Category: VW Beetle Restoration
Forget the Weather Channel, Here’s the HOT 48-Second Viral Video People Can’t Stop Watching During Winter Storm Jonas
When She Found Out 40K Facebook Users Had Watched Him Caress Mabel During Winter Storm Jonas, She Nearly Lost It… But She Totally Saw It Coming. A Post by Princess Patina It’s not every day you find out that your husband-like being has drawn the rapt attention of a crowd a quarter the size of…
1968 VW Beetle Restoration – Willie Gets Shrunk
VW Beetle Restoration [NOTE: It’s vertical because it’s a Periscope!] Blasted Good We’re checking in on the Airkooled Kustoms shop this morning to watch Spook shrinking metal on Willie, Kaden’s Bug. The Bug is back from blast. The first thing we do when we get vehicles back is to shoot them in sealer to prevent…
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,…
