TheSamba.com :: View topic - Very Rare Jim Dandy luggage rack! how many out there?

Sat Feb 19, 2005 1:15 pm

Hi guy's just curious to see how many of these racks are actually around. I know they are pretty rare and you either LOVE it or HATE it !!!! This one is on my old oval and I'm talking about the rack hanging over my rear window. I know of only 2 other's out there besides mine. If ya got one please post a picture I wanna check it out. I also want to see just how rare they really are ???? I still have the rack and it's on my 43 split now.
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43 KDF Split
54 Lambretta LD150
Wanted: one (1) American Racing Wide 5 Torque Thruster"D" mag rim
front banana bumper w/ guards (a real one please)
Brass Empi sender

Sat Feb 19, 2005 1:54 pm

There was one on a split at the last Solvang meet.

Sat Feb 19, 2005 2:19 pm

I know of that one. I forgot the guy's name but we met at one of the OCTO's last year when he saw me roll up with mine on the oval before I sold the oval. There's another one I saw in the hot VW's in New York on a 63 or 64 and he said he bought it new in 63. And that's all I've ever seen.

Sat Feb 19, 2005 2:26 pm

Wasn't there a split in the last UltraVw with one? Maybe that's the one 53Oval is talking about.

Sat Feb 19, 2005 3:13 pm

Germanpride wrote: Wasn't there a split in the last UltraVw with one? Maybe that's the one 53Oval is talking about.

yeah I beleive it is. If it's a yellow split with 64 & later taillights than that's the one. Crap I can't remember homey's name for shit ??? (the guy that own's the yellow split w/the rack)
Hey GP whats the "78" stand for??? just curious??
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43 KDF Split
54 Lambretta LD150
Wanted: front banana bumper w/ guards (a real one please)
Brass Empi Sender

Sat Feb 19, 2005 3:45 pm

I´ve seen only two cars on internet equipped wit this rack.. restojohnny´s one and a split...

saved both..

wondering if you can drive it with the rack loaded this way...I must cause a demage to the rain gutter :?:

:P

Sat Feb 19, 2005 3:48 pm

Roscoe, from central CA, Old Volks, had one a few years back. I remember talking to him about it, he knew of one other one at the timethat was hanging in someones rafters in OR.

Sat Feb 19, 2005 4:16 pm

Yea, that was the split I was talking about. I just thumbed through my magazine, and it was just a shot of the roofrack and rear window, I couldn't see the taillights. It doesn't say the name of the owner though. :?

restojohnny wrote: Hey GP whats the "78" stand for??? just curious??

It's a long story..

If you want to read some bullshit, try: http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=100517&highlight=seventy+eight

Sat Feb 19, 2005 5:10 pm

1961bluebug wrote: I´ve seen only two cars on internet equipped wit this rack.. restojohnny´s one and a split...

saved both..

wondering if you can drive it with the rack loaded this way...I must cause a demage to the rain gutter :?:

:P

That's a picture from the Solvang show.

Sat Feb 19, 2005 5:29 pm

1961bluebug wrote: I´ve seen only two cars on internet equipped wit this rack.. restojohnny´s one and a split...

saved both..

wondering if you can drive it with the rack loaded this way...I must cause a demage to the rain gutter :?:

:P
Hey bro, These racks are built right !!!!! I used it for my swapmeets trips to pomona I had at one time packed it down with 5 rader rims 5 o.g. empi 5spokes and an oval clip on that rack alone when I got to Pomona everyone thought I was insane!!! and it held up just fine cruising down the 10 frwy at 70 MPH. I'll never sell that rack I'm sure my kids will when I keel over.
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43 KDF Split
54 Lambretta LD150
Wanted: front banana bumper w/guards (real one please)
Brass Empi sender

Sun Feb 20, 2005 9:22 pm

hey jonny theres a super with one of those racks it was at the lowlife show look in the show gallery :D

Sun Feb 20, 2005 9:32 pm

Took this pic for you Johnny,

Don't know if it's the same rack. Looks like it though

Sun Feb 20, 2005 9:36 pm

Here's another angle. http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/album_page.php?pic_id=109254

Sun Feb 20, 2005 10:04 pm

EverettB wrote: Took this pic for you Johnny,

Don't know if it's the same rack. Looks like it though

Yup Yup that's one so I count what?? 2 in Cali, 1 in New York and 1 in Az. so 4 so far for sure. I still think that they are pretty rare. Man I wonder if the person who own's that rack would sell it I'm down for another one for my future 11G split. Can anyone hook me up with a phone# on that owner with the red super beetle?? I can't read the damn license plate too good. Thanks everyone for all the info. on the rack. I appreciate it.
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43 KDF Split
54 Lambretta LD 150
Wanted: front banana bumper w/guards (a real on please)
Brass Empi sender
Another Jim Dandy rack ?????

Mon Feb 21, 2005 1:09 pm

i can get it for you, I talk to that guy about once a week.

Mon Feb 21, 2005 1:13 pm

looks cooler than those ricers rear wings

Mon Feb 21, 2005 6:25 pm

Like I said "Fast and the Furious" rack. ....Just kidding J. you know I've been hitting you up to sell me that thing.

Mon Feb 21, 2005 8:15 pm

This one is owned by Denese Brown - Found it in the galleries.

Mac

Mon Feb 21, 2005 8:21 pm

Macca_nzl wrote: This one is owned by Denese Brown - Found it in the galleries.

Mac
Hi Mac, No that rack owned by drannon brown isn't real it's too big & the arms are stationary not like the real one where the arms are moving. The Jim Dandy racks are hard to copy because they have soooo many moving parts. The arms swivel in & out. I know the guy that made it! It was made by david payne the guy who owns my oval I first put the jim dandy rack on (my Empi Oval rag)He tried to copy it. I seen that one in person when I delivered the Oval to him in North Carolina. Good looking out though ! Thanks !
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1943 KDF Split
1954 Lambretta LD 150
Wanted: Front banana bumper w/guards (a real one please)
Brass Empi sender
Another Jim Dandy Rack ?????

Mon Feb 21, 2005 9:57 pm

So is that one an original accessory or one that has been repopped in the same style as your one?

Mac