Dave's new 1969 mild GL build...

[owdlvr]

Hmmm...a little hard to update this from Feb 2021. The car did about 35,000km in 2021. I took it from Vancouver Island to Banff, twice. Did our "Island Adventure" event and a few other events. Then in 2022 we took the car on a road trip to Denver, through Yellowstone National Park. In Colorado we did the Classic Car Adventures Silver Summit, a three day collector car tour. From there I road tripped the car to Ottawa Canada, where I was hosting a Ferrari annual gathering, and then it was to Toronto where we did the Classic Car Adventures Maple Mille...another three day collector car tour. Super rad was getting the car together with my dad's 1979 Beetle. He restored the yellow convertible when I was a kid, doing a full tear-down and restoration. Because I live over 3,500km away on the otherside of the country...we've never had any of our Beetles in the same spot together, until this moment. After he drove the German Look, he pulled back into the driveway and said, "now I understand why you put big motors in these." heh heh.

The car then slept for the winter in Toronto, at Hagerty Garage+Social.













In May of 2023, my buddy brought the car from Toronto to Denver for me, where Taylor (my girlfriend) and I did the Classic Car Adventures Silver Summit once again. This year's event T-Shirt is pretty rad, and I should probably do a second run of them to sell to my VW friends.



And if we happen to run into each other anywhere, be sure to ask me if I have any keychains on me. I made these ones for 2023 as well.



Taylor and I road-tripped the car home from Colorado, back through Yellowstone again...because why not?!



Home at last...




In September Taylor and I took the car down to Portland for the Classic Car Adventures Fall Classic. Because, well, why not? Three days of driving fantastic roads in Oregon. Portland to Bend, Bend to Eugene, and Eugene to McMinnville before we headed home.





Side note: If you can't find your trouble light before leaving the shop...look harder.



We did have one oops while on the Fall Classic. We couldn't avoid some fallen tree debris in a corner...and this is the result. Not going to be easy to repair without paint!



I'm missing a bunch of events, road trips and other news...but the car did roughly another 38,000km in 2023. When in doubt, mile them up! I've got a fairly big list to tackle on the car this winter, but it's mostly minor items or niggly things that I'd like to improve. I installed a Bug-Tech shifter this year, for instance, which meant I had to remove the center console and cup-holders. That is driving me nuts so I need to come up with a cupholder solution. Minor items, but big list.

-Dave

[wouter1303]

Originally Posted by owdlvr

-Dave

Killer combo. And some cool pics from the trips you are doing!

[owdlvr]

The winter list is small.

Untitled by Dave Hord, on Flickr

[72marinablue]

Love to see how much you drive your cars Dave, hoping to join you at some point!

[owdlvr]

Making drastic decisions that I might regret later...



First off, I need to swap out the silver-dot 914 tach for a different one. The silver-dot is needed for the family heirloom...but the only one I have is this rough looking late model. The late model would be perfect, so time for a quick restore. Fortunately Beetle glass is just a touch smaller in diameter, but still works.











Risky choice of the day number one:





Blaupunkt Bremen, but the modernized version they sold a few years back. Tape deck has been replaced with SD/USB/Media inputs, and the radio has bluetooth. I'm not entirely sure I want the radio upfront and centre...but it would be super nice to have controls without opening the glovebox.

Risky choice of the day number two:

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I know we want the rally odometer for events, and the Brantz is definitely my odometer of choice, but I'm not totally sold that I love it in the German Look car yet. It will grow on me, I'm sure.

Possibly risky choice of the day number three:



I've been saving the Tag Heuer (and Nixon) for the Family Heirloom, and originally put them down on the glovebox just to see how it would look. Now I'm not sure. I think I may need 'loan' them to the German Look until the Family Heirloom is done...