. In these days I have to check if the problem is electrical or more probably inside the tank.

99,000 miles through the vineyards...

Water for the windscreen is operated by this awful switch probably mounted in UK

Nice non functioning US radio set:

Carpet from Mali (Africa) acts as a seat cover:

The spare wheel is still there...

Horror Vacui...

Environmental stickers:

Class II Truck:
Truck with gross vehicle weight (GVW) of 6,001-10,000 lbs

Rust is hungry of the lower engine hood...

6V battery...

Not so clear pic of the chassis plate:

A new muffler had been installed by Udo for German registration:

At the present moment I have these German documents:

The TUV approval:

The black license plate I have mounted to impress the people at Italian meetings. I like it!

Original USA license plate that used to be on the bus before it crossed the Ocean:

Documents from USA I found in the cab. The bus was circulating in Sonoma, California (north of San Francisco).

This is the 'M' plate I found behind the front passenger seat. I tried to read it.

22 4 means the vehicle was manufactured on 22 April

428 means North American export package for commercials
UF is an export code indicating the destination of this pickup was in USA, San Francisco (CA)

265 is the model number: double cab left hand drive with right cab door

3 seems to mean it has a synthetic resin paint

Grey is the color of the paint: Light Grey (L345) body with Grey (80) trim

1102605 is the chassis number: from production schemes we understand it's been produced in 1963

waiting for the documents...

After the birthday party at my place with some friends (I'm 33) on the 18th of November...

More pics here: OldClan

... we went to Germany on the following weekend (26-27 November) to pick up the doka and take it home. This is Udo's 'Werkstatt' in March (near Freiburg).

Udo showed us a Volvo to be chopped and other things...

We had a look also to the lastest issue of VW Speed (Jan 07) with a contest for the car of the year, and my Bug (The Goldfather) is in the list!

Udo not so clear in this pic...

Me and Udo putting the German plate because in Switzerland they can stop you long if you pass trough there and they don't see any license plate..

We had dinner in Emmendingen, in an almost-Christmas atmosphere.. wine... we still prefer Italian. Perhaps we did a bad choice. But we got 'happy' as well.. eheh

We slept in our nice usual Hotel in Emmendingen, the Markgraf Hotel. This was the view from our room in the morning of 27 November.

We left Germany for the 750km trip home

Little stop in a Swiss 'Autogrill'

On Italian highway at sunset... a look at the mirror...

At night, almost at home after hundreds kms, your sight becomes like this...

Adde sent gently two pieces of Der Steiner Rad for me just to have a look...

On Ebay I bought these two nice headlight grills from Germany.

I had to work on one of that to rebuild a clip. They feature slanted design and don't require any drilling or removing of glass.

Some welding for the TÜV approval...

In September the work to eliminate some rust began.

The more you cut, the more you find...