Electrical? Complements of Grobbel Racing

 Have you ever had that feeling like your kid left for camp? You know that feeling of something or someone should be around, but isn’t? I had that feeling this morning when I opened the garage door and there was nothing but space where my Super Beetle used to be.

Yesterday, Jason came over and we trailered it out to Grobbel Racing Laboratories to have the electrical system designed and installed.

(Above) Loading up the Super, taking for Electrical design and Install.

It is quite an honor for me to have them work on my Super, since ordinarily they usually do one or two race only cars a year. I only have this privilege because my brother Lee was extremely close with the Grobbel family.  

Jay came over in the afternoon and we loaded up the Super on his car hauler, and we were off for the 10 min ride to the shop.

When you’re working with a vehicle that is low profile and that has fiberglass fenders you really need to be careful how you strap it down as it is in tow.  I removed a couple bolts from the rear fiberglass fenders, so they would flex with the motion of the trailer, and not just snap the fenders off into a thousand pieces all over a residential road… that would be bad.

(Above) My Super on a road trip

I was still getting a little worried about the fenders as I followed behind the trailer. I know we will need to come up with another method of strapping the bug down once the rear of the car is lowered another 4 inches, the fenders would snap from the tie down straps for sure.

The trip to the shop was pleasant and uneventful. It was filled with cars passing the Super with kids faces pressed against the glass of their cars looking in awe at a street version of “Herbie on Steroids”, some were “Slug Buggin” each other and others just drove past with a smile.

(Above) Jason pulling it into the driveway of the “Shop”

At the shop, we unloaded the Super and rolled it in its space next to a “Grobbelized” 700hp Pro Street Anglia.  I asked to trade pink slips, but my comment was ignored, and not even acknowledged.

The Pro Street Anglia is actually smaller that my Super, weighs less and has about 6 times the horse power, another awesome creation of Grobbel Racing.

(Above) My Super’s new home for the next several weeks

Sitting next to its 700 Hp friend.

The specs that I laid out for the Grobbel Team is that I would like to remote mount the Optima battery in the trunk (front) of the Super. They will run the entire main electrical, and some secondary’s also, other than that I basically told them to “Do whatever they wanted to it” I know it will be sweet when they are finished.

(-C-) JNM 2006