Show us your 80's/90's customs!

[vintagevolks]

[Deluxe Lowlight Ghia]

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These vws are cool but the people who own them are far more valuable. Keep friends close they can be taken away overnight.
57 ghia
59 patina ghia
61 patina Ghia
71 bus
73 super beetle
74 thing
75 half bug

[DrHAX]

Heres mine. 1958 made in 1988 aprox. car came with a few hot vw mags and original creator died of a stroke before he could go down to florida.. next owner the guy we bought it from put collector's plates on it in 1990 (when he bought it) and then only took it out twice.. it sat in his garage for that long till we came and bought it.

(I've since replaced that horrible air cleaner actually found one that fits under it and lengthen the studs.)
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Signed by the rather insane, ambitious, and very stubborn Darko

[DrHAX]

[hwood]

I built the PINK PANTHER ghia and traded it to a kid in I believe Anaheim for a peach/pink 13 window bus that day of the Jamboree... He sold it to someone in London and while I was on vacation there a year or so later met up with the owner,, pretty ironic I was in London and picked up a magazine and my old was was in it featured... Anyone know how to get hold of Bert Silos???? I used to buy and trade a lot of cars with him... thanks

[j-sou]

Remember this one? At SEMA 2015-

[volkation]

it happened in the 80s

who dat wit all dat doo?! Kerry Norris made... trini j played
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were only buggin

[pwomble]

Cars we did back around 1988-1993.

My 73 Super Beetle version 1. Peach with purple pearl & seafoam scallops.

My 73 Super Beetle version 2. Bright blue with white scallops w/ green pearl.

74 (I think) Super Beetle peach drip onto purple. Car was totaled in a crash not too long after this picture about 1 month after paint.

72 (I think) 2-tone.

[stealth67vw]

My old 67 1994 at Sears Point. I'm not sure what motor was in at this stage. Turboed 1600 sp, 1641 with 36 Dells or 1776 with 42 DCNFs. It later had a 1776 with 48 IDAs.
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John Bates
JB Machining Services
1967 street Bug 2276 w/ 48 IDAs, 2020lbs with driver
7.76 @ 89.55mph 1/8 mile
12.34 and 108.10 mph 1/4 mile

[ronjonlasvegas]

http://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/detail.php?id=1889776

I remember this car from back in the day, it just popped up on the classifieds yesterday.
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September 1964 Standard Sunroof walk through SWR/BG original paint.

[airesto]

68 cal bug...my 1st ride

Puyallup loop highland hill cruzer...

[Hakka]

Know this area

[easy e]

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aka: Evan
Spreadsheet for Bus RPM, based on gearing & tire size (Excel format)
Searchable, click-navigable 1958 Bus Parts List

[G-wood Todd]

That bug looks like it was either A) well taken care of throughout the past few decades or B) was just freshly restored. Either way, its one radical ride!
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and take the kids for instance "Are we going in the Volkswagen bus?" and they say "Yay!" and clap their hands and if it's a glorious day you can slide the sunroof back and let a little of the glory in and all of a sudden, it stops looking funny.

-Volkswagen ad

[veedubman72]

[1milkman]

Here's one I used to show up and down the east coast back in the 90's...and yes I know its already been up here in the abortion thread....Man I can't wait to get my chop top ghia finished ....Been outta the aircooled scene way too long, time to piss off some more people.

[slave1pilot]

Just found this thread a few days ago.
Thanks to all the guys that posted pics , they bring back so many memories of cars I wanted.
I dreamed of making my bug look like so many of the cars posted on this thread. I was always too poor to be able to do anything though.
I was a young kid with a wife and 3 kids and working a crappy job.
Now all three kids are grown, I'm still married to the same woman, and I have a good job now.
So, I got myself another bug (after about a 15 year absence) and am starting the rebuild.
Do any of you SoCal guys recognize this car?
It has a pearl coat on it, but it was a minty green at one point.
White rubbers, one-piece windows, Euro blade bumpers, lowered, 5 spoke Empis, smoothed out dash, shaved front turn signals, 59 tail lights, aftermarket Highback Bucket seats, Hurst shifter, and a 2180cc under the stand-off decklid.
almost like they had an "80's SoCal Bug" checklist that they were marking off as they built it.

It had this sweet steering wheel (that was actually green at one point)

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My Photobucket for my Herbie Project - http://s1288.photobucket.com/user/TK-439/library/Herbie?sort=3&page=1

Currently:
1963 Ragtop Beetle
Previously:
1967 Beetle
1968 Beetle
1970 Beetle

[Pizza Eater]

I just spent the last couple days looking at this thread, it's like a time machine.
Now I want to paint my car baby blue with some hot pink scallops and color matched 8 spokes.

[usmc1345]

I hear ya, if I ever end up with alot of money i want to build an 80's era bug with pink scallops and blue paint.
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Semper Fidelis

[Pizza Eater]