Author Archives: Steve

Another year, another VWs on the Green show that Gus didn’t make it to. But I have made some progress – current bad engine is almost out, and on the replacement engine I’ve removed all the hoses, retorqued the cylinder …

I’ve noticed a familiar pattern in VW bus blogs. They all start with excitement – the purchase of a bus with big plans for camping and tooling around. A minor (or major) cosmetic restoration then occurs, followed by perhaps some …

As I mentioned in my last post about the 2012 VWs on the Green show, I had been working quite hard for the last few months trying to get Gus ready to drive to the show. I drained the gas …

So for the last three years I have been saying that I would drive Gus to the next VWs on the Green show. For the past few months I have been working to get Gus roadworthy, and it’s finally paying …

I noticed that quite a few VW bloggers have been absent lately…including me. I guess Spring Fever hit us all at the same time. I did take the opportunity to get quite a bit done on Gus. I’ve got the …

If you’ve never seen the website instructables.com, it’s worth a look if you are a do-it-yourselfer. They have tons of projects that people have created, and they post the directions how to make the project, materials needed, etc.  They have …

If you happened to see the new 2012 Beetle commercial on the Super Bowl, you got a glimpse at what is, in my opinion, the best redesign Volkswagen has come up with in years. In 1998, when they brought on …

I had an “ah-ha” moment today. Not involving the 80s band, but more like at the end of a Maury Povich show, where the paternity test results came back in, and the Baby Daddy you were expecting to be the …

A few weeks ago, I posted about how I was refreshing Gus’s wavy door panels. I finally got around to installing one of them. This is the backside of the driver’s panel before I soaked it. It was the least …

Gus received a few gifts for Christmas. One of which was a new VW emblem for his nose. If you remember from a previous post, Gus used to have a spare tire mounted to his front end. I removed the …