Arte & Fusca - The VW Beetle and the Pop Art HALL OF HONOR FOR: |
Pim van Loon From: Kats, Holland |
Lets know a bit about this honored friend:
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Pim van Loon's short profile: Hi! Pim van Loon is my name and you might know me from my own Web Site (www.ploon.nl) or the stuff I've done for others like VW Euro (www.vweuro.nl) and (www.lvwcn.com). Right now I'm 24 years old (I'm from 4 Nov 1975) and I live in Kats a small village in the south west of Holland. Beetles have always been a passion of mine. I used to customize scale models and when I finally had my drivers license I already owned a '73 bay-window bus. At that time I did a mechanical engineering study (which I never finished. I'm a professional Web Designer right now) and some of my friends suggested it would be cool to go on vacation together. The need for a car was obvious and it had to be big, so they all looked in my direction as my reputation as VW fanatic meant I had to find us an old bus for the trip. We bought the first bus we came across (from the brother of another friend from school) and this turned out to be a bit of a lemon. We spend 3 summer-breaks working on it and in 1999 we finally used it on a short trip to the UK (it had been to VW Euro '98 & London to Brighton '98, but not without problems). By that time I had saved enough money to get the ownership of the entire bus (my friends where partners in the project remember?). I bought a 74 beetle in the summer of '99 as a friend needed to the space in the garage. Again it was a bit of a basket case and this car is almost ready to pass it's road test after which I plan to sell it. In the autumn of 99 the engine of the bay-window bus exploded on the highway
and we had to rebuild a spare case with new cylinders, pistons and heads to
get the bus mobile again. Soon after that my good friend Hans Sprenkels
pointed me in the direction of a very nice split-screen bus and I decided to
sell the bay-window. The only problem was that the gearbox suddenly decided
to make a lot of noise. A buyer was found anyway, so now I can spend my time
on my dream car:
a 1960 pickup with only 27.500 km on it !!!
[Sent by Pim van Loon on 16MAR2000] |
An example of the participation on the QUEST:
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Pim van Loon included a Link to the "Arte & Fusca -
The VW Beetle and the Pop Art" Site in his Site, thus allowing the divulgation of the QUEST to
more people around the world, helping a lot to proceed with the work!
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How to get in touch:
Home Pages: Pim van Loon's Page
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e-mail: "Pim van Loon - VW Euro" |
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