Sat at the shop

Mcpherson strut front end,1303, super, fatchick, you either love 'm or you don't. There is luke warm ,

 If you have no clue what I am talking about then I shall explain, if you do have a clue, then skip this next part.

   The super beetle was introduced in the states in 1971,starting with the 1302, The Mcpherson strut   A fairly well designed piece of engineering . They had been standard on most cars of the time. but in order to put this in the vw design engineers changed the body lines a bit . The 1302 was a bit rounder and wider, the line of the car grew.

 in 1973 the 1303 was introduced , the front suspension was fine tuned a bit, the wind screen got wider and had a big curve and it got even rounder . I suppose as we age we get wider and rounder, so why not the vw bug. 

 Any way........

  Just Jim, (mad props, madder skills)is bringing over his daughters 79 fatchick  'vert

for some suspension work. What a surprise.......... we are lowering it. who would have thought it

'chuckle' .

 Top Line  is a bunch of guys who love the supers, and have figured out how to make better parts for these cars  in doing so, the car will handle better tighter and yes lower, lowering a cars CG makes them more stable at todays speeds. When the 1302 and 1303 were new the speed limit was 55, yes 55 and these little cars did just fine at 55, they had a 64 hp motor, 4 speed, with ok breaks.

 With todays traffic speeds, we do see more clients wanting to upgrade there breaks, motors,trans,suspension , basically making the bug a modern car. Jim has 4 wheel  disk and a 64 hp motor, and he has the "super shimmy". This shimmy  is caused by worn out parts, and there are alot of parts under there. We can do this with factory  or after-market parts. we are going with the top line kit, all new, all urethane .

 got to love it