change is good

There are always changes, it is one of the few constents, semi -ironic
 this phrase got me thinking, we are going thru some growth pains at Airkooled Kustoms .
We have added an office that could fit two cars, although we hate to give up the space as the company grows it is needed.  This gave us the opportunity to take the old office space and turn it in to an engine assembly room since we have been asked to add motor build and service to our list of offerings.
We have been working with a great machine shop about 2.5 hours south of AK. Its worth the extra miles, these guys have been doing this for 20 yrs .
 Crazy Uncle Floyd has been just giddy about getting his own room to build motors
all though I think we should have to padded the walls
 First Build up
 Sledds T-4
full on 2.0 with some nice goodies
can you say fully balanced and blue printed ?  I knew you could …

If you are up for a new mill come by and say hi.
and we have the transmissions to back them up
www.airkooledkustom.com

bugs in the garden

Show with the euro brits this last weekend, had a blast they always throw a good time, 

No issues on the way or at the show, but coming home the shift rod coupler worked lose , causing 3ed gear only all the way home. shill had a blast.

 Next sat we with be at Huntsville Botanical Garden   .the  event planer reads

June Buggin' in the Garden - VW Antique Car Show

Saturday, June 13, 9 a.m.-3 p.m.

Cruise on into the Garden for the hottest beetles around. Antique air-cooled Volkswagens will be swarming into the Garden for a show-n-shine sponsored by the North Alabama Volkswagen Club. Pick up a judging form in the Linda J. Smith Visitor Center and vote on your favorite Beetle for the Peoples Choice Award. The cars will be parked in the very back of the Garden.
Show is included in Garden admission. Anyone owning a 1980 and older Volkswagen who would like to participate may submit a registration form or call Special Events Coordinator Kay Curry at 430-3572 ext. 241 for further information. 

If you are in town, come by and see us . 

macafacation now complete

In any business , small or larger, computers play a huge role in the back ground. Information, organization , storage,  communication, advertisement all handled by computers . I have been playing and working on computers since the cassette tape drive  came out. For those of you that are to young to remember that, now I feel old  they look like this .  During my decades pecking on a key board I have been in the microsoft world, dealing with the windows line of products was just that ,dealing with windows. I have become pretty good at crashing the os, As windows has matured it has gotten better,( I did like the NT os) and it has gotten  harder for me to screw up, but I have been crash os's for a few decades and can still do it. Case in point, My good friend , biz partner, graphic designer, web master, art guru,actor rock band and all around level five.... Master Gumby   rebuilt his old G10 tower for the shop to run. Our old server, running NT, and I had a disagreement  and the server decide to take his ball and go home. So the Mac came in ...... and I liked it.It was what I had wanted windows to be, it was smooth, intuitive and clean. the g10 stayed in my office for a bit, till the main house server decided to join his network buddy and crash. So being a man who has been married for 20 years, ( as of yesterday) , and wanting to keep it that way, I brought the Mac in to the house so my wife could do her thing on the web, while biggene built us a new MS computer. Mama Dar tried to use the mac,  and did not like it. She found it hard to switch back and forth between work and home, two different operating systems , so when the new computer was ready, the mac went back to the shop, and I have been on it full time.The more I use it the more I like it, it has gotten to the point if I want to use the computer I would go out to the office instead of using the MS 'chene .I found it clunky, even though it was new.

 Well I also have a lap top, that my brother,  MS and Mac God, had refurbished for me that I have been using when I travel . It is an old IBM Think-pad, a great machine in it time, but it was SLOW, and very limited . But it did the job. Well another friend , Greg had an older G-4 note book, running g-10 that had out lived Greg's usefulness , so he rehabbed it for me, and brought it over yesterday. I LOVE IT. 

 Now Master Gumby has been a mac guy since day one, and had changed jobs a bit back and had to learn the MS OS, not a fun thing he told me Now I understand what he means, it is like talking to a child vrs having conversation with a college grad. Man I love my macs........

B O P 11

even more pics  here

and here

Sat

I have always love sat morning, but no cartoons for me,

at least not this weekend, my granddaughter who is 4

is not here today, and I have a wrench to turn and

a bit of teaching to to.

The client coming in this morning is a good kid, but

kind of quiet. At 17 , he is driving his dads old 63 bug.

a few months ago we dropped his ride, hard.....

at his age it is surprising to see that he drives this car

everyday. It is good to see the next gen of dub heads.....

and being that he is the future of this hobby I have an obligation 

to teach him. Today it is just the basics a valve adj and a dizzy/

carb swap.

 The valves are something that every dub owner should do . Even

though I own a shop I want all my clients to do their own valve adjustment 

by the owner doing this and oil change, they can  keep in touch with

what is going on with their car.