Yes. I love German Look Supers. They are what I envisioned my Beetles would look like when I was a kid in the 1970’s. But on the whole, I don’t see myself ever getting into Type VI engines or really high powered Type 1 engines Anything that disturbs the lines of the rear windshield into…
Month: December 2018
German Look Beetles – The Greatest Thing In The World!
So you may be saying “Um… VWs are German cars… aren’t they all German Look?” and obviously, you’d be correct. But there’s German Look and there’s German Look! German Look can mean different things to different people, but overall there are some overall characteristics I’d say that are common: Typically using a Super Beetle, most…
What the hell is up with the damn name???
I don’t often name things. I mean, I have given many things in my life over the past 30 years or so the appended description “of Love™”. There was my Apartment of Love™. Then there was our House of Love™ down in Victorian Village during the 90s. Then when I bought my first house it was…
Why the change of heart over the 1303?
One thing that I realized is that I already have a 1303 in the form of Murbella. While yes, she’s a convertible, she’s also has basically the same design elements of all 1973 and later Supers. Getting a 71 or 72 Super as the source for my project would allow me to have the…
And a 1302 caught my eye…
As I’ve mentioned I can easily get lost, and I do almost nightly, in for sale ads and such. Beetles. Ghias. Microbusses. Type 3s. Type 4s. Porsche 356s. Pretty much any air-cooled German cars can turn me on. And the “project” I have had brewing in my head began to further develop. Murbella will remain…
And there shall come new things….
I had never really stopped looking at Beetles, for sale or otherwise. On an almost daily basis I find myself looking at The Samba’s Classifieds, the Facebook Marketplace, Craigslist, and Ebay for all vintage air-cooled cars. Sometimes I find pictures worth saving for inspiration. Other times I’d even find engine pics of stock setups that…
Project Żuczek – The First Attempt
So in a relatively short amount of time after purchasing Murbella I started to look for a car that I could sink my teeth into and make it into something I really wanted to have. Something that had a part of me in it. So I started searching the sites looking for a 1974 Super…
The Murbella Dilemma
It soon became apparent that while I could do a few minor things to make her “mine”, the fact that she was such an excellent condition survivor would prevent me from really wanting to make any changes. Her original engine, while really not adjustable, was completely fully functional and still 100% stock down to the…
The Summer of 2017 – The coming of Murbella
My son turned 16 but I had told him that he’d need to get a job and start paying for things to have a car, insurance, etc. One thing that the horrors of my 20’s taught me was that this country does a shit poor job of educating teens and college kids about personal finances….
A Whole New World: My 2001 New Beetle
There was much excitement in the mid-90s when Volkswagen unveiled the Concept One as a new Beetle for the 21st Century. I immediately fell in love with all the press photos and wanted one when (and if) it ever came out. By the late 90’s I had finally started to get my shit together as…