Sunday 11 March 2012

Ultimate Dubs Caddys

Ultimate Dubs was a first for me. Not only my first time in Telford but my first visit to a proper water-cooled v-dub show. My heart still lies firmly with the older Volkswagens and I find you have to look much harder at the show cars to truly understand the difference between a car covered in polish and one that has had hours of work in planning, fabrication and craftsmanship poured into it.

As mentioned in the last post, here's the one Caddy that blew things out of the water:

It's a reincarnation of a previous show-winner; back this year with new paint, a new front end, no sliding door and a host of other little touches. Seeing a Caddy like this in the flesh makes my van feel a million miles away from this standard. No corner of the vehicle is left untouched; a total work of rolling art.

Here's a few more Caddys (although not many in attendance) from around the show:


Maybe a few more next year?

UPDATE: Check out Reflex's build thread on the E38 forums. A great example of the work that goes into Best Paint, Best Other and Best of Show.

8 comments:

  1. Hello, do you know where the guy found the sheet metal kit to transform this caddy (the 1st one on the top) ?
    i'm from France, and there's nothing like that here!
    thank you

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  2. Hi! They used a complete side panel (no sliding door) from a LHD caddy van and fitted it to the sliding door side of a RHD van.

    So in France you would need a UK-spec RHD side panel to fit to the sliding door side of a LHD van...

    It comes as one big panel:
    http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b290/reflexvw/Hulks%20Caddy/040.jpg

    Make sense?

    Chat to http://www.reflexautodesign.co.uk/contact/ for more info - very helpful guys.

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    1. Hi thank you for these informations, we're going to think about this!

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    2. and what about the bumpers?

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    3. The bumper is made from two bumpers; one is latest model Touran and one is lower section from Golf GTI:

      http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b290/reflexvw/Hulks%20Caddy/022.jpg

      http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b290/reflexvw/Hulks%20Caddy/023.jpg

      http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b290/reflexvw/Hulks%20Caddy/037.jpg

      Hope this helps!

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    4. Hi what is the colour of this van, top one please

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