Good news!. FWIW, minus all the small leaves my car rides about stock height—not lowered. That’s how much lighter the TD is over the front wheels than the Beetle.

Get you a set of caster shims too. You won’t regret it.

I have a BCW car. No ballast in front. When I first bought it I could lock up the brakes—and did once coming up fast behind Mossberg where he stopped at the bottom of a hill!

I found that replacing the 15-year-old tires with new ones helped immensely.

Even better was when I reduced the pressure in the fronts to like 16-18 pounds. Really! T…[Read more]

Dale Schumacher has been looking for a speedometer…

Ric that looks great but I wish you’d post bigger pictures so we could really see it.

Alan shifted all the reservations to August. Go ahead and make yours if you haven’t already. Same procedure as explained above. Call April direct at the Shippensberg Marriott and tell her your with us.

Yep.

Here’s the link to the show postponement notice.

I spoke to Alan Merklin today and he’s going to try to get the hotel to just shift everyone’s reservations—meals inclusive—to the new week. I’ll let you know how that goes. Obviously, you can still cancel if you can’t make the new date. If you were waiting & had not yet made your hotel res…[Read more]

Please do start that other thread. Is Knotts Berry Farm still a thing?

Meanwhile, as of today, the Carlisle Import and Performance Show is NOT CANCELED. I’ll post here immediately if or when that announcement comes.

Trying to behave as though I know it will happen, even though my brain says it’s unlikely. Please continue your house arrest.

Steering! It’s what’s for dinner!

Cool!

I’ll have the Spyder this year.

Bump:

I think 28 of the Carlisle rooms have been reserved. There are like a dozen left still. Time to register.

Meals included in the hotel bill.

That number again, Courtyard by Marriott reservation :   717 300 7026  ask for Charity Shreffler. 

Get in on it, guys.

Hey Bill, good to hear from you.

Paul will chime in I’m sure. You just keep on keepin’ on.

Wow! A fan!

Carlisle update. Hotel reservations and show field registration is still open!

This year we’re doing the Saturday dinner in-house.

Here’s the meal plan:

Thursday 2:00 – 5:00PM Hotel Welcome w/ Cookies, Brownies and Lemonade.

Thursday 6:30 – 8:30PM:  BBQ Buffet consisting of BBQ Pulled pork, Boneless BBQ chicken, Italian sausage w/ onions and…[Read more]

Welcome to the group, Wheels!

Congrats on an adventurous maiden voyage. Most of us would not do 500 miles on a shakedown run with one of these!

I second the suggestion you come on down to Carlisle PA in mid-May. It’s a pretty big gathering of VW-based kits, most of them Speedster replicas but with a contingent of TDs and others. We rent a block…[Read more]

Wiper motor is in and it works. 67 things left to do on the Spyder.

Very nice, Bill! Nothing so satisfying as tackling a long-put-off project.

Here’s a blog post about the latest tom-foolery.

I’m still making progress on the build, fewer than 75 individual tasks* are left on the punch list.

*subject to change without notice.

The grill shell is the hard to get part. For the insert you can go with a set of slats from Moss Motors, or maybe MG Magic has them as mentioned above, of you could make a custom insert out of wire mesh or expanded metal, like a lot of guys did in period.

Keep goin.

Phew! You had me worried for a minute.