I went to see the guy in Midland last summer regarding having some front beam adjustments and a tune-up... although he appears to be very knowledgable with vw's old and new, he wasn't the most pleasant person to deal with and basicly told me to get lost.
I think he took particular offence to me because I asked him if I could put synthetic oil in my 74, which he assured me would "blow up" my engine. After that, he basicly said that it was an antique car and that I had better learn to work on it myself or sell it.
I *DO* want to learn but at the moment, busy with work and my newb status as far as technical repairs to vw's goes... the work that needs to be done on the car just wont get done unless i can find some competent help, or a shop.
The work would be:
Rear wheel bearings (which I planned to do myself but...)
Engine refurbishing (perhaps a rebuild, perhaps just a complete tuneup - valve adjustment, plugs, wires, carb tune, oilchange, etc..)
wheel alignment, and returning the rear end to stock ride height.
Time/money permitting, I'd like to try and track down what is causing an intermittant buzzer sound also.
I'm aware of bugguy in waterloo, but due to the insane noise that the rear wheel is making, i dont trust th car to drive anywhere - so a flatbed will be required and i'd like to keep the cost down as much as possible. From my house to waterloo is about 1-1.5 hrs away. Orillia would be 45 minutes, so...
I'm not even sure where tottenham is? Off to googlemaps.. will check back here later 
Thanks though!
(ps. penetang is one of those wierd places that only one in a million people should know about, but i seem to run into that one in a million all the time!! ... i once took a bus from ottawa to st catherines, and at random, a guy who got off the same bus asked if i was going to the college (which i was) and said he'd work out a deal.. if i watched his bags while he went to get his truck, he'd give me a lift over there. so I watched his bags, and he came back with his truck and he drove me to the college... along the way we got to talking.. turns out he grew up in penetang, a few km away from my mothers house... small world!)
-biggie
aparently the owner/operator of Midland Imports has just had a heart attack? Although I wasn't too keen on going back there, it was beginning to look like my last hope.