The More Than More Battlewagen [and trailer]!

[sdobbins]

Greetings ladies and gents!

My name is Sam Dobbins, or sdobbins on the internet. I am a photographer by trade and passion, and co-own a company called More Than More with fellow photographer, Anna Taylor.

I come from a long lineage of gearheads, and have been playing the VAG game since around 2005 when I purchased my first Volkswagen, a 1995 Passat GLX. Shortly after I converted over to a Mk3 Golf, and eventually found my true love to be within the Mk2 generation, and honed in on a particular Mk2 Jetta Coupe for the better half of a decade. During that period I focused on pursuing a career as a photographer, and bought my first camera in 2005 and haven't looked back since. But that's enough on that, let us move onto the car that brought me here!

I've owned this 2004 GLX Wagon since May 1st, 2010, when I purchased it from a dear friend who'd already installed the coils and Votex front. That fall I spent the month of September traveling about the US photographing cars for Performance VW Magazine as well as my annual calendar, eventually making my way to H2O Int'l. Since then, the wagon has served as an insanely comfortable snowboarder carrier, been used to film a movie we produced last year called More Than A Drive, and most recently—after its makeover—carry our company around the country to various shows in 2012 and now 2013 as well.

Here's a brief photo chronology...


VW Passat Wagon on 19" Audi RS6 Reps - 0711 by More Than More


My B5.5 VW Passat Wagon - 2058 by More Than More


My B5.5 VW Passat Wagon - 4817 by More Than More


My B5.5 VW Passat Wagon - 0433 by More Than More


My B5.5 VW Passat Wagon - 9845 by More Than More


My B5.5 VW Passat Wagon - 0661 by More Than More


The Battlewagen - 9284 by More Than More


The Battlewagen - 5606 by More Than More


The Battlewagen - 4109 by More Than More


Battlewagen and Trailer - Anna Taylor - 6098 by More Than More

Anyway, just wanted to introduce myself as I'm long overdue in exploring the depths of PassatWorld and have a few new plans up my sleeve that I need to research a bit.

Cheers!

[NEWMAN'SOWN]

Very nice. More details on the Helios?

[Dstenersen]

I love the shots man!

[JayTheSnork]

Sam, I moved your thread to a more appropriate place. I've seen your work before - welcome aboard.

are all of the pix above of your car?

[DerhsLacidar]

I've seen pictures of your wagon before, nice nice nice. Welcome!

[sdobbins]

Very nice. More details on the Helios?

They were just an ordinary set of Helios bolted straight up without spacers or anything.

I love the shots man!

Thank you!

Sam, I moved your thread to a more appropriate place. I've seen your work before - welcome aboard.

are all of the pix above of your car?

Thank you, sir! I wasn't quite sure were to make a proper intro, as some forums prefer it be in the noob typa section. And yes, all the photos are of the same car, just in varying states, chronologically and geographically, haha!

I've seen pictures of your wagon before, nice nice nice. Welcome!

Thank you!

[TheColoradoRed]

I'm without words. Great progression. Gorgeous.


Welcome to the club, keep it up

[Willistilis]

I saw this thing at SOWO last year. Looks good man.

[Nesho]

About freaking time! Love the calendars i got! I think you need to do just Passat calendar one of those years tho!

[czapa11]

love it
love your photos
its nice and simple clean and low

[sdobbins]

I'm without words. Great progression. Gorgeous.

Welcome to the club, keep it up

Thank you so much! It's definitely a progression, that's for sure!

I saw this thing at SOWO last year. Looks good man.

It'll be there again, we were just talking about that journey tonight, in fact! Hopefully this year we won't inadvertently do the Tail of the Dragon at 6:30am with the Brits behind us in the Touareg with nav, hahaha!

About freaking time! Love the calendars i got! I think you need to do just Passat calendar one of those years tho!

I know nunz, it's only been a couple years now that I've been meaning to do it!

love it
love your photos
its nice and simple clean and low

Simple and functional were the two most important things (and low, of course!)!

[mrbutterz]

Oh man, as a fellow photographer and VW'er we need to meet up at sowo this year! I'd love to get together and talk cameras and cars. Your wagon looks beautiful and your shots are incredible. I love the clean look of the car. Where are you staying at sowo?

[senseless1707]

so much love for this wagon! been following your photography for a while now and it's inspiring me to be a better photographer. Keep it up, can't wait to see what you have in store!

[Jumpman513]

Huge fan of your work when you were in the PNW. Glad to see you on the forums!

No SoWo for me this year :/

[jtaylor42]

That last rolling shot looks awesome. Really great car and always awesome to see evolution pics

[Volk14]

Nice wagon. I missed it at sowo last year but I'll look for it next May.

Do you have pics of your mk2 coupe? That's my favorite older VW platform. I have a 91 GTI and a 90 Corrado, both under the knife

[sdobbins]

Thanks guys!

Here's the Jetta Coupe I previously built. Started with a completely gutted shell and truckbed full of parts. Built a 11.5:1 9A 16v for it, skimmed decked and head, header, euro exhaust cam, Megasquirt standalone, poly/solid mounts everywhere, Girling 60 dual piston calipers and oversized rotors, Ultra Lows, Eibach sways, Trophy Recaro interior, Euro diesel console, Heckeblende, etc, etc, haha. It had everything from widen steelies to TH Lines to Sportmax 513s, but broken down before I could mount the TH's. In fact I never even did a proper shoot with it when it was done, just brought it to a few shows and then it died. haha.


My Mk2 VW Jetta Coupe - 5302


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[Bdubskii]

The wagon and the coupe both look amazing, awesome photography!

[VRDUBSSAT6]

I always wondered why you weren't on here! Love your work and More than More. The 2013 calendar is amazing. Hopefully will see you down at the Martinsburg meets sometime seeing that I'm only a hop, skip & a jump away.

[pablitormDub]

Welcome and enjoy the madness Love the wagon!

[Mozzy]

by the sounds of it, we all need one of these calendars... can you pm me the price and if you'd ship one to ontario?

[VRDUBSSAT6]

by the sounds of it, we all need one of these calendars... can you pm me the price and if you'd ship one to ontario?

Google More than More and his website will pop up. You can order it off there as well as a lot of other sweet shit!

[John prusinski]

I've always loved your photography.

[sdobbins]

Thanks guys!

The 2013 More Than A Calendar is filled with many VAG models, with a certain B5.5 tossed in there. We ship worldwide, just go to our shop and have a look around!

Click here to check out our photography products!

[sdobbins]

The Battlewagen and More Than A Trailer - 1863 by More Than Sam Dobbins, on Flickr

[thirtysixspokes]

Dude I could have sworn you got rid of the battlewagen... For a MKIV.

I sort of met you a few H2Oi's ago, when we rented the condo between the Syndicate guys.

[sdobbins]

No man, that was just a little hoax that Derek from Broke.Status and I inadvertently started by posting photos of each other's cars, so we rolled with it. I do love that Jetta though, haha.

As for H2O a few years ago, if it was Saturday evening, I regret to inform you I began blacking out pretty early and most definitely don't remember.

[thirtysixspokes]

It was indeed that fateful Saturday night, that's why I said I "sort of" met you hahah. We had just gotten back from Seacrets and we were BS'ing with Wyman, Houck and Steve the handsome brit when you came to life for a few moments. Someone moved their car and I told you to get a rolling shot of it from the trash can you were hugging.

If you're not hammered at some point in the weekend at H2O you're doing something wrong!

[sdobbins]

Hahahaha! That sounds about right for that evening! It's funny too, because the year after that, at H2O 2011 I had all of 3 beers the entire weekend. Last year was a happy medium though.

[rollininstyle2004]

Looking forward to checking this out in person at SoWo this year!