Yes I know that there are probably a good number of people out there with pages dedicated to their cars and I am sure that a good number of those have what would be considered better cars than I. Moros, a friend of mine, has a 1997 Mitubishi Eclipse. Nillister, another friend of mine has a 1996 Dodge Neon.

I consider my car to be the best engineered of them all. Volkswagen Beetles are engineering marvels because of their simplisitic design. Lacking the water cooling systems that are in most cars the little engine in the Beetle is air cooled and the car is designed like a giant air tunnel. All the air that hits the front of the car is channeled into the engine compartment in the back.

When I was a young child, say between the ages of 8 and 10, I watched Transformers (more than meets the eye) and because of this show I am an engineer and I picked out what my first car would be watching that show. See, my favorite character was Bumble Bee, a yellow VW bug. When it came time to buy a car I found a 1972 Volkswagen Beetle. Although my dream of building Bumble Bee has faded (for now), I still love my little car.

I paid $500 for my car, and could not begin driving it for two years. See, my car had been rolled over. The way it was told to me was like this: The previous owner knew that his fuel pump was going bad and was trying to get it to the shop. It died less than 2 miles from the shop and the man decided that he would just walk to the shop, purchase a fuel pump, and come back and put it on. So the man walks to the shop and buys the fuel pump and comes back, only to find that his Red Beetle has been hit repeatedly with a baseball bat and rollded over its roof and back onto its wheels. Deciding that he didn't want to go through the trouble of repairing all that, he puts the fuel pump on it and drives it to the shop where it sits until I come along and buy it.
I have been spending the last two years repairing this and repairing that and it is still not done, but, it is my car. I am not a car mechanic. Give me your computer for a couple hours and I can take it apart, put it back together and make improvements as I do it. Give me your car and I go duhhhhhhh..... I found some awesome books, but one that was by far the best. I call it the 'Volkswagen for Dummies' book, but its real title is 'How to keep your Volkswagen Alive: A manual of Step by Step Procedures for the Compleat Idiot' by John Muir. Thanks to this book I have taken the engine out of my car several times and have been able to do all the necessary repairs.

I have named my car (that's normal isn't it) the TARDIS, if you are a Doctor Who Fan you get it, if not, well, it's not that important.

This page will Chronicle the things that I have done to my car and my future plans. I have pictures, that will be scanned in, since I have taken pictures at most steps. I will also point out things that I have found along the way. So sit back and relax, and watch a bug be transformed from a peice o junk to a masterpiece.