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Ep 213 Lime Bug Craig Shaw Apr 14, 2023

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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.com

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Ep 212 Frederic Peeters EBI & Freddie Files Apr 07, 2023

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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/

Ep 211 Gavin Jones Trailer Queen Restorations Mar 31, 2023

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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/products/vw-drain-plate-kit

https://www.ulogoup.com/

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Ep 210 Rikki James & The fast barndoor Mar 24, 2023

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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.

https://vwtrendsmagazine.com/

https://rosswulf.com/

https://www.ulogoup.com/

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Ep 209 Pandraggers Levi Weir Mar 18, 2023

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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/

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Ep 208 Resto Johnny & rare EMPI collectibles Mar 10, 2023

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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.

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Pics of the parts we talk about

Ep 207 Richard Guraino Empi of New york Mar 03, 2023

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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.

Ep 206 El Burro owner Jamie Wiseman Feb 24, 2023

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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 steering, diesel heater and much more. By the time your done listing to this you'll remeber Jamie Wiesman and El Burro the overlanding beetle!

https://www.instagram.com/jamiewiseman/

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https://vwtrendsmagazine.com

https://www.ulogoup.com

https://www.instagram.com/lanny_hussey_custom_cars/

Ep 205 Best Magazine Cover of 2022 Feb 17, 2023

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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?

Ep 204 Life of a VW salesman Don Weir Feb 10, 2023

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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

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