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Fri Mar 11, 2005 1:29 pm

Fellow Baja Bug Owners.

oldest known Baja Bug was created by Gary Emory in 1967-68?
known as cut baja (pre Fiberglass-kit) in 1969 Haven Miller company
created first bug eye baja kit. now my question is who have the oldest baja bug? anyone with split window baja out there..?
barndoor bus baja? please post your old baja photo.

here is my project 56 ragtop baja.

Fri Mar 11, 2005 4:44 pm

blasphemy!
jk

Tue Jun 07, 2005 5:59 am

Finished my 1957 OVAL Baja ragtop. Pics are in my gallery

Tue Jun 07, 2005 6:11 am

We built our first Bajas in '69. A '63 bug and next ... a '59 Baja Ghia (talk about blasphemy!). This was in the days of plentiful donor (cheap) cars and no fiberglass kits (all modified steel parts). The Ghia had a unique snap-on canvas nose cover (early bra?) and weighed less than 1300 lbs. This peo'd the local police ... at that time any car less than 1500 lbs. wasn't required to have full coverage fenders. We had a copy of the certified scale slip and a typed copy of the Ca. vehicle code rule on board. 6volts, 40horse (bug), and 36horse (Ghia) ... they ran pretty good. We didn't know any better. Sorry ... no pics ... didn't know how to use a camera back then.

Tue Jun 07, 2005 10:58 am

Hi sconord

Nice Oval Baja bug.

hope you don't mind I post your Baja photo here.

maybe we should start Vintage Baja club soon.
:D

Tue Jun 07, 2005 11:19 am

Cool. I did not know how to post it.

I am waiting for matching Baja rims, so that is not the final product.

So far, a Vintage Baja club has 4 members- including me and you. :D

Tue Jun 07, 2005 11:21 am

Here is another oval baja belongs to my friend Oscar.

it's 1956 vintage with an original ragtop.

any split baja out there?

Tue Jun 07, 2005 11:26 am

http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/album_page.php?pic_id=209931

another front view

God, I love ragtops!!!

Tue Jun 07, 2005 11:35 am

Here you go indeed nice oval ragtop baja.

here is tip on posting the photo.

1) go to the samaba gallery and click on the photo.
2) your photo will be larger size than right click=> Property
3) you will see URL adress with jpg on the end => copy it
4) when you post a reply click Img and paste the URL address and click
Img button one more time. you're done.

Hope this help. Yes I also love Ragtop.

Tue Jun 07, 2005 6:04 pm

this count :?

Tue Jun 07, 2005 7:09 pm

No :roll:

SHMO

Wed Jun 08, 2005 2:11 am

But if you want to sell it, I may be interested.

Wed Jun 08, 2005 10:08 am

Quick search on the gallery and found one split baja bug.
note: IRS pan
(thanks to notchback for posting on the gallery)

any other out there........ :?:

Wed Jun 08, 2005 10:14 am

Oh! Oh!

That's just wrong.

That poor split on an IRS with wrong tail lights.

Heathens

Thu Jun 09, 2005 8:53 pm

Thu Jun 09, 2005 9:17 pm

No way of telling if that is a genuine split without seeing the rest of the bug. Could be a split rear window section welded into a late bug, or could be a fiberglass split window kit graphted into a late model bug.

Fri Jun 10, 2005 5:10 am

True. Spekaing of those, where would ya find a fiberglass split conversion? I never could find one.

Fri Jun 10, 2005 5:48 am

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Buggin MT Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2005 5:10 am Post subject:

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True. Spekaing of those, where would ya find a fiberglass split conversion? I never could find one.
www.glass-action.com They should have a booth at the classic. Look for a yellow bug in the vendor area with this kit and mis-matched fenders.

Fri Jun 10, 2005 10:00 am

Actually my 56 is sitting on the 72 IRS pan.

come on guys, we're the baja bug people here.
if you want to talk about an originality you're in the wrong forums.
maybe better go "Splitville" where all the hardcore split people hang out.

compare to the swing axle, IRS is way to go.

restored split people are strict with an originality but
believed we have a freedom of choice & can do what ever we want.
therefore, no such a thing as right and wrong.
I think putting $900.00 split taillights on the split baja is kind a waste
and defeat the purpose.

Fri Jun 10, 2005 10:05 am

Personally,

I would cut the top off that car anyway, and run aftermarket tailights....lol

SHMO