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beetletom Samba Member
Joined: May 25, 2006 Posts: 147 Location: Eng-er-land
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Posted: Mon Nov 11, 2013 12:04 pm Post subject: primer and stripes bugs, from arizona? |
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they were featured in volksworld in the mid 90's
one car was owned by someone called mr empi?
and the other was a cool beige bug with orange stripes
any info or pics??
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50Split Samba Member
Joined: May 19, 2000 Posts: 866 Location: 602
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Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2013 8:41 pm Post subject: Re: primer and stripes bugs, from arizona? |
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beetletom wrote: |
they were featured in volksworld in the mid 90's
one car was owned by someone called mr empi?
and the other was a cool beige bug with orange stripes
any info or pics??
thanks |
I believe BRANDEN HOY was the owner of one of the bugs and Eric L. the other. Do a user search for Branden and send him a PM. _________________ Quintin - IG @GFK602 |
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BRANDEN HOY Samba Member
Joined: May 07, 2004 Posts: 136 Location: ARIZONA
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Posted: Wed Nov 13, 2013 9:08 am Post subject: |
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This car...
Is my mold Ragtop. I assume , based on your post, you have some questions?
Fire away. |
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beetletom Samba Member
Joined: May 25, 2006 Posts: 147 Location: Eng-er-land
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Posted: Fri Nov 15, 2013 7:06 am Post subject: |
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wow awesome! i'm currently building a car with a similar look, fat n thin stripes, olde english numbers on the doors
what did you use to tint the headlight glass? or is it smoked plexiglass?
i still spend ages looking over the pics in the magazine
did you guys narrow your front beams back then? |
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BRANDEN HOY Samba Member
Joined: May 07, 2004 Posts: 136 Location: ARIZONA
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Posted: Fri Nov 15, 2013 7:28 am Post subject: |
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No narrowed beams back then. They were just starting to come around back when I was driving that car. I miss it. It's the one car that I sold that I wish I'd have kept.
Nothing was repopped back then either so we had to hunt for our parts and accessories. TheSamba didn't exist, and the internet was just a place where you went to talk crap to people around the world in Chatrooms.
That car was a 62 body on a 66 pan with some pulled springs up front and a click in the back. 5 original Rader wheels and a whole bunch of accessories. I grew up loving old road rally cars and wanted that kinda look. Back then, that's what Eric and I called it, "Rally Look". Our cars were different than everything else out here in Phoenix. I drove that car every day. It was all I had. I did all of my own work and just did whatever I could to keep driving. VWs were my life. Every show, swap or get together, we were there. We were at Pomona every 6 weeks hunting and selling. Looking at the very few pics I have of that car, I guess they would have been something similar to an "outlaw" Porsche but in the VW world. There was no niche for us.
The lenses were smoked plexi under the headlight guards. I ran a 1776 with dual Solex P-11's for a long time then switched to some Dellorto 40s. That motor is still in my friend's 60 ragtop now. Those were some good times back then.
It's cool that you are going to run with that look. It's been a long time since I've seen it done. I used to see primered and striped cars all the time, but never numbered and never accessorized. post up some pix of your car. I'd like to see how it's coming along. |
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BRANDEN HOY Samba Member
Joined: May 07, 2004 Posts: 136 Location: ARIZONA
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Posted: Fri Nov 15, 2013 8:29 am Post subject: |
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Here is every pic I have of the car. This was from the same day as that Magazine shoot.
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beetletom Samba Member
Joined: May 25, 2006 Posts: 147 Location: Eng-er-land
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Posted: Fri Nov 15, 2013 9:50 am Post subject: |
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thanks for the help and info!
will put some pics up soon. |
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