Category: Ultimate VW Build-Off 2015
Watch a 1959 VW Beetle Road Test – Miss Mabel
1959 VW Beetle Road Test Here’s Mabel’s road test. If you’re just joining us, you should get to know Miss Mabel. This fine lady is a 1959 VW Beetle the shop has built as our entry in the Ultimate VW Build-Off in Vegas October 1-4, 2015. Not that she’ll get much road time for the…
Custom VW Restoration – Paint That’ll Make You Drool
Custom VW Restoration Airkooled Kustoms custom VW restoration shop is known for “doing it right.” There’s nowhere that’s more visible than in our paint. No 50/50 jobs here – you know, looks good at 50 yards if you’re driving 50 mph past it. In fact, the closer you come, the more closely you look, the…
VW Body and Chassis Mating (Not what you might think)
1959 VW Beetle Project So, how do you put a 1959 VW Beetle back together again after taking it apart down to the tiniest component? And how do you do it without nicking about 183 hours’ worth of glassy, glossy paint finish (to date – not finished with the finish yet!)? Oh, and let’s do…
Ultimate VW Build-Off 2015 | Crazy Uncle Floyd Celebrates His Birthday with Miss Mabel
Ultimate VW Build-Off 2015 We caught up with Crazy Uncle Floyd recently – here’s what he says about his work on our 1959 VW Beetle Ragtop, Miss Mabel. I’m having a great time at work. Just about everything I do at work is fun, but some things are better than others. The shop is competing…
1959 VW Beetle Wiring Harness Magic
1959 VW Beetle Watch what 00Dub is about to do to the 1959 VW Beetle wiring harness for Miss Mabel, Airkooled Kustoms’ entry into the Ultimate VW Build-Off in Las Vegas, October 2015. Expose most folks’ wiring, and you’ll see what looks a lot like rainbow colored spaghetti. It’s understandable – after all, not too…
VW Restoration Paint – In the Zen Zone with Spook at Stage 3 of 4
VW Restoration Paint – Polish In a kustom VW restoration paint is the most stunning part of the transformation – or at least the most jaw-dropping. To see an old patina monster with its dull, decades’-old finish become panels so lustrously shiny that they look like hued mirrors blows the mind. Airkooled Kustoms is known…
59 Volkswagen Beetle Ragtop – Spook Speaks Out about Miss Mabel
59 Volkswagen Beetle Mad props to NotBob – Check his channel here: https://www.youtube.com/user/MrBumblinBob – many thanks for capturing this moment with Miss Mabel. How does a slick, glossy, gorgeous girl like this 59 Volkswagen Beetle get an old-fashioned name like Mabel? Check this out to hear the back story. Oh, and try not to drool…
1959 VW Beetle Ragtop – Miss Mabel Gets Cut
1959 VW Beetle Ragtop – Miss Mabel Mabel’s looking drop-dead gorgeous now that she’s got her paint on. Spook shot her with BASF paints in colors he custom-created for this VW restoration project. Now begins the cutting – or, scratchy, scratchy, as he says. While the clear might be glamorous… after all, it is BASF’s…
1959 Volkswagen Beetle Ragtop Pan – Spook Gets Sticky
Mabel, the 1959 Volkswagen Beetle Ragtop the shop is building for the Ultimate VW Build-Off 2015 in Vegas, is getting a gloriously shiny, rust-resistant new (well, new and old, but will look like new) pan. Spook’s rigged the rotisserie to make coating her pan as mess-free as possible. Before he came up with that solution,…
