08 July 2012

Something for the house...

Back in June, I went to FunFest in Effingham, IL.  Every year, it's a mixed bag and I have come home empty handed just about every year.  Every year, I swear I'm not going back...but then the event rolls around and I realize that it's one of the only big air cooled VW shows around, so I go...and then come home empty handed, wondering why I drove 4 hours for nothing.

Three years ago, Craig I went super early and no one was there...it was hot and the swap area was small.  I talked to a few guys who had Type 3 parts but didn't find anything compelling enough to buy.  As we left, people started rolling in.  Okay, so the ACVW crowd isn't a bunch of early risers. Eh, I'm not really impressed, I don't think I'm coming all the way down here again...

Two years ago, Craig and I arrived a bit later in the morning (2 hours later) and a friend tells us that there were all kinds of Type 3 parts that sold about an hour before we arrived.  Well, last year no one was here and this year, we came later and the stuff I was interested in was gone.  Screw it, I'm not coming back...

This year (yeah, I know, I said I wasn't going back), Kelly and I went early.  There was a decent number of people but nothing for me to buy.  Swap space was super spread out and most of it was junk...not much for a Type 3 guy.  I walked the rows three times-stopping to check out some old VW ads being sold by a chatty guy with what amounted to a two year scavenger hunt for vintage VW ads out of various magazines.  I bought six ads from him.

Fast forward a month-Kelly and I are revamping the office-and the ads made it on the wall:
I decided that the lighting in the office kind of sucks (it's a new ceiling fan with candelabra bulbs) and my ability to take a decent photo under the given conditions isn't the greatest...I couldn't find a setting on my camera for 'shitty lighting' and none of the other settings yielded a better result.

Overall, I'm really happy with the way it turned out.

Now I have to get my car to look like one of those pictured.

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