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Bugtoberfest 17! Oct. 20 – 21 @ Chirco Performance

May 15th, 2012
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Arizona’s “funnest” Aircooled Weekend.

Chirco.com presents Bugtoberfest 17. October 20 – 21 2012

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Come on down to Tucson and spend a weekend playing VW with us. This year activities include:

Oct. 20 – Continental Breakfast at Chirco 8am – 10:30am
Chirco friend and supporter Jerry Bobs will provide a semi buffet style breakfast. Eggs, meat, pancakes, fruit, you know…breakfast. Coffee and drinks available on site by Joe’s Coffee. Cost is FREE

Oct. 20 – Crosstown Cruise 11:30am
This year were just gonna cruise from one end of Speedway to the other. We’ll start far eastside and take our time driving across the entire city to the beautiful lookout destination called Gates Pass Cost is FREE

Oct. 20 – Joe’s World Famous pre-show BBQ 3pm – 6pm AT Reid Park
The BBQ will be held at Tucson’s largest park. Reid Park has this stuff called “grass”, and “shade”. There is also a lake, playground equipment, dog park, zoo, baseball, covered ramadas and plenty of space to stretch out and enjoy one of Joe’s big weenies. Cost is FREE

Oct. 19 – 21 – The Red Barn Roundup
All you Type 2 folk can camp on the property next door to Chirco. There’s room for all of you. Last year’s events included live music, raffles, prizes and an extreme amount of fun. The Tucson Bus Mob helps run this get together and they always do it right. The Red Barn Roundup has become a “must-do” event for many campers.   Join us Cost is FREE donations accepted.

Oct. 21 – 17th Annual Chirco.com Bugtoberfest at Chirco 8am – 2pm
The show as always promises to be one of the most fun times you can have with your air-cooled car in Arizona. People’s choice awards, club awards, engine blow, awesome raffle prizes (no junk), Big Rattlesnake Alley Swap Meet, Music, entertainment in the form of you aircooled clowns, big in-store savings, t-shirts, posters, and a few surprises await those who attend.

Cost to enter the show is FREE, swapmeet space is FREE, Cost to attend is FREE

This show does benefit the Foodbank of Tucson. A donation of non-perishable food items is appreciated. Our record is 1680 pounds of food collected at the show. Help us get a “Ton of Food” for people who really do need it.

Save the date.

We will update this listing with more information and maps and all kinds of stuff soon.

October 20 – 21 2012
Chirco Performance
9101 E. 22nd Street
Tucson, AZ 85710
1-800-955-9795

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Chirco’s Air Cooled VW Technical Forum’s are over a Million Page Views

Feb 8th, 2012
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Back in March of 2006 the staff at Chirco Performance had an idea on how to help answer questions about Air Cooled VW’s for people who view the site during hours our store is closed and launched the Chirco forum boards.  Back then these types of tools were not as popular as they were now a days and the staff debated on will it work or not and will visitors actually use it.

The forums are almost six years old now and they are a major driving force to the Chirco online presence. The forums have been viewed 1,0843,589 times and has almost 3000 members. The staff here at Chirco has been very proud of the support we get from some of our long term forum members who help moderate the forums to keep them organized and running smoothly.

Some of the most visited boards of our forums are;
The Lounge
Maintenance Articles
and the 3 “Ask a question about ,,,” sections.

If it been a while since you have visited them, stop by a take a look and scroll through the 44,500 posts in the 5535 topics that now populate the Chirco Air Cooled VW Technical Forums

Posted in: Chirco Online, In House.

Chirco maintains their Top Rated Seller status on ebay

Feb 1st, 2012
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Toprated sellerTaking care of customers has always been our main priority here at Chirco Performance. With our online sales of Air-Cooled VW and Dune Buggy parts continuing to grow on Chircoestore.com and an very sizable increase in over the phone orders, we constantly review our processes all the way through to make sure our customers get exactly what they ordered in a timely fashion.

These same processes have been used with our ebay customers since we started selling our products there in 2003 under the ebay user name 53ragtop. For a company selling on ebay to achieve a Top Rated Seller status is determined by buyers giving you high marks on their experience. Ebay has a series of grading levels that buyers are able to give to the sellers that they purchase from and too many low grades reduces your score.

We are very proud to be recognized as a Top rated Seller on ebay and it helps us confirm our entire staffs goals to treat every order as important as the next one.

Two years ago we opened another ebay sellers account that focuses on restored used Air-cooled VW parts called Joe’s Garage. Our owner Joe Chirco personally manages this account from choosing what items to list from the massive collection of used parts the company owns to ensuring the item is properly restored.

We want to share with all of our customers a big thank you for our continued success.

Posted in: Air Cooled VW Parts, Chirco Online, In House.

Karmann Ghia Raffle Winner was annouced today

Dec 31st, 2011
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The proceeds will go to the family of
Will Jones and his 2 young daughters to help recover from the emotional and financial stress currently in their lives due to the passing of Veronica.

Posted in: Air Cooled VW Cars, Chirco Online, Chirco Store, Chirco Videos, In House.

1969 Karmann Ghia raffle for a good cause

Aug 18th, 2011
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The 1969 Karmann Ghia

This Karmann Ghia was restored and owned by Jim Pollard of Tucson AZ.
Jim spent a full year and over $20,000 restoring it to it’s current show condition.
This car had no rust prior to restoration and only has 300 miles put on it since it was completed.
Specs:
1600cc rebuilt engine
Stock rebuilt transmission
Painted by Jim Pitts in Phoenix
Rebuilt front and rear suspension
New brakes and Tires
New TMI interior
Under coated floor pans

The proceeds will go to the family of
Will Jones and his 2 young daughters to help recover from the emotional
and financial stress currently in their lives due to the passing of Veronica.

The car is on display in the Chirco showroom in Tucson, AZ at: (Map Link)
9101 E. 22nd Street Tucson AZ 85710

Please see this page for all the details on how to purchase you tickets.
http://www.chircoestore.com/catalog/faq.php?cID=18

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We have lowered the shipping costs on Chirco.com

Jun 7th, 2011
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We are always very focused on how to pass our savings on to our customers. We have just added another way by decreasing the shipping rates on Chirco.com . These saving can be view logged in or when your just browsing. At anytime to see the shipping cost to your door, just click the “Buy Now” button on an item. This will take you to the Basket page and below the product(s) you we see a place to put in your zip code. Just to the right of your zip code it has a re-calculate link and wah lah :) there is the shipping cost.

Kind of takes the guess work out of what your grand total is going to be.

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Aftermarket Air Cooled VW Beetle Spring Plates

May 27th, 2011
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Three good reasons to replace your spring plates;
1) There bent
2) Be able to adjust your ride height
3) To increase the strength of them for you Baja Bug and Dune Buggy folks

Chirco carries spring plates for both IRS and Swing Axle Transmission

There are also three styles to chose from;
Chrome, Heavy Duty and Adjustable
If you would like used spring plates, please give us call

Please make sure you determine the length of your torsion bars when ordering.
Torsion bars came in three lengths for Air Cooled Beetles
Short  – 21 3/4 inches The torsion cap does not have a hole in it.
Medium – 24 11/16 inches
Long – 26 9/16 inches The torsion tube sticks out 6 inches from the spring plate.

Posted in: Air Cooled VW Parts, Chirco Online.

New Stainless Steel Fuel Tanks for Dune Buggy’s

May 26th, 2011
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I thought these were a very cool new product we just put on the Chirco site. They would not only work well but look very sharp on your Dune Buggy and I’m sure they would work just as well on any other custom vehicle.
Highly polished 100% stainless steel, Great looks with out the future rust.
Stronger with a more durable finish that won’t dull like polished aluminum will.
These tanks are available in five sizes to best fit your needs
10×16 5 gallon center fill
10×24 7.5 gallon end fill
10×30 9.5 gallon end fill
10×33 10.5 gallon end fill
10×40 13.5 gallon end fill

Tanks come with a pair of straps and black plastic cap

Posted in: Air Cooled VW Parts, Chirco Online.

AirCooled VW Parts Finder is being created by Chirco Staff

May 2nd, 2011
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The staff here at Chirco is always trying to find ways to make finding parts for our Air cooled VW or Dune Buggy customers easier. Our current project is the New Parts Finder that is being built by the staff here.  We are using exploded view images of sections of beetles and linking them to our online catalog. This should help our viewers see what parts they need to complete either the repair or restoration they are working on.

Between our Technical articles, Technical forums, the parts finder site should be benefit in helping our online viewers.

Posted in: Air Cooled VW Parts, Chirco Online, Chirco Projects, In House.

Come see us at Bugorama Phoenix 3/27/2011

Mar 22nd, 2011
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Chirco Performance and Restoration will have booth and display set up at Bugorama Phoenix at Firebird Raceway March 27,   2011.

We have a fun new game and we will be giving away prizes like our 2011 Blackout shirt (below) and more.

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Hope to see you there!

Posted in: Air Cooled VW Shows.

Scarlett is A – ok. Chirco.com helps a VW Bus get home.

Mar 10th, 2011
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The reference in the title may be lost on some but the story is a great one.

One morning last week when we got to work there was a bay window bus and owner sitting in the Chirco parking lot.

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Turns out this fella Vince was on a cross country trip that he had always wanted to take and had just purchased a VW bus to do just that.  He named his bus Scarlett and has a Facebook profile set up for Scarlett and her adventures. Continue reading →

Posted in: Air Cooled VW Cars, Chirco Store, In House.
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Chirco Built 2110cc VW Engine

Feb 10th, 2011
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A nice note from a happy Chirco.com customer

Jan 22nd, 2011
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Sales: I’ve just got to pass this along

I had order a couple of brake light switches for my ’68 Bug in December. I got around to installing them on Christmas Day (for some reason?). I discovered that one of the boxes was mislabeled and I had a 2 prong switch instead of the 3 prong I needed. So I dashed off an email asking how to proceed thinking I’d get a response the next week. Shortly thereafter I got an email back from Joe (on Christmas day!) saying to call in on Monday and that we will take care of it. It gets more amazing. I called Monday morning and the courteous fellow at Chirco said a replacement would be sent right out. OK, I thought, this will take a while. That Monday afternoon I got an email from UPS or Fedex givng me a tracking number for my shipment. When I recovered from my amazement again, I thought to myself “If I ever need another part for my VW projects, guess who I’m going to call first!!”. Truly great customer service in this day and age is rare and should be celebrated!!
Thanksabunch,
Woody

Posted in: Air Cooled VW Parts, Chirco Online, Chirco Store.

Oil Sump Plate Polished Billet For Air Cooled VW Engine

Jan 17th, 2011
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Find this part here! BILLET OIL SUMP PLATE

Posted in: Air Cooled VW Parts.

Wishing everyone a happy holiday season from Chirco.com

Dec 22nd, 2010
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The Staff here at Chirco.com would like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas.
We  hope everyone  had a prosperous year as we have.
Be safe over the remainder of this holiday season and
let us leave you with a Christmas poem.

When eggnog’s generously filling
Each and every Christmas mug
And siblings tour miles and miles
To greet you with a hug
There’s scarce else I’ll be wishing
Than this simple little prayer
Of peace and calm and blessings much
On Christmas Day this year.

Posted in: Chirco Online, In House.

Air cooled VW Crankshaft Pulleys are Available at Chirco.com

Dec 7th, 2010
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Posted in: Air Cooled VW Parts.

Get Your Chirco Gift Certificates Now!

Dec 3rd, 2010
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This year, give the air cooled enthusiast in your life something they will love.

Chirco Gift Certificates are available here or Just come into the store.

Posted in: Chirco Store.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Nov 24th, 2010
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The 15th Annual Chirco.com Bugtoberfest Video

Nov 23rd, 2010
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The 15th Annual Chirco Bugtoberfest was held on October 17, 2010 at Chirco Performance and Restoration in Tucson, AZ.

It was a great event.  Chirco thanks everyone that came out and made it awesome again.

Here’s the Show video.   Enjoy!

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Chirco’s 2010 Black Friday Sales Event

Nov 22nd, 2010
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Huge sale this weekend!

We will have up to 20% off tons of items in the store.

Friday 11/26 sale starts open to close 8am – 6pm

Saturday 11/27  noon – 4pm  and we invite you to bring your VWs down for a potluck.  Bring a dish to serve 6 or more and we’ll just hang out and have some fun.

Chirco Performance and Restoration

9101 E. 22nd Street  Tucson, AZ  85710

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