The Mufflerking

Snow

2012-02-07T13:03:00.000-08:00

finally we got some snow too.

Enough for me. I´m ready for warmer wheater now!

Merry Xmas

2011-12-25T02:46:00.001-08:00

Halloween Cruise

2011-11-01T02:47:00.000-07:00

at the end of this season we met on Halloween for a little cruise with our aircooled cars

many different wheels

HotSummerNite #3

2011-07-09T22:59:00.000-07:00

Thomas´ freshly rebuilt Variant

The WoodRide back from it´s trip to EBI

personalized number plates

Split window

Short Visit

2011-06-25T13:18:00.001-07:00

today of the MangoBomb with it´s new shoes.
Looks though!
And have you seen the genuine Empi exhaust also?

Gauges

2011-05-19T13:18:00.000-07:00

Finally they arrived.
Planned as a x-mas present for myself, I received them a while after easter.
But it was worth waiting!

just another wheel option..

2011-04-20T13:57:00.000-07:00

R/C Fun

2011-02-10T11:21:00.001-08:00

After finishing Junior´s (Monster) "Sand Scorcher" , we took it out for a test ride..

Better than expected! Although I did not get the chance to drive it ;-D

Type 3

2011-01-27T14:15:00.001-08:00

just playing around with model cars...

but wouldn´t that be nice in reality?

Airmighty Portfolio

2011-01-24T13:21:00.000-08:00

New reading stuff, thanks to FJE

Gauge

2011-01-16T08:00:00.001-08:00

One of the topics of my everlasting wishlist is a set of empi gauges for my beetle.

Well the first step is done...

Garage shot

2011-01-07T13:34:00.001-08:00

to be continued...

Happy New Year!

2011-01-04T09:54:00.000-08:00

Well at least I hope it will be.

At the moment it is f***ing cold outside with temperatures around 14°C below zero!

So it´s better to stay at home and surf the internet..

..and I found:

Looks like the ultimate heating source for VW enthusiasts.
Just look at the top!

Click the picture to get more information.

Merry Chrismas!

2010-12-25T11:35:00.000-08:00

FJE Cruise

2010-11-03T14:03:00.000-07:00

To enjoy the last sunny (and warm) days for this year Franz Josef invited for a small cruise in the south of Styria.

Perfect wheater, beautiful landscape and cool cars and good friends

hope the winter is not to bad this year and gone soon!

DDD #8

2010-09-25T09:10:00.001-07:00

The DKT-Racing Team:
Christian W, Fredy, me, Franz-Josef, Christian T., Martin (not on the picture as he still had to work at the time when the photo was taken)

nice "sleeper"

top notch

swiss karmann on sprints and cool single cab

Ian Clark checking the engine on an Outlaw car

Fredy seems to have fun doing wheelies

Thomas Kemp vs. Udo Becker

Looks like..

2010-08-31T07:26:00.000-07:00

.somebody lost his motivation or at least is extremly slow by mounting a fender!

Holidays

2010-08-30T07:26:00.000-07:00

During my holidays I found some new reading stuff. Spanish Super VW Magazine.
Well done!

10. VW Classic in Autal/Lassnitzhöhe

2010-08-26T10:02:00.000-07:00

10. VW CLASSIC LASSNITZHÖHE " PROGRAMM

Samstag 4. September

18.00 Ausfahrt (Air Meets Burger)
21.00 Jubiläumsfeier 20 Jahre Käferclub am Gelände der Classics.
(Ibiza Party, Disco)

Camping mögl. am Gelände!

Sonntag 5. September

08.00 Eintreffen der Teilnehmer / Frühstück
09.00 Teilemarkt, Frühschoben
11.30 Fahrzeug Bewertung (bis ca. 12.30)
13.00 Fahrzeug Prämierung
13.30 Käferverlosung
14.30 Verabschiedung der Teilnehmer

Teilnahme an der Veranstaltung auf eigene Gefahr.
(neues EU Recht )

T2B

2010-07-22T06:27:00.000-07:00

Recently saw this bus besides the road. Nice patina!

The overall condition is probably beyond any restauration.

swap meet find

2010-07-14T07:48:00.000-07:00

found a pair of "lightweight" rearlights.

they always had been on my wish list!

Hillclimb

2010-06-07T14:45:00.000-07:00

Congratulations!
Dominik had his first race last Sunday and he performed real well. Keep on like this!
Unfortunatly I had no time to watch the race but I sure will try the next time.
Picture taken from the hillclimbfans

new race car testrun

2010-05-30T14:22:00.000-07:00

Domink took his just finished race car out for the first testdrive

looks quite fast even if it is not moving

the first impressions prove that it is fast

congratulations to Domink and Hubert who did a real fantastic job building this car.

the first official race is planned for next weekend in Seggauberg Styria also klick the link

classic car fair Tulln

2010-05-18T09:39:00.000-07:00

Ernst was responsible for this nice display, while Andy organized the floor.

nice fastbacks

probably the most photographed car on the fair, although people did not quite know what they saw

the red princess

the white princess

a kaimann formula v

nothing for longhaired drivers! quite scary with the open belt just behind your head

pretty impressive funnel

not sure what those were for, as they were not connected to anything

strange custom porsche 914

my personal favorite for "worst of show"

seems as there is a tendency to bright colors.

incoming Custoca got a lot of attention

Swap meet

2010-04-24T11:55:00.001-07:00

FJE had a nice single cab as display

cool samba, a "bargain" for 70.000,-- Euros (as I heard)

stylish sooters

always opened sun roof

don´t know why the figur was cleaning it´s foot, but the car

was awesome, not only for the sound of the engine.

wonder if it would be more expensive than the samba.

Volksworld Show 2010

2010-04-05T07:29:00.000-07:00

Walter´s Sand Sorcher 1:1

Type3detectives crazy rear engined Golf III

superb drag/show car..

..as is Matt Keene´s

Cool Canadian import

Sand Scorchers everywhere

2010-02-22T13:45:00.000-08:00

Walter from the BugBox built an awesome 1:1 replica of the Tamiya´s legendary R/C Sand Scorcher. Also see http://bugbox.skynetblogs.be/

complete with fitting radio. the small one in the picture is the original 1:10 scale model

I really think about restoring my old ones. Although I´d prefer to build a scale R/C drag beetle. Well let´s see...

always expect to find the unexpected

2010-02-02T14:16:00.001-08:00

even on a modern junkyard

new aircooled magazine

2010-01-25T10:45:00.000-08:00

The new Airmighty Megascene is out. A great and thick magazine with a lot of cool cars featured. Congratulations !

Thanks to Franz Josef Enterprises for getting me the issue #1.

ready to start

2010-01-23T08:48:00.001-08:00

...for completing the engine.

It just could be a little warmer in my garage!

hell drivers

2010-01-17T02:35:00.001-08:00

Just found this old promotion postcard of the "Ronny Lee - Hell Drivers"

I wonder how many buses and beetles have been destroyed in stunt shows like that.

snow

2010-01-14T11:27:00.001-08:00

Who said you will never find anything lost again when it is covered with a snow blanket?

Well I guess things just have to be big enough!

another one

2010-01-07T14:42:00.001-08:00

where did they hide all those little rear engined french cars till now?

I guess I seriously should think about putting a "real" engine in there...

Special Forest Vehicle

2010-01-04T12:05:00.000-08:00

featuring an aircooled Steyr-Puch 500 engine with a Steyr-Puch 500 transmission stuck onto the original VW transmission. What a big variaty of gears!

And the best: It is street legal as a special vehicle with a maximum speed of 25 km/h and as a 6 seater. Well I´d prefer to sit in the cabin, especially at a weather like this!

Merry Xmas

2009-12-24T01:11:00.000-08:00

new project

2009-12-13T13:34:00.000-08:00

found this today in vienna.

rear engine..

...maybe a base for a new project?

junkyard

2009-11-29T07:39:00.000-08:00

some pictures of a junkyard I took a while ago.

beetlebug

2009-11-25T13:34:00.001-08:00

first I bought this via the www...

today I found this one in the local supermarket.

What a coincidence!

Halloween Cruise Night

2009-11-22T02:47:00.000-08:00

probably the last cruise for this season, it really was f***ing cold, with temperatures below 0°C.

DasDragDay #7 pt. 2

2009-10-04T01:44:00.001-07:00

DasDragDay # 7

2009-09-27T09:38:00.000-07:00

nice patina

big cars make beetles look small

Sprints in black with slicks look hard

Fredy on his first run for the weekend, starting with an impressive 12,57

Vanessa´s car now without a cooling device

nice car from DFL winning 2nd best Cal Look in the end

nice line up of old american iron

cool and fast low-light karmann

Toby from DFL with yet another muffler variation.

good looking `67

Kobus´ beetle, this time without bumpers

Fürstenfeld 2009

2009-09-11T00:13:00.000-07:00

Here you will find a small seelction of the pictures I took in Fürstenfeld:

A ride with a "schwimmer" VW 166 that used to be an emergency vehicle for the water rescue

Tom from FF had lots of old parts, take a look at his blog at http://www.tomsbay.blogspot.com/

For more pictures try the links on the right side.

Looks like this years season is almost over, at least for meetings in Austria.

Stay tuned for more to come, as we are heading abroad!

AirMeetsBurger Fürstenfeld 2009

2009-09-09T13:21:00.001-07:00

Some Impressions of the AirMeetsBurger at the 5th of September 2009,the night before the aircooled VW meeting in Fürstenfeld.

It was a lot of fun meeting friends from all over Austria and some guys from Hungary.

Thanks to Christian letting me have some of his pictures.

See you tonight at the AMB in Füstenfeld

2009-09-05T01:46:00.001-07:00

Tonight at the McD in Fürstenfeld. Click on the picture for further information.

difficult decision pt. 2

2009-07-21T13:55:00.000-07:00

even in smaller scale. the advantage is that you can afford a car to each set of wheels

Oldtimermesse 09

2009-06-01T12:34:00.000-07:00

last weekend we attended the yearly oldtimer-fair in Tulln
this was the only buggy of the special exhibition "45 Years of buggies" that I liked

if this Colani GT hits the road again someday?

4-wheel drive?

"barnfind"

difficult decission

2009-05-10T10:30:00.000-07:00

same procedure as every year : which color of wheels to wear for this season?

classical detailed in silver/black, pearl white, black, dark grey or chromed?

VolksWorldShow 2009

2009-04-02T11:39:00.000-07:00

as for the last years, we started the season in the UK at the VolksWorldShow.

Always lots of freshly build superb cars.

Just some impressions:

some of the cars aren´t that fresh

The Weather

2009-03-08T09:41:00.001-07:00

is getting better!

Looks like spring is on it´s way!

Let´s get ready for the season 2009!

Oldtimer & Car Show in Graz

2009-02-07T09:42:00.000-08:00

some impressions of the Oldtimer & Car Show in Graz which I attended today

a split window, although this wasn´t quite my taste

another split, this one I like much better, not only for knowing the owner

watch http://www.oldtimerservicedienst.at/ to find out more about this outstanding car.

It was a pitty that this was the only beetle on the show. Try doing it better next year!

an example for an Austrian aircooled rear-engined car and it is even a boxer! but it just got half of the cylinders a beetle has

some porsches as well..

DKT Cruise Night "Air meets Burger"

2009-02-03T12:09:00.000-08:00

see you there!

Swow

2008-11-30T11:47:00.000-08:00

It has been snowing this weekend!

Let´s go outside and have some fun!

..if they just would not use that much rust-causing salt on our street.

End of the season

2008-11-23T13:40:00.000-08:00

Looks like this year´s season is over.

sad but at least I have got time for some details, like placing the dash plaques...

DasDragDay #6

2008-09-25T13:13:00.000-07:00

Spinning wheels

DAS

DasDragDay #3

2008-09-12T11:17:00.000-07:00

In the year 2005 I attended my first DDD.

I was pretty impressed by the cars we have seen there.

Anybody who has been there, probably knows what I mean.

Look at the pictures to get a bit of a feeling...

DFL Members

cool split with sprints

one of my favourite cars

warming up the rubber

if I had not found a set of stprintstars, those wheels would have been the next choice
pretty cool!

line up

looking forward to:

Hope to see you there!

Mufflerking ? Why Mufflerking?

2008-09-07T10:38:00.000-07:00

As you have probably guessed before I got a set of Sprintstars. I don´t want to tell you what I have been through but I finally got them..

Now back to the topic:

Well the story is that I attended the VolksWorldShow in 2003 for the first time togehter with some friends, some of them I did barely know before. Surfing the ´net before and seeing the offers at the shops there I had to have one of these "Turbo-Mufflers" for my car. The only problem was to find the correct header for the muffler.........

........as I still had the original 1200ccm in my beetle. But I found one!

As this was probably one of the most unusual combintations, driving with the original 34hp and a Turbo muffler, I got a nickname. Guess what!

Right! Mr. E.B. created it and since then..

The first meeting I attended was quite a success. Although the performance (concerning horsepowers) wasn´t much better, the sound was! Nobody believed me that this was still the original engine in there. (I didn´t open the engine lid to not disappoint them)

Ok, yes I have to admit that the fitting could have been better, but..

Air Meets Burger Cruise Night 2008

2008-09-01T13:39:00.000-07:00

Last Saturday the AMB Cruise Night took place

meeting friends, having fun, talking about engines, cars, etc.

and look at the cars

here some impressions:

Farmington N.C. 1997

2008-08-23T12:26:00.000-07:00

During a holiday on the East Coast I had the chance to attend the VW Show and Drag Race at Farmington Dragway in North Carolina.

Here some impressions:

nice karmann ghia convertible in the 4 sale area

and those wheels....again

fast type 3 panel van..

..with a turbo´d engine! 1997!

fast karmann

ghia squareback

gasser style

and...yes...those wheels again!

wheelie action!

nice one

tiny toy

strange bus conversion

2008-08-19T10:30:00.000-07:00

In those days the (in)famous E.B. showed up with the freshly made Karmann Ghia with Sprintstars mounted. I knew at the first sight that I had to have a set of those wheels.
Sounds simple but it wasn´t. I didn´t quite know that the are pretty rare and hard to get.

So meanwhile I decided that I would be good to take care of the beetle and restore it.
As I don´t want you to get bored just two pictures.

Hot Rod Style:

Back with fresh paint in the original colour pearl white.

First Meeting 1996

2008-08-18T13:09:00.000-07:00

Pretty low!

This way I attended my first VW meeting in my own beetle.

Well I must admit, that I like a different style by now.

Still searching the "right" wheels..

First steps

2008-08-17T13:46:00.000-07:00

lowering the front

and the rear..

as I couldn´t decide wich rims to use I took ´67 4,5" steelies in front and some homemade 6" ´67 styles in the rear. Tyres have been 185/55 in front and 195/60 in the rear.

I knew this wasn´t the classic Cal Look Style but at least it was close to what was called the Resto Cal Look in the Nr. 6 issue of the Super VW Magazine.

I really liked the option to put the car back to original if I just wanted to.

1996

2008-08-07T12:37:00.000-07:00

This was the year when I bought my beetle. I found it in a local newspaper and an older couple was selling it because the man gave back his driving license as he thought he was to old to drive a car.

some little dents on the fenders and the chrome was not the best anymore, but besides that the car was in really good shape!

another on from the back. Almost unbelievable that 12 years ago digital cameras were not affordable if there have been any. So please apologise the quality of the pictures as my scanner is not the best.

Well equipped with tach Oilpressure, Voltmeter and Oiltemperature. The son of the couple had owned the car, among others, before but sadly died in a motorbike crash in the mid 80ties. His parents sold all the cars he had except of the beetle which they used as a daily driver and even to go on skiing holidays.

This is how the story begins.

How it all began

2008-08-04T13:02:00.000-07:00

Hi there!

Now it´s even time for me to start my own blog about aircooled stuff.
I hope you´ll enjoy it.

It probably started with my fahther when he was driving around in the neigbour´s samba with his friends.

If I only could own this bus nowadays.

Well as usual for the time when I was born, my father owned his third beetle. So the first vehicle I have been riding in was this beetle. Maybe this was the start of my passion for aircooled VWs.

Years later I got the book "Aircooled Volkswagens" as a Christmas present. From that time I knew I had to own a Volkswagen one day.