Random Weekend at The Larry’s…

Posted by admin Posted on August 5, 2013
Posted in Calendar, Cool Cars, Fundraising, Race Prep/Build Updates, Rallye Aicha des Gazelles, TLR Customers, TLR Projects

And this post doesn’t even include our friend Ryan Crook’s new TLR car, Otto (’90 Jetta)!

If you were looking for a great Christmas present or 2014 calendar for yourself, look no further. Emme Hall, who you may remember from TLR’s 2013 Rallye Aicha des Gazelles coverage, is putting together a 2014 calendar like last year. It will feature off-road women from across the states, and proceeds from the sales will support FORCE, a breast cancer foundation, as well as Emme’s team slated to run in the 2014 Rallye Aicha des Gazelles in Moracco. Voting for who will be featured in the upcoming calendar is taking place NOW at this link: https://www.facebook.com/EmmeHall?sk=app_162850930432266&app_data, and if you have a Facebook account please cast your vote. You allowed one vote per day. If you would like to see the only Class 11 represented featured in 2014 again (the Green Booger!), please cast your vote for us! We will provide a new photo with the new and improved Booger when that is available. Remember – some of the ladies featured have defeated cancer itself, and that is more courageous than any race experience we have had. Congratulations to those certain ladies!

First on the list for the TLR household would be the VW Syncro Vanagon, AKA Vandamm. A beloved and essential part of our family, the Van is getting [slowly] closer to running again. We are currently adding a turbo VW Corrado engine, and with any custom project it has presented its own set of problems:

Now that the new brackets are made, the three manifolds we have don’t fit. So, back to the drawing board on that one. Also on the list this weekend was fitting the custom decklid to Sleepy ’64:

Another creation from Larry G, our fab guy, and our customer. This is actually two decklids put together, as the customer did not want the raised decklid look, and stock doesn't fit the turbo.
Another creation from Larry G, our fab guy, and our customer. This is actually two decklids put together, as the customer did not want the raised decklid look, and stock doesn’t fit the turbo.
Another creation from Larry G, our fab guy, and our customer. This is actually two decklids put together, as the customer did not want the raised decklid look, and stock doesn't fit the turbo.
Another creation from Larry G, our fab guy, and our customer. This is actually two decklids put together, as the customer did not want the raised decklid look, and stock doesn’t fit the turbo.

It turned out really nice! From a distance you can’t even tell that it’s not a stock decklid. You can certainly hear it’s not a stock engine, however. But wait, there’s more! Because photos make a blog:

We’re working double time to make it to the August 31-September 2, 2013 VORRA USA 500 in Yerington. And if that isn’t enough, check out Gary’s pride and joy, one of the three amigos. This will be his life’s masterpiece, and will eventually have its own page here. We needed room for metal work in the barn, so it was kicked out for the weekend. It deserved a bath too, so here it is! I don’t believe we’ve introduced it on TLR before. This is a 1969 Karmann Ghia that outperformed a Porsche in handling and power, thus securing its home with Larry G for good. He has been working on putting together a monster engine for it that will have a ridiculous amount of horsepower. Someday we’ll have better photos of it, too.

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