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.

Merry Christmas and happy Hanukkah.

Holy crap Bill is that your car??

“Cherished Salvage.” Another great band name. Another great sales pitch!

“This cherished salvage was lovingly crashed into the Turn 6 guardrail during the 2018 Duryea Hillclimb competition. It’s equipped with blown-out Nitto Extreme tires in 245/50/17 (front) and gently-flogged 305/40/17s on the rear. Note the authentic “OH SHIT” rust streak…[Read more]

Bill do they know you race the car? Is there a rider for that? Or an exclusion rider?

$200 is less than I pay now for Bridget, I think.

Still hacking away at the Spyder. We’re down to fettling now.

I continue to be very stoked at how very close to the real deal this car is coming to appear.

vs Seinfeld’s former car:

rear subframe, engine with breather and coils mounted:

As against 550-0054:

Hotel reservations are open.

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Excellent!

Glad I could help. Mine’s on a ’69 and that’s a really good pan for these conversions. Independent (double jointed) rear suspension and ball joint front beam works well.

If you’re just starting a build, do yourself a favor and don’t cut the front beam and weld it back together twisted to “soften” the front suspension as the kit instructions will…[Read more]

I signed up for the show field yesterday.

What do you mean by “newer?” As far as I know, the VW Beetle’s chassis (aka pan) kept the same wheelbase from the 1940s through the end of production circa 1979, and the later Mexican/Brazilian cars were also the same: 94.5 inches. They’re not a few inches longer and don’t need to be cut to work with a TD kit.

The Superbeetle with MacPherson…[Read more]

Engine is back in and the interior work is all but done.

It won’t be long now.