So I have 10 days off of work and won’t be returning to the spice mines of Arrakis until December 24 (yes, I go back Christmas eve). I have a massive list of things I want to try and accomplish during this period and a lot will depend on the temperature outside. Today is supposed…
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Other People’s Cars – Kathleen Brook’s Restored 1967 Beetle
The story of VW USA restoring this 1967 Beetle for a a woman who bought the car in December of 1966 and still drives it as her daily driver is kind of amazing. I am hoping that maybe, just maybe, someone was smart enough to document everything in video and they can release a documentary…
The rates have gone up!
I wish I could find VW cylinder heads around $41! Bill Fisher’s How to Hot Rod Volkswagen Engines was published back in 1987. And my… how the rates have gone up!
Waitaminute? Haven’t you already started your project?
While I have done some work on Żuczek B. I don’t really consider any of it the beginnings of the restoration or the modding.When I brought him home, I realized that many rubber seals were original and rotting and I needed to get those quickly replaced to make sure water stayed out. And yes, I…
What’s this Central Ohio Polish Look all the kids are talking about?
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…
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…