time to introduce myself

[cookvw]

well for nearly since the start of germanlook.com ive been lurking. as soon as i found this site, i fell inlove with it and always kept stoppin by to see what was new. ive been in love with the german look stuff since i seen it in that performance book that you can pick up at your usual book store.

my name is weston cook and am 27 yrs young. i grew up in colorado, and have moved to Utah now for 6months and i really like it here. well my first vw ever was when i was 17 yrs old, and it was a 71' super. that car changed it all for me, and i always knew my first car would be a vw and nothing else. well since then, ive owned ALOT of vws from old vw's from 55' the newest ive ever owned being a mk2 golf GTI. ive worked for some of the leading shops in the industry KCW (kustom coach werks) back in 2005, GVP (german vintage & performance outta Kingsland,Ga) in 2006, and a hand full of hot rod shops here and there.

well since my first super, ive always wanted another. thru time ive been just keeping ideas in my head and was always thinkin that IF i ever got another, id be sure to take it as far as i could with my talents that ive learned. well as of july 2, 2009 i bought THAT super that ive always been wanting. i sold what i had at the time (mk1 GTI with mods) to get into this super that i found. its a 74' 1303 super (witch ive wanted over the flat screen 1302 supers) and i bought it for $500. has a rebuilt motor from supposidly the previous owner, but i have yet to comfirm that as it doesnt run and the guy i got it from is just simply "car dumb". another AWSOME thing, is that the guy went to SOME junk yard and put some seats in it... well thoes seats came out of a "sport beetle", and there now in my super. yes it has the rare recaro sport seats front and back. (ill get pics up as soon as i can)

well as part of my into ill post cars that have gotten me known in the aircooled world as some you may have seen my cars and really havent known whos car they where.. well now you do... yep its me and ive been a german look lover in the closet about it for too long now and now that im out... its going to happen now! yes.. workin at the vw shops that ive had, ive gotten crap and flack for wanting to build a german look, mostly cause of the super beetle as there to most just throw away cars as well all know too well as our aircooled industry if OVERWHELLMED with cal look rides and drag bugs. not that its a bad thing cause it keeps the german look something way different here in the states! well ill get on with the pics. and ill be sure to start a new build thread on my super as i start to tear into it and make my dream car a realitly.

first car is my 66' that i built while i was at KCW.





heres the second one that i did, a standard 1976 bug... i did this one mostly to prove that a late model could look good and play with the big dogs as well! i think i proved my point. built this car from stock to what you see in these pics in a weeks time! (slammed, sheved trim, and painted)







heres was my project in Ga that i built when i was workin there. it was a 1957 oval, had to sadly sell it before i finished it.






so since i had to sell that choptop... the urge to build another one was always their, so i still had my 76' bug just sittin, so with it again being such a late model bug, i decited to make another volksrod outta it, but push my skills even more and really go for broke in how low i could really go. well so far with this car ive chopped the top 7inches, sechioned the body 5 inches, grafted a BUS split window frame and vizor into the windshild, and raized the engine and tranny a whopping 6 1/2 inches. it now only sits 36inches OVERALL hight! i now have some 21x4 inch ford model A wheels that im gonna put on it some how. in the pics i have them just mocked up next to the car. this car is still under construction.






and lastly my daily driver a 1958 ragtop. no air ride on any of my cars, and this car doesnt either, i drive this car everywhere and i love it. this car will be my casket when i die. dont ever really plan on ever gettin rid of it. yes its rusty, but when my super and choptop are done, then it will go under the knife for a good resto.





sorry for the really lonnnnnng into. i really dont post a lot in a lot in forums anymore. i kinda keep a low profile on the net. but here in the german look forum i love, and i wanted to start off on the right foot with everyone. i hope no one takes this as im just flaunting what ive done, please dont take it that way. all im doing is just showing what ive done in the past, and that i think i will build a respectable german look that will be around for a while. with my german look i want to fully explore the racing end of it as well as some drift events. i really want to take the super and show people that IT IS a contender intodays word with the right mods!

well thank you for your time. im glad to be FINALLY be apart of the movment of the german look.