VW TDI Cup Crash

Through our sister company, Truechoice, we sell a lot of road racing parts and safety parts. One of our vender's sent us this and I thought it was worth posting.

SCCA Pro Racing Volkswagen Jetta TDI Cup driver Devin Cates had a high speed roll at Round 7 of the series in August........he went off big time at the infamous "Canada Corner" and sustained major damage to his car. Thanks to all of the safety equipment he was wearing - including the defNder Head and Neck Restraint - Cates was able to walk away from the crash to fight another day. He rebounded quickly, with a double header opportunity at New Jersey Motorsports Park this past weekend. Cates wasted no time, with a convincing win at Round 9. The win earned Cates a black colored defNder, which all TDI Cup Winners have received this season.

See the video of his Road America crash here:

Cates crash at road america

This is also a cool VW link

http://media.vw.com/

Just a thought...

My daughter racing

I do realize that my daughter's Jr dragster has nothing to do with VW, Porsche's, and/or Audi's but the car does say PAP-Parts on the side. I know it would be a stretch to make comparisons because it's air cooled or rear engined. I think it is interesting and pretty impressive that an 8 year old can go 0 to about 50 mph in about 12 seconds. (A proud dad has got to take every chance he has to brag a little)

Check out what it is like to drive a Jr Dragster:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JELHcR1hEOg

Check out her website:

www.mikieracing.com

Life is good...

Racing Bug

When I was out at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course for Truechoice Motorsports, I got to see the most unique VW race car.

This is a 1968 beetle owned by Vic Frazzell out of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
The car was converted into a race car in 1974
Most of the interior has been removed except for the stock door panels and rubber floor mats
Not what you would expect to see
It held its own on the course here at Mid-Ohio
This car has 4 wheel disc brakes with racing pads like we sell at our Truechoice Motorsports.
The car is maintained by Yard Racing out of Wisconsin.
It has an Adjustable suspension so the are taking advantage of that between groups in the paddock
It has a 1600 dual port with 44 IDF Webers featuring forged pistons, forged rods, ported heads, light weight crankshaft, chrome molly pushrods, and a MSD Ignition. They tell me it puts out 135 horse power
This car was well prepped and featured really nice workmanship

It runs aproximatly 125 mph at Road America

Life is good

Detroit autorama 09

Every year I make the trip to Detroit for the annual Autorama and this year was no exception. The car club I am in has been putting on this show for 57 years and every year it gets better. If you have never been it's worth going. As I walked through the show, I figured I would take some picture of the German cars for our Pap-Parts clients. The VW's were represented well but there were few Porsche's, and only one Audi.

This is my personal favorite - a Volks Willies - VERY COOL

All the details... sorry small print

The first give away is that Beetle front suspension

You have to admit this is cool

Second give away is that rear engine but check out the exhaust (exits in front of the rear wheels)

A lowered '66 - great detail on this car

The '66's specs.

A very clean '67 - the owners dressed in 60's clothes all weekend

a nice 356 sorta - replica but really neat

They still used a lot of Porsche parts

This is owned by the same guy with the Volks Willy

Very cool - very well done - nice detail work

From the tuner section of the show

very cool - nice wheels

Bug convertible with some add ons.

The only Audi... but it represented well

Oh yea, it's badddd

It's a boxster... it's all closed up...

boxster specs??

A bad bug... granted it has been slightly altered

and it will bug some purists

but a turbo charged small block Ford

Has got to be a blast... no matter who you are.

Just a Thought...

New arivals

One of the highlights around here is when packages arrive from Germany for 2 reasons:

1) Cool new parts (kinda like Christmas)
2) A chance to increase our German vocabulary

The word for this shipment is: Wappen which must mean hood emblem (how it really gets pronounced is another story)

Life is good...

Karmann Ghia

The car show on the square in Sunbury is always a good time. I meet Mark Richmond and his very nice Karmann Ghia there this fall. This car is beautiful. (my appreciation for German cars working at PAP-Parts has given me) The overall look he tried to achieve was to blend some of the earlier (1956-1965) Ghia amenities with some of the late (1966-1971) improvements. For instance; Earlier Ghia's made more extensive use of fabrics and interior trimmings. As the years progressed the interiors went to mostly vinyl with most of the flooring covered in rubber mats. I thing the fabric and full carpeting make the Ghia look classier. He elected to paint the dash. A 1967 factory Ghia would have had a black vinyl padded dash top with simulated wood dash face. Early model Ghia's had metal dashes. The passenger grab rail in my Ghia is from a 1958 Ghia. The 67 would have used a black plastic handle. There are some many small details that generally go unnoticed to most. Perhaps the most interesting is the VW nose emblem. The badge on mine is from a 1958 model. The early Ghia's used a blue enameled badge regardless of the cars color. The later badges were aluminum. All new rubber seals were installed and the suspension was fitted with Bilstein gas shocks.

He purchased her in 1997 with the intention of doing a " Rolling" Restoration. He said it sort of got out of hand and ended up doing an 8 year full body off restoration.

The original color was Bermuda Blue. It had been painted at some point in the past navy blue. The body was stripped to pare metal and all rust repairs made and repainted By Craig Cline the owner of Clines Autobody and Restorations in Albany Ohio.

His wife Beth picked the paint PPG Arrival Blue Pearl. A GM Color introduced in the 2004 model year.

Re-chroming was done by Advanced Chrome Plating in Chattanooga Tn.

Every detail was looked after as you can see by the trunk.

Interior details include an Repro "Empi" Eliminator shifter with a Karmann Ghia logo'd shift knob. The steering wheel is also a repro "Empi" GT Wood wheel.

The seats were reupholstered by Bill Webner of Der WagenWerks in Elyria Ohio. Mark's wife again chose the colors. White vinyl with navy wool corduroy inserts.

Mark purchased the German Wool Square-weave carpet kit from West coast Classic restorations along with a headliner and installed them himself.

The Engine is a 1641cc from a 1971 VW and features dual 36mm Dellorto Carburetors.

The exhaust is a Stainless Steel reproduction " Okrasa" 4-tip muffler. The engine was rebuilt and detailed by the owner.

Other links about this car:

www.cardomain.com/ride/3091198
www.hemmings.com/users/172872/ride/3217.html

Life is good...