That IS crazy!

John: pics of your dash? Your way sounds much easier than mine. Good on yea.

To me the aesthetic key is also adding the vinyl welting between the dash and the scuttle (several photos at link). That stuff covers most of whatever banding you use on your dashboard’s edges, hides any number of minor flaws and lends that overall finished look.

Allen. The stock Bug Speedo is 4 5/8 inches across the bezel. I don’t recall the hole size but 4 3/8 is probably pretty close. It’s just a hair smaller than the standard “5-inch” (actually 4 3/4) gauges you can get in the aftermarket. Given that the original TD had a slightly offset mount for the tach and speedo, I don’t think the size difference…[Read more]

Allen. The stock Bug Speedo is 4 5/8 inches across the bezel. I don’t recall the hole size but 4 3/8 is probably pretty close. It’s just a hair smaller than the standard “5-inch” (actually 4 3/4) gauges you can get in the aftermarket. Given that the original TD had a slightly offset mount for the tach and speedo, I don’t think the size difference…[Read more]

The car in the banner photo belongs to @jebarry.  It’s a Flat 4 banjo wheel.  Here’s a thread on banjo wheels.

Funny this came up.

I will be working a fix for the summer FRY this winter.

I have a plan and hope to offer a inexpensive summer top that will work for most all of us and can be adapted to fit to your car.

It will be a TD bikini top with no windows and open in the back – light weight and  waterproof on the top and easy on and off.

Once we get…[Read more]

Thanks all. Especially Bill, whose excellent son hosted and guided and starred in this episode (to a degree I had not anticipated when I sat down to write it). Sportsmanship will out!

Very nice, Ed!

Well, he didn’t fall far from the tree.

Well done, Ed.

Well, he didn’t fall far from the tree.

And here’s Bill’s son and 25,000 maniacs heshing up Ocean City. These guys know how to throw a car show.

Comments & criticism welcome.

Speaking of “driving season” I hereby remind everyone that Thursday, November 3, being the anniversary of the death of “Clack,” the more comely of NPR’s “Tappet Bros.,” is The Second Annual Tommy Magliozzi Memorial Drive Your TD Somewhere Day.

This is how things get done. One step at a time. Sometimes even backward… Good on ya.

Sorry to say it did not work. Would not hold air overnight. It’s now at a tire store getting it’s tube reinstalled. Yes, they are ordering me another tube I can carry with.(At all times)

That’s a TD Replica with like a Model A headlight treatment or something. Cool and different, if you like cool and different (and I do). Those look like Porsche 914 gauges in the dash. Kind of cool but look better in a Speedster replica, imho.

I did not see any kind of asking price on that post (The Samba Link below appears to be for a different…[Read more]

Oh, brother, that is heart-breaking. Hang on, man. We’re here for you.

That looks a lot like what comes on wire wheels now from the factory.

Ya – but will it float after you spray it…

Maybe you need screen around it first.

Trying the best option to repair the flat.

https://www.flickr.com/gp/128426013@N03/sjR444

OK

Late report.

Got home at 1:00 after parting with Ed in Port Royal – the drive on Sunday morning up 17 and through the country was spectacular. The car was running perfect and all was right in the world.

The weekend was great with the only issue being Bill’s tire on Friday Pm and we had great weather and great food along with great friends -…[Read more]

Dammit, looks like you guys had a blast and I spent my Saturday in conference room at the Loews Chicago O’Hare.  @billnparts make sure you put some of those shots in the flickr group, please.