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Month: January 2020

Weld.com’s video blogs are fantastic.

Posted on 2020-01-252020-01-25

So as an amateur in pretty much everything I do on my home and vehicles, I have no formal and proper training. Most of my education is in physical and cultural anthropology and that doesn’t necessarily translate into knowledge about trades-related skills. I have lived off of book research and of course, with the maturity…

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Damn was I off! $52,800.00???

Posted on 2020-01-20

So last week I went through the auction docket for Barret-Jackson Scottsdale 2020 and predicted that one triple-white 79 vert would go for $20K. Oh my god how wrong I was! It crossed the block at $52,800.00! That’s like mind-blowing to me. Yes it was very low miles. Yes it was in excellent condition. But…

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Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale this week!

Posted on 2020-01-122020-01-12

So this week is Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale. Let’s see what’s up and coming on the block to see how people bid. There’s a crap ton of VW’s so many it is hard to comment on them all. Some ones I’ll be interested in following the sale on… 1972 VW Beetle Custom – No reserve. I don’t…

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1972 Super Beetle Żuczek K. Brzęczyszczykiewicz - Pre-Inspection

Reference – Death Foam on 70-77 Beetle Sedans

Posted on 2020-01-12

So the Facebook Group VW-DIY-IT! Body, Metal, Interior has been an excellent resource for watching people’s solutions to metal issues across the entire spectrum of air-cooled models. I’ve been saving some discussions that I suspect I’ll need to readdress in the future and one of the key ones that I know will be an issue…

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I try very hard to be nice… but…

Posted on 2020-01-112020-01-11

On the whole, I try to be very open-minded with custom work done on cars, especially air-cooled VW Type 1 and Type 2 vehicles. But sometimes I come across for sale posts where the custom choices made are literally what is probably holding the car from sale, or the choices are definitely going to contribute…

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CB Performance Gen4EFI

Gen4EFI is probably Żuczek’s future

Posted on 2020-01-11

So while I had not planned to do anything major in a physical sense this winter, I have been doing a lot of reading and research on both body/metal work as well as continuing the dumping of data into my brain in terms of engine building and where to go in the next few years….

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Shockwave - Bumblebee Movie

The Purple One

Posted on 2020-01-092020-01-09

So I finally got around to looking at some clips of that Bumblebee movie and was pleasantly surprised to see the original Generation One versions of many of the characters (from the 1980’s) in the opening sequence and they really rather look like modern versions of their old cartoon appearances. I mean, they are totally…

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Messy Garage

My garage is a disaster… but it is not my fault!

Posted on 2020-01-09

So way back in October I cleaned up the garage for the winter and made enough space to work if the weather ended up being mild. Below freezing temps is rather difficult out there since it is old and non-insulated, but I figured there’d be a few days over the coming months to work on…

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