Must-See BURIED Vintage Web Pages for Classic VW Beetle Bug Owners

hey guys welcome back to the channel in this video I wanted to point out a few web pages websites um that had been around for a very long time uh probably way before any sort of Facebook uh social media before YouTube things like that and basically around the time when I was getting into the Hobby and all we had was you know just simple websites these sites are still out there these pages and they're kind of buried and not many people can find them because most people will do a Google search or go on YouTube to find information uh about their Volkswagen uh whether it's a bus or a geia a beetle and I get a bombarded on a daily basis of questions from people and a lot of the answers are of course out on the internet if you did do a little bit of search and Google is your friend still but I even did some Google searching for some of these pages to bring back up again and I had to I had to hunt a little bit you know to get them to come up again uh so they are getting buried and they are going down the first page uh ranking you know some of them are on the second or third page of Google so I I wanted to point some of these out I'm going to leave links to these pages in the description below uh but you might find this intriguing find this kind of interesting that these pages are still out there and what I'm going to do first is talk about Wolfsburg West now I I'm not affiliated with Wolfsburg West I don't get any money from them but but I do recommend people go to them to for their parts they have a really good parts section they pretty much offer you know some of the best stuff on the market and they really don't give you the alternative for the crap that's out there they kind of stick with the good stuff but Wolfsburg has a newsletter if you signed up for it called Wolfsburg wired and I think it's pretty good every now and then this newsletter comes out they say it comes out every month but I don't see it monthly uh every now and then it does come out now if you look at wbg West website I mean you can tell this is an old site uh it's probably a good 20 plus years old um but I guess they kind of go by a philosophy if it's not broke we're not going to fix it and if it's still bringing Revenue it it is what it is right so you can sign up for the newsletter but there's a few pages that they have on their website and I I even went to their homepage to see if I can find these pages off of their homepage or any other their links that they have and I I really couldn't find them and one in particular that I like that people ask me about our tail lights so let me see here we go now this page is probably a good 20 years old but I think it's an invaluable page when it comes to say a very early Beetle and you want to know what kind of tail lights were on your early Beetle when you know the years where they change them from point A to point B that kind of thing and here on this page is a tail light Link and they show from starting in May of 45 to 49 and going all the way up through the split window era Into the Heart tail lights okay and then even into the egg tail lights these are my tail lights that I actually have on my 54 convertible I've had a few bugs in my past that had the egg tail lights super rare light it's only like a six-month only light and it was really only offered in The American or Canadian markets and then of course we know about the the honeycomb and then the 62 to 67 we saw the differences there you know that kind of thing so this this is really buried on on the YouTube searching um I had to find this again but if I did I did a Google search for Wolfsburg wired uh tail lights and then it came up but you had to know to put in Wolfsburg wired in order for the search results to come up so pretty damn cool that they break this down for us and to show when all the changes were so people ask me about tail lights all the time and when things changed and I think this is a good link here to take a look at the other issue that always comes up and one of the big questions I always get from people who need help is about their horn my horn is not working I hit it it doesn't it doesn't honk or I turn my directional on and the horn hon HKS so many times I am diagnosing their problem over the phone when Wolfsburg wired had an article Beetle horn troubleshooting so you can do a search for that for Wolfsburg wir you can also do a Google search for horn wiring hell VW Beetle and there's another great page that comes up talking about horn wiring but uh Wolfsburg lays this out really nicely they talk about the common issues that happen why they malfunction and then of course they give you a diagram uh a drawing showing the different changes throughout the years and how the horn is set up and how it changed so again buried information out there it's there uh but I'm telling it's a good 20 years old at least so we'll get rid of that we'll get rid of that now I I did mention once before Robin day's air cooled uh Volkswagen pages I put in Beetle through the years the changes like so if you ever wanted to see what the the changes were per year for your Volkswagen this is another great page again it's been around if you just look at the page this is something out of the 1990s 1998 maybe Y2K era but you know what it it's still relevant today it still works and also there's dedicated home uh Pages just to certain year Beatles now two that I know in particular 1966 Beetle VW beetle.com it's all about the 1966 bug which I truly love the 66 bug it's kind of got some one-year uh pieces on it as well similar to a 67 onee stuff so another great website if you're into getting it to 66 this is a good website that breaks down for you colors C upholstery everything about the 66 that you would need to know again doing a Google search you could try all different years but these two stand out I was trying to find there used to be a page just dedicated to a 1958 Beetle uh I have I had trouble trying to find that I don't know if that website's gone by now if anybody knows where that is please uh leave in the comments section below and then of course my friend Eric shoemaker's website 1967 beetle.com he is now converted it to erold artifacts. comom so Eric does do his own Parts um he restores fuel pumps and things and uh air cleaners and things like that so his site all dedicated to 67 Beetle he's got articles he's got a whole bunch of stuff um and custom Restorations that he does too I guess if you needed something restored you can send it off to him we can restore your VW pors German engine components so pretty damn cool I guess you just pop him an email there but he does restore fuel pumps again period correct stuff so we did through the years now also uh the next topic I'm going to talk about is the semi-automatic Beetle which is you know they were pretty popular I guess to a point they're not as popular as of course the manual they were from 1968 to 1974 Beatles as rare as they are they're not necessarily more valuable um a lot of people want to convert the the semi-automatic to manual uh but if you ever in the know or want to know more information about a semi-automatic Beetle uh Robin Daves also has a a section here on their website dedicated to the semi-automatic Beetle but there's this other page here VW automatic register VW ar.org I had to find this again in a sambba post I did a Google search for this and I I could not find it on the first page uh this is dedicated to just the semi-automatic Volkswagen and uh you can get some decent information here of course the samba is another great resource been around for a very long time you go into their forums here uh and just do a Search and say if you put in a search for semi auto bug and there's a pathora of a whole bunch of posts that you can click into and then those posts will have more links and yada yada so you know the drill there but uh definitely look into this one if you have a semi-automatic and you need some help I don't know when the last time this was updated um again it looks like something out of the early 2000s late '90s era so and then ovals only if you have an oval window Beetle there's a website called ovals only uh I believe I met this guy once when I went out to California and I actually have his catalog or he's got a book on ovals only and about all the details of the oval from 53 to [Music] 57 so that's another rare site again an old site uh that you can click into this is the handbook that I I actually bought this book so I have this on hand valuable information there he gives all the details of the different changes for the years of the oval and also their sales figures which was good too so that's about it guys I just wanted to make a short video here that there are sites out there that are old sites but still very valuable very in you know uh important I hope they still stay up and don't get lost through the bowels of the the internet changes and and get flushed down the internet toilet so to speak uh I hope they stay here uh because a lot of times the information is there if you just do a little bit of digging uh you can definitely uh uh still find these things I'll leave again the links in the description below or in the comment section if there's any other pages that I missed uh just for the sake of the the length of this video if you guys have more sites that you want to point out that have good information that are maybe tough to find or rare sites to find uh leave them below and uh love to see what you guys come up with all right guys take [Music] care