December 2011 Blog Posts (8)

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…