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If you’ve never seen the website instructables.com, it’s worth a look if you are a do-it-yourselfer. They have tons of projects that people have created, and they post the directions how to make the project, materials needed, etc.  They have …

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Steve says:
You are welcome – it is a really cool project!! You did a great job... more
Uptonb says:
As the author of the instructable, I thank you for the great compliment. Only... more
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If you happened to see the new 2012 Beetle commercial on the Super Bowl, you got a glimpse at what is, in my opinion, the best redesign Volkswagen has come up with in years. In 1998, when they brought on …

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I had an “ah-ha” moment today. Not involving the 80s band, but more like at the end of a Maury Povich show, where the paternity test results came back in, and the Baby Daddy you were expecting to be the …

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Thanks Shawn! It’s cool that there are a few bus lovers from the QCs... more
Shawn Boesen says:
Followed your link on the Samba. Love your blog, and being from the Quad Cities... more
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A few weeks ago, I posted about how I was refreshing Gus’s wavy door panels. I finally got around to installing one of them. This is the backside of the driver’s panel before I soaked it. It was the least …

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Thanks Mitch! I was pretty happy the way it turned out. more
whc03grady. says:
Sweet, looks nice and clean. The speakers look factory in that location.... more

New VW emblem

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Gus received a few gifts for Christmas. One of which was a new VW emblem for his nose. If you remember from a previous post, Gus used to have a spare tire mounted to his front end. I removed the …

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Mini Gus

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I found this Matchbox bus on Amazon the other day. I’ve rarely seen Bay Window toy cars, and had never seen an orange one, so I had to get it! Plus the roof even kind of looks like a Sportsmobile …

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Door Panel Refresh

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Gus’s door panels are wavy like Ruffles potato chips. Wavy is good in a potato chip, but not in a door panel. They sustained some water damage at some point, and part of the back of one of them is …

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American Pickers visit

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This past summer we made our yearly trip back home to the midwest. I grew up in the Quad Cities, which are in Iowa and Illinois. Home of the John Deere headquarters, and not much else…until the show American Pickers …

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New engine

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Gus doesn’t (as far as I know) really need a new engine, but I found a great deal on craigslist that I couldn’t pass up. VW bus motor two liter FI – $125 Motor ran fine when removed except for …

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One shot

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Look, if you had one shot, or one opportunity To seize everything you ever wanted-One moment Would you capture it or just let it slip? You better lose yourself in the music, the moment You own it, you better never …

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