Volkswagen Beetle Restoration Parts Online

Joe and I were reviewing our Chirco.com site to see where improvements needed to be made.
Now please remember that the first Chirco.com e-commerce store was built in 2001. Technology has advanced over the years. Anyways, while browsing the site we came across some of the first generation photo's. It was just humorous since now we are putting video's inside of product pages and of coarse color photos. 

Bug Me Videos

We have been selling a Bug Me Videos recently. These videos are really very well put together and the narrator does not speak in a way that's over a beginners head. If you need a good way of learning and building confidence, we highly recommend them.

Vw Parts

This year is 25 years of selling air cooled VW parts here in Tucson Arizona. The amazing thing is 2008 is our best year so far. With all the economic turmoil out there, we are breaking our own records. We want to personally thank all of the great customers we have and say it is a pleasure serving you.

Vw Dune Buggy Fuel Tanks

So the weather is getting coolers and the sand dunes are starting to fill up. We are have a rush of buggy customers that are telling us they want to get a new fuel tank. The aluminum fuel tanks are what we have been recommending for years. It only takes a couple of flat strap welded across the rear rails of your frame to securely mount one of these tanks. If you have any questions about these good looking tanks, give us a ring.

Vw Fiberglass Dune Buggy

It is really cool that the fiberglass dune buggy craze is coming back. All one has to do is look at the prices people are getting for the on eBay and see that they are gaining in value. Folks are coming into our store here in Tucson and sharing with us that they are dragging them out of the garage and putting them on the road and parking the 4x4's. Since the parts for them are still readily available and inexpensive, why not. Here at Chirco.com, we hope the trend keeps going.

Chirco's new media page

Our Buddy Lemorris has put together a new site that is going to have all of our photos and movies from all of our events and other fun times. He has really put a lot of effort in getting the Media page toether.
If you have not seen it yet, take a look.
Thanks Lemorris.

The Mango Bus is going to Texas

This morning Jay from Texas came out to pick up his new Bus.
It's always fun selling these to folks who really enjoy the vintage VW cars.
I could see Joe was very happy for Jay.



Jay we hope you have a great time with this Bus and drive safe back to Texas.

Bugtoberfest #13 Sign up form. Oct 18th & 19th

http://www.chircoestore.com/catalog/bfest08/reg/bfestform2008.htm

Chirco continues it's tradition by making the Bugtoberfest 100% FREE
2 Days, 3 events, tons of fun!

Registration is free! Swap meet is free! Multiple car entry is free!
The Day before Cruise and the"Night before BBQ are FREE as well.

The day before cruise does benefit the American Cancer Society and there will be a
donation spot for Andy Ham at the BBQ and the show.
As usual Chirco will also have every item in the store at 10% off the day of the show!

This struck Joe and I as funny

Joe and I were reviewing our online presence, and I was sharing with him that I thought that it wasn't just other Air Cooled sites that we compete with. I shared with him that some of the monster automotive sites carry the same parts we specialize in. Similar to most chain stores carry spark plugs and other basic parts for Bugs. I was showing him one of the largest sites that has 24 hour live chat, so we started do some searches for items that could never fit an Air Cooled car. We were laughing like kids at some of the parts they had listed. Don't get me wrong, these guys are power houses of the business. It was just funny.

We put some vintage video's in the Chirco forums

httpv://youtube.com/watch?v=xm4OmiVH2J0

I thought these we very cool and wanted to share them.

Here is a link to part two.

Welcome Aboard Brian

A month ago I posted around the Air Cooled world that
I needed help in our receiving department.
Brian showed up the next morning and we hired him the same day.

Brian has been a customer of ours for around for years with two different beetles.
He is also a newer member of the Tucson chapter of D3 Daileydrivendubz.

Brian has quickly fit right into this nut house and is doing a great job.

Are you one of our friends on Myspace?

Chirco's Myspace page
Our Myspace page has been up for a few years now and it has been very interesting communicating with other air cooled folks out there. The Myspace environment is extremely creative and we're proud to be a part of it. If you have a Myspace page we encourage you to "Add" Chirco as a friend.

Have you seen the Chirco Forums recently?

Lemorris and I have been working in the Chirco.com Forums recently.

The stats for the forums have by far exceeded our expectations we had back in 1986 when we launched it. It now has over 2 million page views with over 18,000 posts by over 1500 members.

What we have tried to accomplish, is to make so our customer can find the articles to fix or upgrade their cars. Lemorris put together a banner campaign that links to the most popular threads that customers need. We have even found vintage video’s that show stock carburetor adjustments, valve adjustments and timing. If you have some free time, please surf around.

We are branching out to main stream shopping sites.

This is a new market for us, but with so many new e-customers out there
we felt it was time to share our items on a more traditional site.

Chirco has been on eBay for over 5 years with great success.
We love having e-newbies and e-pros a like find us on what has to be the coolest place to find items. It is never boring trying to find new customers.