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Vehicle status

Three of the five vehicles are complete and ready for the event - 1956 Oval, 1968 Ghia and 1960 Beetle.

The 1975 Superbug has now been built up as a Mexican Taxi and only needs some final welding work on the roll cage and the supercharger mounted to the manifold and the vehicle is ready to go to the dynometer for some testing. Look out for the next Volkswagen…

On Sunday January 29th I led The Big Blue 2012 in my 76 Bay…

They look so cool, you will of course need the matching set. Buy direct from the Volks Culture shop.

Yes, the year is new and still young smelling,,, ha ha. It has started with a bad cold coughing thing, using the antibiotics not because I could not get rid of this on my own. You know the old ways of doing things yourself. I started with the mentholated ointment, no good. Then is a combination of the rub then the over the counter cold pills, no good. then its have to go to work after the 3 day new years holiday, no good. So coughing and wheezing and just feeling miserable i call my mother.…

Keep your eyes peeled for these bad boys. Splitty also available. Available in a few weeks.

Steve Muller hosted a party to celebrate Christmas and the launch of Volksmuller, a reinvention of Kombi Rescue. I shot a bit of video on my…

As we had today free, we decided to do a prelim run of The Big Blue cruise, but in reverse. With wife Joan in front, and our two dogs in back, we left Rouse Hill late morning and headed up through Windsor and Richmond to Bells Line of Road. I'm glad we will be coming down the hill on the actual cruise, as I'm sure some of the slower cars would have a real problem on the way up through Kurrajong Heights - steep…

VW Land Speed Racers

 

Great news for folks with Volkswagen air cooled powered racers has just been announced by the SCTA/BNI ( go to http://www.scta-bni.org ). Their "Classic" category of race cars that was previously open only to American cars built between 1948 and 1981 has been opened to include "Foreign Cars", and that means our Volkswagen's. The benefit for VW racers that comes from this change is our 1930's designed air cooled engines…

Found this at a Hornsby model store. Looks fantastic. My son will be happy this Christmas.

Jamie Gibson from Carmaster Mechanical has been undertaking the engine rebuild of my 1989 T3 Caravelle. It's a South African "JT3000" model, a commonly available upgrade in South Africa which included removing the 2.1 fuel injected VW motor and replacing it with a Ford Essex 3 litre V6 unit, with the benefit being bucket loads of torque. the upgrade could be ordered from new straight from your local VW…

Volkswagen has recorded one of its strongest performances to date taking out five category wins at this year’s Australia’s Best Car Awards.

The remarkable Polo 66TDI continues its winning streak claiming the ‘Best Light Car over $20,000’ for the second consecutive year.

The Volkswagen Golf…

After a slow and worrying trip back from Day of the Volkswagen in Melbourne, I sent my bus directly to Kombi Rescue for fault diagnosis. A new motor was installed and gearbox repair was carried out. Should be good as…

We just put a deposit on a Jetta for the Mrs. It's the 147TSI Highline model so has the 147kW 2 litre turbo charged engine, black leather and all the bells and whistles. Picking up next Thursday. She's stoked.…