Don’t Judge a Book by its Cover.

Everyone judges people, whether or not you admit it you do. I’m guilty of it, I judge everyone I meet for the first time. When introduced to Peter Bennet I had a few thoughts. One, he is probably a cat owner. Two, he wears A LOT of Volkswagen shirts. Three, he has an unyielding obsession for cars. Hmm, three for three not bad. To be honest Pete is an avid Vee Dub guy, hard to the core and down to ride to any show. Pete has culminated this love not only into one badass car, but two! Check this out, the R32 is the GTI god, all wheel drive, VR6 engine, bad all the way down to the stitching on the Konig bucket seats. Then there is the Volkswagen Cabrio……hahaha! Cute little car, nice roll back top, and little quiet 2.0 engine. Pete’s Cabby is like the quiet chick at a party…..after she’s had about six Jager bombs! Both of these cars are awesome, and here’s why.

Lets start with the obvious car, the R32, also known as the R. Pete picked this car up brand new, he passed up Evo’s, STI’s, and SRT-4′s for this car. Passing up the potent four cylinder power plants Pete went full Monty and took Volkswagen’s odd child the VR6. A 15 degree angle engine these motors sound like Zeus after a hard night of drinking! The R comes complete with all the cool tidbits anyone could want, bigger brakes, exclusive body kit, and a dual exhaust system. Bennet remained content with the striking features of the R and only choose to accent it with a Cupra R lip and a set of eyelids. The car has also been planted with a set of V-Maxx coil overs and covering the huge brakes is a set of MAE MT1 wheels. Take a peek to the inside and you’ll find the stock seats, which are better than any seats you could want. Yes this car looks like the real deal, and then you pop the hood. Under the hat of the mad car sits a VF Engineering super charger, kicking this VR engine in the junk and sending it to 280hp! Choosing to retain the bellowing sound of this bearathon car the stock exhaust has been maintained, just giving a little help due to a flapper mod. Pete’s overall goal is to propel the R32 to 350-400 HP. Judging from the only run this car ever made at the track in stock form, a 13.9 that will be just fine!

Pete has a pretty sick R32, but what about this little thing behind him? When first looking at the Cabby you’ll notice a few things. Like Pete it wears a lot of Volkswagen badges, it dawns a checker board hood, and the wheels could kill you if you walk too close. The rollers on this car are from Sportmaxx and have been accented with spikes! Yes spikes! The damage these spikes could do is unreal, please parents keep your children ten feet from the Cabby. So what’s special with this car other than the bathroom floor on the hood and the first degree murder sentence on the wheels? Well take a peek because the diesel geek short shift connects to hell in the form of a second gas guzzling, VR6 engine! Yes this mad man has adorned his innocent little Sunday driver with a 12 valve VR6 engine. Catapulting this once slow turtle to a pissed off hedgehog that will run you over if you’re taking your time down interstate 95. To try and restrain the Cabby to the Earth V-Maxx was called on one more time to slam a second of Pete’s cars. Giving the Cabby a sleepy look is a custome done boser hood, but don’t sleep on this car, it will be next to you in in a hurry and it will be sure to let you know whats up with the exhaust note.

There you have it. Judgment is almost impossible to leave behind, it’s an action we will always have. Things like the R can be judged because its an awesome car. Cars like the Cabby are the refreshers, they come and prove you wrong, but for some reason after your wrong it feels better than being right.

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Photographs by Xavier Delos Reyes and Steve Martinez

Tags: Cabrio Konig MAE R32 V-Maxx Vee Dub Volkswagen VR6