The Making of Dalmatian Car

By 1995, I have taken up a new hobby "Waterfall Hunting"-  a switch over from the past time of going Caving. Most remote waterfalls are in deep jungle without proper access roads. So, there was more needs about going off road with the car before reaching the trailheads. Co-incidentally, it was also at this time, the contemporary craze toying around with 4WD was prevalent, I must do it differently.

Then recalling the earlier days of 1980s when I roamed the country doing fishing in places so remote. That came to my mind. The car I depended on was the VW. The vehicle was so light that could be driven on bunds in the tin mining areas made from sand. In those occasions when the car got stuck or went off the track, it could be easily pulled out or even hand lifted. So that's it - the Beetle
Also around that period, was the start of enthusiast using the "Beetle" as a Classic car collection. Very quickly, many examples of how this toy car was done up was shown to the public. Huge host of add-on accessories to jazz up the cars. So having chosen the Beetle as my outing car would I be tempted to join the mad crowd in their endeavor.

Can't avoid that! I had to be at the spare part shops for parts to do up my car. Since the Beetle was a phased out model, dealers for spares become a dedicated lot. For hobbyist and I had to mingle with them, The dealers and private owners.  How can our car compete? Me, doing off road conditions and rough handling! For a start it is inevitable that i would easily damaged the sensitive fancy changgeh paintwork. With that crucial point in mind, the safest colour would be solid white. A car pated in simple plain colour would be a deterrent as well as hampering our attempts to beautifying the car.

A freak thought came up Translate the natural design of our Dalmatian dogs texture as a way to create an attention drawing car. Good! no new invention just use that that as a theme. Following faithfully the size of the various dots, the shape and dispersion style. At last, we made it. That concept turns out unqualified success. We showed our car at Club outings. Our effort and those who had seen the final outcome approved of that unique idea.

The following pictures would show how the car was prepared from the time of purchase