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I finally got round to making the bracket I wanted to support the front end of Dolly’s gearbox. For those who are wondering, the purpose of the two-part bracket (which closes snugly around the circumference of the long end of the transmission case) is to secure it in place to prevent any movement, to augment…
Hello, friends and fans! As you know by now, I’m a huge Beetle fan and pretty much always have been! Last week I wrote an article “My History With VW Beetles!” which pretty much sung the little car’s praises… but I’m also a practical person, and a realist, so that doesn’t mean there aren’t things…
Hello, friends and fans! You’ve often heard me mentioning Dolly, my 1962 Volkswagen Beetle, so I thought it was finally time to give her and my own journey with Beetles a proper referenceable introduction here! For many years, I have loved the VW Bug. In fact you might say that I ‘caught the bug’ when I…
In this episode I’ll show you the wooden entrance portico I made – and hopefully inspire you to make your own too!
In this episode I’ll tell you how I improved the road holding or handling of my Beetles with a few minor modifications to the car’s front and rear suspension, virtually for free!
Today, in this 70th episode of Easy DIY, I’ll be showing you how I made a center console for my VW Beetle – and how you can too! There are numerous reasons why someone might want to do this – but for me it was to avoid making holes in the pristine original dashboard of…
Coming back to the topic of old cars, I thought I’d share these useful tricks with you! Recently I performed these simple, cheap modifications to my 1962 Beetle to make using her as a daily driver more comfortable and convenient! Let me show you what I did!
Dolly, my 1962 VW Beetle – who we joke has a bedroom, not an actual garage haha – is again the subject of this weeks’ episode. This time we look at the issue of performance.
Having an old car brings many things to one’s life – there’s joy in driving it, and there’s joy in beholding it – and there’s joy in the reactions other people have when they see it. Similarly, there’s also the flip-side of that coin! Every time you hear a funny little noise, your sphincter tightens,…
Let me tell you, as someone who’s had quite a lot of older cars in my lifetime, that I’ve seen some really crappy attempts at making backboards for a car! Unlike most people who criticize, I can actually do better – and here’s how you can too!