Jun Cheng Manufacturing in Baoying China

https://www.facebook.com/Larry.Chen.Driftfotos/posts/pfbid02n96sNGXxkSAvqPWn2WSUBhycnKsiG79S4BSDriLDD9n8ArmYtP84MwBLnsEQ3NZ7l

Steve Green, along with his decrepit-looking VW campervan, Cecil, are on a mission to rid the beautiful creeks of Cornwall rivers of 166 abandoned fiberglass yachts

the legacy of the mass-produced fibreglass pleasure boat boom is unfolding. 

Yachts bought in the 1960s and 1970s are now reaching the end of their useful lives and end up in landfills, but because disposal is charged by the ton, many of them are abandoned by their owners, who don’t want to foot the cost (between 1 and 4k) or take responsibility for disposing of them. (in San Diego they were anchored out in the bay, and then sunk)

Steve relies on small charitable grants, crowdfunding and enthusiastic volunteers willing to paddle kayaks out to wrecks and help. Green ran up £8,000 on credit cards last year when the grants didn’t cover all the decaying boats he took to the dump.

Green is keen for Britain to follow the French model, in which boat manufacturers have to pay an eco-contribution for every boat sold. This is combined with an annual tax on boat owners – who are easy to track down because boats have to be licensed – and used to fund 35 free-to-use boat scrapping centers across France.

 The Association pour la Plaisance Eco-Responsable, which runs these centers, has removed more than 16,000 boats since it was launched in 2019

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/22/mission-clear-rotting-boats-poisoning-cornwall-creeks-fibreglass-pollution

Volkswagen of America said it offered to restore the 1977 microbus that survived the Palisades fire and made the news in this photo

Though the microbus appeared unscathed, the vehicle in reality was a basket case and in need of more than 900 replacement parts, Volkswagen of America said in a statement on its restoration.

That iconic photo eventually reached VW enthusiasts and, finally, Volkswagen of America, which tracked down Weinraub, received permission to tow it from the otherwise off-limits fire zone, and trucked it to its makeover at VW's Oxnard facility

Body panels were handled by a Porsche specialist, while VW technicians replaced anything needed to make the microbus roadworthy, the company said.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/classic-blue-vw-bus-azul-palisades-fire-gets-full-restoration-rcna245553

the Serpent Kombi made by Ken's Art Kustom Garage

https://www.facebook.com/KxAxKxG

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1452807279176561&set=pcb.1452807489176540

a lot of paint effort

 

super cool effect when the black was put over the flower patterns

https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=763565&postdays=0&postorder=desc&start=20&sid=405cac1ad88af0e075458a5bfcd2f3da

I didn't know a VW van could fly... I mean, there were signs (yesterdays post about the VW Van helicopter body for example) coincidentally, and today I found this

 

It's not flyable, more a "sculpture", but it's a great look at the cool idea of what a helicopter with a VW van body would have looked like.. I think Chuck calls it he Frankenchopper

https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=10160668325981901&set=a.10150983663426901

https://www.instagram.com/chuckteschke/

https://carbuzz.com/this-vw-bus-helicopter-is-neither-of-those-things-anymore/

the Huntington Beach VW Van event is June 1st, these images and video must have been from last year... damn, that is a sweet layout all the way down the pier!

see the video at https://www.facebook.com/don.ramsey.948/videos/9388790214533641?idorvanity=405304613280257

The same day, June 1st, will be the Bug In, the Orange County VW revival 

https://www.idrivesocal.com/events/vw-revival-car-show-weekend

for about a 1/4 million, a company in California will build you a cool retro looking electric 21 window VW van, or a 1970ish Bronco or Chevy 3100 truck for 1/6 of a million

 

https://kindredmotorworks.com/references/the-joy-of-driving

cool VW van in the movie Venom, The Last Dance

the results are posts of the Rudi Klein junkyard collection $9,355

 
the 1956 Mercedes-Benz 300 SL 'Alloy' Gullwing sold for $9,355,000

most of the 911 engines sold for about 4k

https://rmsothebys.com/auctions/rk24/lots/#?SortBy=Default&page=6&pageSize=40

Chris Pratt and Millie Brown are starring in The Electric State on Netflix, in early 2025, directed by the Russo brothers

The Electric State "takes place in 1994, in the aftermath of a battle between humanity and artificial intelligence that ended in a devastating stalemate. The people who died were buried; the automatons who were destroyed rust away where they fell. The defeated robots have been banished to an 'exclusion zone' in the southwestern desert, while human society attempts to rebuild without the help of the mechanical beings it created,"

The Electric State stars Millie Bobby Brown as Michelle, a young woman searching for a lost brother she once believed dead. As the story begins, he seems to have tracked her down through a remote-controlled bot that looks like a life-sized tin-toy version of his favorite sci-fi hero, Kid Cosmo (an original creation for this story, although he has retro vibes). The robot can only speak in catchphrases, but he’s trying to guide her to his real-life location. Though he looks and sounds like a machine, within this apparent drone she sees the soul of a sibling she thought was gone forever.

Chris Pratt costars as Keats, a veteran of the war who became a long haul trucker, engaged in a smuggling operation with one of his former enemies—a construction machine named Herman (voiced by Anthony Mackie) who’s like a Russian nesting doll, able to hop into increasingly various sized versions of himself. These two are the only ones who can help Michelle venture through hostile territory and track down the missing boy, while also solving the mystery of why he was kidnapped in the first place.

The Electric State also stars Ke Huy Quan as Dr. Amherst, Stanley Tucci as Ethan Skate, and Giancarlo Esposito as Colonel Marshall Bradbury.

The live-action cast also includes Jason Alexander (Seinfeld), Woody Norman (C'mon C'mon), and Martin Klebba (Pirates of the Caribbean). Joining Anthony Mackie as voice actors in the sci-fi movie are Brian Cox, Jenny Slate, Billy Bob Thornton, and Alan Tudyk, with Woody Harrelson voicing a robotic Mr. Peanut.

https://www.cbr.com/netflix-the-electric-state-first-look-images-millie-bobby-brown/

https://www.inverse.com/entertainment/electric-state-netflix-movie-plot-details-photos

I first learned about this at Comic Con 2019 https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2019/08/during-comic-con-which-is-far-more.html

Then the update was in 2022 https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2022/08/good-news-for-fans-of-electric-state.html

I bet someone buys this just to flip it for 10k profit... the seller wants 4500.

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/470305795563747/?ref=product_details&referral_code=marketplace_top_picks&referral_story_type=top_picks