Back to the beginning.....

"Vizzini said to go back to the beginning. And so I have. I will not be moved."

In the same way, our 1967 VW beetle was not moving. It sat.


But one day, it will be driven. And YOU will have witnessed a miracle (but not by Miracle Max....but by Miracle Jim). But don't get in a hurry. Everyone knows when you rush a miracle man, you get rotten miracles. We only perform miracles for noble causes. And THIS is a noble cause.

The real beginning is a mystery. But our story begins in July 2008. We were in Tallahassee helping Tammy's parents move into their new home. Jim went with Tommy to get some things that were stored at Uncle David's house. Uncle David had roughly 30 semi-whole VW beetles and vans (some stuffed to the gills with various parts) sitting in his yard (for the last 20 or so years). He'd finally had enough, and was selling almost all of them to a scrap metal dealer the next day. Only a few were to be saved from the crusher. Our baby was one of them.


Uncle David said, "If you can haul it out of here, it's yours." The next weekend found me back in Tallahassee, with a flatbed trailer in tow. With the aid of a farm tractor and a bit of rope, our car was moved from underneath the oak tree where it rested more than ten years. I grabbed a few bumpers that happened to be laying around and added them to the heap. Too bad there weren't any engines. We could sure use one of those - and a transmission.


Several months later we had a title to the car. Brand new floor pans were delivered after Christmas. The car even got a name. We are lovingly calling her, "Fraulein" after her German ancestry. But not much else had happened until this past weekend when the restoration began....