Hi, my name is LukE Hadsall. This is my Volkswagen Limo Website. My only real goal in life is to build a Volkswagen Limo by my ten year high school reunion. Going back to my sophmore year in high school, geometry class with Miss Gall and bored out of my mind. Lance Clark and I day dreamed up a Volkswagen Limousine. Lance did the original drawing by tracing beetles out of a J.C. Whitney catalog. From there, L & L Productions was born. We kept a folder entitled "L & L Productions VW Limo Project #1". It was top secret and filled with useless bits of information from fractal goemetry to the fact that there are 127 McDonald's restaurants from Blackwell, OK to Orlando, FL using Interstates and major highways. None of this information was related to the car, of course.

Upon High School graduation in 1994, I made it my life goal to build the limo by the ten year reuniion. It has been the only thing in my life that has not changed since high school. Well, that and my name. After freshman year of college I lost contact with Lance, but that never detered me. I almost bought a Beetle that summer, but I spent the money on summer courses. But fate was on my side. That beetle was to become mine. Two and a half years later, in my final semester at Northern Oklahoma College (a two year college, but I didn't go for one year), The same Beetle got parked at a house across the street from my dorm. It sat forlornly and much worse for the wear calling my name. So I bought it. Never drove it much because it kept breaking. I finally fixed it up as much as a poor college kid could over spring break. Of course I'd never used a paint gun before in my life and it showed.

I was hooked on fixing Volkswagens. I would pull the engine just because I wanted to on a Saturday afternoon. In the fall '98 on my way home from school I saw another forlorn Beetle on the side of the road for cheap. Of course I had to buy it. It was the first car for my limo. A 1970 sedan with an autostick trans and no motor. It sat patiently in my driveway while I finished college at the University of Central Oklahoma. I got hired at UCO in 2000 and then I was able to get started on the limo. My job allows me to work extra contracts in the summer to finance the limo. So by the end of the summer in 2001 I was ready to start. I found my second car at Larry's VW Service and that's where the project starts. I never drew any other plans from the original and still haven't. It has all been done in my head and that's how I intend on doing it. However I did a sketch to help me in deciding how I wanted the rear doors to turn out. But that's it. I estimated that it would cost me around $10,000 total, but at the rate I'm going it should come in closer to $6,000 or $7,000. I've got just over a year to finish the car before I go to Graduate School. That will give me a year to do some final touches before the reunion in the fall of 2004.

I found Lance earlier this Spring and told him about the limo. Of course he thought I was nuts, as does everyone else. But that is the pain I suffer for my goals. If you are wondering, no I am not going to rent it out for prom. If anything I will be looking for a driver to drive me. The End.

Well, where to begin. This site is all new from the previous site. All of the content as been transferred over, but this site should be much simpler to update. Thanks to my wife, Kelly, for being the Webmaster and making this end of my limo project happen.

I missed my ten year reunion. I had to work on a production at grad school and couldn't get away. It doesn't matter anyways, because the limo wasn't finished. My new deadline to get the car on the road is my sister's wedding this coming June. This forecast is much more realistic. The car will be finished to a state of stockish Beetle. It won't have all the bells and whistles, but my sister doesn't seem to mind. I have recently surpassed the $10,000 mark on this project, but I am ever so close to finishing it now.

The next update should come in early April after I spend spring break working on the car. Wish me luck.