Tuesday, April 1, 2014

Other VW Web Sites

World Wide VW Web

More stuff on the web this month, this time concentrating on the performance air cooled scene. Next month I want to showcase great water cooled sites so if any readers can point my browser in the right direction write in or e-mail wheelspin@ltv-vwc.com putting VW Links in the subject header.

Der Kliener Panzers

http://www.ks.u-net.com/panzers.htm
Bold, in-y'r-face design says it all, this club is one for the not so shy! In their words, "DKPIII is open to clean fast Street VWs in the spirit of the original California Look" The site hosts the 'California Look Forum' and although the background makes reading the test hard going, it is well supported with current postings. THE place to go for Cal-look info & tech. The pages are L-o-n-g but without too many graphics they load fairly quickly.

Stateside iMagazine

Another US VW site, bringing you the VW Magazine Online. Well presented with a clean and clear layout it was easily navigated giving an up to date view of the Scene in the USA. The larger images were worthy of the www (World Wide Wait!) Over 100 pages to paw through and I suspect most of that content will change monthly :))

Big Bores and Burning Rubber

www.johnmaherracing.co.uk
John Maher Racing. A well established name in the world of performance VWs and the site reflects this too - Here you'll find the ?Performance Guide for the aircooled Volkswagen', a parts store, The message board was well supported and was packed with performance & parts issues. This one is for the power hungry among you and is well worth a fully service. 800+ images adding up to 5Mb and over 1,000 pages should keep you entertained.

 

Dark and Slick -Volkszone UK

www.volkszone.com
undefinedYou are greeted with a heavily graphic home page stating "Welcome to The UK’s No.1 aircooled website" ... ummm?? It uses Frames and lots of tables & graphics to present a professional layout and keep navigation very simple but this does mean you may require a good connection speed and up-to-date browser but it's not surprising as they are advertising their own Web Design services. LTV was missing from the list of clubs ->> Black mark there !!! There is a superb Classified add section for those of you with money to burn. OK, it was slick. Nice one Volkszone.