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Sun Jun 26, 2011 11:40 pm

Emiel wrote: got pics of the car with closed hood ?

Yeah, I'll get some more pics up soon. I'm having some serious pc problems. (home pc down, work pc hardrive is going tits up....all at once ugh...)

Yep, those are Wagens West adjusters... Mixedup59 hooked up the beam and put 'em on.

and those are the standard dust caps that came with the BAD brakes...I had them chromed though.

Thanks again guys for the nice words, I owe ya some responses but hate typing on my phone.....I'll get some more thread action going with pics when I get this pc mess taken care of.

Should have the car at vintage meet (as long as I'm not out of the country for work)

Mon Jun 27, 2011 12:35 am

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some cool parts on that bug. gooood craftsmanship too.

Mon Jul 18, 2011 8:59 am

Alan, really nice to meet you and your crew last weekend. Gorgeous car, the attention to detail is amazing, had to make a few passes to take everything in, and I'm sure I still missed some things.

Take it easy,
Dustin

Wed Jul 20, 2011 10:29 am

52brezelfenster wrote: Alan, really nice to meet you and your crew last weekend. Gorgeous car, the attention to detail is amazing, had to make a few passes to take everything in, and I'm sure I still missed some things.

Take it easy,
Dustin

Thanks guys!...

Dustin, nice meeting y'all too. I thought the weather was going to hold people back, but very impressed with the turnout! Awesome day and I met a lot of very cool people. Assume you're heading to the Portland show? I might roll my bus down, we'll see so looking forward to catching up again!

Wed Jul 20, 2011 6:46 pm

Yes, gonna try to make the Portland Show.

Sun Jul 31, 2011 2:26 pm

Emiel wrote: got pics of the car with closed hood ?

I'll get some better pics up, but here's one with Mixedup59 and I with Juan (body work/painter) packing up to roll out after Vintage Meet.

Wed Aug 31, 2011 4:22 pm

congrats to the aaa-train and the volkshop crew! you did it! =D> p.s thanks for the props and enjoy your well earned hot vw feature spread! :shock:

Wed Sep 07, 2011 1:17 pm

Thanks Trin. Article came out great I think. Alan is stoked. Hope everyone enjoys it :)

Wed Sep 07, 2011 3:47 pm

Yeah, thanks....feature came out great.
Here's a pic I snapped during the hot VWs shoot....respectfully waited for the feature first.....I got a lot of good pics....a lot of build pics still to post too and I owe some people some pics/info.....work schedule has eased up for the week so I got a little time coming up to get around to it.

Thu Sep 08, 2011 10:55 am

Nice Shots from Alan U at the Great Canadian. They put on an awesome show, it was a great day, real cool people and venue.... shout out to Curt K for hooking me up with the spot when we showed up late (damn border patrol made us "pull into lane 2" and ran background checks on all us).

Photos below from Alan U on the AirSpeed site...
http://www.airspeedparts.com/forums/index.php?topic=19562.0

And don't get caught slippin' with a loose blinker switch!!! :oops: - Caught Slippin' - fixed it shortly after this photo....

Thu Sep 08, 2011 12:42 pm

What's up with the number 7 on the car?

Thu Sep 08, 2011 12:59 pm

Quote: What's up with the number 7 on the car?

Was going for a Rally Theme on the car...something a little different on top of the resto-cal look.

Vintage Speed Motor, bullet mirrors, headlight grills, foglights, rally gauges, fumagallies, disk brakes (ok, not so period but....), bumper guards, helmet, I think the flash trim looks a little race-ish, etc.....

Set it up with Dash-mounted stopwatch (Heuer Monte Carlo 3 button on the glovebox) and then I also have a couple Halda Tripmasters (early TM1's) but I haven't mounted one yet. They are for Time-Distance-Speed Rally's of which many cars run numbers .....thus the numbers on my car. The 7 because it's a lucky number, one of my old BMX numbers from back in the day, and the car is a '57. I also have several other rally bits....'57 ADAC badges, NOS ADAC First Aid kit, vintage fire extinguishers, old-school rally books, TDS Circular slide rule Calculator, etc....

I think the numbers may add some visual horsepower too :lol:

We'll see if any of it ever gets used :roll: ... the numbers are magnetic, so they come off easy (and don't stick all that well either...probably due to the paint thickness....would likely fly off on the freeway). I thought they looked kind of cool though so I put them on for the show this time.

Thu Sep 08, 2011 2:12 pm

Caught it at the Great Canadian. Beautiful car, thanks for bringing it up to show! My wife & I below, both love it.:D

Come back next year and enjoy the whole weekend of activities at the Great Canadian.

Thu Sep 08, 2011 3:43 pm

a-train wrote: Quote: What's up with the number 7 on the car?

Was going for a Rally Theme on the car...something a little different on top of the resto-cal look.

Vintage Speed Motor, bullet mirrors, headlight grills, foglights, rally gauges, fumagallies, disk brakes (ok, not so period but....), bumper guards, helmet, I think the flash trim looks a little race-ish, etc.....

Set it up with Dash-mounted stopwatch (Heuer Monte Carlo 3 button on the glovebox) and then I also have a couple Halda Tripmasters (early TM1's) but I haven't mounted one yet. They are for Time-Distance-Speed Rally's of which many cars run numbers .....thus the numbers on my car. The 7 because it's a lucky number, one of my old BMX numbers from back in the day, and the car is a '57. I also have several other rally bits....'57 ADAC badges, NOS ADAC First Aid kit, vintage fire extinguishers, old-school rally books, TDS Circular slide rule Calculator, etc....

I think the numbers may add some visual horsepower too :lol:

We'll see if any of it ever gets used :roll: ... the numbers are magnetic, so they come off easy (and don't stick all that well either...probably due to the paint thickness....would likely fly off on the freeway). I thought they looked kind of cool though so I put them on for the show this time.

No, no, no...

The proper response is:
Panties are dropping 7 days/week so... 7

:D

Thu Sep 08, 2011 4:46 pm

:shock: This is by far the most badass vert I have ever seen. Good work guys.

Thu Sep 08, 2011 10:46 pm

Thanks for the kind words you guys.....looking forward to putting some miles on this thing.

EverettB wrote:
No, no, no...

The proper response is:
Panties are dropping 7 days/week so... 7

:D

Too Funny EB. :lol: Yes, that is what I meant to say....not sure what got into me.

Thu Sep 08, 2011 10:50 pm

tikitime wrote: Caught it at the Great Canadian. Beautiful car, thanks for bringing it up to show! My wife & I below, both love it.:D

Come back next year and enjoy the whole weekend of activities at the Great Canadian.

Thanks tikitime...glad you guys like it. yes definitely looking forward to spending more time up there next year (we had a wedding to go to on Saturday this year so had to limit the trip to Sunday). Awesome day though.

Sat Sep 10, 2011 8:19 pm

what a beautiful car and build, hope you don't mind i will be repost a photo of your car and your engine on my facebook site

Mon Sep 12, 2011 9:35 am

Paulc1964au wrote: what a beautiful car and build, hope you don't mind i will be repost a photo of your car and your engine on my facebook site

thanks for the kind words....post away brutha.....

Mon Sep 12, 2011 7:30 pm

car looks dope alan, you and anthony did a great job :D
found this on youtube......
http://youtu.be/9MOli0KUQ0E
http://youtu.be/F_wxxNADDUY