Starter Finally Gave Out

This looks like my old one, but mine had
more grease and gunk on it. 

I went out yesterday morning to start my car and well it didn't. I turned the ignition and after about ten seconds the starter engaged once. It didn't turn over the engine so I tried again and nothing. After school (thanks mom for letting me use your car again) me and my dad took a look at the starter. I'm very glad that we have a heated garage, it wasn't bad at all to work in there. After a quick look at the old beast we decided that it was time for the starter to go. I meant to take a picture of it before we took it into auto-zone for a core exchange. It looks like the one in the picture except with more grease and gunk on it. I went to my local auto-zone store, lo and behold, they actually had one. I'm amazed at what they keep stocked. Didn't take much to get it fixed.

What my nice new one looks like.

After that me and my dad took the bug out onto the freeway. Gave a chance to burn some water out of the system. The bug had become sort of sputtery and sluggish but today he drove like a champ! I put an additive called heet in my gas to help keep the water from freezing in my carburetor we'll see how that works out.

Arthur's Christmas

VW Split Window Bus in Arthur's Christmas

I watched Arthur's Christmas during my family's festivities. It was a great movie and best of all there were three air-cooled VW's in it. I love it when there are old VW's in movies. I think someone involved in the making of the movie must have liked old VW's. There was a VW super beetle and a split window bus in the beginning and what looks like a 1968 or 1969 Beetle towards the end of the movie. It's a great movie a VW fanatic can watch with his family. Did anybody else see this movie and notice that?

Super Beetle

Standard Beetle

Merry Christmas

Christmas is finally here and the year is almost over. During this break from school and work many of us will be traveling to family. Perhaps we will be staying home. We might take some time to catch up on those projects we just haven't had time for. Whatever we are doing I hope we can all remember why we take this time off of work and school each year. This is the time of year where the world takes a special remembrance of the child that was born in Bethlehem, the Savior of the world. Thomas S. Monson said "to catch the real meaning of the spirit of Christmas we need only drop the last syllable it becomes the spirit of Christ." I hope that we can all remember the love and forgiveness that Christ has for each of us, and I hope that we can share that love with those around us. I leave you with this video from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints to hopefully bring the spirit of Christmas into our hearts. Merry Christmas!

Winter Wonderland

I survived my finals so I decided to relax and do something fun, so I drew some winters VW's, since I've been feeling Christmasy lately. I liked the red on black paper with the snow background. What do you guys think? Merry Christmas!

Hiding the Rat's Nest

Before

After I got the mat

My latest little feature I added to my car is a trunk mat. I've gotten tired of having an ugly trunk that looks nothing like a trunk. It really looked like a big mess, the rat's nest of wiring and tubes running all over my trunk were an eyesore. And my gas tank was starting to get scratched up from stuff I was putting in my trunk, so I broke down and bought a cheap trunk mat from Walmart. It actually fit really good, I didn't have to cut it down to size much, and it's big enough to cover everything. Now it actually looks like a trunk.

I have actually been surprised at the amount of stuff I can fit in that trunk. It's actually a lot bigger than it looks. I have large coolers in there. If you are creative in packing the bug has plenty of trunk space with it's front and back luggage compartments.  Not quite as much space as a type 3 or a bus, but it holds its own pretty good. These were really well designed little cars (not that I'm biased or anything).

Another VW From School

Well my finals are this week (wish me luck!) and with the semester finishing up I haven't had as much time for posting. I have some stuff to post about over Christmas break, so for now I have pictures of VW's I've seen around my school.

Here is a blue Vanagon I saw at my school. I used to think they were ugly, but they are growing on me the more I get into Volkswagens. Can anybody help me on the year? I don't know as much about them as the other VW's. If I remember right these were introduced in the 1980's and were water cooled (thus the grill on the front) Is that right?

Well, as you can see all the snow from that big storm that I got a little bit ago has gone. A little disappointing  and it's still cold. I figure if I have to deal with cold I might as well have snow. Merry Christmas!

Retro Sound's New Radio

New Retro Sound Radio

Retro sound recently put out a new radio. Up until now I have thought that their 60's style radios have looked good, but they haven't really put out a good 1968 and up sapphire style radio. A few weeks ago I saw the MidAmerica Motorworks catalog and I was pleasantly surprised. On one of the front pages they showed the newest model, the one shown above. I really liked it, I thought they did a good job on it. The black push buttons and chrome trim really are what does it. I think I will still stick to my stock radio, but they did a good recreation. Who knows maybe someday when I restore my car i'll get a new radio. I think they would look good on a stock VW dash or custom, either way its a good balance between retro and modern. What do you guys think, would it look good in a stock VW or should we stick with vintage sapphire models?

Vintage Sapphire Radio