wow 40 posts and no real progress.

hmmm. if is a little sad that there really isn't differance in my cars from when i started this blog.

i have a feeling that that may change over the next 9 months. marnie is SOOOO hormonal already. i had forgotten how full on she gets. it probably doesn't help that she was taking zaiban (sp?)  when she found out she was pregnant and of course has now stopped. dirty smokers....          ha! spoken like a true ex smoker :) . zaiban made my completely loopy when i took it a while back. it also does strange things to your head when you stop taking it.

my "fathers day" present from the family to me turned up yeaterday (i won't give details on just how pissed off marnie was when this MASSIVE box showed up:) ) a box of headlight bits from, you guessed it, e.bay. i do so hate the place but love it at the same time. it was 6 lenses and bits of 3 bodies. all of the bodies were a bit rough, but it was cheap so i won't complain. the add had very few pictures and not the best title/description which made it hard to find + probably made people a little hesitant to bid. i wanted (i originaly typed needed but it wasn't a need...) one of the lenses to complete a set of headlights i have. when they showed up i was plesantly surprised. of the 6 lenses 5 were good, the other didn't survive the post, a little sad as it was a decent match for another of the lenses. non of them were propper VW logo lenses but beggers can't be chosers. still of the 5 surviving 4 were semetrical lenses (aka early single spot) the other is a late split bus and will be going to a friend, as, though i want a late set of bus headlights, just for the sake of having them, he needs them. he sold what he thought was a spare set to a friend in desperate need only to find out that they were the lights out of one of his busses and he doesn't have a set for it now. 

i just realized how damn booring this must be for anyone reading it. if you are, you really need to get a life. (not that i can talk :) )

just to finish my headlight monologue... it turns out apart from the lense to finish off my set ant the one for my friend, i got another that will (once i source a half decent 12 and 3 bosch stamped ring) make a pair to a light i have. i have several suitable spare bodys for it (and mashed rings that are beyond my current skills to straighten) . i also should be able to make a half decent early bus light out of spares and another of the lenses. unfortunately the last lense is too different to make a decent pair with my last unmatched early light... if only the 6th lense hadnt smashed. oh well, you can't win them all. i think i did damn well though.

i can add "headlight perv" to my list of VW fettishes. (6V, the later ones don't do that much for me.... though i do like the early type 3 bosch spot/leadoff lights). it has been an on going thing for years. to me a good correct matched set of early lights is so nice, a thing to cherish and admire.

i saw these advertised and fell in love, perfect for my 63 ragtop, but alas at $600 they are about $599.10 more than i can swing at the moment.

that pic is almost porn to me. it is also very frustrating as i know that by the time i source perfect rings or get some straight and rechromed, get the reflectors recoated, get new seals/spring clips etc and then source a perfect match for one of the lenses i have, i'll be looking at close to $600 anyway and they will still not be as nice. even if i flogged stuff off, i prob wouldn't have the $ in time.

it is funny how a lack of $ always comes at the times when all of these amazing things you rarely see come up for sale. aka the headlights and a heap of NOS body panels on e.bay. plus this weekend is the local car show/swap meet. i haven't been for a few years, but last time i went i scored some NOS kombi bits and i can just feel that there will be something i'd LOVE but won't be able to afford. i even arranged with work to have this weekend off specifically so i could go. :( 

back to headlights. i did work out how i can display/store all my complete lights... a length of timber  with little hooks bent up from a strip of stainless steel screwed on at a suitable spacing. mount out from wall a few inches for clearance then mount the headlights with the hook catching on the inside of the rolled lip on the headlight ring.

ahhh too much talk not enough action.