On my local German car forum, we had a new user join from the state of Colorado. He found our site online and thought it looked like a cool place to hang out (of course it is :D). Anyways, I was curious where he came from and he had a link to his local site, [...]

Aside from the current situation with my front bumper, I’ve been thinking about what to do next with my car. A fairly affordable yet noticeable improvement comes in the form of tie bars. I’ve always known that I wanted to buy a set (front upper strut bar and lower front tie bar; the effects of [...]

Got another email from Dimitri today:
Yo Mike,
goddamn man !!!!!!
I went to the postoffice and they told us that the box is too big for them for sending it !!!
They said us about another postoffice a bit further..
There we were told just the same !!!! (I was getting angry at that time)
After that we drove [...]

Don’t get too worried reading the title, everything is back to normal now.
On Saturday morning I left town with a couple other local cars to head for Dubuque, IA for Projekt German’s Dubuque GTG II. It was about 400 miles round trip with a really scenic drive once we got near the Dubuque area. It [...]

Last Friday I got word from Dimitri that my package had finally arrived in Antwerp, Belgium. It ended up taking about 8 business days to get there plus another 5-6 before he could get it released. I ended up having to fax over a letter stating the contents of the box (which cost $6 to [...]

Browsing Ray’s blog today I noticed that wagenwerks has released a new video. This one covers V.A.G. Fair 2007 which took place on August 4th in York, PA.

YouTube. 480p. 720p.
Like Ray mentioned, there is some awesome Mk3 coverage in the video, and like all the other stuff that wagenwerks has done, this video [...]

Yesterday I got a box from Black Forest Industries that included a Euro front bumper support, a stubby antenna for Stef’s Beetle and a “your wheels suck” shirt. I placed the order on Sunday night and everything shipped out the next day. This has been my second ordering experience with BFI and again I’m [...]

It seems like I’m some sort of international Volkswagen man of mystery lately. First I was shipping bumpers and mirrors to Belgium and now I’m sending wheel adapters to Australia. That’s right, I’ve taken on another overseas project to help out a fellow enthusiast in the land down under. I’ve been talking with Raymond Chan [...]

I’ve told several people already, but today it’s being added to the blog. I’ve been driving around for the past week with no front bumper. Not because I got into an accident or because somebody stole my bumper, but because my uni-black North American Jetta front bumper is packed up in a box and [...]