From Rusty Dream to Magazine Masterpiece: Scott Pfeiffer's VW Journey

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Music.

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VW fam, buckle up, because today's guest is the definition of passion,

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of precision, and of pure dub life dedication.

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He's an electrical engineer. He's a builder. He's a storyteller.

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He's a dude who turned a rusty dream into a magazine-worthy masterpiece.

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From spinning wrenches in college dorms to reviving his VW soul with his 64-rag

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top named Sky, I, Scott Pfeiffer's journey is nothing short of legendary.

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This is a man who actually broke his back, and I mean that literally,

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broke his back and still came back to finish the bill.

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Still came back. You see what I did there? A guy who's chased down bumper guards

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from Poland, who's rewired an entire car by hand.

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He's certainly not afraid to say that stock is history,

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that custom is the future of our

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imagination featured in volksmania magazine

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praise that shows all across texas and driven

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by pure air-cooled obsession ladies and

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gentlemen turn the volume up and welcome to the podcast mr scott pfeiffer what's

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up man i'm going pretty well how's your day going pretty good i've had a busy

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All right, my friend, back to you. Thank you. Let's jump in here, man.

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Take me back to what first kind of sparked or pulled you into the VW world.

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I did have a friend back in high school.

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I don't even remember what it was. I just remember it was blue.

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I think it was a Super Beetle.

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I remember driving around in that one until he got an 85Z28 because he was one

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of those spoiled kids in high school.

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But I remember spinning that one through a ditch one day, and we just pushed

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it out of the ditch. and spin, not roll.

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So I pushed it out of the ditch and kept going.

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It was, and it kept going. But really, what really got me into it,

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I had a German friend, guy whose parents were German military and came over

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to the States to be stationed.

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And he was in high school with me. And I had lived in Germany before.

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So he and I kind of hit it off and I spoke German. So we would speak German to each other.

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But he got a, it was a Baja, but it was built on a super beetle.

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And it was already built when he bought it.

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So he got questioned all the time where he got the Super Beetle Baja kit and

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never did find out. But it was also a convertible.

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And I remember whoever put on the convertible top, it never cut out the rear window.

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So when you put up the top, you had no rear window.

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It was a cool little car, but it was just a stock motor in it when he got it.

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And we pulled the motor out, and he was going to build a 1641.

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His his dad was a pretty good mechanic and and i

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was a terrible mechanic at that time so

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he kind of taught me some things but we pulled the motor out and he was building

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a new one the long block was sitting there and i just started taking it apart

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and it just you know it was just fascinating to me that how easy it was and

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you know so few bolts to take it apart and then you're just you're fall into it.

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So it was such a simple design and so easy to, to comprehend how all that worked

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together. You know, the crankshaft to the cam, to the everything. It was just.

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It was just really interesting to me and i guess i

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was i was hooked from there so okay so that all kind of tied together what would

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you say were some of the biggest lessons that you were taught from that first

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1641 rebuild it was just just again how how easy it was yeah we uh you know it.

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I i i'd always you know i i always

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liked cars but all the stuff you would see you know you see

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engine hoists and pulling things apart and still v8s

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and things still i love them but i i they scare me

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i wouldn't want to i would never be think about tearing

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apart a v8 the way i can a vw motor but you

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know it's just just the ease of the entire car to to

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take it apart and redo it you know even if you're pulling

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apart the taking the front beam off and

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putting on a different beam all of that everything is just seems

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like four bolts and you can have pretty much anything on the car part

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whether it's pulling the motor or pulling the pulling

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the front beam or everything seems to be four bolts

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and you're done yeah yeah that's a good point you

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had mentioned in the in some of your bio and story this the 68 bug with this

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with the scat interior this was i think one that you rebuilt in college yeah

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so i bought it after he got the the convertible that that baja okay i I wanted one of my own,

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so I bought the 68 from a guy who had done the interior. Was this the first one for you?

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Was this your first? That was my very first one. It's my only other one,

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actually. I've only had the two. I've had the 68 and then the 64.

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So I'm not one of these typical V-Dubbers that just goes through all kinds of

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them. I tend to keep them.

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I mean, I've had this one for 20 years. The 64 I've had for 20 years now.

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Oh, man, that's awesome. I wish I had some of mine from high school, et cetera.

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I didn't keep them. Yeah, I just didn't. Yeah.

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I wish I'd still had the 68, but yeah. So I bought it, and it was somewhat done.

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It was still stock height, stock brakes.

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It was 1,600, but it was running dual 36 Delortos.

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The interior had been done with the scat, the gray velour, lovely 80s fashion,

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but it looked cool, especially since that was the 80s.

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So I dug that part. it had one of those long mirrors that had like five I don't

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even know what they were called but they were an 80's thing too had like five

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mirrors on the rear view mirror yeah no blind spot yeah yeah yeah uh huh the no blind spot mirror,

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uh huh and then the multicolored local motion sticker on the back window you

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know all those things that were 80's 80's sure,

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hot tuba yeah hot colors yep yeah,

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exactly uh but it needed some

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work you know after i got into it a little bit i i

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wanted to redo some things it needed floor pans so i

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started getting into that part you had took it and was having the floor plans

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done it was out of place the dead painting body also so they they offered to

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paint it for me because it was showing some age at that point so i i had it

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repainted i think it was like in a like a 1992 Mazda Miata blue so it was a very.

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Dark a darker blue than what my current car is but a bit bright bright blue and I think the entire,

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paint job and floor pans cost me like 1800 bucks so it was a step above Earl Scheid but not much,

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yeah fantastic,

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yes exactly so I wanted a bigger motor And I was going to school at the time

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I went to Auburn University Which is about three hours Three and a half hours

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from where I lived at the time In Alabama But I wanted a bigger motor I got some Alabama stories,

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I spent some time there.

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I spent five years there I worked for an HVAC company there I was their sales

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manager Right in the heart of Alabama Which was Montgomery Yeah,

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okay That's right around the corner from Auburn.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, that's why I brought that up. So here's my story,

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and then I'm going to shut up, and it's back to you.

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When I first moved there, I got sent away from my company to training,

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and I went through Atlanta, Hartsfield, and then went out to Texas.

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And on the way back, we connected in Atlanta and went on to Montgomery.

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Well, when we got to Atlanta, I noticed, man, there's like a whole bunch of

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flights, like two even, that would get me there a lot faster than the one I've

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got to wait for at like 8.30 PM tonight. It was like noon, right?

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So long story short, I approached the counter. There's a chick standing there.

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I approached the counter and I said, hey, you know, been gone all week.

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You know, I'm excited to see I got a young family, you know, ready to get home.

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I noticed there's two flights that get me back to Montgomery before this one I'm on.

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Is there any chance I can Change my ticket and get on an earlier flight No Bullshit,

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here's what she told me I don't know, that depends Auburn or Alabama,

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I went, okay, I see where this is headed. Y'all take this pretty serious.

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It's almost like a biblical term in the South, especially in Alabama,

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to be on one side of that fence or the other.

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So I'll sum it up here. She said Auburn first, Auburn or Alabama.

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And so because she said Auburn first, I was like, well, I'm going to try some psychology here.

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Right so i'm gonna say that's the team even though i didn't pick

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one you know i i'm a florida guy florida gators

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you know that's but anyhow she told

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me no i said auburn she goes nope wrong answer flights full and guess what man

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i didn't get on the flight i'm not joking i didn't get on the flight i waited

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the whole day that would felt like a whole day in the airport to wait that's

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funny yeah i wonder if you wonder if you actually would have had you said alabama.

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Probably probably so yeah i

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tell people that uh being here in dallas you know everybody's cowboys fans not

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me but uh i i'm a pro guy i'm a college guy more than pro but people always

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say you talk about football teams and i'm like well you know you're in alabama

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there's only two that's right and you either have a best friend or an enemy.

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You ain't lying. Yeah.

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That's funny. And the Cowboys isn't the answer. Not even close.

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I've got a little bit of time I've spent in Dallas, really more Fort Worth.

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Actually, Hearst is where this facility was, training facility was,

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where I was teaching some classes, some sales classes.

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But downtown Fort Worth, there's a barbecue joint called Heim,

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H-E-I-M, Heim Barbecue.

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Yep. They have bacon burnt ends. They're like probably some of the best I've ever had.

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And they have a green chili mac and cheese that's fire.

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So that's out there near you. Check that spot out if you never have.

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I'll have to write that down. That's what we're done. Yeah, dude.

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Check it out. I'm always looking for good barbecue.

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Yes, me too, man. Me too. I'm like a connoisseur. I try to, you know,

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I do a lot of cooking myself and I barbecue a lot myself, but I don't care who you are.

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If you didn't grow up in Texas, you can't cook like Texas.

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Texas just has barbecue figured out, and I look forward to it every time.

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I still come to Austin several times a year with the company I'm with now.

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Okay. Sorry, man. Back to you. Back to you. Yeah, that's all right.

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That's all right. We were talking about the 68 and the motor.

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We bought a long lock for it that's...

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And, you know, I was an idiot and was looking for the long block for the cheapest cost, and I found it.

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And unfortunately, I learned real quick why so many people, at that point,

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I didn't realize that Gex had such a bad name.

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But since then, and being in the VW world a lot more often, I can't believe they're still around.

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You don't see their advertising anymore, but you can search for them,

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and they're still there and still evidently building motors.

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But I got a long block from 1835, and I think that thing made it two trips between

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Huntsville, where my parents lived, and Auburn. It was about three and a half hours.

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And second trip back to school or so, and it fell apart.

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I mean, the rocker arm just blew apart.

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It just spawned. I mean, it was just ridiculous stuff now. You know,

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that having worked on them so much more since then, I don't know how they managed

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to screw that up so bad, but they did.

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So, you know, and then the car sat for a while. I, you know,

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I didn't have the money anymore and I was finishing up school.

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And then after I graduated, I moved out to Texas and got married and started a family.

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And it just, at the 68 sat there, my parents built a house outside of Alabama

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and it had a big storage area. So the car sat there in storage forever.

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I always wanted to get back to it, but she's now my ex-wife.

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But she wasn't into old cars or the VW scene at all.

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So it sat and sat and sat. My parents finally, they were never pressured.

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They had plenty of room for it, so it wasn't a big deal.

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Somebody was doing some work for him at the house and saw it and made a decent offer for it.

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It considered it had no motor in it, and I'd torn out the interior and stored

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it away to keep mice out of it.

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So, you know, it was pretty much just a shell, and then he got the interior, an old interior also.

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I don't remember what year that was. It was probably around 2000 or so, somewhere in there.

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Yeah, he made a decent offer on it, so I let it go. and I don't know some years

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after that I got divorced and finally ended up with another one which is a whole

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other story that I talk about in the,

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magazines and you're probably going to ask about it too so,

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it seems like that's where we're at in the timeline was that the blue 66 that

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was in the parking garage yes.

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A good friend of mine now but at the time he was just a co-worker I was working

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in Nortel in the telecom industry, which I've been in since I got out of school.

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But I kept seeing this convertible 66 out in the parking garage.

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He didn't drive at all too often, but every now and then it was there,

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and I finally tracked him down, and Marty and I had been friends ever since.

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But then after I got divorced, I was talking about wanting another VW,

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and I'd always wanted – there was a guy back in Huntsville who was like the guru VW guy.

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You know, everybody had that guru VW guy. Yeah, yeah.

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He had a...

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A bug and then he actually moved it into a guia later but he had a 2110 in it and he would just,

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eat everybody's just kill him drag racing

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all the time street racing of course back then so back and down street racing

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but you know hey you know he would just he would eat everybody with that to

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that car so i always 2110 always stuck in my in my head so i and then i always

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wanted a rag top i had another friend who had a shell that was a rag top and

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the first time i saw that I was like,

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oh, man, ragtop is just the coolest thing ever.

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For me, it was even better than a convertible for me for some reason.

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The ragtop just always appealed to me.

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So I was talking to Marty, and I was like, you know, I really want a ragtop bug, and I want a 2110.

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And really, that was about all I really said to him. A couple days later,

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he sent me an ad off of the Samba, and it was this car.

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And it was down in Austin and we drove

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down there one day and started ordering parts for it because

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I knew a little bit about the car because he was

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the VW guy that was in the in the scene throughout Texas so some people knew

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the car and so I got a little bit of an idea of what it had and I knew it needed

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brakes and stuff so I started buying disc brake kits for it and all that kind

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of Even before I bought it,

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knowing that even if I didn't buy that one, I was going to buy a bug.

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And it was going to be a pre-68 this time. I really wanted something that was an earlier.

00:17:48.261 --> 00:17:53.481
Like I said, I wanted a ragtop. And these days now I know that I'm going to be a 63 and earlier.

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Then I didn't realize that a 64 was not an original ragtop.

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But I wanted that kind of 63 even earlier.

00:18:03.741 --> 00:18:07.641
Wish I had bought an oval at the time Because now the cost of those are so much

00:18:07.641 --> 00:18:12.881
More expensive than I could have gotten one then 20 years ago I think about

00:18:12.881 --> 00:18:18.361
that in high school Those ovals were They were not that cool And nobody cared.

00:18:19.561 --> 00:18:28.061
96 when I bought my first 72 Beetle You know Those 60s And 50s cars You know

00:18:28.061 --> 00:18:34.541
Nobody wanted to buy them They were $2,500 bucks three grand you know it's crazy

00:18:34.541 --> 00:18:37.821
yeah I should have yeah we all we all should have,

00:18:38.588 --> 00:18:42.008
Should have bought a bunch of them, right? Yeah, exactly. With window buses at the same time.

00:18:42.508 --> 00:18:47.788
Yeah, no doubt. But anyhow, we drove down to Austin one Saturday,

00:18:48.168 --> 00:18:55.008
and I test drove it, and the motor was really strong, and those folks.

00:18:55.368 --> 00:19:00.448
And other than that, the car ran like crap. I mean, it was all over the road.

00:19:00.828 --> 00:19:06.108
The link pins and king pins were shot, and the brakes were – I mean,

00:19:06.168 --> 00:19:08.068
they were drum brakes with the 2110.

00:19:08.848 --> 00:19:12.408
I don't know how he drove the thing, the guy I bought it from.

00:19:12.748 --> 00:19:17.708
I don't know how he survived. But we towed it back behind my truck.

00:19:17.728 --> 00:19:23.268
And the whole way back from Austin to Dallas, I'm watching the car swerving

00:19:23.268 --> 00:19:27.088
side to side, feeling the whole back end of my truck the whole way.

00:19:27.228 --> 00:19:28.908
Because it would not stay straight in the lane.

00:19:30.608 --> 00:19:34.988
That's how bad the front end was. We got it home.

00:19:35.208 --> 00:19:38.468
I took it straight to a guy and had him start working on it.

00:19:38.588 --> 00:19:41.648
And worked on it from there, drove it for a long while.

00:19:41.908 --> 00:19:48.248
When I had the brakes done, and it's something people tend to know,

00:19:48.388 --> 00:19:53.468
although I didn't at the time, is, you know, especially this was back 2005 or so, right?

00:19:53.568 --> 00:19:56.068
There's a lot more companies doing disc brakes now.

00:19:56.208 --> 00:20:01.088
But back then, you really, the kits you would get, the fronts would normally

00:20:01.088 --> 00:20:07.468
be the Ghia front disc brake kits, you know, and then the rears would be kind of similar,

00:20:07.868 --> 00:20:11.008
you know, cb performance kind of had the whole setup with

00:20:11.008 --> 00:20:14.348
the drop spindles and all that kind of stuff so that that's what i got for it

00:20:14.348 --> 00:20:20.768
uh but they added about an inch track on each side when you when you go to disc

00:20:20.768 --> 00:20:28.368
brakes right but so i still had a stock with beam and then i added the inch track and it was a uh.

00:20:29.154 --> 00:20:33.874
Lower beam so when i put the lowered spindles and

00:20:33.874 --> 00:20:36.854
then the lowered beam even at the highest beam setting

00:20:36.854 --> 00:20:39.714
the guy who put the brakes on

00:20:39.714 --> 00:20:43.314
called me and said hey you got a little fender brake issue i

00:20:43.314 --> 00:20:46.534
said huh and goes yeah you're you're you're

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and your tires are hitting the

00:20:49.374 --> 00:20:52.234
fenders even as high up as that that beam will go

00:20:52.234 --> 00:20:55.834
with the drop spindles you're rubbing so i

00:20:55.834 --> 00:20:59.414
had to go hunt down a two inch narrow beam and

00:20:59.414 --> 00:21:02.234
take it back to him yeah yeah now we got

00:21:02.234 --> 00:21:06.594
a two inch narrow beam pretty common now because a lot of these guys you know

00:21:06.594 --> 00:21:12.194
17 18 inch wheels up underneath there you know putting them taking them off

00:21:12.194 --> 00:21:17.754
the porsche they're seven eight nine inches wide but yeah yeah so i want to

00:21:17.754 --> 00:21:20.934
i want to talk about your back i'm going to talk about this accident Now,

00:21:21.194 --> 00:21:24.754
let me preface this with this. I got a super bad back.

00:21:25.214 --> 00:21:30.174
And over the years, I'm 47, even though I look 37. Just kidding.

00:21:30.874 --> 00:21:35.254
But really, my back's toast, man. I've had two surgeries. Now,

00:21:35.314 --> 00:21:38.254
I can't complain because I have never broken my back.

00:21:38.674 --> 00:21:44.794
So I'm interested in this story. But what I wanted to mention was I understand what back pain is.

00:21:45.314 --> 00:21:48.774
There's a lot of people that don't understand heartburn. They've never had it

00:21:48.774 --> 00:21:52.314
a day in their life. They don't understand a headache. They've never had a headache, right?

00:21:52.834 --> 00:21:58.114
Dude, I've had back pain. That's very, very, very serious.

00:21:59.034 --> 00:22:05.594
So I'm eagerly, I guess, interested in this story. Tell me what happened with your back.

00:22:05.774 --> 00:22:12.274
How'd you break it? I was in my attic in my house and I was walking on the beams

00:22:12.274 --> 00:22:14.814
as I'd done many times before.

00:22:14.814 --> 00:22:18.134
I've wired up houses for Ethernet and

00:22:18.134 --> 00:22:22.114
all that kind of stuff Walking on beams Never had a problem I don't honestly

00:22:22.114 --> 00:22:27.654
remember Exactly what happened All I know is I fell off the beams Hit the sheetrock

00:22:27.654 --> 00:22:33.514
And fell through But where I was in the attic Was a two-story entryway Out of

00:22:33.514 --> 00:22:36.834
the house So it was two stories Straight down.

00:22:37.834 --> 00:22:43.974
Onto Basically some tile On top of cement So they say,

00:22:44.334 --> 00:22:49.274
the doctor said that based on the way it burst, that it looked like I landed

00:22:49.274 --> 00:22:55.914
on my feet and it just blew out my back. So I actually, I shattered L2.

00:22:57.034 --> 00:23:00.894
So your lumbar spine, you have five lumbar vertebrae.

00:23:00.994 --> 00:23:03.694
You might know a little more than other people since you have a bad back,

00:23:03.794 --> 00:23:07.954
but I shattered L2 and I fractured L1.

00:23:08.944 --> 00:23:14.324
Tore into the spinal cord area, messed up.

00:23:14.744 --> 00:23:19.104
So where L2 hits is where you have that thing, the horse's tail.

00:23:19.344 --> 00:23:26.124
I'll call it Aquinas, but the horse's tail is what ends at the bottom of your spinal cord.

00:23:26.304 --> 00:23:29.924
That's where all of your main nerves go out. I tore into it right there,

00:23:29.944 --> 00:23:32.504
and I actually severed one of those nerves.

00:23:32.924 --> 00:23:37.244
And based on the damage, they came out after the first surgery,

00:23:37.244 --> 00:23:43.424
And they went in and they put two rods up my back and stabilized me and came

00:23:43.424 --> 00:23:47.644
out and told it was my first wife still and said, he's not going to walk again.

00:23:48.184 --> 00:23:51.604
So, but I'm complaining.

00:23:52.504 --> 00:23:53.684
I'm talking about my life.

00:23:56.724 --> 00:23:59.744
Oh, yeah, you do. I don't have the rods anymore. Okay.

00:24:00.284 --> 00:24:04.004
Well, they, they, I, you know, in, in recovery, I was already moving my legs.

00:24:04.024 --> 00:24:07.004
So they, they were wrong, luckily, but it took a while.

00:24:07.244 --> 00:24:12.824
Lucky you survived cover yeah yeah yeah

00:24:12.824 --> 00:24:16.504
dude you're lucky you survived that for sure then

00:24:16.504 --> 00:24:19.284
just just missed the banister to the to the

00:24:19.284 --> 00:24:23.624
stairwell also because the the banister from the stairs came right there i just

00:24:23.624 --> 00:24:29.344
missed it like like six eight inches based on where i fell so so i know you

00:24:29.344 --> 00:24:34.884
did i bounced off of that probably be bad absolutely just tell me how that felt

00:24:34.884 --> 00:24:37.304
after You're having the rods removed.

00:24:37.584 --> 00:24:41.984
Did it, did it create mobility for you? Did it feel weird to have that?

00:24:43.524 --> 00:24:49.744
There was another surgery in between that, right? So they did the rods at first and then L2 was,

00:24:49.904 --> 00:24:54.304
they called it pebbles and they were, but they were originally going to go in

00:24:54.304 --> 00:25:00.204
a couple of days later and take it out and put in a piece of donor bone in its place.

00:25:00.804 --> 00:25:03.944
But they knew it would mess up my left leg a little bit when they did it,

00:25:04.024 --> 00:25:07.084
but they didn't think I was going to walk. so they weren't worried about messing up my left leg.

00:25:07.304 --> 00:25:11.404
So when I was moving my legs, they gave me the option.

00:25:11.564 --> 00:25:16.244
They said, okay, we can go back in as planned and remove L2.

00:25:16.244 --> 00:25:21.164
They actually take a piece of somebody's tibia and put it in place and then

00:25:21.164 --> 00:25:22.844
put a plate up my left side.

00:25:23.464 --> 00:25:27.384
And they said, we can do that now or we can let you heal some,

00:25:27.784 --> 00:25:33.324
build up your strength again, and see how it goes. and hopefully maybe L2 will

00:25:33.324 --> 00:25:36.624
fuse and be a solid mass again.

00:25:36.964 --> 00:25:42.964
So about three months later, it wasn't. And basically L1 and L3 were caving

00:25:42.964 --> 00:25:45.924
in to that L2 area that was just pebbles.

00:25:46.524 --> 00:25:51.544
So they had to go back in, and that's when they removed L2.

00:25:51.824 --> 00:25:55.124
They put in the piece of donor bone. They put a plate on the left side,

00:25:55.124 --> 00:25:58.144
and they did mess up my left leg a good bit because they actually,

00:25:58.264 --> 00:26:03.684
one of the muscles in my left leg, the one that controls your hip movement side to side.

00:26:05.245 --> 00:26:10.925
Attaches right there between 0-1 and 0-3. So they had to peel it off and then put it back.

00:26:11.425 --> 00:26:14.585
And so it messed up my left leg a little bit. I still limp a little bit,

00:26:14.765 --> 00:26:15.605
especially when I'm tired.

00:26:17.705 --> 00:26:22.365
But I now have a plate as well as the rods. And then a few years later,

00:26:22.565 --> 00:26:25.005
after all that fused together, they took out the rods.

00:26:25.865 --> 00:26:28.965
And they took out the rods because I could feel them in my back.

00:26:29.225 --> 00:26:32.225
And any time the weather changed, I could feel them in my back.

00:26:32.225 --> 00:26:35.525
So I could still kind of predict the weather with it.

00:26:35.605 --> 00:26:39.505
It hurts more on rainy days than it does on sunny days.

00:26:39.705 --> 00:26:44.285
So, you know. Totally nuts and amazing at the same time, really.

00:26:45.405 --> 00:26:50.525
I mean, you know, and especially to hear somebody else that can talk about the

00:26:50.525 --> 00:26:55.105
back and understands the difference between cervical, thoracic,

00:26:55.545 --> 00:26:59.005
and lumbar, which, you know, you learn a lot when you do that.

00:26:59.105 --> 00:27:02.465
Yeah, when you have the problems, you're right. You learn a lot. Yep.

00:27:02.885 --> 00:27:07.305
I want to touch on the wiring job that you did. I know that you're an electrical

00:27:07.305 --> 00:27:10.985
engineer by degree, by trade, right?

00:27:11.685 --> 00:27:15.785
Did that help you at all in rewiring your car?

00:27:16.185 --> 00:27:21.265
I mean, I say it didn't because it really, you know.

00:27:21.725 --> 00:27:25.725
That's not the same. The degree is all theoretical, but yeah,

00:27:25.725 --> 00:27:30.165
it helps you with things like reading a wiring diagram.

00:27:30.745 --> 00:27:35.805
When you get in start doing leds like my my rear lights are all led now and

00:27:35.805 --> 00:27:41.145
to do leds you really need to put in relays and have a steady 12 volt source

00:27:41.145 --> 00:27:46.745
back to the leds so that it's not a a variable source is that why they go real

00:27:46.745 --> 00:27:50.525
fast when you put led bulbs in yeah yeah yeah yeah

00:27:50.785 --> 00:27:53.585
if you don't it's sort of what a

00:27:53.585 --> 00:27:56.425
relay does which is you know i understand these things

00:27:56.425 --> 00:27:59.565
because of my degree right and a relay you you

00:27:59.565 --> 00:28:02.425
wire it up to the battery let's say

00:28:02.425 --> 00:28:05.745
directly so the relay gets a voltage source

00:28:05.745 --> 00:28:08.645
into it and then it sends out a steady voltage

00:28:08.645 --> 00:28:11.685
source out from it so you'll get a steady

00:28:11.685 --> 00:28:14.705
12 volts or somewhere thereabouts out of

00:28:14.705 --> 00:28:17.405
the relay that feeds the leds that you

00:28:17.405 --> 00:28:21.285
don't get that flicker that you can get from a direct dc

00:28:21.285 --> 00:28:26.705
battery that can vary as your alternator is working or not working uh you know

00:28:26.705 --> 00:28:31.445
that that source can vary and then that can vary the led light so that's that's

00:28:31.445 --> 00:28:35.565
when you see that so so yeah of course the degree helped a little bit but but

00:28:35.565 --> 00:28:38.085
i've never wired a car before so you know.

00:28:38.770 --> 00:28:41.810
Practically no it didn't i had to learn all that

00:28:41.810 --> 00:28:44.710
and i bought a it's an american auto wire

00:28:44.710 --> 00:28:47.610
harness so it's a real modern you know

00:28:47.610 --> 00:28:50.970
it uses the the modern spade fuses not

00:28:50.970 --> 00:28:53.970
the little banana fuses that everybody's used

00:28:53.970 --> 00:28:57.450
to and yeah uh you know it's got built-in relays

00:28:57.450 --> 00:29:00.850
within the the wiring harness and all that kind of stuff and

00:29:00.850 --> 00:29:08.470
the the diagram that came with it was supposed to be vw specific let me tell

00:29:08.470 --> 00:29:13.910
you it was not so i went hunting you know i spent a lot of time on the samba

00:29:13.910 --> 00:29:19.330
looking for for uh people that had done american auto wire harnesses before.

00:29:20.150 --> 00:29:27.350
Found some sources that way the bentley manual was real helpful just took it took it one one,

00:29:28.150 --> 00:29:34.110
wiring at a time one wire at a time you know work on the rear lights and one

00:29:34.110 --> 00:29:40.650
piece of the time and fished it from the front to the back, and got it there eventually.

00:29:41.030 --> 00:29:45.750
And then in the magazine, I talk about the horn was actually one of my hardest.

00:29:46.050 --> 00:29:49.930
My horn never worked before, so I was determined to make my horn work.

00:29:51.090 --> 00:29:58.390
Me, me. Unfortunately, the way the horn works on a VW is when you push the button,

00:29:58.670 --> 00:30:04.230
it grounds it inside your steering column. It creates a ground.

00:30:05.210 --> 00:30:12.270
And that is what then your horn already has a 12-volt wire to it all the time.

00:30:12.490 --> 00:30:16.190
So then when you push the button, you create the ground, and that's what gives

00:30:16.190 --> 00:30:19.450
it a circuit so that the horn goes off.

00:30:19.990 --> 00:30:25.930
But the way with the American Auto Wired fuse box, it's got a built-in relay

00:30:25.930 --> 00:30:27.350
in it for the horn signal.

00:30:27.350 --> 00:30:31.230
And so unfortunately what i

00:30:31.230 --> 00:30:33.870
found out is i would hit the button and the

00:30:33.870 --> 00:30:37.050
horn would go but then when i let the button off the button the

00:30:37.050 --> 00:30:43.150
horn kept going oh so it was and you could turn off the car and turn it back

00:30:43.150 --> 00:30:49.250
on and it was fine but then you'd hit the button and the horn would go off and

00:30:49.250 --> 00:30:56.870
it would not come back off it would just stay on so what i found out was when you release the horn,

00:30:57.450 --> 00:31:02.970
it doesn't go to a completely open circuit I would measure the resistance there

00:31:02.970 --> 00:31:08.370
within the steering column and it didn't go to a complete open circuit it still

00:31:08.370 --> 00:31:13.530
had a little bit of connectivity there and I tried all kinds of things to get that to work that way,

00:31:14.270 --> 00:31:20.310
where I was still using the horn circuit on the fuse box I could never get that

00:31:20.310 --> 00:31:23.130
thing to go to a complete open circuit strange.

00:31:24.519 --> 00:31:28.859
I don't know why. I still can't explain it, but what I ended up doing was I

00:31:28.859 --> 00:31:31.279
got rid of the... I just used a regular 12-volt source.

00:31:31.979 --> 00:31:40.099
Now I'm using a straight 12-volt source not with the relay and you hit the horn

00:31:40.099 --> 00:31:44.439
button, the horn beeps and you let it off. It doesn't beep.

00:31:45.519 --> 00:31:50.579
It's just a matter of not getting that open circuit back after you ground it.

00:31:51.019 --> 00:31:54.099
I still can't explain that one. I don't know why it doesn't

00:31:54.519 --> 00:31:58.119
completely open after you push the button well

00:31:58.119 --> 00:32:02.999
somebody's going to learn something off of that right there hopefully hopefully

00:32:02.999 --> 00:32:06.139
maybe somebody knows how to fix that i don't know i tried

00:32:06.139 --> 00:32:08.939
to replace and everything yeah if they do

00:32:08.939 --> 00:32:11.739
the only thing i didn't yes they tell

00:32:11.739 --> 00:32:15.139
them to tell them to put it on the samba because i searched and i

00:32:15.139 --> 00:32:18.699
could not find that one so i i replaced everything

00:32:18.699 --> 00:32:22.219
within the steering column except the column itself everything to

00:32:22.219 --> 00:32:24.979
try and isolate that to where i would

00:32:24.979 --> 00:32:28.779
get that open circuit nothing nothing fixed it crazy

00:32:28.779 --> 00:32:35.099
fast forward just a little bit in your story in your timeline you team up with

00:32:35.099 --> 00:32:41.619
a guy named josh is it honnell honnell yeah honnell okay let's let's talk let's

00:32:41.619 --> 00:32:45.739
talk about that how that transpired and where that's at today.

00:32:46.999 --> 00:32:51.119
So I've got to say, the car when I bought it had the 2110 in it,

00:32:51.259 --> 00:32:58.179
and it's got a set of, had a set of 44 Webers on it, IDFs, and they're original Italian Webers.

00:32:58.479 --> 00:33:03.359
So they're pretty collectible, but they were in, they were in pretty rough shape.

00:33:03.899 --> 00:33:09.359
They needed to be gone through pretty good. So pretty much everything on them

00:33:09.359 --> 00:33:13.139
needed to be repaired or replaced. So I've,

00:33:14.284 --> 00:33:19.064
Found out about Josh through Der Loof Coolers, my club here in Dallas.

00:33:20.244 --> 00:33:26.304
He's a fellow member and was told to go talk to him because he's kind of a carb guru.

00:33:26.504 --> 00:33:29.844
He's also a distributor guru.

00:33:31.764 --> 00:33:34.744
He's a pretty smart guy and we're now really good friends.

00:33:34.884 --> 00:33:40.304
He went through my carbs for me, did flow testing, replaced everything that

00:33:40.304 --> 00:33:43.104
needed to be replaced, got them all cleaned up.

00:33:43.604 --> 00:33:48.024
Where they looked pretty much brand new and worked like brand new, more importantly.

00:33:49.124 --> 00:33:54.584
And we got him on the car and he actually has a dyno there for you.

00:33:54.584 --> 00:33:57.064
He has a company called Aircold Dyno Works.

00:33:57.744 --> 00:34:00.624
And so he does all this stuff for other people.

00:34:01.444 --> 00:34:05.724
It isn't cheap, but he's worth it. So if you're in this area,

00:34:05.904 --> 00:34:07.544
I highly recommend Josh, not

00:34:07.544 --> 00:34:10.084
just because he's a great guy, but because he also knows what he's doing.

00:34:10.084 --> 00:34:15.904
And so he, we ended up to, I had the long block built by Doug Crotch,

00:34:16.024 --> 00:34:19.484
another old guy. He's retired now here in the area.

00:34:19.804 --> 00:34:22.144
He built the. Does Josh have social medias?

00:34:22.604 --> 00:34:26.484
I mean, yeah, he's on Facebook and Instagram and all that kind of stuff.

00:34:26.604 --> 00:34:29.524
I'd have to look and see if Miracle Dino works as a website.

00:34:29.544 --> 00:34:31.904
I've actually never looked. And that's. I just called Josh.

00:34:32.824 --> 00:34:36.964
Yeah. Yeah. I just want to make sure we shout them out properly. Yep.

00:34:38.167 --> 00:34:45.427
Definitely. Josh Honnell, he's actually been on Let's Talk Dubs podcast.

00:34:45.567 --> 00:34:48.167
Oh, yeah. Cool. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I've seen that one.

00:34:50.827 --> 00:34:56.847
Yeah, he has a old distributor machine. I forget what the heck it's called.

00:34:57.067 --> 00:35:03.267
But he can completely rehone and redo old distributors, O-O-N-O's,

00:35:03.367 --> 00:35:08.587
O-O-N-I's, all that stuff, and make them like new. And he, he knows his stuff with that too.

00:35:08.767 --> 00:35:13.967
So highly recommend him for anything you need done, but, but definitely carbs and distributors.

00:35:14.367 --> 00:35:18.247
He's, he's the man. So, so let's travel inside the car.

00:35:18.387 --> 00:35:22.847
Now you did complete transformation of your interior too, right?

00:35:22.987 --> 00:35:27.427
Did you do all that work or did you have that work done? Not, not the seats.

00:35:27.667 --> 00:35:32.207
I didn't have the front seats and the rear seat. I had those done.

00:35:33.047 --> 00:35:40.027
I do know how to sew, and I was tempted to try to do my own seats for it.

00:35:40.127 --> 00:35:43.387
Also, I had a design in my head, so I saw this picture of an old 911.

00:35:45.707 --> 00:35:49.907
And the way the seats looked, I just really liked the design of it.

00:35:49.987 --> 00:35:54.547
And they're still my old scat seats because when I redid the car back in 05,

00:35:54.547 --> 00:35:58.187
when I first got it, I redid the interior and put scat seats back in it.

00:35:58.187 --> 00:36:02.227
And they were the gray velour this was 2005 uh

00:36:02.227 --> 00:36:05.247
but they were all the gray velour and headliner was gray velour

00:36:05.247 --> 00:36:09.847
and everything so but they were the scat rally seats uh which i love because

00:36:09.847 --> 00:36:14.587
i just love the way they you fit in them and you don't move around but i i had

00:36:14.587 --> 00:36:20.907
those redone but with the design in mind that i found of an old 911 so it got

00:36:20.907 --> 00:36:23.687
rid of the typical scat look and,

00:36:24.187 --> 00:36:27.447
has a design that really is reminiscent of Porsche.

00:36:27.487 --> 00:36:32.567
The only thing I didn't do was do like a two-tone with the fabric interior of it.

00:36:32.647 --> 00:36:37.687
It's all leather, but it was all from my head, and I found a guy here locally.

00:36:38.761 --> 00:36:41.641
Moreno's i think i don't think he's doing it anymore any

00:36:41.641 --> 00:36:44.761
moreno custom in pole street anyhow uh he did

00:36:44.761 --> 00:36:47.901
the front and rear seats for me everything else i

00:36:47.901 --> 00:36:50.981
did so i i had my my door

00:36:50.981 --> 00:36:53.961
panels which i had bought back in 05 when i

00:36:53.961 --> 00:36:57.321
did it i bought those from so fine but i

00:36:57.321 --> 00:37:00.321
completely redid those took them apart made new

00:37:00.321 --> 00:37:03.101
door panels because the old ones had

00:37:03.101 --> 00:37:05.821
kind of gotten a little bit of water onto them as a

00:37:05.821 --> 00:37:08.801
lot of them do and so they were a little warped

00:37:08.801 --> 00:37:13.021
so I made new door panels and completely redid

00:37:13.021 --> 00:37:15.881
the fabric on the door panels redid the design on them

00:37:15.881 --> 00:37:18.721
a new fabric put those together put them

00:37:18.721 --> 00:37:22.221
on I made my own headliner so again

00:37:22.221 --> 00:37:25.361
out of the leather that that I knew the seats in

00:37:25.361 --> 00:37:29.041
so I I got a rag

00:37:29.041 --> 00:37:32.101
top headliner from I want to say from Wolfsburg

00:37:32.101 --> 00:37:35.501
West but it was just a stock headliner i

00:37:35.501 --> 00:37:41.261
ordered one from him got it here completely tore it apart used that as my pattern

00:37:41.261 --> 00:37:47.641
laid it out on my leather sewed it all back together and then i used chris malone's

00:37:47.641 --> 00:37:49.881
headliner installation videos

00:37:49.881 --> 00:37:55.301
and walked through that and installed my own headliner made a leather.

00:37:57.541 --> 00:38:02.141
Turned turned out really good yeah i highly recommend i don't recommend putting

00:38:02.141 --> 00:38:06.921
in a headliner because it's a pain in the ass but but if you're going to do

00:38:06.921 --> 00:38:11.081
it chris balone's videos will walk you right through it step by step and turned

00:38:11.081 --> 00:38:15.021
out pretty good i thought leather stretch is pretty good so it was it was it was,

00:38:15.734 --> 00:38:18.554
I'm not going to say simple, but it, but I like it.

00:38:19.114 --> 00:38:21.794
And it's a leather headliner. You try and find one of those.

00:38:22.314 --> 00:38:25.694
I'm one of those guys that mechanically,

00:38:25.694 --> 00:38:30.074
I, I probably would even fail at putting a sticker on straight.

00:38:31.474 --> 00:38:34.314
Yeah. It's just, it's just, it's, and it's okay. Right.

00:38:34.414 --> 00:38:40.954
It's like, I, you know, I can tinker, but I, but I have no business. It's not my thing.

00:38:41.494 --> 00:38:46.914
Know where your line is. Right. Yeah. Like, Hey dude, I'm going to let some,

00:38:46.994 --> 00:38:50.554
I'm going to pay somebody and I'm going to pay them well to do it. And, and yeah.

00:38:51.554 --> 00:38:55.774
But yeah, anyhow. All right. So here's what I want to talk about now.

00:38:55.934 --> 00:38:59.274
Yeah. Because how, man, how, how does it feel?

00:39:00.274 --> 00:39:04.014
I've never been on the cover of a magazine. How's it feel?

00:39:04.534 --> 00:39:09.954
I don't know, man. Just have that, not just the story, not just the feature,

00:39:10.194 --> 00:39:11.914
but the cover like, damn.

00:39:12.434 --> 00:39:16.014
Yeah. And this magazine, by the way, dude, come on. It's sick.

00:39:16.374 --> 00:39:17.794
Sick. It's a sick magazine.

00:39:18.534 --> 00:39:23.994
I mean, if I'd ended up in another magazine, there's no way I was getting eight pages.

00:39:24.254 --> 00:39:29.274
No way. Dude, I know. I looked through it. I'm like, dude, this is so awesome.

00:39:29.434 --> 00:39:31.534
Eight pages is just awesome.

00:39:31.714 --> 00:39:36.854
And that's one of the reasons why I love the magazine. You get layouts of the cars.

00:39:36.914 --> 00:39:41.194
These days, Hot VWs, VW Trends being back now.

00:39:41.194 --> 00:39:45.074
But they're doing like two pages if you're lucky right and

00:39:45.074 --> 00:39:48.594
if you're lucky yeah yes yes

00:39:48.594 --> 00:39:51.914
so that one came about because i i am

00:39:51.914 --> 00:39:57.754
a subscriber and i get the i get a printed copy and volksmania does a draw for

00:39:57.754 --> 00:40:02.854
their printed subscribers to where if you're if your name's drawn you win some

00:40:02.854 --> 00:40:07.574
swag right my name was drawn i got an email about it i didn't even i didn't

00:40:07.574 --> 00:40:08.914
even pay attention to it actually,

00:40:09.514 --> 00:40:14.094
but Jason Bogan, one of the Volksmania guys who was here in Dallas in Texas.

00:40:14.897 --> 00:40:20.097
He messaged me one day and said, hey, read your email. I read my email and it's

00:40:20.097 --> 00:40:22.357
all, I've got, you know, free swag, go pick something.

00:40:22.597 --> 00:40:27.457
So I got a free shirt and they said, hey, when you get the shirt,

00:40:28.097 --> 00:40:32.397
send us a picture of you with your car and we'll put it in the magazine.

00:40:32.657 --> 00:40:35.937
I was like, oh, I've never been in a magazine. That's kind of cool.

00:40:36.257 --> 00:40:42.257
So I sent it to him and Jill, one of the other editors, messaged me soon after

00:40:42.257 --> 00:40:44.877
that and said, hey, would you be interested in doing it?

00:40:44.897 --> 00:40:48.217
A feature on your car oh yeah

00:40:48.217 --> 00:40:51.017
sure bring it let's do it

00:40:51.017 --> 00:40:53.917
yeah so you know i am i i do

00:40:53.917 --> 00:40:56.997
kinko with photography so luckily you know i was kind of

00:40:56.997 --> 00:41:00.237
sick because after we got into it he was like you know jason could

00:41:00.237 --> 00:41:03.037
come do it but he's you know an hour away he i think he lives

00:41:03.037 --> 00:41:06.557
over near hurst actually uh but uh

00:41:06.557 --> 00:41:09.277
he he can come take pictures or if you're handy with the

00:41:09.277 --> 00:41:13.277
camera i said well actually i am kind of so uh

00:41:13.277 --> 00:41:16.377
the other guy that's credited with pictures is my middle daughter's

00:41:16.377 --> 00:41:21.417
boyfriend so he and i went and there's a place here in allen that has some old

00:41:21.417 --> 00:41:26.557
buildings and took the car out there and took some pictures and sent those in

00:41:26.557 --> 00:41:31.957
and they i i kind of wrote a history of the car they credit me with doing the

00:41:31.957 --> 00:41:35.077
whole story i gotta tell you somebody cleaned it up a little.

00:41:35.197 --> 00:41:39.097
So somebody does deserve a little more credit with that story. I just knew.

00:41:40.037 --> 00:41:47.097
They're great to work with, you know, my, my, my story obviously a little different

00:41:47.097 --> 00:41:50.817
cause my angle was a little bit different, but as a subscriber as well,

00:41:51.457 --> 00:41:54.297
you know, I was finally decided last year by, by October.

00:41:54.297 --> 00:41:58.937
So I'm going to start a VW podcast because guys like you, you know,

00:41:59.097 --> 00:42:00.377
you guys got stories to tell.

00:42:00.517 --> 00:42:04.117
We need to talk about them and how cool. So I actually just reached out to them

00:42:04.117 --> 00:42:06.177
to ask them about pricing for advertising.

00:42:06.677 --> 00:42:11.577
And Paul Cave got back to me and was like, nah, we ain't going that route.

00:42:11.637 --> 00:42:12.877
But here's what we will do.

00:42:13.517 --> 00:42:19.097
You scratch my back, I'll scratch yours. And now I've got, I don't know if you saw in here.

00:42:19.277 --> 00:42:21.857
I think it's maybe right before. Yes, I did. I read it.

00:42:22.277 --> 00:42:26.517
After you got in touch with me, I read it. So I've got a feature now moving

00:42:26.517 --> 00:42:30.537
forward in their issues that talks about the podcast episodes.

00:42:30.537 --> 00:42:33.677
So yeah dude like

00:42:33.677 --> 00:42:40.137
wow like they really do support the vw community and man i can't enough great

00:42:40.137 --> 00:42:45.497
things about them for sure yeah and great great great people but it's quality

00:42:45.497 --> 00:42:51.577
we got the story we got the story and then you know how they how they tease.

00:42:52.446 --> 00:42:55.566
Covers on social media yeah yeah

00:42:55.566 --> 00:42:58.806
so he always teases several different covers on social

00:42:58.806 --> 00:43:05.426
media right so i saw his keys with my car as the front cover and i was just

00:43:05.426 --> 00:43:10.786
like i showed my wife i was like babe i might i might i might have gotten the

00:43:10.786 --> 00:43:16.166
cover and she was like really i was like babe i I might have got the cover.

00:43:17.626 --> 00:43:23.246
I was pretty overjoyed. And then to have it actually come to be the cover.

00:43:23.626 --> 00:43:26.206
It was, yeah. It's pretty dope.

00:43:26.666 --> 00:43:30.486
I can hold up your car right here from far away.

00:43:30.666 --> 00:43:36.406
So that's got to be pretty cool. Can't say it's anything that I've ever experienced, but I ate.

00:43:37.606 --> 00:43:42.286
I hadn't either. So even as much work as I'd put in the car, I still had never.

00:43:42.586 --> 00:43:45.946
And Hot VW is right. The owner of Hot VW is now Tom Kenny.

00:43:46.286 --> 00:43:50.806
He's local here in Dallas now. He moved from California here to the Dallas area.

00:43:51.146 --> 00:43:53.506
He's out at all our shows that we have here locally.

00:43:53.906 --> 00:43:57.446
I've met him. I talked to him. He, I mean, he and I know each other well enough

00:43:57.446 --> 00:44:00.026
now to say, Hey Tom, Hey Scott, that kind of stuff.

00:44:00.186 --> 00:44:03.606
But you know, I'm not going to sit here and toot my horn and say I'm a friend

00:44:03.606 --> 00:44:07.986
of his, but I don't know him enough to see him at shows and know who he is and he knows who I am.

00:44:08.166 --> 00:44:13.606
So I still couldn't get Hot VWs to be interested in my car. So,

00:44:13.606 --> 00:44:19.146
you know, you do it and it's so good looking, man. The interior is so sick.

00:44:19.686 --> 00:44:21.966
Yeah. Oh yeah, for sure.

00:44:22.726 --> 00:44:26.606
I'm kind of proud of it. Still not done. Got more stuff coming,

00:44:26.846 --> 00:44:29.826
but yeah, always that'll be forever.

00:44:31.666 --> 00:44:36.686
All right. Tell me about the Texas classic. Texas classic days, man. That was the best.

00:44:37.326 --> 00:44:40.946
That, that show was just awesome. But it was down in Fredericksburg.

00:44:40.946 --> 00:44:48.086
I don't know if you've ever been there, but it's a very German town, a real German feel.

00:44:48.326 --> 00:44:52.646
You can get a glass of wine downtown and walk the street shopping,

00:44:53.026 --> 00:44:55.526
carry your wine with you, stop at the next wine place.

00:44:55.606 --> 00:44:59.426
There's a lot of vineyards down there, so there's a lot of wine places along

00:44:59.426 --> 00:45:04.366
the way when you're shopping there. But yeah, it's just an awesome little town.

00:45:04.606 --> 00:45:10.306
The show was fantastic. It was really a weekend of just hanging out,

00:45:10.306 --> 00:45:17.026
all kinds of VWs in the town, and then the show, and really miss that show.

00:45:17.206 --> 00:45:21.106
Wish somebody would get that one back together, but I can't imagine the amount

00:45:21.106 --> 00:45:24.106
of work it is to put on a show. You have yours. Maybe you can...

00:45:24.809 --> 00:45:28.189
Reference a little bit about how, how much work it is to put on a car show,

00:45:28.389 --> 00:45:32.329
but, uh, it's a lot more than anybody thinks.

00:45:32.649 --> 00:45:38.309
Uh, and I mean that, and I'm not saying that to be like discouraging,

00:45:38.749 --> 00:45:43.109
like, dude, if you've got the time and you can do it, it's rewarding enough.

00:45:43.349 --> 00:45:47.809
I feel to see the smiles that you can, you know, bring to one,

00:45:48.089 --> 00:45:49.549
you know, conglomerate area.

00:45:49.789 --> 00:45:52.989
I think it's worth it, but it's

00:45:52.989 --> 00:45:56.489
a lot of work it's a lot of work because there's especially

00:45:56.489 --> 00:45:59.249
today there are so many hoops that you have to jump

00:45:59.249 --> 00:46:02.169
through with legal stuff especially if

00:46:02.169 --> 00:46:07.529
you try to do any type of a of a landmark style you know place or feature in

00:46:07.529 --> 00:46:12.629
a city somewhere like a pier or something like that it's like man this city

00:46:12.629 --> 00:46:16.709
gets involved and the pier gets involved and it's like the police are involved

00:46:16.709 --> 00:46:19.289
and But it's so all of a sudden it's like, wow,

00:46:19.469 --> 00:46:24.069
I didn't realize that all of these things had to be think about and not just

00:46:24.069 --> 00:46:27.569
that, but planned and have a plan for and then have a backup plan for.

00:46:28.229 --> 00:46:31.489
So, yeah, it's a lot. I can't imagine. I mean, there's probably,

00:46:31.489 --> 00:46:37.809
what, codes for how many urinal or bathroom facilities you got to have, how many trash cans.

00:46:38.049 --> 00:46:41.869
All that kind of stuff. Yeah. I can't even imagine. How many cars are allowed,

00:46:42.109 --> 00:46:46.709
you know, the path that they're going to take to get out to the location that they're going to be at.

00:46:47.349 --> 00:46:53.149
The fire marshal, all of those, you know, the, the food vendors have to have

00:46:53.149 --> 00:46:57.229
certain levels of insurance and then certain clearance from the next one.

00:46:58.209 --> 00:47:02.449
Yeah, dude. And then all that stuff, you know, it's, they take it serious.

00:47:02.749 --> 00:47:07.589
So sometimes, you know, they couldn't be inspecting and that type of stuff as

00:47:07.589 --> 00:47:10.469
well. So you got to have your ducks in a row. That's for sure.

00:47:10.989 --> 00:47:17.089
Yeah, I'd imagine. Yeah, I can't even imagine keeping all that straight to be

00:47:17.089 --> 00:47:19.009
able to get all that in order to put it on.

00:47:19.129 --> 00:47:22.249
And maybe I, I don't know. I've never tried. So maybe I could. I don't know.

00:47:22.469 --> 00:47:25.969
Oh, you definitely could. You definitely could, man. It seems like a lot of work.

00:47:26.769 --> 00:47:29.849
You can finish college with a degree in electrical engineering, brother.

00:47:31.509 --> 00:47:35.229
You're all right, dude. You're all right. All right. Tell me this.

00:47:35.589 --> 00:47:40.749
A lot of folks start projects and don't finish them. Right.

00:47:41.429 --> 00:47:45.349
Whether it's one thing or the next, what do you say? What's advice that you

00:47:45.349 --> 00:47:49.649
have for somebody who's got a project sitting in their garage right now and

00:47:49.649 --> 00:47:51.989
they may be discouraged for one reason or another?

00:47:53.220 --> 00:48:01.120
What advice would you give them? Quit saying what if, or someday I will. Quit doing it.

00:48:02.980 --> 00:48:07.540
A lot of it comes down to money, I understand. I am blessed that my wife and

00:48:07.540 --> 00:48:13.460
I do make a decent living to where I have enough free income that I can do things

00:48:13.460 --> 00:48:15.860
like rebuild my car and do it the way I want to.

00:48:15.860 --> 00:48:21.620
Right so i understand that but within your means though if you have things you

00:48:21.620 --> 00:48:27.860
want to do to the car and you keep saying one day i'm going to one day i'm going to do this one day quit.

00:48:28.920 --> 00:48:31.860
Quit waiting for that one day you it's that

00:48:31.860 --> 00:48:34.660
day's going to come and you're still not going to have it done so that's

00:48:34.660 --> 00:48:37.640
it's really what i did with this one right it had

00:48:37.640 --> 00:48:40.480
been sitting after the 2110 broke it had

00:48:40.480 --> 00:48:43.320
been sitting for a few years and i kept just wanting to

00:48:43.320 --> 00:48:46.240
get a new long block and get it running again but i always in

00:48:46.240 --> 00:48:49.260
my head kept going one day i want to completely redo

00:48:49.260 --> 00:48:52.120
it i i didn't want to do pan off because you know

00:48:52.120 --> 00:48:55.080
i don't want to trail a queen i want to drive it uh you

00:48:55.080 --> 00:48:58.260
know i worry about the pain enough already because as i

00:48:58.260 --> 00:49:01.000
found out paint and body is a lot more expensive than it was

00:49:01.000 --> 00:49:03.740
back in 1992 ish when i

00:49:03.740 --> 00:49:07.180
did the 68 yeah so

00:49:07.180 --> 00:49:09.860
but i i didn't want

00:49:09.860 --> 00:49:13.000
to do pan off but i did want to do a lot of things right

00:49:13.000 --> 00:49:15.820
a lot of things that i'm doing to it and still doing to it

00:49:15.820 --> 00:49:18.680
and so i quit saying what if and

00:49:18.680 --> 00:49:21.560
i just i went out and did it and and got

00:49:21.560 --> 00:49:26.620
it done and got it built the way i wanted although i'm never finished still

00:49:26.620 --> 00:49:34.200
like i said i you know i quit saying what if there's quit saying one day get

00:49:34.200 --> 00:49:40.180
it done try something at least one step towards your one day Hey, man, let's try it.

00:49:40.480 --> 00:49:46.560
That's perfectly sound advice, man. That's great. And that'll probably inspire somebody because...

00:49:47.918 --> 00:49:51.958
That's a pretty common thing that happens, right? We're like,

00:49:52.078 --> 00:49:55.558
well, we don't do this because we overanalyze.

00:49:55.678 --> 00:50:00.778
And I think that's certainly different personality types for different things

00:50:00.778 --> 00:50:02.978
like that. And different budgets.

00:50:03.378 --> 00:50:05.958
And different budgets, of course. We got to consider the budget.

00:50:06.258 --> 00:50:07.238
We got to consider the budget.

00:50:07.858 --> 00:50:14.638
I got some fast, quick answer right off the top of the head type things.

00:50:14.638 --> 00:50:18.278
Just a few questions. i want to poke around on

00:50:18.278 --> 00:50:21.498
most underrated vw part

00:50:21.498 --> 00:50:25.438
or modification that you can make underrated maybe

00:50:25.438 --> 00:50:29.638
the the least visible thing

00:50:29.638 --> 00:50:32.318
that you can do right and by that i mean a lot of

00:50:32.318 --> 00:50:36.038
the things i've done on my car like the split bumpers the

00:50:36.038 --> 00:50:38.718
banana bumper guards stand out a little bit more but a

00:50:38.718 --> 00:50:41.478
lot of these things people don't even

00:50:41.478 --> 00:50:44.778
notice okay and i've gone

00:50:44.778 --> 00:50:47.558
to all this detail in my car like i

00:50:47.558 --> 00:50:51.338
i've got split window uh window and

00:50:51.338 --> 00:50:54.798
and door handles also nobody notices nobody.

00:50:54.798 --> 00:50:57.838
Notices so in that aspect i guess i'd

00:50:57.838 --> 00:51:01.278
have to say those kind of things are underrated but to

00:51:01.278 --> 00:51:05.218
me those kind of details are are the

00:51:05.218 --> 00:51:08.798
key to really making a car stand out to me so

00:51:08.798 --> 00:51:11.758
i i want to see those details and those different things but

00:51:11.758 --> 00:51:15.078
again that's that's me being a custom guy too so yeah definitely

00:51:15.078 --> 00:51:18.558
no purist in me so chris valone

00:51:18.558 --> 00:51:21.638
though very stock as well had the

00:51:21.638 --> 00:51:24.418
same thing to say it's the it's the little

00:51:24.418 --> 00:51:30.118
tiny things that you do it's the placement of the factory sticker you know 65

00:51:30.118 --> 00:51:35.998
years later etc but yeah man he he touched on a very very similar thing so it's

00:51:35.998 --> 00:51:41.998
interesting to hear you say that all right flip side what's the most overrated VW of all time.

00:51:42.218 --> 00:51:44.738
Most overrated VW of all time.

00:51:45.452 --> 00:51:51.732
Most overrated VW? Yeah. I think the most overrated thing to me right now is the big rims.

00:51:51.932 --> 00:51:57.272
I am just not a big rim fan, especially if people are going to 18s now and things

00:51:57.272 --> 00:51:59.272
like that. I've been seeing that, yeah.

00:52:00.072 --> 00:52:05.632
I don't like that look. 17s are already pushing it to me. I like 15s.

00:52:05.872 --> 00:52:10.012
I think 17 is probably the largest that I personally would go myself.

00:52:10.872 --> 00:52:18.212
If you want to go to Stamps, then no. So that, that to me is totally overrated and ridiculous.

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I don't know why anybody would especially drive around that way,

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but you know, maybe that's showing my age because I am 57, but I know I don't look it like you said.

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All right. I was going to delete that part for me earlier, but I'm going to leave it.

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Dream cruise destination for sky. Where are you going?

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Oh man. It'd have to be Pacific Coast Highway, even though I've never been out on the West Coast. Yeah.

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Just thinking about driving that from the pictures I've seen.

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It's sick. Having the windows open and the back window open,

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wide open like I have it, and the rag top open, just cruising along there.

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That seems like it would be awesome. One thing every VW owner should do,

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but most of them don't. Get your oil?

00:53:12.212 --> 00:53:16.672
That's great Keep your carbs tuned,

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Let's take that one Check the oil Because you're right You're right Probably

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super overlooked man You know Really adjust your valves That's probably the

00:53:32.192 --> 00:53:35.892
most Overlooked one is Keeping your valves adjusted,

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So what's next For your car What's next for Sky?

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Any mods you said You've done yet I've got a box Sitting right over there With

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some heart taillights in it This is next step Got the heart.

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And I've got all the lenses for it. And these are Repops, but they're the ones

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from BBT that are done by the original pressings.

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So those are all, and I've got all the glass lenses and glass top lens. Beautiful.

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Only problem with that is that my LED lights that I have for my current ones won't fit in this.

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And I haven't found somebody yet that makes an LED for the hearts.

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So I may have to go back to regular bulbs. But probably there's got to be somebody

00:54:26.805 --> 00:54:28.525
that makes an LED. Maybe even.

00:54:28.985 --> 00:54:34.165
Yeah, I've searched a little bit. Okay. Not enough yet. I've had these for a

00:54:34.165 --> 00:54:35.525
few months now. So maybe.

00:54:35.865 --> 00:54:39.165
Scott, there's the next million dollar idea, dude.

00:54:39.385 --> 00:54:43.785
We need to make screens that fit right inside that thing. And they plug into

00:54:43.785 --> 00:54:46.245
your. Yeah, we need to do that. That'd be nice.

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A little board. Where can people find you aside from the most recent issue of

00:54:51.905 --> 00:54:56.485
Volksmania magazine? Do you got an Instagram or a Facebook for the car and eat?

00:54:57.045 --> 00:55:01.705
Oh, no, sure. My age. I'm a Facebook person. I post, I post all my projects,

00:55:01.705 --> 00:55:04.845
everything I do. I put albums out there on Facebook.

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So I do have Instagram also, but, but I posted to, I post everything to Facebook.

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So if somebody wants to check your car out, where can they find you?

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You're in Dallas. Driving around.

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How about on social media? Facebook.

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Facebook's the most commonplace. Just search for Scott Pfeiffer.

00:55:28.336 --> 00:55:30.896
I don't know how you come up with me.

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You can find me through you. You and I are friends now. Yeah, true.

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Does Sky have? No, I never have.

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Okay, you've never set up an Instagram for Sky? No, not one just for the car. Okay, all right.

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Never has. Me being old too.

00:55:49.136 --> 00:55:52.716
Okay. Any shout outs that you want to give? I noticed you've mentioned a couple

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of clubs in your area in Dallas.

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Shout out definitely to my wife for putting up with me with this stuff.

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I mean, there were a couple of years where she didn't see me not much.

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It took me two years to redo it when I redid it this time. And I went a lot of hours in the shop.

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So shout out to my wife, who's an incredible person.

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But definitely seeing my club friends, Josh Honnell, Elliot Van Seal,

00:56:18.736 --> 00:56:22.916
John Deachman helped me with the Banana Bumper Guards quite a bit,

00:56:23.816 --> 00:56:27.816
and Marty Cantu, another great guy, all of them.

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And none of those guys, I wouldn't be anywhere in the VW scene without any of those guys.

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Good stuff, man. Good shout-outs. And that's a wrap for this episode of Dub Life Diaries.

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