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Sun Mar 20, 2016 1:11 am

Here's my 73 1303 from Ireland. I've added Kerscher coilovers, rear Koni shocks, Porsche Cup 1 wheels, and Porsche 944 seats. At the moment it's having wider Kerscher wings (fenders/guards/arches depending on where you live) thicker front and rear anti roll bars, 75 on face-lift (indicators in bumpers) clear vision headlights fitted and some general maintenance. It's been gone quite a while but I'm hoping to have it back very soon. Should be worth the wait.

Sun Mar 20, 2016 1:24 am

Looks like it's going to be a great car when it's done!

Are there multiple widths/offsets of the Cup 1 wheels? It seems I've seen several different "looks" on VW's and Porsche's with those wheels.

Sun Mar 20, 2016 2:18 am

Mr. Unpopular wrote: Looks like it's going to be a great car when it's done!

Are there multiple widths/offsets of the Cup 1 wheels? It seems I've seen several different "looks" on VW's and Porsche's with those wheels.

Thanks a million. Yeah, they're available in 7.5" and 9.5" widths, and in et23 and et55. Mine are 7.5" et23, et55 would've fit better but didn't have much choice :)

Fri May 13, 2016 2:49 pm

Tue Jul 04, 2017 12:26 pm

On the 2'nd of july there was a trackday in Germany. I didn't visit, but some pictures can be found here:
https://klaus-motoren.com/2017/07/03/trackday-in-meppen/

Highlights:

Thu Jun 14, 2018 5:02 pm

I didn’t know there was a German Look Facebook....it’s loaded:

https://www.facebook.com/GermanLookAirCooled/

Mon Jun 18, 2018 10:09 am

Yes, that's a great facebook group, I am following it.

There are some pictures from the Trackday at Meppen Germany.
I also visited that event to have a look. I got there a bit late, on sunday afternoon, so a lot of people were already packing up. But I still got so see some beetles race, and I saw some excellent German lookers at the carpark:

Fri Mar 08, 2019 7:09 am

Hello Folks

My VW-1302-S... Engine 2332cc...

Fri Mar 08, 2019 11:59 am

Still a work in progress

Fri May 17, 2019 4:37 pm

hi, this is my germanlook :wink:

Wed Nov 20, 2019 7:53 am

Changes in the colour of the rims

Sun Apr 05, 2020 5:30 am

Hello,
Here is my VW 1302 LS (AlpenFahrt SE)

Sun Apr 05, 2020 6:18 pm

Mon Apr 06, 2020 10:32 am

Just moved my VWs to a new home! As soon as I have taken care of some issues with the house I’m getting back started.

In the top pix I now have over 1600sqft of garage, storage, and shop space. To the left of the Thing that can’t be seen is about 450sqft.

Fri Nov 27, 2020 7:59 am

Sat Nov 28, 2020 11:27 pm

In the last week of Feb 2020 I made the wise (ha!) decision to buy a 1968 Cal-Look Beetle, figuring it would be a good base for my next project. I bought it sight unseen, while I was on the east coast of the USA. Before I could return home, the Covid-19 pandemic had begun, and lockdown had hit...fortunately I managed to get the car in March.

The Cal-Looker was sold without engine or trans, and flat-four fuchs with standard beetle disc brakes and modified rotors. Tore the whole thing down - No interior, no front suspension, no rear suspension, and started from scratch. But yes, I cheated, I skipped the whole "rust repair & paint" stage while building this German Looker.

Since it was a "Covid Build", budget required stealing as many parts as I could from another beetle project I have, so I went "shopping" in the collection of Porsche bits I'd accumulated for my curved-window super.

Two months of shop time later, and I rolled out my new German Looker. It's got a complete Porsche 944 rear suspension, mix of Boxster, 911 and 944 Turbo brakes, Carbon goodies, 2110cc motor, 17x7 Porsche Twists, 911 front seats and various other modifications.

I managed to put somewhere 32,400km on the car this summer, mostly in August and September. Three trips from Vancouver to Calgary, and I used it for all of our smaller Classic Car Adventures tours that we were able to run in the fall.

The paint isn't nearly what I was told it was by the seller. It looks excellent in photos, and from 5+ feet away...but being red you have to polish it daily for it to keep looking amazing. I'd love to repaint it, but it's just not realistic until work returns to normal. My only other budget-saving choice was to use a 4spd stock transmission from a '73 Beetle. I didn't want to take the time to do a 5spd Porsche install, and a Berg 5-spd wasn't in the budget!

High_Res_Banff (168 of 206) by Dave Hord, on Flickr

Tue Nov 15, 2022 8:41 pm

This ride is beautiful!! Thank you for posting!

Tue Jun 27, 2023 10:59 am

a great walk about in Memminger VW shop

Tue Jun 27, 2023 11:11 am

58 Rag on a 71 pan. EJ22 turbo engine.