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Ep 213 Lime Bug Craig Shaw

Let’s Talk Dubs - April 14, 2023 17:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 298 ratings
I'm sure you've heard the name Limebug. Limebug out of the UK makes air suspension and much more for Classic aircooled Volkswagens. Craig Shaw and his partner Leeann. Her purchase of a lime green beetle is the cause for Craig to start working on suspension in the Air-cooled world which then deve...
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Ep 212 Frederic Peeters EBI & Freddie Files

Let’s Talk Dubs - April 07, 2023 18:26 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 298 ratings
Frederick Peeters is a man who wears a lot of hats, as the managing Director of European bug-in, he also puts on the Freddy files, and now does the Ardennen Rennen. From Nenovine Belgium he's been a VW enthusiast since he was a child. With a passion for type three's he loves his notch back. His ...
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Ep 211 Gavin Jones Trailer Queen Restorations

Let’s Talk Dubs - March 31, 2023 15:41 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 298 ratings
On our continued British invasion from Volksworld 2023 show. Trailer queen restorations Gavin Jones on this episode. Starting out with his first VW in the late 80s he cruised around in a pretty cool convertible super beetle. Later moving up to some of the early year VW's with his Bahama Blue 64....
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Ep 210 Rikki James & The fast barndoor

Let’s Talk Dubs - March 24, 2023 21:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 298 ratings
In the early 2000s while trying to figure out what to do with my bus and surfing the Internet I ran across a website called vintagebus.com. On that website was a gallery for people to upload pictures. I ran across Rikki James from England & his 1954 Right Hand drive barn door bus. This bus was s...
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Ep 209 Pandraggers Levi Weir

Let’s Talk Dubs - March 18, 2023 08:19 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 298 ratings
Levi Weir is from  Phoenix Arizona and runs a company called Pandragger parts. Since about 14 years old he's been working on Volkswagens. Taking up a trade in welding and fabrication with a raceshop he learn the skills that his friends utilize to help them work on their VW's he eventually turns ...
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Ep 208 Resto Johnny & rare EMPI collectibles

Let’s Talk Dubs - March 10, 2023 13:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 298 ratings
Resto Johnny as he's known on the samba, has been in the VW collecting since the early days of Pomona. One of the original Pomona swap meet vultures he's been on the lookout for super rare parts since the early days of the hobby. Finishing his first car when he was just 14 and selling it at the ...
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Ep 207 Richard Guraino Empi of New york

Let’s Talk Dubs - March 03, 2023 04:34 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 298 ratings
Richard Garaino owned competition foreign car parts in New York. After seeing the interest in Volkswagen beetles aftermarket parts he reached out to Joe Vittone and became an authorized EMPI distributor in New York. He didn't just sell parts and bring to the people of New York the high-quality a...
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Ep 206 El Burro owner Jamie Wiseman

Let’s Talk Dubs - February 24, 2023 15:31 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 298 ratings
Is this The ultimate overlanding bug? Thats what Jamie Wiseman set out to build. After listening to this podcast you may agree Jaime is a certified master tech for Honda after working for dealerships decided to open his own garage. Buying a bug for his wife back in 2015 spurred his interest and ...
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Ep 205 Best Magazine Cover of 2022

Let’s Talk Dubs - February 17, 2023 05:48 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 298 ratings
https://www.youtube.com/@the_Wagen https://vwtrendsmagazine.com https://rosswulf.com https://www.youtube.com/@letstalkdubspodcast9361 On this episode of Bill and George break down the magazine covers of 2022 and pick their favorite covers from Volksworld, Hot VW's VW trends and Volksmani...
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Ep 204 Life of a VW salesman Don Weir

Let’s Talk Dubs - February 10, 2023 21:48 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 298 ratings
Don where was the first salesman hired at Steuben motors in York PA. On this podcast we get an inside look at what it was like to be a salesman for Volkswagen in the 60s. How much the commission rates were. How the car was received in a state of union ironworkers. Don has a great collection of b...
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Ep 203 RAD Designs Rodney Adams

Let’s Talk Dubs - February 04, 2023 00:33 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 298 ratings
Rodney Adams with RAD designs out of Turlock California has been enthusiast for many years starting off with his first bug when he was 15 converting that to a water cooled 2.3 L Ford Pinto motor. He's had years of experience in different lines of work learning to TIG welder young age working in ...
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Ep 202 The most expensive 1977 Beetle

Let’s Talk Dubs - January 27, 2023 15:42 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 298 ratings
Lately we've been going down the rabbit hole of the late model Beetles. Late model Beetles were the most technologically advanced type 1 Volkswagens of the air-cooled brand. As they got later into production sales numbers dropped considerably for multiple reasons we talk about that on this podca...
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Ep 201 Import & restore a VW From Brazil with Brien Hamrick

Let’s Talk Dubs - January 20, 2023 06:06 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 298 ratings
3 years ago we had Brien Hamrick on the podcast. He owns USA KombI Connection and imports may cars from Brazil. On this podcast we discuss starting a buisness of passion. How the process goes and the callenges in between. Since just before the pandemic we started to see a rise in shipping cost. ...
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Ep 200 Joe Cali Type 4 upright conversion

Let’s Talk Dubs - January 13, 2023 03:36 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 298 ratings
The Type 4 engine known as the VW big Block. VWs 2nd gen aircooled engine. Its a touqe monster. The was always an issue with getting it into a VW.  Well Thanks to Joe Cali the average VW enthusiest can convert the pankace type 4 engine into an upright engine. He was lucky enough to score a 2.0L ...
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Ep 199 Red E Motorsports Eric Allred

Let’s Talk Dubs - January 06, 2023 15:23 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 298 ratings
Salt Lake City in the house this week on the podcast! Eric Allred is the owner of Red E Motorsports in Salt Lake City. Eric's been a long time drag racer and has been in the VW scene in Salt Lake for 20+ years. His commitment to the hobby was so great he decided to open up his own shop a few yea...
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EP 198 Distributor talk with Josh Honel

Let’s Talk Dubs - December 30, 2022 15:58 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 298 ratings
The VW Distributor is a critical part of any VW engine. On this episode, we discuss the differences with the VW style distibutors avaiable. On the points side of things. Josh Honel is a VW enthusiest who has gotten into the VW distributor to the point where he owns a Sun distributor tester. Like...
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Ep 197 2022 Year end wrap up

Let’s Talk Dubs - December 23, 2022 04:45 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 298 ratings
Bill ,George & Tory Alonzo review 2022. We walk through the year of podcasts & events that happend this year. From the GNRS, to the SEMA and much more. The poeple we interviewd some of our favorite podcasts. Which cars made an impression on the scene. We talk about some people we lost. Some craz...
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Ep 196 Superbeetles with Wayne Dean

Let’s Talk Dubs - December 16, 2022 00:43 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 298 ratings
The superbeetle is the last generation of the VW Beetle 1971 -1975. Produced as an evolution to the beam front end the Mcphearson strut front suspension, larger front cargo area & curved windshield were some of the major differences in the model. We go over the histoy of the Superbeetle with Way...
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Ep 195 Chuck Beck builder of the Beck 550 Spyder

Let’s Talk Dubs - December 09, 2022 05:15 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 298 ratings
Chuck Beck loved racing, he was building tube frame cars while in the SE Pacific testing Atom bombs. When he got out of the air force he built a one good VW out of a 46' & 53 wrecked beetle. He would build whatever he could. He liked racing so he bought a Devon kit car and started that build. He...
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Ep 194 Real Street 2022 Champ David Ruiz

Let’s Talk Dubs - December 02, 2022 04:08 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 298 ratings
As the 2022 Triple crown real street class wraps up this year we talk to David "Volkstroke" Ruiz. Hes been battling out on the 1/8th Mile with the real street racers for a few years. This year David stripped out last years car and swapped everyting over to a super clean Oval Rag. This car debute...
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Ep 193 Roundtable Nov 2022

Let’s Talk Dubs - November 25, 2022 19:19 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 298 ratings
It's been a while since we've done a roundtable episode. On this show George and Bill review what's happened over the past few months. We talk about one crazy weekend, OCTO, and more. We call up across the pond and talk to our homeboy and the finch from spikes vintage restorations. We discuss wh...
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Ep 192 3 guys one race

Let’s Talk Dubs - November 24, 2022 15:25 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 298 ratings
In the final episode of podcasts recorded at fast 4 cartel blitz at the beach. I did two short podcast one with Paul Gelinas who has some history back from Bakersfield in the mid 80s hanging around Steve Knechts shop Volks Werks. He helped chop up the jow Future Shock. I thought it was really in...
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Ep 191 Racer Bret Matney

Let’s Talk Dubs - November 18, 2022 04:56 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 298 ratings
The ultimate VW air-cooled podcast. From history to drag racing, Vintage to rarest of the rare. We hit them all. if you love air-cooled classic Volkswagens then this podcast is for you.
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Ep 190 Bob Leighton

Let’s Talk Dubs - November 10, 2022 23:28 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 298 ratings
Bob Leighton the son of the late Lee Leighton was born into the VW covenant. Working for places like Revmaster and for his fatherLee Leighton racing engines at a young age.Bobby has a history of that is immersed in VW racing. We talk about his dad and some of the history from the early days of V...
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Ep 189 Bier Panzer & Author Prescott Phillips

Let’s Talk Dubs - November 04, 2022 15:23 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 298 ratings
You've heard of the corn panzers, now let me introduce you to the "Bier Panzers". Coming out of the Milwaukee area Wisconsin's own from new Berlin Prescott Phillips. Prescott is a VW enthusiast out of Wisconsin that's known for building tranny's motors and drag racing. He's had several show cars...
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Ep 188 Widebody Buses Kenny Pfitzer

Let’s Talk Dubs - October 28, 2022 02:38 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 298 ratings
Kenny Pfitzer is no stranger to the VW world. Starting back in the 80's his VW bus "wet Dream" was on the cover of VW trends 1995. It was one of the cleanest buses around. $7000 in chrome and detail to the max. Kenny's had a long career working for concept car builder IAD West coast, Metal Craft...
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Ep 187 Rick Sadler The Everywhere Guy

Let’s Talk Dubs - October 21, 2022 15:49 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 298 ratings
Rick Sadler could possibly be the Forest Gump of the VW world. Hes worked at Johnny Speed & Chrome, Dee Engineering & Empi. Before he could drive he was in awe of the Schley Bros Dragster. His involvment through the years would have him building the engine for that same dragster 40 years later! ...
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Ep 186 Patrick Friel 90's M&M Green Chop Top

Let’s Talk Dubs - October 14, 2022 03:19 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 298 ratings
If you've been into VWs since the late 80's. You'll know the name Patrick Freil. His first car recognized in the magazine was his 1969 M&M Green chopped beetle. Featured in January 1990. With Help from Rick Eichler on the engine and paint & body work. He was a serious competitor. Having VW's in ...
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Ep 185 "Jersey" Joe Koenig Drag racer engine builder

Let’s Talk Dubs - September 30, 2022 14:46 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 298 ratings
Joe Koenig is an East coast drag racer and engine builder. In high school he had his eyes set on building a 69' camaro. Helping a buddy out on his super beetle changes his trijectory on his car out look. On this episode we talk about Street racing in Philly. How he transitions to dragracing sinc...
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Ep 184 The Fastest street racing bug? Johnny Osmundson

Let’s Talk Dubs - September 23, 2022 03:57 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 298 ratings
Street racing has been going on for years. Recently there has been a resurgence with TV shows like street outlaws and 1320 Video. Johnny Osmundson has been making a name for VWs on the no prep steet world. His Strret bug is a 1965 Blue Right hand drive with a 1915 Turbo with a full polished 48ID...
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