Our Business

We are a one stop shop, we can do it all.

Here's a few shots of my son Daniel hanging out and playing at the shop. 

Daniel checking out the Kubel. 

Daniel cheking out Mr Daniel's airplane.

Here we are at Sams Vdub, cheking out an oval body to use, I believe he was ready to go...

Who We Are

VWs are just in my blood.  My family started working in the vw industy back in the 50's.  My father and two uncles worked at a vw dealership in Columbia, SC called "Gibbes Machinery".  This was probably one of the oldests and largest VW dealerships in the southeast.   So, all of my life I have been around vw's.  I met Mel Shealy in high school and he introduced me to vw drag racing.  Who would have known that he would be probably the most dominating driver in vw drag racing history, period.

 In 92', I went to work for Pat Tafta in Donalds, SC.  Pat owned a High Performance VW shop called "Pats Bug Shop".  There I built my first tube chassis car.  In 95', I started my own shop and began promoting my business. 

 In 96', I ran my personal best time ever running a 6.08et at 114mph.  And I can say, it was all on our own.  I built everything on that machine.  The case was stock fi case with homemade mechanical alky injection..   In 99', I began promoting the VW scene here in the southeast with help of friend and brother-in-law, Mel Shealy.   Together we promoted several vw events in Darlington and Rockingham.   With our efforts, the SEVWA and the ECPRA were formed.  I'm not saying that we formed these two groups, but without our efforts and hard work these two groups would have never gotten off of the ground, period.  Our success at Darlington, was hard to believe, just ask HotVWs.  Everyone wanted a piece of the action.  In 07'. we decided to stop promoting events.  With the success of the SEVWA, there was really no need for us to promote any more vw events.  We started promoting because there was no place to race, so once things evolved, we no longer saw the need.