Innholdsfortegnelse for December 2020 i VolksWorld

Don’t worry, you haven’t inadvertently picked up a copy of the Simon Fox tribute issue. Depending on your own personal vintage, you may or may not be aware of the impact Simon’s cars have had on the UK VW scene over the years so, because we’re really nice like that, Mike’s done a bit of a ‘previously on…’ on p42. Just don’t forget to flip back here when you’re done. I’ll wait. Now we are all ‘on the same page’ as it were, we can forego the intros and get stuck, 13mm spanners deep, into this 1956 Oval for which the superlative ‘foxiest’ now brings new meaning. You may have drooled over his ’65, and been left in a state by his Squareback, but those are in the past. The…

“It’s only a Square on air,” says the laid back and upbeat Joe Pearson as we hang out in a nigh-on derelict part of Leicester. That it may be, but Joe’s vision for this tidy Type 3 stems from a long-held obsession with water-cooled VW Vans, which led him to screw together a couple of tasty, if fairly predictable, modified versions prior to his more recent enlightenment. You see, for this 29-year old east midlander, the search for the ideal Square began a few years ago now – undoubtedly influenced by his better half, Kirsty, who’s a staunch believer in the air-cooled way of thinking. “Kirsty’s car has been a massive influence on my choice,” Joe tells us, continuing, “Initially, I bought a Fastback, but that car left a lot…

“The body panels were made from 2mm aluminium sheets using traditional coachbuilding techniques” As has been covered recently in our VW History pieces, Prof. Dr. Ferdinand Porsche’s influence on the motorsport world can be traced back to the Auto Union race cars of the Third Reich, before he went out alone and launched the eponymous family business. In September of 1938, during his work with the early state-run Volkswagen, Prof. Porsche suggested a sports car version of the KdF-Wagen, which was given the vehicle designation no. 114. The design was for a mid-engined (albeit rear-biased) layout, but the Type 114 never made it past the drawing board and the project was shelved. A short while later, VW asked Porsche to work on a sporting vehicle using the KdF / Type…

Lowered, slammed, stanced or whatever you want to call it, drastically reducing the ride height of your VW inevitably leads to parts of its underside taking a battering, be it from speed bumps, raised iron works or unlucky pheasants. Deformed front valances, heat exchangers, exhausts and engine support bars are commonplace on slammed Buses, and the latter was certainly the case on our 1970 Bay Window. It’s not even that low, compared to many around, yet it was still making regular contact with undesirables. Initially, I thought it was the exhaust, or perhaps the rear overriders, hitting the floor, before realising it was the bottom seam on the engine support bar, or ‘moustache bar’ as it’s often called. Damage was minimal, so I continued to ignore it for a while…

IDA overhaul For years Webcon has been supplying basic service kits for the legendary Weber 48IDA carburettor, but has now brought out a comprehensive master rebuild kit. The kit includes a new float and pin, needle valve, idle mixture screws, throttle return springs, throttle plate screws plus all the parts from the standard rebuild kit. How much? £107.80 (p/no. 9210500500) From: www.webcon.co.ukTel. +44 (0)1932 787100 Show news With The VolksWorld Show now scheduled to take place on 20-21 March 2021, you still have time to enter your pride and joy to be displayed alongside the best of the best at Sandown Park. Show car entries from 2020 will be rolled over to 2021, so there’s no need to re-apply if you did so last year but, if you’d like to…

Si Fox, or Foxy to his mates, isn’t just a prolific builder of exceptional quality automobiles, he does the vast majority of the work himself in his modestly equipped home garage, and that always impresses us here at VolksWorld more than someone who simply project manages other people’s skills. There’s nothing wrong with doing that, but no one can deny it’s a greater achievement to do it all yourself. When Si needs a bit of help with paint, brother Mark is on hand to put the top coats on over his prep work, and you’ve only got to look at this month’s cover car to see they make a formidable combination. Interiors and chrome work are about the only thing Si sends his cars out for, and his eye for…

26-year-old Max Edwards started EVA Restos in 2015 following a long-term Beetle project, and hasn’t looked back since. Having moved away from the full restoration side of the business, the company has found a new niche with air ride installs and intends to offer a range of custom parts that fit as they should, perform as you’d expect and last as long as original equipment parts. Now based in Cannock, Staffordshire, we expect to see a lot more of Max and his business at the shows and in future issues of VolksWorld. To find out more about EVA, head for www.evaresto.co.uk…

As is so often the way with early VW Buses, this one wasn’t found in a dusty, dry barn, just in need of light recommissioning, but instead rotting away in a Swedish forest. It was discovered there in the early ’90s by renowned VW enthusiast, Jonas Uhland, who pulled it out and took it to the Bad Camberg Volkswagen meeting in Germany in 1995. Even there, amidst the cream of Europe’s finest and rarest vintage VWs and coachbuilts, it caused quite a stir, and a photograph taken at that event sparked the interest of the next owner, David A. Fuentes. Despite living several thousand miles away in the USA, David fell in love with the Deluxe and organised to purchase it and have it shipped to his workshop. At that…

Jeff Keller was born and raised in Southern California and has been a fan of all things air cooled for as long as he can remember. “Enough dents and body damage to suggest it had been rolled at some point in the past” “I grew up and went to school in Whittier [California], which meant I was close to shops like VW Gold Mine and Johnny’s Speed & Chrome in nearby Buena Park in the mid-’80s.” Inspired by the cars he was reading about in Hot VWs & Dune Buggies magazine, a then teenage Jeff became hooked on the VW scene and promised to one day build himself a magazine-worthy Bug with all the bells and whistles. “I learned how to drive in a ’71 Super Beetle, and scared my…

As someone who came to the VW scene at a young age, from a family who just thought cars were a means of getting from a to b, I envy guys like 20-year old Ruben Martinez junior from San Ysidro, California. His father introduced him to Volkswagens at an early age, and even let him raid his stash of cool vintage VW parts when putting together this self-built ride as his first car. How cool is that? Having said that, there are probably more similarities between my own path into VWs and Rubens than I realise. Magazines, for example. My interest started at around 12 years old, after seeing cool modified Volkswagens on the covers of British magazines like Custom Car and Street Machine in my local newsagents. This was…

OWNER NAME: Paul Knight OCCUPATION: Editor CURRENT CARS: 1968 1300 Beetle 1962 Notchback T4 Karmann Gipsy Slammed T5 Van WORK THIS MONTH: Strip down and overhaul the braking system; install dropped spindles and new steering joints THANKS TO: Tim Billings at Kustom Restoworks Tel. 07809 538663 Chris Heinecke at www.bugwelder.de Tel. +49 4721 396902 It’s been difficult to stick to the ‘renovation over restoration’ ethos with this project as, I’ll be honest, I’ve really struggled not to strip off all the running gear and build things from the ground up as I’ve always preferred to do in the past. However, I’m perservering with at least the spirit of the DIY budget theme by attempting to recommission the Bug without blowing a fortune on new parts. I should also point out…