When your Bugeye is finally fully sorted just the way you like it, time to move on to something smaller!
Pete in Virginia has built an awesome car above and a wonderful scale slot car of his pride and joy. And he meets up with his Bugeye loving buddies monthly for a Bugeye mash up!
I have wonderful childhood memories of racing at an eight lane track like this in Elmsford, NY. in the 1970s, before I bought my first full scale Bugeye.
Bugeyes look cool in all shapes and sizes.
I am just back from a wonderful vacation in Guanajuato, Mexico. It seems only fitting that this translates to “mountainous city where frogs abound” (Frog town).
But I saw no frogeyes (and no frogs, but lots of VW bugs). Just a great colonial Mexican town, that was once an important silver mining city. We ate a lot of great food, and really nice bread.
Guanajuato also has a series of magical tunnels, once used for drainage and now used for car traffic. Take a tour in the Hoonigan video I have linked below. It’s not Bugeye related but a really cool video (with plenty of tire smoke) that should give you a feel for this wonderful place.
I can’t get enough of the images of our shop in it’s present form, such as the photo above. I am so grateful for the work we have lined-up in our building and just as grateful for the support we have from all of you who visit our site and patronize our parts catalog. We now have three quite talented technicians working on Bugeyes all day, every day, and I don’t get tired seeing them hard at work in their quest to build the ultimate sportscar. Above you can see the guys working on cars that hail from Arizona, Tennessee and Ohio.
It took a lot to get to this moment. And our incredible team of builders and fabricators don’t just build great cars… they built our addition too.
Back in 2015, the overgrown image below shows the site now occupied each day by our three talented technicians, as seen in the top photo. It’s hard for me to imagine we transformed this ragged space into a world class workshop, full of cars from all over America (and with a heated floor).
In the photo below, I am standing near what would ultimately be the location of the South side overhead door that you can see framed and then completed in the photos above
Below is the view in the main building in the summer of 2015, looking toward the addition, just before we moved in.
Thank you for this incredible ride. Now that the building and addition are complete, watch what we build next.
What you drive matters.
A curvy vintage car is special. But a car that resembles a puppy that will wear a costume on every major holiday and still greet you in the morning with a smile… well that’s something very special indeed.
We are Bugeyepeople, and we like waking people up to the possibility that our highways and byways can be populated by something more imaginative than a small SUV with a high belt line. And if we have to don an elf costume once in a while, that’s a small price to pay.
Thank you Tom and Pam Rhodes (Bugeye owners, our car #251) for personifying the Bugeye lifestyle.
And from all of us to all of you, HAPPY HOLIDAYS!
Florida Bugeyeguy Pat Kelly sent us this great Christmas image from his home, and it’s perfect. Thank you Pat! And we all wish you a wonderful holiday season!
Who’s the dude? In November of 1958, a red Bugeye was the ticket, as long as you had the original tool kit. In 1998, Jeff Bridges took over the title, in “The Big Lebowski.”
