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| twinwindows wrote: | | That was normal back then and with no Internet you were totally on your own when it came to getting your own style! Today you have thousands of ideas to choose from just a click away. |
Man! CRG you hit it on the nail.......I never thought about the "no internet" when we were building our rides back then....It was just trying things out and seeing what kind of response you got at the cruise spots.
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You had go-to guys where I grew up. Guys who had been doing it for awhile, legal and yes some illegally too. These guys had done quite a bit by 1984 and also had the hookups for parts and knowledge.
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| twinwindows wrote: | Yes that is a Danny A. design piece. He painted all the famous cars of the day like Babboom, Rag berry, King Rag and lil dreamer amongst many others including many of the mini truck logos like the Mini stompers. I`ll try to get Danny to post up in this thread also. After many phone calls and people in the car painting world I was able to find him 27 years later and I recently had the chance to talk to Danny about the old days and cars back then and how they were named. The owners/driver of each car would already have a name and idea and Danny would draw up something out of his head and use it. Danny went to work for Disney for some twenty years and was the main guy for all the art work for the "Power rangers". He was also the head painter for all the work in the movie Robo Cop! There is so much to tell but ill save it for when Bad Temper II makes a comeback.
On a small note Bad Temper was almost going to be named Challenger with a picture of the space craft in the air cos the Space shuttle named Challenger met it`s fate the same week they logo`d this car but stayed with BTII. This was January 28, 1986 when the unfortunate took part. |
What a cool revelation. As we put all the pieces to the scene together you can see why our scene was so badass and memorable. We had the best party promoter, the best style, the best wheel, and the best artist that was logoing and lettering those cars that were leading the charge. Those cars captivated teenaged kids like myself and many others and obviously Disney recognized the same. WOW, cool story there CRG!!!!!!!!!!
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Frank Ochoa said; "I still have my convertible bug from high school. Now that Gramps is out Im going to make some changes but Im still going to keep it Cal-Style, you know, all original but lowered with some alloys"
Fred one of the original members of The Bus Boyz said; "We were the first to ever Cal-Style a Bus.. No one was doing it back then". |
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IMO, Without a shadow of a doubt the 80s L.A. Vdub scene and its contributions can be categorized as the best kept secret ever in the VW WORLD!!!
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Frank Ochoa said; "I still have my convertible bug from high school. Now that Gramps is out Im going to make some changes but Im still going to keep it Cal-Style, you know, all original but lowered with some alloys"
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A good friend of mine just sent me this. One of my fav cars I would roll around in L. A. back N the day! You could Just just see the Honda Prelude seats.
This was at P-town.
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| twinwindows wrote: | A good friend of mine just sent me this. One of my fav cars I would roll around in L. A. back N the day! You could Just just see the Honda Prelude seats.
This was at P-town.
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I see a ridge on the center of the hood. Is the trim the color of the car???? Ive never seen that before but a neat way to avoid dechroming and try something different. Call me crazy but Im picturing that car with a logo of a little devil or lettering of your pers.plate by Danny A.. That shit would have been twisted evil.
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Frank Ochoa said; "I still have my convertible bug from high school. Now that Gramps is out Im going to make some changes but Im still going to keep it Cal-Style, you know, all original but lowered with some alloys"
Fred one of the original members of The Bus Boyz said; "We were the first to ever Cal-Style a Bus.. No one was doing it back then". |
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check this shit out, shes also quite the sexy little devil:
I cant stop staring at those wheels...
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Frank Ochoa said; "I still have my convertible bug from high school. Now that Gramps is out Im going to make some changes but Im still going to keep it Cal-Style, you know, all original but lowered with some alloys"
Fred one of the original members of The Bus Boyz said; "We were the first to ever Cal-Style a Bus.. No one was doing it back then". |
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| j8bug wrote: | check this shit out, shes also quite the sexy little devil:
I cant stop staring at those wheels... |
Remember the 80's Slantnose Porsches?
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Whatever happened to Mike Jones Oval and Dino (Purple Vert) from Stadium Way ?
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vwkidd
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| stede wrote: | | Whatever happened to Mike Jones Oval and Dino (Purple Vert) from Stadium Way ? |
Wad up Stede? The only purple verts I remember at Stadium way was Bunny's from Echo Park or Gramps from South Central.
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1959 Convertible 151 L41
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| ALLWAGONS wrote: | | j8bug wrote: | check this shit out, shes also quite the sexy little devil:
I cant stop staring at those wheels... |
Remember the 80's Slantnose Porsches? |
Every now and then Ill see one and it will take me back to those days. It was quite a period in time, some nice, some crappy but a pretty common sight in SoCal...
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Frank Ochoa said; "I still have my convertible bug from high school. Now that Gramps is out Im going to make some changes but Im still going to keep it Cal-Style, you know, all original but lowered with some alloys"
Fred one of the original members of The Bus Boyz said; "We were the first to ever Cal-Style a Bus.. No one was doing it back then".
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| vwkidd wrote: | | stede wrote: | | Whatever happened to Mike Jones Oval and Dino (Purple Vert) from Stadium Way ? |
Wad up Stede? The only purple verts I remember at Stadium way was Bunny's from Echo Park or Gramps from South Central. |
Q-Vo Homie ! I was always up at stadium way cruising my Iceland Green L213 65 bug. There was also a guy named Greg that was from either Highland Park or Hillside Village near Wilson HS in Sereno that had a yellow turbo bug and 58 black vert that was slammed. I used to chill with Rey Mechain.
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| stede wrote: | | Whatever happened to Mike Jones Oval and Dino (Purple Vert) from Stadium Way ? |
Mike Jones use to kick it at his hand car wash on York Blvd, You would always see it parked there. A white 57`on alloys BIG BIG MOTOR. Only know of one Dino in the area always had a fast car. He would take V8s like nothing.
Greg from HLP? , Think he`s posted in this thread.
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| vwkidd wrote: | | twinwindows wrote: | Yes that is a Danny A. design piece. He painted all the famous cars of the day like Babboom, Rag berry, King Rag and lil dreamer amongst many others including many of the mini truck logos like the Mini stompers. I`ll try to get Danny to post up in this thread also. After many phone calls and people in the car painting world I was able to find him 27 years later and I recently had the chance to talk to Danny about the old days and cars back then and how they were named. The owners/driver of each car would already have a name and idea and Danny would draw up something out of his head and use it. Danny went to work for Disney for some twenty years and was the main guy for all the art work for the "Power rangers". He was also the head painter for all the work in the movie Robo Cop! There is so much to tell but ill save it for when Bad Temper II makes a comeback.
On a small note Bad Temper was almost going to be named Challenger with a picture of the space craft in the air cos the Space shuttle named Challenger met it`s fate the same week they logo`d this car but stayed with BTII. This was January 28, 1986 when the unfortunate took part. |
What great news!!! CRG finding Danny A!!! Like I said before what a loss to HotVW's and not shooting Bad Temper II....imagine the back story and history to be told of all the cars Danny A Designs logo'd back in the 80's at the height of the VW aircooled movement in LA!!
I'm not one to name drop, but I will say this. I'm a Docent for a world wide known Automotive Museum in the LA area that chronicles the history and car culture of the automobile as seen through the vision of an Automotive media pioneer.......and if CRG's restoration of a famous LA VW is not enough to interest HotVW's then I don't know what will!! |
Hey Kidd, Whats a Docent???
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Frank Ochoa said; "I still have my convertible bug from high school. Now that Gramps is out Im going to make some changes but Im still going to keep it Cal-Style, you know, all original but lowered with some alloys"
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vwkidd
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| j8bug wrote: | | vwkidd wrote: | | twinwindows wrote: | Yes that is a Danny A. design piece. He painted all the famous cars of the day like Babboom, Rag berry, King Rag and lil dreamer amongst many others including many of the mini truck logos like the Mini stompers. I`ll try to get Danny to post up in this thread also. After many phone calls and people in the car painting world I was able to find him 27 years later and I recently had the chance to talk to Danny about the old days and cars back then and how they were named. The owners/driver of each car would already have a name and idea and Danny would draw up something out of his head and use it. Danny went to work for Disney for some twenty years and was the main guy for all the art work for the "Power rangers". He was also the head painter for all the work in the movie Robo Cop! There is so much to tell but ill save it for when Bad Temper II makes a comeback.
On a small note Bad Temper was almost going to be named Challenger with a picture of the space craft in the air cos the Space shuttle named Challenger met it`s fate the same week they logo`d this car but stayed with BTII. This was January 28, 1986 when the unfortunate took part. |
What great news!!! CRG finding Danny A!!! Like I said before what a loss to HotVW's and not shooting Bad Temper II....imagine the back story and history to be told of all the cars Danny A Designs logo'd back in the 80's at the height of the VW aircooled movement in LA!!
I'm not one to name drop, but I will say this. I'm a Docent for a world wide known Automotive Museum in the LA area that chronicles the history and car culture of the automobile as seen through the vision of an Automotive media pioneer.......and if CRG's restoration of a famous LA VW is not enough to interest HotVW's then I don't know what will!! |
Hey Kidd, Whats a Docent??? |
A Docent is someone who is trained and very knowledgable of a museums artifacts and history and answers questions of museum guests and also gives tours of the artifacts.
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1955 151 Deluxe L219 Congo Green (Project)
1957 117 Deluxe L331 Horizon Blue (Project)
1954 117 Deluxe L227 Strato Silver "Delilah"
1966 141 Cabrio. L554 Cherry Red (low mileage)
Owned: All in the 80's & running BRM's,Fuchs,OG Empis w/ big motors & 48IDA's Cal-Style!
1959 Convertible 151 L41
1955 Convertible 151 L41
1958 Convertible 151 L349
1966 KG Convertible L456
1967 KG Convertible L41
1959 117 Deluxe L451 |
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| vwkidd wrote: | | j8bug wrote: | | vwkidd wrote: | | twinwindows wrote: | Yes that is a Danny A. design piece. He painted all the famous cars of the day like Babboom, Rag berry, King Rag and lil dreamer amongst many others including many of the mini truck logos like the Mini stompers. I`ll try to get Danny to post up in this thread also. After many phone calls and people in the car painting world I was able to find him 27 years later and I recently had the chance to talk to Danny about the old days and cars back then and how they were named. The owners/driver of each car would already have a name and idea and Danny would draw up something out of his head and use it. Danny went to work for Disney for some twenty years and was the main guy for all the art work for the "Power rangers". He was also the head painter for all the work in the movie Robo Cop! There is so much to tell but ill save it for when Bad Temper II makes a comeback.
On a small note Bad Temper was almost going to be named Challenger with a picture of the space craft in the air cos the Space shuttle named Challenger met it`s fate the same week they logo`d this car but stayed with BTII. This was January 28, 1986 when the unfortunate took part. |
What great news!!! CRG finding Danny A!!! Like I said before what a loss to HotVW's and not shooting Bad Temper II....imagine the back story and history to be told of all the cars Danny A Designs logo'd back in the 80's at the height of the VW aircooled movement in LA!!
I'm not one to name drop, but I will say this. I'm a Docent for a world wide known Automotive Museum in the LA area that chronicles the history and car culture of the automobile as seen through the vision of an Automotive media pioneer.......and if CRG's restoration of a famous LA VW is not enough to interest HotVW's then I don't know what will!! |
Hey Kidd, Whats a Docent??? |
A Docent is someone who is trained and very knowledgable of a museums artifacts and history and answers questions of museum guests and also gives tours of the artifacts. |
I always felt this thread was in good hands when I started calling you "The Thread Historian" and its not costing us$ 
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Frank Ochoa said; "I still have my convertible bug from high school. Now that Gramps is out Im going to make some changes but Im still going to keep it Cal-Style, you know, all original but lowered with some alloys"
Fred one of the original members of The Bus Boyz said; "We were the first to ever Cal-Style a Bus.. No one was doing it back then". |
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| stede wrote: | | Whatever happened to Mike Jones Oval and Dino (Purple Vert) from Stadium Way ? |
That was a purple RHD on 4 1/2 Right? His brother was Katz from the Projects in Montecito Heights. I know Dino from back in the day.
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Would it happen to be this one??? This looks so much like an L.A. car from the 80s. I thought it was one of Frank Ochoas RHDs but he said it wasnt. His plates read "Go Crazy". It could be a 90s car once the style had caught on and spread to other regions. It would kill me if I saw recessed or ford tailights on that. A big no-no in our neck of the woods!!! The suicide doors is bad enough IMO...
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Frank Ochoa said; "I still have my convertible bug from high school. Now that Gramps is out Im going to make some changes but Im still going to keep it Cal-Style, you know, all original but lowered with some alloys"
Fred one of the original members of The Bus Boyz said; "We were the first to ever Cal-Style a Bus.. No one was doing it back then". |
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It's not that one. It was more of a grape purple.
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vwkidd
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| ALLWAGONS wrote: | | It's not that one. It was more of a grape purple. |
Maybe this one? My Homie Bunny from Echo Park 80's
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1955 151 Deluxe L219 Congo Green (Project)
1957 117 Deluxe L331 Horizon Blue (Project)
1954 117 Deluxe L227 Strato Silver "Delilah"
1966 141 Cabrio. L554 Cherry Red (low mileage)
Owned: All in the 80's & running BRM's,Fuchs,OG Empis w/ big motors & 48IDA's Cal-Style!
1959 Convertible 151 L41
1955 Convertible 151 L41
1958 Convertible 151 L349
1966 KG Convertible L456
1967 KG Convertible L41
1959 117 Deluxe L451 |
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