Photos of my wet rainy beetle. These are actually from the archives of the instiute circa 2007

We have moved on up in the land of our parking! Yup we went from this

to this

Ya I know it is a little bit over kill with the razor wire and locked gates and such but what can I say it is a far bigger parking space that will allow us to park two autos for the price of around 1.5! I will also bring my kayaks home from there storage rack on Granville island, which means we then save on those monthly mooring costs there! Who knows they may even get used once in a while if they are close to home :)

Yuppers the great beetle with no name (I am not sure why I haven’t named it, we have only had it for like 5-6 years) is rocking out with its proverbial cock out! :) It is summer and i had to move it and deal with it, so We insured it and fixed up some stuff on it like a even more new clutch…. GRRRrrrrr… (the long story short is that the new clutch and pressure plate which had maybe 1500 miles on it, broke! Yuppers that pressure plate physically broke!) $650 later the bug has a new clutch once again! :)

Sitting for two years was really hard on the poor guy, the areas that were rusted a little bit have turned into fairly bigger bits. Not to worry however for a $500 dollar order into Cip1.ca, a solid weeks worth of work, and a paint job, I think our green beetle with black interior can become a two tone Orange/White with an light white or oatmeal interior.
Kinda like this

Not my photo I robbed it from the internet!

So good news is that the seat repair is fully on track! I simply need a welder for 15 min to fix this…

Yuppers no more spare tire to hold up the seat needed :) Which I really like because the spare tire is supposed to be looking pretty in the front dammit! :) I swapped the passenger & driver seats last night so I can drive it with out cuddling with both the steering wheel and the floor, and now the beetle is like a Mexican cab :)

I hosed down and wiped the whole inside with a disinfectant cleaner to take care of any mold issues that may have erupted in the last 4 months. With the seats fully out I was also able to clean up the floor and inspect the seat tracks which are in need of some love but other wise look solid and awesome.

All of the inside carpet is gone and the floor is cleared out awaiting some new, paint, sound dampening pads, carpet, and lastly some heavy duty rubber floor mats. All in all we are in great shape to fix up any issues that we have with out a lot of work or money which is exactly what I like to hear :)

OK going for a drive now :)

I have been busy so here is what I would have blogged if I wasn’t to busy to actually blog.

Roof meat

Cruise ships

Photo Wandering

Commodore for Bloc Party

Hot Hot Heat wouldn’t get of stage

I was sick for days

Didn’t get to see The Weakerthans but I had two tries :(
thats it thats all.