Author Archives: Steve

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …