Is it possible to manifest our dreams?

The answer is a resolute YES.

Anything is possible if we want it enough – and if we know how to move past the psychological blocks created by our own minds.

1. If you want to do this, the first step is to bring your wishes down from the imagination and into real life. This is as simple as writing them down. Use pictures too. The end-result is a collage, a mixture of photos, pictures and words. The act of turning an idea into something concrete like this gives it Life.

2. So find some photos and/ or make some pictures of how you visualize the end result. Anything will do to start with – because this is a creative project; it’s like writing a song, or a book, or painting a picture. It’s an organic entity – IT lives. It may not end up how you planned it, because a creative project develops in its own way (just like our kids!)

I did this over the past year with my last project, a VW Kombi Roadster we call the Lovedub. And now I’m about to do the same thing with the pile of bits I’ve just purchased on German ebay.

I’ve already stuck a collage of all my Maicomobil bits on the wall. And I’ve bought a brochure of one too, to help create the idea of buying a new one.

As my project progresses, I’ll update this page, until eventually the Naked Maicomobil is finished and ready to ride.

Well, here it is, safe and sound in my drive at last. My friend Chas collected it for me from Germany, and yesterday morning it arrived. This photo shows it packed and taped up for travelling, my first view of it in the flesh (metal).

Buying vehicles ‘blind’ on ebay can be a risk. Buying from a foreign ebay when you don’t speak the lingo (and have to to decipher descriptions through internet translation services) is even more fraught. In this case though the Maico Mobil body and trim are better than I expected.

One advantage of buying a vehicle without an engine is that you needn’t worry about the seller telling you it’s better mechanically than it is; and it’s definitely lighter to push around

WANTED: MAICO MOBIL SCOOTER ENGINE

Finding a Maicomobil engine may well be the hardest part of this Wish-list. The ‘wanted’ ads will go out to forums in the next week. I’m not in a hurry. Sooner or later I know I’ll find one…

If this thread gets picked up by search engines, you can contact me through my main website:

http://www.groovydubs.com