About Me

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My first experience with Volkswagen's was at the age of seven when my father purchased his 1964 Bug in 1964. He would wipe it off every morning and I would watch him do routine maintenance on the bug.  We later on built a Dune Buggy together, where I learned to drive a standard transmission.

When I was fifteen, I purchased two 1964 bugs for seventy-five dollars. This was my summer project for when I turned sixteen, the legal driving age at the time I would be ready to roll. After taking both cars and merging into one VW Bug, I had spent a total of two hundred fifty dollars. This was rebuilding the engine, new Naugahyde upholstery and shag carpet. The bug was red, and I sprayed painted it with some leftover red aircraft paint. This was my car to drive to High school. The next year, I found a yellow 1972 VW Bug. Selling my first bug and taking the money to put into this bug, I rebuilt it and now had my second bug to drive to school the next year. Saving my money, I was able to trade in the yellow bug for a new 1974 beige super beetle with air condition. My dad and I took both bugs and set them side by side and wow what a difference the cars had changed over ten years. 

This was my last year in high school and drove the 74 bug daily to school and work. The summer before going to college, I bought several other bugs and rebuilt them to sell, making my tuition that year.  I laugh now because I had pulled so may bug engines I could pull a bug engine once the vehicle was on jacks to the song of Peter Frampton’s “Do you Feel Like We Do”. 

Back then, I had no battery operated tools; it was all ratchets and standard metric wrenches.  They called it elbow grease.

This website, I’m trying to outline my process of restoring my dad’s 1964 VW Bug and a tribute to him also. I'll also show other adventures, check back for that.

I hope you enjoy the site. Look around, and if you want anything added or have questions. Feel free to click the Contact, and email me! Thanks and enjoy.