Just received these images of the latest beast from VW Paradise. Kyle Watts captured the “in progress” ground pounder at BUG-O-RAMA in Sacramento. Don’t have any details at this time but will definately keep an eye on this one for you. What I do know is that with only a very few passes on th [...]
DAY 1 Lorenzo Drives 387 Miles all day and after starting in 51st Position finishes in 9th position at the Bay of Los Angeles finish line A clean run with No Problems! DAY 2 Jeff Quinn Drives 397 Miles all day and after starting in 9th Position finishes in 19th position at the Loretto finish [...]
Jeff Quinn, owner of McKenzie’s Performance Products stopped by recently driving this awesome Baja. Owned by Lorenzo Pearson of West Coast Metric, the machine has quite a history dating back to the earliest days of the Baja 1000 and the famous Trans Amazon Ralley Raid” circa 1989. It was in that historic Amazonian race that [...]
Just received this note from Chris as he, Elayne and Victor make their way through South America. Sounds like Chris had a bad few days with a Malaria scare. Our best to them on their continuing journey. Stay tuned. “Yes ok you guessed it I must be sick, well I am. Currently sweating it for [...]
Of the many race VW’s running transaxles prepared by Rancho Performance Transaxles, Damian McKenzie’s awesome Black Mamba is certainly one of the most unique. This is a home grown effort with most of the work being done by Damian and friends in his out of his garage in West Palm Beach. Competing in the heavily [...]
We’ve seen a lot of nice replica Porsches over the years but the Beck 356 Speedster and Beck 550 Spyder from Special Edition Inc. in Bremen, Indiana have got to be among the very finest. Distribution of these superior quality machines is handled through Special Edition, Inc. Founded in the early 80’s by Kevin Hines [...]
Lenny Copp, owner of world renowned restoration facility, West Coast Classic Restoration, stopped by the shop a while back driving what at first appeared to be a standard run-of-the-mill Thing. As he drove up I couldn’t help but notice the lack of engine/exhaust noise. Good reason. One of Lenny’s clients had yanked the VW engine [...]
Just had to share this one. There’s slammed and then there’s SLAMMMED, but of all the dropped, chopped, channeled and otherwise tweaked VWs we’ve come across this asphalt polisher left me scratching my head. One of our builders thinks he saw it driving around in Vegas a couple years back but it was still in [...]
