Old School Customs?

[IMPI]

I was reading a new to me Ultra VW and came across a letter from this guy called Tim Otte
Claims he has a workshop in South Africa called Old School customs.
He then carries on about the fact that prior to his arrival in South Africa we never had any lowered VW's and only repaired cars with newspaper and fiberglass
Does anyone know this Dude
Maybe we can invite him here
Armand

[Barry]

His shop is down the road from Grand Slam......keep meaning to pop in and chat to him......in the meantime I have heard that he is a little arrogant (your quoted comment seems to fit this) - I will try to not let pre-formed opinions sway me before I have actually met the guy......

[4agedub]

He then carries on about the fact that prior to his arrival in South Africa we never had any lowered VW's and only repaired cars with newspaper and fiberglass

Mmmn ok.
Maybe someone needs to send him a card

[Bugger]

I sommer wanna Say Wanker before I have met him
But Barry I will Agree with you let us not judge the guy before he can Proof us wrong re lowerd VW`s
Can you pls find out what year Exactly he came to SA
And I am Sure I can Quickly get some old Pics out and just point it out to him that he was Wrong

[sarel.wagner]

Where is the like button now ^^^^

[IMPI]

I wasn't trying to slam the guy...... It just seems to me that everybody in the whole damn world think they know better than us are more educated and has something to teach us usually in a arrogant sort of way.
BTW I have never repaired rust using fiberglass in the 30 or so years of building VW's and my first lowered bug was in 86.....Whereupon my uncle told me: Old news I already had one in 76. He then gave me a copy of the 1976 HotVW's magazine which detailed the California look, I still have that old issue
Armand

[Sambabus]

Common guys, we all know his right, South Africans cant restore or properly mod a car. Bugger actually colours all the cars he does with crayons,

[Grand Slam Aircooled]

YES!!! Tim Otte of "Old School Customs" does have a shop just around the corner from "Grand Slam"

Although he is a very "different" kind of guy, he came to SA about 3 years ago, with his ideas, be they what they may.........

He does buy spares from other volks, but will only sell to you if you have a full restoration done in his shop ....... at GREAT expense to say the least

He asked us to do some mechanical work on one of his vehicles, never pitched up as he doubted Juergen's ability to do the work that after only 51 years of Air cooled experience direct from the factory

He has also recently chopped up aka BUTCHERED one of the rarest Type 3 Karmann Ghia's, by lowering the roof - looks KAK & is such a terrible waste in our opinoin, but get to meet the guy & draw your own conclusions

[Muderick]

HI Armand... which Ultra VW edition or month... would love to read it.

Muds

[riaanj]

I saw it too, I think it was in the December or January issue, they have a pic there of the razor he butchered, looks almost like he made a bakkie of the thing too, when I saw that I already wanted to kick his teeth in, then I read the bit that went with it and thanked the powers that be that he's in CTN and I'm in JHB.. My first beetle was lowered flat on the ground up front with a nice stance when looking at the lowered back, that was not as far back as some lowered ACVW's in S.A. but it was a few years back in 1998..
I think the best thing for him is to f*ck off back where he came from unless he losses his arrogant streak and realize that us 'backward' South Africans can probably teach him a thing or two about metalwork, tweaking mechanicals (even lowering suspensions) and building f*cking awesome aircooled dubs..

[sean]

I have stopped there before, personally I think he's an exporter.

His work can be considered an abortion. I don't really get it, they make some panels, repairs, modifications with a grinder and welder (ok, not fibreglass), but then covered this hideous job with 20kg of body filler.Wheres the skill in that?

He also considers himself as an expert in creating "patina" cars. P36 sandpaper, brown spray paint and a week in the rain seems to do it for him.

[Dazz]

Is he a Y(W)ank from the "only civilised" country namely the USA?

Arrogance has been the fall of many a person.

[Muderick]

Nope he is a Dutchman....

I had the last 3 editions of Ultra VW and Volksworld in my bag and found the article... took some snaps of it... hope they are legible.

Click on the pics to view larger image.

Muds

[YvaneS]

OMW! that Ghia looks like !
What an Idiot

[Retrobug]

That Razor