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Richie_Rich
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 Posted: Tue May 22, 2012 5:19 pm Post subject: Mark Danger |
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No that's not Mark Danger, but in this picture he's the guy in the pink sweater.
These guy's were called The Gentelmen. |
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| vwkidd wrote: | sportin-wood wrote: Does anyone remember a bug called "Little Dreamer" from the East L.A. area, sometime in the early 80's? I can't remember if it was a ragtop, but it was one of the baddest rides of that time...
Ask and you shall recieve.........read the thread from the begining sportin-wood and you will be taken back to the LA 80's VW scene.
Ray's Lil Dreamer was my inspiration to build faster VW''s and I'm sure a lot of other kids in Latino LA neighborhoods. |
Great job vwkidd! That's the one! My brother was good friends with Ray. I'll make time to go through this thread from page 1...it'll take a while!
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| twinwindows wrote: | I had Prelude seats in this car cos they were a perfect fit. Being a chop I laid them down without the stock vw seat frames. Whole car was black velour. Got pulled over every now and then and asked where i got them? Pomona swap meet and no I don`t have a receipt!
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Is this Diablo? |
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| Posted: Tue May 22, 2012 8:13 pm Post subject: |
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Yup ^^^^
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| Posted: Tue May 22, 2012 10:10 pm Post subject: |
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here's some more pics posted on this thread by 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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j8bug
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Im a put an index together so that newer viewers have an easier way of knowing whats on here.
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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
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| Posted: Wed May 23, 2012 2:44 pm Post subject: |
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A small sample of the raza and their rides thruout this thread:
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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
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Some music you would here in Vdubs at the spots;
early to mid 80s;
http://youtu.be/43YRs-35ZhM
http://youtu.be/8_X99KQQ0k0
http://youtu.be/hyaxThvk4K8
Some 80s weekday & Sunday spots besides the big clubs like Casa & DQs; Details, Manequins, Club47, Ukranian hall, Alexandria Hotel, Hong Kong Cafe, Visage, Red Onion W.Covina (tuesdays were the bomb)
Kroq club music from the mid to late 80s ( a bit fast  );
http://youtu.be/ZA-gXYmgyu8
Strip joint music, jk  Who remembers the days when you didnt want to be seen coming out of a strip club. me and my friends used to go all the way to Tijuana so we wouldnt be seen.
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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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Alex Arredondo
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| Posted: Wed May 23, 2012 8:43 pm Post subject: Disco music! |
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| j8bug wrote: | Some music you would here in Vdubs at the spots;
early to mid 80s;
http://youtu.be/43YRs-35ZhM
http://youtu.be/8_X99KQQ0k0
http://youtu.be/hyaxThvk4K8
Some 80s weekday & Sunday spots besides the big clubs like Casa & DQs; Details, Manequins, Club47, Ukranian hall, Alexandria Hotel, Hong Kong Cafe, Visage, Red Onion W.Covina (tuesdays were the bomb)
Kroq club music from the mid to late 80s ( a bit fast );
http://youtu.be/ZA-gXYmgyu8
Strip joint music, jk Who remembers the days when you didnt want to be seen coming out of a strip club. me and my friends used to go all the way to Tijuana so we wouldnt be seen. |
Jimmy, I play this music on my iPod to workout and in my 56'... Thanks for the post. |
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J8bug wrote:
Some 80s weekday & Sunday spots besides the big clubs like Casa & DQs; Details, Manequins, Club47, Ukranian hall, Alexandria Hotel, Hong Kong Cafe, Visage, Red Onion W.Covina (tuesdays were the bomb)
Club47 on Whittier Blvd, Ukranian Hall on Melrose, Alexandria Hotel downtown LA, Hong Kong Cafe Chinatown, Visage across from Quiet Cannon, Red Onion West Covina!!!! All the hot spots for us LA Disco Biscuits!!
Check this story at the Ukranian Hall. One of the few nights I was actually not cruising one of my VDubs & a bunch of us from Huntington Park rolled to Ukranian Hall to dance & party. The Ukrainian Hall is right next to LA City College so there was always action going on. Well that night we were waiting to get in the club out front and some chingazos went down at the parking lot of the college and there was some gunshots and a bunch of heads running in all directions and this little red MG slammed to the floor was peeling out of the lot while some guy was running after it shooting. we all hit the floor and after the commotion died down a guy that was in line at the end was like in a state of shock & looking disoriented because he was staring down his light colored shirt (i remember like it was yesterday his look on his face) covered in blood. The poor innocent guy was a random victim that night.......needless to say we didnt stick around to find out what happened to him..
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Gasho!! Did he survive?
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| sportin-wood wrote: | | Gasho!! Did he survive? |
Don't know?? We bailed out the opposite direction towards the Hollywood frwy where we had parked our cars. I think the guy survived because he looked in shock & not in pain.....maybe no vital organs were hit & the light colored shirt made the blood stand out. Back then growing up in my neighborhood we learned early on if something went down and you weren't involved you "walk away" and don't look back.
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| Posted: Thu May 24, 2012 8:32 am Post subject: Re: Disco music! |
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| Alex Arredondo wrote: | | j8bug wrote: | Some music you would here in Vdubs at the spots;
early to mid 80s;
http://youtu.be/43YRs-35ZhM
http://youtu.be/8_X99KQQ0k0
http://youtu.be/hyaxThvk4K8
Some 80s weekday & Sunday spots besides the big clubs like Casa & DQs; Details, Manequins, Club47, Ukranian hall, Alexandria Hotel, Hong Kong Cafe, Visage, Red Onion W.Covina (tuesdays were the bomb)
Kroq club music from the mid to late 80s ( a bit fast );
http://youtu.be/ZA-gXYmgyu8
Strip joint music, jk Who remembers the days when you didnt want to be seen coming out of a strip club. me and my friends used to go all the way to Tijuana so we wouldnt be seen. |
Jimmy, I play this music on my iPod to workout and in my 56'... Thanks for the post. |
I do the same thing to. I put on one of those hour long mixes and before you know it Im done with my workout. So i click on the next one and I get an extra half hr in... LOOOVE ITT!!!
Hey kidd, clubing in L.A. nightly was like running a gauntlet. There is all kinds of crazy stories I cant post on here but one you'll reminesce on was that drive back home to H.P late at night from the clubs. The Visage used to be off the 60fwy and Garfield across the street from the Golf Course. Atop the golf course was the 21 over club. After both clubs got out the CHP used to set-up checkpoints at the 60 onramp west for us desmadrosos from L.A. To avoid those you had to go a long stretch south into Montebello. If you made it through there you had to go thru the long stretches up Santa Fe thru the City of Vernon or Florence thru Bell. Remember the relief you felt once you got home. Knock out like a baby 
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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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| Posted: Thu May 24, 2012 8:51 am Post subject: Re: Disco music! |
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J8bug wrote: Hey kidd, clubing in L.A. nightly was like running a gauntlet. There is all kinds of crazy stories I cant post on here but one you'll reminesce on was that drive back home to H.P late at night from the clubs. The Visage used to be off the 60fwy and Garfield across the street from the Golf Course. Atop the golf course was the 21 over club. After both clubs got out the CHP used to set-up checkpoints at the 60 onramp west for us desmadrosos from L.A. To avoid those you had to go a long stretch south into Montebello. If you made it through there you had to go thru the long stretches up Santa Fe thru the City of Vernon or Florence thru Bell. Remember the relief you felt once you got home. Knock out like a baby :sleeping:
Brother! I know that drive well going down Sante Fe or Soto through Vernon passing the smelly Farmer John factory. At night Vernon is a ghost town all factorys and only busy during the day. I used to love the sounds of my 48IDA's echoing off the factory walls and making that trip back home after a night of partying......hitting Sante Fe & Mortimer low profile, making a right at El Ranchito's restaurant. to my home........and doing it all again the next day!!
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1959 Convertible 151 L41
1955 Convertible 151 L41
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The police back then could tell the trouble makers from everyone else just by looking at the way the car was set up. The cars they would target were VWs, giant 4x4s mini trucks and sport bikes. Not to many small imports then.
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| twinwindows wrote: | | The police back then could tell the trouble makers from everyone else just by looking at the way the car was set up. The cars they would target were VWs, giant 4x4s mini trucks and sport bikes. Not to many small imports then. |
Very few imports back then. 510s with prelude seats and a few rx3s were the small import of the day. Having a VW slammed and being out late at night which just about everyone did put a big target on your back. That late-night drive back to Huntington Park when I was staying up there for awhile was H-A-I-R-R-R-Y. Survived it unscathed with only a few close calls but I know alot of heads that didnt.
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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 while back I was talking to some heads about those days and one of my friends I grew up with told me he was amazed that I made it home every night when I would stay out late all over L. A.
Yeah a few things went down but screw that noise!!
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growing up around 7 yrs old or so I would hear the crazy stories from my oldest brother and his friends of Stadium way, Tommys, Circus, Sunset blvd, Elysian park, Whittier blvd etc. and i couldnt wait to get out there and experience it for myself. I wasnt about to miss out!! Its like that George Lopez joke when he says he decided to not go to some party and the next day he was told of what happened and he says " I know I shoulda gone, F##&&*K!!!"
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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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| j8bug wrote: | | twinwindows wrote: | | The police back then could tell the trouble makers from everyone else just by looking at the way the car was set up. The cars they would target were VWs, giant 4x4s mini trucks and sport bikes. Not to many small imports then. |
Very few imports back then. 510s with prelude seats and a few rx3s were the small import of the day. Having a VW slammed and being out late at night which just about everyone did put a big target on your back. That late-night drive back to Huntington Park when I was staying up there for awhile was H-A-I-R-R-R-Y. Survived it unscathed with only a few close calls but I know alot of heads that didnt. |
CRG & J8bug for sure the Vdubs had a target on it's back....either for the Cops, or getting jacked, or pissing off some gang bangers cause we would always get the hiena's out cruising............J8bug speaking of the only small imports were the 510's (slow), but the Mazda Wankel engined RX3 were the ones that gave us Vdubs a run for the money. The only time a lost a "money on the line" street race was to a grey primered with black primered spots (painted to look like a dog). my drivetrain was in a grey primered Oval that my friend owned, close ratio geared trans a 2 liter set-up with NOs ( it wasn't plumbed on this car since it wasn't mine). Well this RX3 belonged to my friend Ramsey younger sister's boyfriend also from H.P.......this race was anticipated by everyone in HP cause rumor had it that the RX3 was looking to beat "VWKidd".......so we all rolled out to a long stretch of road in Vernon by the Farmer Johns off of Soto called Eastern. There was around 10 cars all full of heads. Anyway we ran heads up & I easly got the hole shot off the line and banged through 1-2-3-than 4th and was leading by about 3 car lenghts but when this Mazda caught it's power curve at the top end & I could hear the RPM's just peaking and peaking right past me, crossing the marked off end by at least 2 cars & beating me I had to see what he was running. He wouldn't let me check his motor which is undrestandable in the street race game, but my sources come to find out later he was running a 750 Holley double pumper manual secondarys on NOs!!! with a racing beat tune!! Lesson learned never underestimate the opponent...especially the beater looking cars & Vdubs!!!
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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"
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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
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| vwkidd wrote: | | j8bug wrote: | | twinwindows wrote: | | The police back then could tell the trouble makers from everyone else just by looking at the way the car was set up. The cars they would target were VWs, giant 4x4s mini trucks and sport bikes. Not to many small imports then. |
Very few imports back then. 510s with prelude seats and a few rx3s were the small import of the day. Having a VW slammed and being out late at night which just about everyone did put a big target on your back. That late-night drive back to Huntington Park when I was staying up there for awhile was H-A-I-R-R-R-Y. Survived it unscathed with only a few close calls but I know alot of heads that didnt. |
CRG & J8bug for sure the Vdubs had a target on it's back....either for the Cops, or getting jacked, or pissing off some gang bangers cause we would always get the hiena's out cruising............J8bug speaking of the only small imports were the 510's (slow), but the Mazda Wankel engined RX3 were the ones that gave us Vdubs a run for the money. The only time a lost a "money on the line" street race was to a grey primered with black primered spots (painted to look like a dog). my drivetrain was in a grey primered Oval that my friend owned, close ratio geared trans a 2 liter set-up with NOs ( it wasn't plumbed on this car since it wasn't mine). Well this RX3 belonged to my friend Ramsey younger sister's boyfriend also from H.P.......this race was anticipated by everyone in HP cause rumor had it that the RX3 was looking to beat "VWKidd".......so we all rolled out to a long stretch of road in Vernon by the Farmer Johns off of Soto called Eastern. There was around 10 cars all full of heads. Anyway we ran heads up & I easly got the hole shot off the line and banged through 1-2-3-than 4th and was leading by about 3 car lenghts but when this Mazda caught it's power curve at the top end & I could hear the RPM's just peaking and peaking right past me, crossing the marked off end by at least 2 cars & beating me I had to see what he was running. He wouldn't let me check his motor which is undrestandable in the street race game, but my sources come to find out later he was running a 750 Holley double pumper manual secondarys on NOs!!! with a racing beat tune!! Lesson learned never underestimate the opponent...especially the beater looking cars & Vdubs!!! |
They used to sound sweet too. There were a few chanates rolling around in those in my neck of the woods. You would hear them raising hell from time to time. If you heard of a race with an RX3s in it, the excitement and anticipation level was amplified big time!!!
Rx2 The feared Rx3> 510>
Before bugs blew up in the early 80s, these were everywhere...
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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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