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George auto is an automotive journalist publisher and author. He's also involved in the founding of the DFL Vw club in Germany. George's passion started one night at a party when he saw a rare vehicle that grabbed his interest which turned out to be a type 34 razor edge gea. From that point he was hooked in the VW world. He pursued his passion in publishing writing for different magazines, he even wrote his own book Tuning Luftgekuhlte Volkswagen. if you can find them they sell now for about $120.00. On this podcast we talk about car shows in Germany as well as the VW seen there. German look cars and also his love for Cal look style Vw's. It's a great podcast and he's a good guy check it out. Photo credit: Stephen Szantai https://www.letstalkdubs.com/showtime.html Register for one crazy weekend here. Support our sponsors https://vwtrendsmagazine.com/ www.rosswulf.com  

The Ultimate Home built Show stopper!! FUBAR if you don't know what that stands for Google it. But that's the story and the name behind Lyndon Creamers 1964 bug. He's owned this bug twice in the first time it was featured in Volksworld was around 2003 he sold. tichanged hands several times. It was wreckled and changed up from when he owned it. He later and re-purchased the car back in 2013. He decided to put it back in the show circuit but this time No holds barred. It was going to be an all out assult on the show circuit. He infact made quite the splash when it re-surfaced. Debuting it at Volks World show and requesting a indoor spot based on a single picture. Lyndon did it. He blew away the spectators with th finish of this 4 year (this time) labor of love. Lyndons also been working on a driver 56' Beetle. Look for more of Lyndon this year at a few shows.  www.vwtrendsmagazine.com www.rosswulf.com www.letstalkdubs.com  

ROUNDTABLE!!! We discuss the ID Buzz debut, OCTO weekend & the ISP west. Some of the cool cars we saw plus the barndoor gathering. Type 3's visiters from Belgium Future Shock. Whos going to Medford?????    https://vwtrendsmagazine.com/ https://vegasvolks.podbean.com/  

Call Lind Bjornsen  is our resident bus expert on this episode we start talking about Logoed buses as well as rare accessories. What makes different Loged buses more desirable than others. Also what accessory's add to the value or are highly sought after or really rare. We also get advanced peek at the bus Lind is debuting here at OCTO June 2023. He stumbled across the Schulwagen a bus that was purchased by Volkswagen of America before they were even Inc. here in the USA. This rare barn door has deluxe features/options and was outfitted with hundreds of tools to teach dealership service technicians how to work on Volkswagens. There were approximately 13 of these buses known to exist none are around today. This could possibly be one of the rarest barn door buses out there as well as most unique with ambulance features as well as a deluxe dash in a standard bus. This Bus was never meant for public consumtion.

The name Greg Aronson is a familiar name in the VW world. Most people know his name for the famous Aronson/Holmes 63 Cal-Look car. Gregs story is so much more. From the humble beginings of buiding his model A as his first driver, to learning transaxle rebuilding at Gene Berg Enterprises. At 20 years old He and Ron Flemming started F&A Performance. Which evolved into one of the formost recognized names in Off-road racing FAT Perfromance. One of their first  guys out the is Marty Letner, Malcom Smith, Larry Raglen 5 Time baja winner. The exposion of the off-roading history has them busyier than they imagined. The evolution of how Toyota TRD starts to support off-roading vs VW. Alos the history of how the Type 4 (Tuna Boat) engines come into the off-road racing world. The Type 4 upright fan conversion kits ans so much more in this podcast. In 1986 43 engines in the parker 400 24 of them were type 4's. So much history that starts in the streets & ends in the dirt.  Register for VW Bus ID event  http://www

John Lazenby is one of those people that has been around the scene since the early 60s. His love and passion for Volkswagens still continues to this day. As one of the founding members of Der Kliner Panzers Volkswagen club, he gives us some insight to the early history of the club and how things came together. You may have heard of his club car named "Butternut". Having a passion for Volkswagens lead him to working in the automotive industry getting a job at Autohaus in 1971-1981 working there until just before they closed. In this podcast John recounts the history from back in the early days. His memory is impeccable with dates and people and places that critical things in the VW seen as it happened. It's long because it's filled with lots of good detailed information. If you love early Vw history of the southern California VW seen this is the podcast for you.  P.S. remeber those little rubber band engine re-build kits. youll hear where they started in this podcast. My experience in a Mexican Prison podcast

The 1972 EMPI was sold to filter dynamics. Just before that happened Darrell Vittone started the race shop which was a separate entity from the VW dealership. One day some kid from the East Coast is peering through the window and Darrel sees him. Darrel opens the door and meets Dave Andrews these two for the next few years campaign the inch pincher plus the race shop cars. Everywhere the race shop went there was Dave Andrews campaigning his own 1967 beetle that he purchased brand new. Hear his story about his move out west and also the evolution of his personal car that eventually turned into a straight race car. Good story about a great chapter in our VW hobby.   my prison podcast    

The type three Variant & Sedan (Squareback & Notchback) was the car that was debuted at the 1961 Frankfurt auto show in order to develop a new upgrade level vehicle for people that wanted to upgrade from the Beetle. In the early years of the type three there were a lot of one year only and earlier only design attributes. In this podcast we break down all of the early details that are known to be on 63 & earlier type three's. Today on the registry only 75 early pre-1963 & earlier type threes are registered. Maybe the type three is the hidden gem of rarity that not a lot of people know about. We once again turn to our type three resident expert Lee Hedges for an in-depth review of specific to early type three details. This is very informative and lots of information even if you're not into type threes you'll enjoy this podcast.   Subscribe to my YouTube channel here Georges YouTube channel here Lee Hedges you tube channel

Bryce Allemann and Kathy Hicks are a road tripping power couple that first hit the road in 2017. The first journey across the United States northern half consisted of 8,754 miles.  That article can be seen in August 2018 Hot VWs magazine. They scheduled a month off of work to accomplish this feat in the 1967 SO42 Westy. Since then, they've had a desire to do it again which we were lucky enough to catch them on the return home from the latest southern US trip in their 67 VW bus. We discuss what it's like to be on the road for 30 days. Some of the mechanical challenges that they faced during this particular road trip. A lot of the cool things that you see when you're traveling the country by road. This VW bus a 1967 SO42 westfailia camper is more than just a bus. It was purchased brand new by Bryce's grandfather then give it to his father and gave it to Bryce. He's lawn more miles on this bus that his grandfather and father combined. Kathy is an equal partner and sharing all of the driving duties as well as pla

we discuss who would be the top builders non-Volkswagen that we would like to see build a VW platform vehicle. Bill takes a trip to Volksworld show 2023 we talk about some of those details. We also discussed some of the people bills tried to get on the podcast. Some new episodes that will be coming out and some insight on a few of those upcoming podcasts. We get a project update and much more.

I'm sure you've heard the name Limebug. Limebug out of the UK makes air suspension and much more for Classic aircooled Volkswagens. Craig Shaw and his partner Leeann. Her purchase of a lime green beetle is the cause for Craig to start working on suspension in the Air-cooled world which then developed into trying to bring something to the market that didn't exist. With a background in machining and engineering he put to use what he new, to try to develop some new suspension for Volkswagens. It doesn't just stop with suspension now they manufacture wheels brake kits and plenty of other VW accessories. As a homegrown business committed to manufacturing all their parts in the UK they ship worldwide and their prices are fairly affordable. Lineburg make some pretty cool parts in there constantly pushing the envelope with new products hitting their website all the time check them out if you want something different for your Volkswagen. Check out his website with the link below. www.limebug.com www.vwtrendsmagazine.c

Frederick Peeters is a man who wears a lot of hats, as the managing Director of European bug-in, he also puts on the Freddy files, and now does the Ardennen Rennen. From Nenovine Belgium he's been a VW enthusiast since he was a child. With a passion for type three's he loves his notch back. His commitment to the hobby means that he puts it all in the line to put on one of the largest VW vents in Europe. The European Bug-in known as EBI is unparalleled in VW shows. Being hosted in the city of Chimay Belgium where cars from all over Europe travel to with a gigantic Swap Meet a huge camp out and a weekend long party. If you've never been you must go. We also discuss a little known bug called the mach one that came out in 1965 built by a VW dealer in Belgium we get all of the details on the specialty vehicle that was built.   https://www.europeanbugin.com/ vw trends magazine Ross Wulf Bus hinges www.ulogoup.com www.myvolksgear.com  

On our continued British invasion from Volksworld 2023 show. Trailer queen restorations Gavin Jones on this episode. Starting out with his first VW in the late 80s he cruised around in a pretty cool convertible super beetle. Later moving up to some of the early year VW's with his Bahama Blue 64. He tells a legendary story of how he left his last job for sake of family and trailer queen reostorations is born. Trailer queen Reostorations is Just He and his Wife doing a family business. Gavin does some of the top paint work in the UK. He's painted some of the cars that you would know. Hes painted  The Cal-look 63 rag top, The Pepto Squareback T3 Detectives all black sqaureback, Barnoor 23 widows. If you've had any issues of volksworld you have seen his work. We talk about some splitwindow details. Hes OCD whenit come to paint and detail. Check out his work on his FB page links below. https://www.facebook.com/trailerQueen https://trailerqueenrestos.com/ https://vwtrendsmagazine.com/ https://rosswulf.com/shop/ols/

In the early 2000s while trying to figure out what to do with my bus and surfing the Internet I ran across a website called vintagebus.com. On that website was a gallery for people to upload pictures. I ran across Rikki James from England & his 1954 Right Hand drive barn door bus. This bus was sporting big power type 4 with a 2600cc 48 IDA's and Porsche five speed. This bus would serve as a template for me to build my first bus. Rikki's been ahead of the curve for a long time, an avid VW enthusiast and hard-core bus owner. You can sometimes catch him on the autobahn or the M25 in his right hand drive barn door hauling the mail. This bus is no joke and has been on the road since the early 90s! Listen to what it was like in the early days before there was disc brake conversions or narrowed beams and all the other parts and pieces that hes had custom-made for this barn door bus. Did I mention Rikki was doing patina before patina was a thing? He's a trailblazer at all things cool. Rikki James is a great guy.

Levi Weir is from  Phoenix Arizona and runs a company called Pandragger parts. Since about 14 years old he's been working on Volkswagens. Taking up a trade in welding and fabrication with a raceshop he learn the skills that his friends utilize to help them work on their VW's he eventually turns that into a business fabricating and building air suspensions as well as paint and bodywork through his business pandragger parts. There's also a car club named Pandraggers out of Arizona that they started when he and his friends were younger. On this  Podcast we discuss air suspension on Beetles. He also discuss his relationship with Randy from Randar wheels who he met fabricating racecars. He currently owns seven sets of different varieties of RNDAR wheels. He loves oval window rag tops and he like some low! take a listen to check out what Levi is up to and what is history is all about. https://www.pandraggers.com https://www.instagram.com/pandragger_products/ https://www.letstalkdubs.com/showtime.html  

Resto Johnny as he's known on the samba, has been in the VW collecting since the early days of Pomona. One of the original Pomona swap meet vultures he's been on the lookout for super rare parts since the early days of the hobby. Finishing his first car when he was just 14 and selling it at the Pomona swap meet. How do you get home from that situation? You buy another car at the Pomona swap meet. That started his lifelong passion for buying collecting and trading rare VW parts and pieces. From his 47 split, to his 67 bug he loves the bolt on the rare stuff. We talk about Empi collectibles and some of the rarest parts available from Empi back in the good all days. He had a relationship with Lee Leighton and would help him at his shop and of course buy rare parts from him.    his stuff for sale Pics of the parts we talk about  

Richard Garaino owned competition foreign car parts in New York. After seeing the interest in Volkswagen beetles aftermarket parts he reached out to Joe Vittone and became an authorized EMPI distributor in New York. He didn't just sell parts and bring to the people of New York the high-quality aftermarket performance parts of Empi of days gone by. He also raced the inch pincher three a really cool 1952 beetle that set plenty records and upset lots of people in the dragstrip. 

Is this The ultimate overlanding bug? Thats what Jamie Wiseman set out to build. After listening to this podcast you may agree Jaime is a certified master tech for Honda after working for dealerships decided to open his own garage. Buying a bug for his wife back in 2015 spurred his interest and Air-cooled VW's. His commitment to reliability and uniqueness led him to eventually stumble across the 67 that you hear about on this podcast. From custom making his own a-arm suspension to modifying bus shifter to work the rebuilding this entire beetle purely to make it a purpose built long haul traveler that can trail with the best of them. Listen as it goes back to the drawing board for version 3.0 the new Drive train set up is a late model bus box ,IRS trailing arms, fuel injected, electronic engine management and turbo charged with a lot of engineering designed into the build. You'll agree that this is one awesome beetle that makes us all want to take 8000 mile adventures. This VW has Aor conditioning, power assit

https://www.youtube.com/@the_Wagen https://vwtrendsmagazine.com https://rosswulf.com https://www.youtube.com/@letstalkdubspodcast9361 On this episode of Bill and George break down the magazine covers of 2022 and pick their favorite covers from Volksworld, Hot VW's VW trends and Volksmania magazine. We also discussed some customer service issues with the new weld through primer metal. Project updates for Bill. How happy I am with what I have so far for the hydraulic suspension.? Also update on what George is working on. Zorba the Ghia, which car should i sell? 

Don where was the first salesman hired at Steuben motors in York PA. On this podcast we get an inside look at what it was like to be a salesman for Volkswagen in the 60s. How much the commission rates were. How the car was received in a state of union ironworkers. Don has a great collection of brand new literature that he saved from the trashcan while he worked at the dealership. He also runs a really cool Brewster site an American car that was built for Rolls-Royce originally. I picked up some of the nicest original literature available for late 60s early 70s Vw's from him. His name on the samba is Seller: DEW - Lit   Dons NOS literature for sale