I have had a couple of Volksie heroes to look up to, or when I got to be a big person feel confused when they seemed smaller than they should be having met them coz I'm a smidge over 6ft.


Like my wayward street-racing uncle, may he RIP (although I seriously doubt that.........), who borrowed his girlfriends (who very likely is also very much un-RIP) hotrod street-racing Beetle and taught me how to snap-change with no clutch, and how to left-foot brake when the tail j-u-s-t starts to swing out. A story for another time maybe.

Chief among them all though, is Bob Hoover.
A giant among Volksie heroes for half the world I think. Not because he was particularly brilliant, just coz he has a knack of explaining stuff that amuses as well as educates. He also very succinctly reminds everyone that a VW is just a cheap economy car after all, and OEM is vastly better than damn near everything, but still cheap and economy (just that it fits). So while G@@gling stuff when a little bit bored and I came across a link to one of his pieces I went straight to it...........

http://bobhooversblog.blogspot.com.au/2007/01/dialing-in-your-cam.html 

For those of us who may be young or VW newbies and haven't had the pleasure of his company yet.

I started working my way through bobs blog a few weeks ago. Good reading.

Yep! I'm up to reading the one about carbs now, he's a funny bloke!