Paul,
Great advise thx …yes its hard for me Not to zoom in on our car!
Thanks so much,

Do you have a phone no. for the guy in Miami?
Need to find a diagonal arm for a 1970 VW
 
 

I read somewhere that this towbar will not work if your shocks are inside your springs  mine are .Is this so .Maybe one of you could send me a picture.Just trying to be sure.After looking at pictures the area i attach  tow bar is square  greg press40934.5218865741

By the way, that is a terrific photograph!
A tip to make it even better…from a friend who is a pro photographer (actually a US Navy combat photographer)
Bring in more background, put the car in the lower third to half of the photo, maybe off center a little.
We all tend to zoom in on just the car, allowing it to fill the entire frame. But think…[Read more]

Paul, yes I agree. On our 350 mile 8hr trip home from picking up
the MG TD I was exhausted… lots of different noises. back there
lolzz..
I do love this ol car!

I’m one of the ear plug wearing drivers….but remember the context of that discussion…
On long distance, highway drives, the combination of the wind noise and the constant 3000 rpm drone of the flat four can be quite tiring. Especially if the roof is up. Trust me, the ear plugs make it much more relaxing.
I agree…on back-country two lane…[Read more]

The tires they installed had an overall height of 27.3 inches, VW factory tires are approxamatley 24.4. They looked good, but when a tight turn was made ir ate the body. No More Pep Boys For Me!!

Wow. What an impressive display. bookmarked

Thanks for the response Ed.  Cold compression test?  Ok, I’ll bite how do you know?  I have always wondered how you are supposed to take a compression test on a warmed engine yet remove the spark plugs only on a cold one.  ??
Do I “absolutely need a spare”?  No. 
When I do decide to move on this, I would be intending to build a doghouse 1600/…[Read more]

compression test? Even cold compression might tell you something important. Ask me how I know. You have a set of new heads and don’t want to play for big HP, so why not keep your sp heads, keep your existing motor, and if you absolutely need a spare, do a nice slow rebuild to 1600 sp specs from whatever case is least knackered? Maybe one that’s…[Read more]

That is a great picture! Of a great little car!

Yep.Only time you want to put an air-cooled VW Bug-based car on a trailer is if it has a broken axle or is missing wheels or tires or something. Short of that contingency, the $100 (or less) tow bar, plus a set of lights (if you don’t do what Wobby did and splice a trailer light hookup to your existing tail and running lights) will get you where…[Read more]

I bought my VW based TD about 500 miles from home. Without thinking I rented a tow dolly to bring her home. Talk about not using my noggin here, the tow dolly rental was more than the cost of a VW tow bar. One of the 1st things I bought for my car was a tow bar and think its the easy way to go on these light VW based cars.

VW tow bar is the ticket.  When I was playing with dub’s I towed them 500 plus miles no problems.  You don’t even know the car is behind you. 
I’m lookin for a trailer too, but only because mine is Ford powered and a automatic.  I passed on one just before Christmas, I prob would have been enough 6×16 single axle only $600 (kickin myself now)…[Read more]

Here is one more tip.
I have reaserched this dub stuff to death.I still am not sold on dubs.
However there is alot of little tricks with a rebuild on a vw.
case can be align bored for both crank and cam bearings,BUT only enough to clean the sadles up.crank and cam turned,agian just to clean them,Now this is where someone that knows what the H E…[Read more]

 
AAAAh  look in my photo album I brought mine home in the back of a pick-up it will fit.
However a tow-bar would be the quickest and more reasonably priced.And will store hanging on the garage wall or a corner in the basement.
You could also build your own that would fold up and take up less space than one of them fold up chairs that fit in a b…[Read more]

 Nice I like her   Dan