AVW technician by day, a Ghostbuster by night, John Vanek is a dedicated VW head all around. Yes, we said Ghostbuster! Proton Pack, Ecto-1 (B5 Passat wagon), and all the trimmings. Basically, John is part of a team of Ghostbuster re-enactors who enjoy movie prop building from the Ghostbuster franchise and does commissioned builds of replica screen accurate props from the Ghostbuster movies. But that’s a conversation for a later date…
John’s VW journey started many moons ago in his teens. A friend at the time had a ’97 Jetta GT in five-speed manual form. John was intrigued with the transmission, as he’d never seen a car with a ‘stick’ trans before and this piqued his interest straight away. More and more he saw how easily VWs could be modded to go fast and look good,
