About us
Damage repair, restoration of aircooled VWs and other vintage cars.
Since 1997
In 1997, the idea arose to start a company focused on classic Volkswagens.
We found premises on the Kaag, with the result that we started at that time under the name: Kaag Kevers. At that time the company consisted of a parts store and a small workshop.
It soon became apparent that there was a great need for a company dedicated to the sale and maintenance of the VW Beetle. Consequently, our customer base grew rapidly in a short period of time.
Already after two years…
After only two years, we outgrew the premises on the Kaag and started looking for larger premises. This became the premises at the Gieterij in Noordwijkerhout.
The workshop had expanded into a full garage with two bridges, alignment equipment, etc. After this move, the number of customers continued to increase and the specialism also slowly took shape. The first Beetle that was allowed to be built from the chassis up presented itself.
Since 2002, VW Airhouse has been located in Hillegom.
We are a full-service car company specializing in classic Volkswagens and Porsches. Due to a massive expansion of facilities, our operations have also become much larger in scale.
We deal daily with damage repair, restoration of air-cooled VWs and other classics.
You can contact us for partial restorations, full restorations, tuning, parts, MOT, advice and purchase and sale of all air-cooled VWs.
Ingmar & Sander, along with the VW Airhouse crew, will always do everything possible to get your car running again up and running.
Introducing…
Robin
Variety. That’s what attracts me so much to VW Airhouse. I particularly focus on the engine and engine performance. And it’s the different wishes of the owners that make it so much fun. Some want reliability, others especially fast. Whether it’s a new engine management system, fuel injection or a custom exhaust. What is fun is to combine these wishes with the right setup of the technology.
After my technical training I bought my first beetle and soon started experimenting: it got a turbo and more weird stuff. That’s how I got to know Ingmar and Sander. I gained my experience in an “ordinary” garage. When I got the opportunity to make my hobby my job at VW Airhouse a while ago, I didn’t have to think long.
Tim
It’s fun to work on classic cars. And air-cooled has a special place in my heart. My first encounter with the special sound of a Beetle -I was a child then- apparently triggered a lot. I had just gotten my driver’s license when I bought my first Beetle and have always had one. What is so beautiful is that the car is so simple; the engine but also the technology around it. And it gives a lot of driving pleasure!
I mainly focus on maintenance and repair because even though it is simple, you have to take good care of it. It does happen that a car comes in that has been tinkered with by myself that I think; had you read up properly or asked for advice that would have been a lot safer.
At VW Airhouse, work is good. A fine team with the same passion and interest.
Simon
Doing exclusive spray work, that’s what I enjoy doing the most. That something is beautiful in the paint that people look up at for a moment. At dwelling. I have worked for over 17 years including at auto body repair shops, but this is different. Here it’s not “one roll from the baker, and the next,” but you have more credit for your work. Greater appreciation. You also see your work all over the place when owners post about their car on social media.
Painting a classic car is basically no different from painting a “regular” car. However, you do need to carefully determine in advance how to build up the various layers for a beautiful and durable result.
What also makes it so nice to work at VW Airhouse is that we work together in a motivated way on a project where the bodywork, engine and other technology is tackled and soon there will be something that we have all had our part in.
Richard
What fascinates me about the work I do is that I try to get the best out of cars by tuning the engine perfectly. That tuning is in half of the cases an engine with conventional carburetor and the other half I am working on the freely programmable Electronic Control Unit (ECU) that is also increasingly being built into classic cars where fuel injection is used. My work is a nice mix of modern cars and classics. That makes it fun every time!
A few days a week I work for VW Airhouse and the other days I spend working on my own company, which is in the same building, and then I am intensely busy with the dyno bench. My background as a mechanical and electrical engineer comes back together in the projects we do. Sander mechanically builds the VW and Porsche engines and completes them. And many “fresh” engines come to me after they have had their first hours on the engine stand, installed and well, on the dyno bench to finish them off completely for many miles of riding pleasure.