Custom Volkswagen Parts :: Airkewld.com

What a hectic month January was. The launch of our new website was incredible, business was unbelievable and, I repeat and, I needed to finish our 58 and the car hauler before we left. Um, busy eh? Just a little bit.

At the start of January, I planned on replacing the wood on our trailer with the composite decking that is made now so i did not have to replace it in the future. Upon removing the wood from the trailer, I found that much more needed to be looked at. SO a complete trailer overhaul was necessary. New paint, new lights, new wood, new stickers, new tires, new tie downs, you name it, we replaced it. But as you can see, it turned out sweet! Did I mention, I finished it the day before we left to Daytona? Ya, I know. Cutting it close. But it looked like I planned it that way, lol.

Lots to do and never enough accomplished. Dec. 24th, the day before Christmas, I had shipped out as much as I could and now its time to get ready for the holidays and Glamis with friends and family.

Earlier in the year, I pulled the BIG motor out of my buggy to install in Super BAD while the Big, Big motor, the 2609cc gets built. So I had 2 days to get it into the buggy, clean it up and load it on the trailer for Glamis. Luckily, I had everything to do it and just after I installed it, the power went out in the whole city of Surprise. What do I do in a time of no power? Tune the buggy, adjust the valves, oil change etc. I got it running pretty nice.

(Vibrating noise) "The Droid" wakes me up about 6:00am; several orders have already come through. I check and every single order took advantage of the Black Friday coupon code that we had on twitter, our newsletter and Facebook. By 8:00am, our Complete Lowering Kits were a big hit. I could not believe the amount of business that was coming via email. I had to sit down. Still some what bewildered, I recognized that it was pretty cold. I checked the weather channel and noticed it was 19 degrees. Mind you, when I left Phoenix it was 72 degrees and I was in shorts. Of course, I packed lightly.

Just like in a Folgers commercial, there was a scent of fresh coffee brewing and it drew me out of our room. Although it was the day after Thanksgiving, I let the family know that I would be working on this day and that more than likely, my phone would be ringing and, it was.

Something I don't usually do, my family and I left the day before our big sale to spend Thanksgiving with our family up in Alpine AZ. Answering questions from new prospective clients as we drove for 5 1/2 hours, I had a feeling that tomorrow was going to be special. On the eve of the particularly large economic spending day, I was eager to wake for I felt the Black Friday was going to be memorable.

Tick tock, tick tock. Time is moving although the week is over and I have 6 days until Black Friday. This will be the first Black Friday Airkewld is a part of. After all that has been said about the economy, I thought I would do my part and have a sale to help stimulate what economy we now have. What do I think about Black Friday? I think it is a made up holiday that business's need to make that final push to end the year on a positive note. What’s another holiday, right? Well, when I found out that this day was a gauge for yearly spending for consumers, I made the choice to have this sale. I hope everyone takes advantage of the good deals out there and if you can, spend on this day. Having a positive newscast about how the economy is going in the right direction would be a nice sound indeed.

November 3rd 2003 we sold our first product, the CC emblem.

March 1st 2004, we had serviced 100 customers.

November 24, 2004, was our 500th customer.

April 18,2005 we had our 1000th customer

July 7th, 2005, we were contacted by Edelman Productions, the makers of HGTV, asking us if we would be interested in doing some promo work with them. So we did on a show called Curb Appeal, they wanted to do a Bug for a home owner, so we and B-Rad Customs, supplied and built a Bug for them.

October 31st-November 4th, SEMA Show in Las Vegas, We displayed our products to the world and had a great show. Highlights were being chosen by Mothers Car Care products as having one of the cleanest vehicles at the event. 3 Magazines did video footage of the vehicle as well as Meguiars, Car Crazy TV Show. Highlights of that show were on the TV Channel SPEED. We went through 2500 catalogs at that show.
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