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4 min.

Long live the King!

When I’m photographing feature vehicles, or chatting to owners at events, one of my go-to questions is simply, ‘Why old VWs?’ Typically, the response will be something relating to a childhood memory, inspiration from an old magazine feature, or Herbie. My interest in classic cars almost certainly stems from my father’s love of old British and American cars, but also partly from the colourful VWs I’d see buzzing around Southend as a teenager. My father was always tinkering with old cars, and I learnt everything I know about metalwork, welding and painting from working alongside him at the ol’ ‘Bob’s Paint & Speed Shop.’ However, he wasn’t exactly a fan of old VWs when I was a teenager. In fact, the first time he drove a Beetle was when I…

5 min.

STARTER MOTOR

Email: VolksWorld.ed@kelsey.co.uk Quick 'n' easy bearing measures Fresh from The Dub Shop in America is this neat kit that allows you to quickly assess Type 1 crank and case bearing sizes without the need for expensive or difficult to use measuring tools. The four precision machined steel pieces enable you to gauge bearing saddles, crank journals and the thrust surface (rear main) quickly and accurately. They’re laser etched with the relevant sizing information and will prove invaluable to any amateur engine builder working on Type 1 motors. How much? $34.95 (email for shipping quotes outside the USA)From: www.thedubshop.com Adjust-a-Raise gearbox cradle Raising the gearbox in a VW used to be a job only carried out on race cars, but is now regularly seen on heavily lowered street cars to prevent…

9 min.

BROWN Sugar 2.0

’57 OVAL RAGTOP When I first saw Kevin’s Villa’s car at European Bug-In in 2019, it was a standout in terms of the level of detail. And that’s saying something when you consider the number of show cars that head to Belgium for that event that are built to an incredibly high standard. However, Kevin had gone the extra mile and displayed his car with its wheels off, as people were more prone to do in the 1980s, and everywhere you looked, it was flawless. I’m only sorry I didn’t take more pics of it than I did back then, so I could better understand all the changes he’s made since. Kevin bought the ’57 in 2010 and, by 2015, had rebuilt in its first incarnation, which he called Chocolated…

7 min.

Project joy

’70 KARMANN GHIA “I guess you could say the car started as a family project, and then continued as a family project” Colorado’s Bobby Padilla grew up around Volkswagens. For as long as he can remember, they’ve been a part of his life so, naturally, when he decided to restore a car, the choice of what it should be was an easy one. He did still have to decide what model of VW, but that it would be a Volkswagen was a given. What he didn’t know at the time, though, is that he would end up restoring the same car he treasured years before. At the age of four, Bobby’s mother introduced him to VWs. She owned a white 1965 Bug she called ‘Lulu’. “I remember riding on the…

7 min.

Lime-light

CUSTOM ’57 OVAL Meet Kevin Davies. He describes himself as ‘a local entrepreneur’ from Grand Junction, Colorado. For 30 years he has called that city home, though he actually grew up on the west coast, in Fontana, California to be precise. Kevin is a dyed-in-the-wool domestic car guy. “It’s definitely my thing,” he says with a big smile. “I have over 20 vehicles in my collection – mainly 1960’s Fords and Mopars, but I also have a ’63 and a ’64 Cadillac. All of them are one-off builds that I rotate and drive regularly.” But Kevin also harbours a dark secret that his domestic market buddies just don’t get – a love for that funny little German car with the engine in the back. Cool community “I just love the…

7 min.

Brazil nuts

’64 TURBO FUSCA The man behind this insane build is Paulo Moraes, a 36-year-old construction business owner from Sorocaba, São Paulo. With thanks to his good friend, Ataide Junior Pressendo, who stepped up to help with translation, we were able to get the scoop on how this project came about. Together with his dad, Roberto, and brother, Rafael, Paulo is well known in his home country of Brazil for building crazy low Volkswagens. You can find out more about their builds on their Instagram page, @irmaostudao.Irmãos tudão, incidentally, directly translates as brothers in everything, but the boys prefer to explain it as brothers riding low. Very low. The idea for this low rider was hatched in 2017. ”We didn’t wait around for long,” laughs Paulo. “We were set from the…

9 min.

Joe LOW

Car manufacturers generally follow the seemingly simple concept of model years, though that in itself was a later development designed purely to shift more units. In the case of Volkswagen, the model years ran from 1 January to 31 December up until the end of 1954. Then, in 1955, it all changed, as that’s when VW adopted a different strategy and updated its vehicle range on 1 September each year instead, running through to 31 July. This allowed the various VW factories to make the necessary tooling changes in August every year, while a large number of its employees were on holiday – a social trend that continues to this day. Incidentally, if you haven’t already worked it out, this means the 1955 model year lasted only seven months, from…

8 min.

Jamma's swansong

“the balanced and blueprinted 1600 puts out an honest 88bhp to the wheels at a modest 4500rpm” It wasn’t until Jean-Marie’s friend and colleague, Paul Yvon Duffieux, mentioned building a beach buggy that it dawned on Jean-Marie (J-M) that he’d owned virtually all types of air-cooled VWs during his life, but never a buggy. Maybe that’s because building a buggy from scratch is a huge undertaking, rather than buying a car you can drive and improve along the way. However, the extended enforced period of time off that Covid brought with it made the prospect a reality. However, rather than trash a Beetle, the pair went off in search of a ready-built buggy and found a sad looking one under a pile of tyres and rubbish locally. It fit the…

8 min.

Mix and match

“there’s not much you can shine up on a Bus like this” Unlike many who come to the VW Bus scene, Paul is no stranger to classic Volkswagens, having bought his first Beetle at 16 (he’s 49 now) and still owning it today. At the other end of the custom VW scale, he also owns a 570bhp Golf R estate, slammed on Rotiform wheels, so it’s safe to say when it came to a Bus, it was never going to have a weedy old 1200 in the back. We’re getting ahead of ourselves here, though, as before he could even think about horsepower, he had to consider some much more mundane work. Reason being, this build started out as a bare rolling ’shell, and a deposit dropped with the Type…

3 min.

Made in England

This diecast metal Oval Window Volkswagen toy has been sold under various names over the years, but was originally designed and manufactured by the Morris & Stone Limited toy company in England. Located in north London, Morris & Stone made and sold toys in the mid-1950s under the trade name of Morestone. The initial series of Morestone vehicles comprised 20 different diecast miniatures, including a Beetle (no.8) and a VW Microbus (no.12). The Morestone series was designed to compete with the hugely popular Matchbox toy car series that started in 1953 and, due to similarities in the size and construction of the toys, Morestone VWs are often mistakenly called Matchbox toys. The diecast body has cut out windows to represent the 1953-’57 era of Volkswagen production. The metallic silver blue…

5 min.

10 at the top

SHOW REPORT - EUROPEAN BUG-IN We say it every time, but this year's EB-I really was something special as Mike, Freddy and the team pulled out all the stops to ensure the 10th anniversary event would be one to remember. Working with the likes of Russell Ritchie of Gasser Garage, the guys not only managed to assemble a good number of Der Kleiner Panzers (DKP) club members, but also the most original DKP club cars ever displayed together outside of the USA. Amongst them was the blue Oval belonging to Nao Fujita of Flat4, who shipped his DKP club car all the way from Japan specifically to be part of this special event. The California Look display was a key part of the event this year, with a total of…

5 min.

The bottom line part three

We left you last month with the basic short block assembled and the bottom end turning over nicely with no tight spots or noticeable resistance, so now it's time to start fitting the ancillaries. Air-cooled VW engines rely on their oiling system for lubrication, but also for cooling, so it’s vitally important to check the condition of your oil pump prior to installation. Ours was showing obvious signs of wear, with deep grooves on the face and bottom of the pump body where the gears had been eating away at the material. There was also quite a significant burr on the drive lug, so we decided to play it safe and fit a replacement. That added £40 to our build total, but we figured that was a small price to…

4 min.

MINTING UP

BORDER PATROL I’ve had the phrase ‘minting up’ in my mind for the past few weeks. I first heard it from Billy Davila in California, when I talked to him on the ’phone about his original paint 23-window Deluxe for a feature in the now defunct VolksWorld Camper&Bus magazine. Billy is a cool guy. He appreciates patina, but also does concours-style restorations, so he’s one of those guys who gets it, in terms of looking at a vehicle and seeing what it needs, or what would suit it best. But what does minting up actually mean? In the UK, most would take it to mean making something mint, or as close to perfect as you can get it. But in Billy’s case, what he means is selecting parts that work…

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