This text focuses on the "California Look", a cult on the Volkswagen scene. The story goes back to the adoption of the Beetle by American hot-rodders in the 1950s. Their cars' successes on the drag strips led to VWs appearing on the streets in the style of race cars, stripped of chrome, with lowered suspension, a very powerful rear engine, and a quality customized paint job. The "Cal Look" was born. This book provides the history, the personalities, the legends, the racing, the clubs and the cars.

California Look Vw

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Seume, Keith

Antiques & Collectibles

Motorbooks Intl

Find out which parts will fit your engine and what theyll do for it with this valuable guide to all engine, ignition and carburetion parts for your classic VW engine. Tuning recommendations on equipping engines for economy performance, mild performance increases, fast road or full race performance. Includes stock part interchange specs and parts numbers, and describes the wide range of aftermarket parts available.

Aircooled VW Engine Interchange Manual: The User's Guide to Original and Aftermarket Parts for Tuning (Motorbooks Workshop)

Engineering & Transportation

Automotive

Motorbooks

The definitive illustrated history of a true world beater. Discover the full story of the amazing VW Beetle--from pre-war KdF-Wagen to today's New Beetle. The book features a color technical appendix illustrating chronologically the major design modifications made during the Beetle's lifetime. Full-color studio photography of 26 milestone models.

Vw Beetle: A Comprehensive Illustrated History of the World's Most Popular Car

Your Volkswagen Beetle is not only the worlds most popular car, but a favorite for those of you who cant wait to wrench out every ounce of performance and handling from your Bug. This detailed guide shows you how to upgrade your Bug for total performance and reliability.

VW Beetle Performance Handbook: A Step-by-Step Guide to Upgrading Engine, Transmission, Suspension and Brakes (Motorbooks Workshop)

Bursting with color, ideas, and advice for today's Beetle customizers! This book puts the emphasis on bodywork, and includes chapters on the Cal Look Beetle, German Look, Buggies, Roadsters and Bajas, Replicas and more. Packed with custom mods; tuning tips; drag, off-road, track and rally hop-ups. Contains useful tips to make your Beetle really go. Text touches on the new 1998 Beetle.

Vw Beetle: The New Custom Handbook

As the second millennium draws to an end, everyone is talking about the "millennium bug" and Y2K compliancy. To Volkswagen enthusiasts, however, the "millennium bug" has an entirely different meaning--it makes them think of the incredible VW Beetle, arguably the most significant automobile ever built. Compiled by a VW authority of international renowned, this pictorial celebration takes in all the historical and cultural significance associated with the Beetle, presenting 450 never-before-published photographs depicting all aspects of Beetle lore, from advertising campaigns to the customizing scene, and from newly discovered images of Beetle prototypes to spectacular color shots of the New Beetle.

Millennium Bug: A Vw Beetle Scrapbook

Before it even hit showroom floors in spring 1998, Volkswagen's New Beetle had do-it-yourself enthusiasts and potential buyers licking their chops for the opportunity to wrench every possible bit of horsepower and handling out of the dynamic, retro-looking package. The first comprehensive step-by-step, how-to performance handbook written specifically for owners of the New Beetle offers advice for upgrading engines, transmissions, suspension, and brakes, from inexpensive aftermarket tweaks to the ultimate street-performance parts and upgrades currently on the market. An authoritative text is accompanied by a wealth of explanatory photographs in both color and black-and-white.

Vw New Beetle: Performance Handbook (Performance Handbook Series)

This huge photo retrospective features hundreds of photographs depicting Volkswagen vehicles of every size and shape from the 1945 Beetle to the soon-to-released, all-new Microbus. Photographs culled from company archives and private collections are accompanied by detailed captions that describe the development and production of the vehicle, and in the process comprise a comprehensive timeline detailing the evolution of Beetles, Buses, Karmann-Ghias, Rabbits, Sciroccos, Golfs, Dashers, Things, Jettas, Kubelwagens, Passats and more.

Volkswagen Cars & Trucks (Crestline)

The complete history of Volkswagen, from 1930s Germany through the classic coachwork of Karman to the Thing, the Transporter and today's popular New Beetle. Archival black and white photographs combine with stunning color images to deliver the entire Volkswagen legacy. Discover production details involved in the development of VW's popular Beetle models. Relive the excitement that 1950s and 1960s Volkswagen owners fondly embrace today.

Volkswagen

With more than 21 million cars sold, the Volkswagen Beetle can justly claim to be the world's most popular car, ever. In this compact but definitive guide, world-renowned Beetle expert Keith Seume profiles all the landmark cars, from the first 1934 prototype to today's highly popular New Beetle. As well as providing a detailed, highly authoritative account of the Beetle's history, the book offers a comprehensive visual history. Every featured model is shown in specially commissioned studio photographs, with profile and front views, cut out against white backgrounds.

The Beetle

Thunder Bay Pr

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