home for HER IX

thx god or whoever the winter is over and its time again to push on the work on my garage project. i did some lil things in the past few weeks. and the last both weekends i painted the outside. and this is definitely something for the interested public. first layer is transparent base coat, next two layers the paint. name is oxyd-red. i call it primer-red. the tiler is on work right now but finish his work end of the week. and now the pix

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amsterdam by bike

last week we stood in the netherlands aproxx 30 min northwards of amsterdam. last sunday my buddy Jochen discharged my wish of a biketour across amsterdam. there is no better way to discover a town as with an "almost" native and on a bike. by pure chance :-) he ownes 9 bikes and so everybody could find one of his personal taste.

first he showed us his neighborhood, great new architecture, clear forms, various materials close to well-tried houseboat living. its a cool mix.

the "kompaszaal" is a great place to have a chilling sunday. if you spend some coins you get some music from an original Wurlitzer musicbox.



























formerly it was part of the old port and survived by the activity of squatters. today you can find in the old real estates some galleries and fashion stores.
next we hit the centre of the town and got a great view from top of the city libary (yellow arrow).

it was sunday but it was open and it was full house. students, families, tourists. inside the building great architecture again. without a guide you cant find such places.

the bikes parked in the basement. the garage is flooded with operatic music to keep youth hooligans outside :-)

the "Tuschinski Theater" is an old cinema. if you like "art nouveau" you are right here!
























some of the streets smells like a big headshop and the guys who came out of the coffee-shops had a big grin on their faces ;-) (notice for foreign readers: marihuana is a legal drug in the netherlands)
and so we spend almost 5.5 hours on the bike to became a teeny-weeny part of the city.
at the end of that cruising my ass hurts a little. but it was fantastic.
hope you enjoy that little trip.

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my little x-mas on the 24th of march - thx Skype !!!

today the fender skirts came in to my friends in TX. i was live near by, if T. opened the box and pull out the skirts. it was like virtual x-mas. and its so great with the i-net that makes this possible 5.200 mls away. thx T n T im very happy about you :-)

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my season opening !!!

after a long, long cold winter, today was THE first day. sunny, high temp, dry streets (no salty water).
time to put the plates on Her :-). brand new battery in the trunk, one turn with the key and SHE was alive :-). first ride was picking up my little girl from school. i cruised the town with a big grin on my face.

she looks great at the drive :-)

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Style Deluxe HHamburg

this thursday i had a business date in the north part of germany. the way cross Hamburg city and i remember me for this little garage calls Style Deluxe

i knew the name of the street and a round about of the number and so i drive this street 3 times up and down before i discovered a drive to a backyard. nobody assumed here a kustom car garage.
but i was right, than after i walked inside, a b/w fighting dog sniffed on me and mr. Kaps was finishing an old BWM-bike for a customer.
first i asked him about the southeast-european cardealer neighborhood along the street and he tell me, that he like to build a 8 ft barbwire fencing arround his property. i can understand him.

at one corner of the shop stood his 50 belair under construction. bare to the metal, grounding the concret and waiting to be a new beauty. its a lot of work until then. the car came out of the states with their own imagination of quality ;-). but its another story.

we talked about this and that, i took some pix and was happy that i did this visit.

here are some impressions of the shop - enjoy it

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Kenny´s Kustoms - NorthMyrtleBeach SC

gestern hab ich n video von dem laden gefunden, in dem ich letzten märz für 10 tage sein durfte. schaut es euch an.

yesterday i´ve found a video from Kenny´s Kustoms, the garage where i stood last year for 10 days. have a look

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northpole or southpole but def. not germany

today morning i cant trust my eyes. display was going
down (4 °F)

and down (3°F)

and down (0°F)

and dont forget - do not stick your tounge on the outside doorhandle, it hurts

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