Latest Classicvw Podcast Episodes
Ep 217 The race shop's own Dave Andrews
Let’s Talk Dubs - May 12, 2023 19:07 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 301 ratingsThe 1972 EMPI was sold to filter dynamics. Just before that happened Darrell Vittone started the race shop which was a separate entity from the VW dealership. One day some kid from the East Coast is peering through the window and Darrel sees him. Darrel opens the door and meets Dave Andrews thes...
Ep 216 Early type 3 details with Lee Hedges
Let’s Talk Dubs - May 05, 2023 15:34 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 301 ratingsThe type three Variant & Sedan (Squareback & Notchback) was the car that was debuted at the 1961 Frankfurt auto show in order to develop a new upgrade level vehicle for people that wanted to upgrade from the Beetle. In the early years of the type three there were a lot of one year only and earli...
Ep 215 Cross Country Road trip with Bryce & Kathy
Let’s Talk Dubs - April 28, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 301 ratingsBryce Allemann and Kathy Hicks are a road tripping power couple that first hit the road in 2017. The first journey across the United States northern half consisted of 8,754 miles. That article can be seen in August 2018 Hot VWs magazine. They scheduled a month off of work to accomplish this fea...
Ep 214 Round table
Let’s Talk Dubs - April 21, 2023 04:21 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 301 ratingswe discuss who would be the top builders non-Volkswagen that we would like to see build a VW platform vehicle. Bill takes a trip to Volksworld show 2023 we talk about some of those details. We also discussed some of the people bills tried to get on the podcast. Some new episodes that will be com...
Ep 213 Lime Bug Craig Shaw
Let’s Talk Dubs - April 14, 2023 17:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 301 ratingsI'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...
Ep 212 Frederic Peeters EBI & Freddie Files
Let’s Talk Dubs - April 07, 2023 18:26 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 301 ratingsFrederick 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 ...
Ep 211 Gavin Jones Trailer Queen Restorations
Let’s Talk Dubs - March 31, 2023 15:41 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 301 ratingsOn 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....
Ep 210 Rikki James & The fast barndoor
Let’s Talk Dubs - March 24, 2023 21:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 301 ratingsIn 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...
Ep 209 Pandraggers Levi Weir
Let’s Talk Dubs - March 18, 2023 08:19 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 301 ratingsLevi 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 ...
Ep 208 Resto Johnny & rare EMPI collectibles
Let’s Talk Dubs - March 10, 2023 13:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 301 ratingsResto 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 ...
Ep 207 Richard Guraino Empi of New york
Let’s Talk Dubs - March 03, 2023 04:34 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 301 ratingsRichard 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...
Ep 206 El Burro owner Jamie Wiseman
Let’s Talk Dubs - February 24, 2023 15:31 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 301 ratingsIs 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 ...
Ep 205 Best Magazine Cover of 2022
Let’s Talk Dubs - February 17, 2023 05:48 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 301 ratingshttps://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...
Ep 204 Life of a VW salesman Don Weir
Let’s Talk Dubs - February 10, 2023 21:48 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 301 ratingsDon 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...
Ep 203 RAD Designs Rodney Adams
Let’s Talk Dubs - February 04, 2023 00:33 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 301 ratingsRodney 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 ...
Ep 202 The most expensive 1977 Beetle
Let’s Talk Dubs - January 27, 2023 15:42 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 301 ratingsLately 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...
Ep 201 Import & restore a VW From Brazil with Brien Hamrick
Let’s Talk Dubs - January 20, 2023 06:06 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 301 ratings3 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. ...
Ep 200 Joe Cali Type 4 upright conversion
Let’s Talk Dubs - January 13, 2023 03:36 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 301 ratingsThe 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 ...
Ep 199 Red E Motorsports Eric Allred
Let’s Talk Dubs - January 06, 2023 15:23 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 301 ratingsSalt 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...
EP 198 Distributor talk with Josh Honel
Let’s Talk Dubs - December 30, 2022 15:58 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 301 ratingsThe 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...
Ep 197 2022 Year end wrap up
Let’s Talk Dubs - December 23, 2022 04:45 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 301 ratingsBill ,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...
Ep 196 Superbeetles with Wayne Dean
Let’s Talk Dubs - December 16, 2022 00:43 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 301 ratingsThe 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...
Ep 195 Chuck Beck builder of the Beck 550 Spyder
Let’s Talk Dubs - December 09, 2022 05:15 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 301 ratingsChuck 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...
Ep 194 Real Street 2022 Champ David Ruiz
Let’s Talk Dubs - December 02, 2022 04:08 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 301 ratingsAs 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...
Ep 193 Roundtable Nov 2022
Let’s Talk Dubs - November 25, 2022 19:19 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 301 ratingsIt'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...
Ep 192 3 guys one race
Let’s Talk Dubs - November 24, 2022 15:25 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 301 ratingsIn 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...
Ep 191 Racer Bret Matney
Let’s Talk Dubs - November 18, 2022 04:56 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 301 ratingsThe 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.
Ep 190 Bob Leighton
Let’s Talk Dubs - November 10, 2022 23:28 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 301 ratingsBob 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...
Ep 189 Bier Panzer & Author Prescott Phillips
Let’s Talk Dubs - November 04, 2022 15:23 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 301 ratingsYou'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...
Ep 188 Widebody Buses Kenny Pfitzer
Let’s Talk Dubs - October 28, 2022 02:38 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 301 ratingsKenny 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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