Bub2?: sometimes you just gotta do it

Nearly a year after Bub went up flames, nearly taking me with it, I'm back on the Beetle trail and very similar reasons .... I will be starting a new Blog as much for my own entertainment as for everyone to read while locked away but that can't start quite yet so here's a taster

{insert name} The Jeans Edition Baja Beetle

I have had almost a year of not thinking about it but some itches have to be scratched and my deep love for the funky wee 'Classic' Beetle has again resurfaced. So here we go again, but better, and slightly more sensible I hope.

I built Bub for the sheer entertainment value but that engine was doomed from the start and doomed the whole car in the end. Lots of reasons, with 20/20 hindsight, it was a really poorly thought out supercharger kit, the base engine was probably flawed, the set up was too much ad I had neither the technical understanding nor bottomless pockets to do it properly but the rest of the car was spot on.

So it was back to the beginning as I hunted through eBay, asked around on the Baja Club pages and spoke to old friends and contacts and one of the cars I looked at in October was still available. Jason pinged me a message and we spoke at length about his wife's car called 'Lady B' the Bajeans Beetle.

It's been used as a drag racer and is, as Jason says, one of the most solid Bugs around. It has some welding but what 46 year old lady hasn't had some work done ;-)

It's totally standard, a 1974 Jean edition 1200 Beetle with a 1600cc engine but missing the denim upholstery that give it the names 'Jeans'. It arrives in Scotland very soon and then I can get busy fettling, although the parts collecting has already started.

The new Blog will start when I have decided on a new name ...