While reorganizing the bookshelves at home, I pulled out an old favorite title that I hadn’t read in some years – Tom Couch’s U-R What You Drive. I got this book when it was brand new, in 1987, and although I have no memory of what else I may have received that year, this gift definitely became one of my […]

Man, I want a dune buggy in the worst way. As in, enough to be willing to put up with the ill-advised and cheapskate modifications and half-assembled projects that will inevitably come along with a dune buggy in my price range. And this dune buggy on a 1962 Volkswagen pan with an unidentified “Manx-style” body […]

In moderation, most things are just fine. Take, for instance, the trend of rebodying the Volkswagen Beetle. Once the Beetle became ubiquitous and dirt-cheap, everybody with a chopper gun started to use the Bug as the basis for bringing their notebook-margin doodles to life. Yet there were many refined, restrained and quality-focused coachbuilt Beetles, mostly […]