Purple Frog's VW Build

Very cool . I'm sad I didn't get to spend more time looking at it at the challenge.

How in the heck have I managed to miss this??

Super cool!  I'll need to do more reading later!!

Aha! You didn't know the address of your forum thread, Purple Frog, but a little web searching turned it up! Oh, yeah, I just saw the video on YouTube, thanks to the Almighty Algorithm. Very cool! 

Took the Outlaw Bug over to Pensacola for the "Rare Air VW Show" yesterday.    Wow! over 200 unicorns in the same parking lot.  A semi-serious gathering of the clan.   It's now the time of the year around here when its comfy to drive non-air conditioned cars.  

Some folks are better at bodywork than me.  

I don't know how I missed this thread too but WOW what a build. Outstanding work.

5 years later and still a thrill to drive.  

Home again after a morning blast through the Red Hills of North Florida.

Gratuitous self-serving bump of old thread.  

Home again after a morning blast through the Red Hills of North Florida.

Florida has hills?  

Heck, the shop is 176 feet above sea level.     Some serious elevation change up here near the Georgia/Alabama line.  

Ever notice there are not a lot of posts about cruising in the Outlaw Bug during the summer months?    

Yesterday was a picture perfect North Florida autumn day.  Took the beast on a long drive through the Red Hills countryside.   Attended a fall car show with about 400 other cars (lots of spectators).  Cruised home in the spectacular sunset.  Sunroof open, windows open, exhaust echoing off the tree canopy, and a little warmth from the engine 6 inches behind me all felt good.

So... the point of this post?   Just the great feeling one gets actually cruising around, sometimes a bit sportingly, in a car one has built from the ground up.   Reinforces the thought that these cars need to be driven not parked.  In this case the juice was worth to squeeze.

A positive reassurance after weeks of hurricanes and such.

Now, back to your regularly schedule broadcast.   

I completely agree!  Huge smiles always!

Pics?

In reply to Purple Frog :

Partially disagree, PF.  In the days before factory AC, German engineers built cars with maximum airflow through the cab.  I don't know how it was with a seriously-modified Beetle, but I have a '74 Type 2 Camper with a 411 engine.  I remember one trip to my folks' house in central Florida in the summer with temps in the 90s; with all windows open the wind fairly whistled through the bus.  Plus, I gave the kids spray guns to keep cool, they had a lot of fun squirting each other, at Dad's command.  For heat in the winter though, the type 2 absolutely sucked.

I think I'm near you, I'm in Coon Bottom. And I remember your shop on S. Adams St., you and your partner used to attend all the SCCA autocrosses, duels between PCA and Corvette Club.  J. K. Jackson was everpresent.  I had the white 914-6, never really got good at it. 

Wowza!  2025 Amelia Island gathering of the clans!     

Tim, Tom, JG, David, Maggie, et al did a fantastic job yesterday at Main Beach Park!   There are so many reasons its such a special an event.  But, Number 1... its not like a standard cars and coffee because the entrants and most the viewing public really appreciate the types of sports cars on display.

The weather and location were both perfect.  Access, check in, parking, etc. was all super easy.

I registered the Outlaw Bug with Alan in the Lemons section to avoid taking up one of the "Classic" spots.  (There are only so many Classic spots, and I think this year they maxed out)   The whole scene was a blast.

We got an award.  Say what?  What?   And an opportunity to drive across the stage and be interviewed by Tim and Alan.  What?

And cruising Amelia Island in the Outlaw Bug... priceless.

Say WHAT?