Don’t let Peter scare you off Bob. Learn to adjust your VW’s valves and change the oil every 3,000 miles (or every six months or so if you don’t rack up the miles).And buy this How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive 19 Ed: A Manual of Step-by-Step Procedures for the Compleat IdiotAnd ask us all the questions you want!By your description, it sounds…[Read more]

Welcome aboard!

Mark,
It has to be. It’s nothing we admins can control.
But, unless we have someone here that can rebuild the site, we might lose a lot of the pages, like the history, the manuals, the photo galleries.
And I have no idea how much web hosting fees would be elsewhere.

Hi Folks,I have received some inquiries from members, new and old.Because of our donations last year about this time, and more that came in during the year, we are good to go for the next year.I’m assuming our bill will not change by much for 2011 to 2012.If it does, I may be back. But for now, we’re covered!

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Let me try this AGAIN…..Three of you kind hearted souls were kind enough to forward spam posts from this site to my personal email. (Please read the prior sentence as it it were dripping with sarcasm. The sarcasm you would get from a teenager. In New Jersey!)Enough already!I get it!Really!Truly!I’m deleting dozens of spam posts each day. And…[Read more]

I never thought of that Bill!If you don’t have a boat place near you, you need two of these: http://www.overtons.com/modperl/product/details.cgi?i=35046& amp;pdesc=Hand_Rail_Fittings_60_End_Fitting&aID=601J1&am p;merchID=4006And a length of 7/8″ outside diameter stainless or chromed tubing.

I fixed the link.To add a link, highlight the word, phrase, sentence etc. that you want to link. Click the globe/chain link icon above (second row, third from right). Enter the url in the pop-up and click ok.

MGLR…There is a guy on the Speedster forum that does custom saddelry. He also makes luggage straps for the speedster guys.I’ll dig out his contact info and pm you

Man, the spam is getting worse and worse. 
Ya’ll never really see it, but we have always been hit by auto-registration programs that add fictitious members. That is fairly easy to deal with, as there is an admin tool to batch delete members that have never made a post.
But lately, as I’m sure you have noticed, there have been dozens and dozens o…[Read more]

It’s never too late!

Wheel Works info:
Tim Smith
Burlington NJ609 499 2233

A picture is worth a thousand words. And in this case, really drives home Mark’s point about the bolt holes:
http://www.jbugs.com/store/graphics/00000001/VW-FRONT-BRAKE- DRUM-GERMAN-111405615B.jpg
The five bolt VW pattern is probably unique too. In case you need to know, it’s 205mm.  The five bolt drum is also reinforced where the bolt holes…[Read more]

Here are a bunch  of MP Lafer links.
http://mplafer.com/
But a lot of the linked sites appearto have been untouched for years.

And Mr. Lafer ALWAYS insisted he did not create an MG TD replica.
Sure looks like one to me tho.

Here is a longer discussion on this topic.
https://tdreplica.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=795&P N=8
I still cannot find the stock “nipple” hubcaps without VW or Empi logos. 🙁

Those are VW wheels and VW hubcaps (with no center logo).
The wheels are painted in the correct MG TD silver, available from Eastwood. The description talsk about wire wheels, but this is the correct silver for the steel wheels:
http://search.eastwood.com/search?w=mg+gray+wheel+paint
The wheel medallions are reproduction MG TD wheel centers,…[Read more]

Can’t even tell you how I foudn it. I think I had googled MG TD images, trying to find good photos of original MG TD wheels.
Let’s just say the orange TD sort of stood out on the image search results page!
 

Also, a comment on the IRS comments posted by BDriver and GunFighter.
Everything you guys said is correct. Technically the old VW swing axle suspensions are “independent” because the rear wheels move independently of each other.
But…and this is a big but…
In air-cooled VW circles, IRS will always mean the non-swing axle suspension. So if you…[Read more]

Best I can tell, c6024 MAY be an out of production Gabriel Gas Ryder shock absorber.
There has been lots of debate here as to the best shocks for our VW based TD replicas. And the common wisdom is standard oem equivalent oil-filled shocks.
Here is the thread with the most comprehensive VW suspension discussion on our forum:
…[Read more]

Hmmm…so far I’ve learned that part number C6024 is a front brake drum for a Jaguar XK120 when equipped with wire wheels! Seriously. Look…
http://www.jagspares.co.uk/Manners/Pricelists/XK140.htm