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slammed shady Samba Member
Joined: January 19, 2006 Posts: 257 Location: Wolfsburg, Germany
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Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2011 10:51 am Post subject: The first slammed van? |
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Hi everyone,
I am currently looking for pics, magazines and general information about the first lowered buses. Does anyone know who started lowering splits and when?
I am currently trying to get a historical license plate for my van in Germany. The TÜV-guys are pretty tough and want me to proof there have been lowered vans in the 60s already.
Can anyone help? And I'm not talking about Photoshop
Cheers,
Jan _________________ https://slammedsixty.blogspot.com
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crofty Judas of the North
Joined: August 09, 2000 Posts: 19670 Location: Land of Whine and Phonies
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Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2011 11:00 am Post subject: |
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I'd guess that trend started in the 70's after the Cal Look bugs started getting popular. _________________ Your Vanagon sucks, Stop waving at me.
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kanniff Samba Member
Joined: October 12, 2009 Posts: 811 Location: West Coast
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Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2011 11:12 am Post subject: |
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My guess is this is going to be pretty difficult to prove.
You'll have to have photos of someone pulling out torsions ? |
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slammed shady Samba Member
Joined: January 19, 2006 Posts: 257 Location: Wolfsburg, Germany
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Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2011 11:23 am Post subject: |
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kanniff wrote: |
My guess is this is going to be pretty difficult to prove.
You'll have to have photos of someone pulling out torsions ? |
Anything could help. Pictures of lowered vans somewhere in the street, magazine features, catalogue pages of adjustable beams or anything. I googled a bit and only found drag splits that were everything but lowered...
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Jake Martinez The VW Kid
Joined: February 06, 2009 Posts: 2120 Location: Wilmington, NC
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Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2011 11:25 am Post subject: |
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wasnt there a lowered barndoor campingbox bus from way back? the one that had the chrome bumpers i think _________________ 58 euro vert
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10 inch narrowed beam |
Congrats, that's going to look like shit. |
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slammed shady Samba Member
Joined: January 19, 2006 Posts: 257 Location: Wolfsburg, Germany
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Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2011 11:39 am Post subject: |
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Jake Martinez wrote: |
wasnt there a lowered barndoor campingbox bus from way back? the one that had the chrome bumpers i think |
Was there? Never heard of it! But pics like that I'm looking for. Ideally with a proof of age e.g. from a magazine.
There is a great German website for only that one purpose: helping people to proof that modifying VWs was already 'en vogue' in the 60s and 70s. Unfortunately they are mainly covering bugs...:
http://www.kaeferfriseure.de
Sorry, in German only _________________ https://slammedsixty.blogspot.com
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Jake Martinez The VW Kid
Joined: February 06, 2009 Posts: 2120 Location: Wilmington, NC
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Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2011 12:28 pm Post subject: |
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it had a porsche running gear also i think _________________ 58 euro vert
63 bug ruby
64 sunroof notch
65 bug
67 standard
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buslife wrote: |
10 inch narrowed beam |
Congrats, that's going to look like shit. |
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kanniff Samba Member
Joined: October 12, 2009 Posts: 811 Location: West Coast
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Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2011 1:07 pm Post subject: |
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1971 Hot VW Cover.
1991 Cover.
Last edited by kanniff on Wed Sep 21, 2011 1:11 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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crofty Judas of the North
Joined: August 09, 2000 Posts: 19670 Location: Land of Whine and Phonies
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Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2011 1:10 pm Post subject: |
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I don't think that shorty is lowered.
Look through the Cal Look book. I remember seeing old pics of buses given the Cal Look. _________________ Your Vanagon sucks, Stop waving at me.
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MaicoCPA Samba Member
Joined: January 17, 2010 Posts: 47 Location: So. Cal
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Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2011 4:32 pm Post subject: |
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I've been going to VW shows here in So. Cal. since the '70s. The first lowered bus I ever saw was actually a Bay window at OCIR back in '78 or '79. Most customizers were still cutting out the wheel wells for wider tires then. I didn't see a lowered split bus until the early '80s. If you go back to old Hot VWs issues you will see it follows a similar timeline. _________________ Enjoying Type IIs since 1979.
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UZI Platinum FUBU
Joined: February 08, 2002 Posts: 13335 Location: phila-DELFT-ia
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Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2011 5:23 pm Post subject: |
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this one was done back in the 50's
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Jake Martinez The VW Kid
Joined: February 06, 2009 Posts: 2120 Location: Wilmington, NC
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Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2011 5:34 pm Post subject: |
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yea thats the one! _________________ 58 euro vert
63 bug ruby
64 sunroof notch
65 bug
67 standard
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buslife wrote: |
10 inch narrowed beam |
Congrats, that's going to look like shit. |
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blue jay Samba Member
Joined: July 02, 2004 Posts: 51 Location: Edmonton Alberta Canada
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Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2011 9:03 am Post subject: |
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UZI wrote: |
this one was done back in the 50's
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Cool!!
Does anyone know the story on this bus? |
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ToolBox Samba Member
Joined: January 27, 2004 Posts: 3439 Location: Detroit, where they don't jack parts off my ride in the parking lot of the 7-11
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Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2011 9:36 am Post subject: |
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blue jay wrote: |
UZI wrote: |
this one was done back in the 50's
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Cool!!
Does anyone know the story on this bus? |
Do a search for Brooks Stevens... |
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crofty Judas of the North
Joined: August 09, 2000 Posts: 19670 Location: Land of Whine and Phonies
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Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2011 9:52 am Post subject: |
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UZI wrote: |
this one was done back in the 50's
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I knew that Dude was a vampire. _________________ Your Vanagon sucks, Stop waving at me.
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Clara Samba Member
Joined: June 14, 2003 Posts: 12384
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Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2011 10:25 am Post subject: |
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ToolBox wrote: |
blue jay wrote: |
UZI wrote: |
this one was done back in the 50's
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Cool!!
Does anyone know the story on this bus? |
Do a search for Brooks Stevens... |
There is an aerial pic of the above bus in an old museum brouchure on this page, incorrectly identified as a Jeep Van. It is parked outside the museum building:
http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2009/11/11/lost...wisconsin/ _________________ The Obsolete Air-Cooled Documentation Project http://oacdp.org/ |
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slammed shady Samba Member
Joined: January 19, 2006 Posts: 257 Location: Wolfsburg, Germany
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Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2011 12:24 pm Post subject: |
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crofty wrote: |
I don't think that shorty is lowered.
Look through the Cal Look book. I remember seeing old pics of buses given the Cal Look. |
Doesn't matter, at least the pic shows there've been modified vans in that period already. As I said, everything helps
"The" Cal look book? I guess there a several ones around. Which one do you mean? Cheers! _________________ https://slammedsixty.blogspot.com
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slammed shady Samba Member
Joined: January 19, 2006 Posts: 257 Location: Wolfsburg, Germany
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UZI Platinum FUBU
Joined: February 08, 2002 Posts: 13335 Location: phila-DELFT-ia
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Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2011 5:52 pm Post subject: |
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slammed shady wrote: |
Cool! Where is it today? The owner might have done a little history research already!
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same place as where the vampire picture was taken. behind the cheddar curtain _________________ Extravagant Lifestyle
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campingbox Samba Member
Joined: November 14, 2000 Posts: 10192 Location: Petaluma, CA
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Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2011 9:39 am Post subject: |
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UZI wrote: |
slammed shady wrote: |
Cool! Where is it today? The owner might have done a little history research already!
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same place as where the vampire picture was taken. behind the cheddar curtain |
That picture was taken in the Brooke Stevens museum, which is not where the bus is located today.
Also as far as I know that bus was lowered in the 70'ies, not in the '50'ies. |
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