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 . 

"And its only Wed"

Some days be that way, and some weeks all them days are clumped together .

this has been one of them weeks, and its only Wed.

 As I fight through today, doing battle with 50 year old auto, I have to remind myself

that I choose this, and am generally happy to do so. Showing up early, saying late, 

and in here on weekends. deadlines, paper work, gov regs, cold calls from tele-marketers .

and interruptions in the battle. All of it, I still like it, some not as  much. 

 Kustom work sucks sometimes, work a bit till you reach a bind, figuratively and literally . Then back up and figure out the bind, then the work around,  start again till the next bind. Then do it all again. The results are always worth the effort .

 Now if you will pardon me I need to go back to beating my head against the wall.

B O P 11

even more pics  here

and here

Mad Props To Just Jim

Let me tell you about my buddy Super beatle JimJust Jim, or JJ .

he is one talented dude!!! He is a car guy, he owns a 69 camaro ,

lifted stepside 4X4, and a 79 convertable bug. and all are nice, but

that is just his hobby. In real life he is a defense sector graphic artist .

 I don't really know what that is , but I do have an idea of what he does

cause of a promo vid he did for the shop. 

 See we are growing a bit, and  are helping to sponsor a few shows

this season. the first one will be Bug a paluza 11 anyway... part of the deal is

the shop gets a vender space, and need draw peeps in, this is in all fact a 

temp store for the shop, so After talking with Master Gumby, the other 

owner of the shop, we decided to get a dvd made for display of the shop,

a 5 min commercial if you will. Now  Jim is a member of the vw club

and hangs out at the shop once in a while, and I was talking about this

in passing about 1 month ago, and he offered to help out and give it a try.

 well this is the result .