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PostPosted: Sat Dec 17, 2016 10:44 am    Post subject: Re: Show us your 80's/90's customs! Reply with quote

I found these two in a back lot while exploring the other month. A Baja bug and a ghia with a gnarly paint job
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PostPosted: Sat Dec 31, 2016 8:35 am    Post subject: Re: Show us your 80's/90's customs! Reply with quote

Another one that could be given a second life...
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 28, 2017 2:47 pm    Post subject: Re: Show us your 80's/90's customs! Reply with quote

Wow there're some cool cars in here... I wouldn't mind giving one of those a better life, so sad to see so many of these bugs rot away
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 13, 2017 9:54 pm    Post subject: Re: Show us your 80's/90's customs! Reply with quote

I wish I could find more pics of this '63 I built up in the 90's. I just ran across this one tonight. I always wonder where it ended up. I traded it for a very clean lifted '86 blazer in 1999. Which I then sold for a lot more than I had wanted for the VW. This thing had so many Porsche modifications. 5 speed 912 trans, 356 tail lights, 356 bumper trim on the euro blades. Speedo was on center of dash and where glove box and original speedo was there was oval window dash grills with gauges in center. Had a W deck lid and vents below rear window were filled (no idea why). Lots of "smoothed over" body mods. Anyways, I hope to find more pics and will post if I do. I had a a 60 bug in the garage too, you kind kind of see the back window of it.
If anyone has ever seen this car around hit me up. I'd love to know its story after me. I did see it on hwy 280 in San Mateo about a year after I traded it.

Just remembered the interior was all tweed. Pink, gray and turquoise from Jbugs and procar front seats. Also had a gray canvas ragtop.


It was on a magenta IRS pan with four lung empi 8 spokes.

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I guess I should also add that this was in the Bay Area, California. So. San Francisco.


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PostPosted: Mon Mar 20, 2017 4:05 pm    Post subject: Re: Show us your 80's/90's customs! Reply with quote

did you mickey mouse it together :insert joke drum here: Cool
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 22, 2017 11:21 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Skim wrote:
dubluv wrote:
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brody wrote:
man.... no offense, but you 80s guys sure screwed up a lot of cars... Very Happy



No offence taken but, dude we didnt screw them up. These cars had inspiration and imagination to dare to be different than following the same old same old style, which happens now.

Targa tops, roof chops, rear scripts, pillarless, baja, buggy, all forms part of customising.

The main focus in the 2000's is to restore back to original and put some period accessories on. It was cool at first, but its been done to death...if I see another beige or black bug on fakey BRMs or polished Fuchs I will scream! Wink

The 80s cars you had so many different options to choose and know that two cars would not be the same. With some further thought you could change the paintwork to one off graphics, try different lights etc, wheels etc.

There were more bugs etc about back then too, so it wasnt such a big deal to chop the roof off, or customise a samba.

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I have to agree. Custom VW's were the coolest thing on the street in the late 80's. That and mini trucks.

Alot of us did the OG paint, real BRM's, Fuchs (they were called Alloys back then). That's not a new thing. We did that because that's all we could afford. We saved for shiny new wheels and slammed our stockers. Shit, I rolled a slammed 1960, 6v, 36hp, og ruby red bug with a roofrack and radio delete for looonnnggg time. Smoothies and temporary use only tires.

Hoodrides are nothing new to us broke high-schoolers in the 80's. The only thing new about them are the crazy prices people are asking for them.

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The baby blue vert ghia with the stripes on the side was our club president. I think his name was Bobby. My memorie isn't what it used to be but that car was awesome.

Yeah we had our bright colors and pastels, and sure the midwest guys got a little carried away with the fiberglass and those crazy hawaiians had their 15x10 inch rear wheels, but here in California, some of the baddest VW's that were customized in the 80's, could still hold their own in popularity today. BADRAZZ is a good example. So are all those bright ass 21-23 windows in the beginning of this thread.


You hit the nail on the head. Back then, it wasnt the ricer movement, for us high school kids it was V dubs and Mini Trucks, take your pick.
Yep I still call them alloys too. Laughing I remember that ghia, it had the color matched 14" alloys.

They only thing close to a Ricer back then where 510's and ealry 70's Celica's, which I still think are cool ass cars. But anything was cool if it was hittin some low Hz's coming out couple 15" CV's or Pyle's. And all most everyone I knew with a VW had to have it primered "under construction" look. I got tired of seeing that at shows and tehn they made it a catagory at VW and Minitruck shows. How bout this is far as I got it and and Im done.


Dammit these picture bring back cool ass memories. I was in the "under construction" category with the slammed primered look and the for ever thumping Pyles in the back.
Back in the day there use to be this VW club called Fantasy VW club running around the Escondido. I use to know this cool dude Ben Mata that was a member and had the nicest bug I had ever seen, it was always clean and detailed to a T, man I wish I had a picture of his bug. I then got inspired to do the mini trucking thing thanks to another club I saw rolling around town by the name of Southern Coast Mini Truckers or something like that and then I went out and got me a 1969 510 dropped it and installed an L20 with dual sidedrafts, that little car handled like it was on rails!! Now Im back to VW's. Cool thread!


Fantasy V-ubs painted their club logos on the quarter window glass. I remember the president was a dude named Jeff Schuck. His brother is in Oregon now still into VW's. Cool dudes.


Caught this one on Crusin' Grand in Escondido last summer. Not done in typical Fantasy V-Dubs style, maybe and old member that updated his car. I'll have to hit up Jeff Schuck about it. Cool to see their painted windows back out on the street

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PostPosted: Sat Apr 29, 2017 9:33 am    Post subject: Re: Show us your 80's/90's customs! Reply with quote

1985. Only 1000 miles since built, true time capsule.

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PostPosted: Wed May 24, 2017 7:33 am    Post subject: Re: Show us your 80's/90's customs! Reply with quote

BAD TEMPER II can be yours....

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PostPosted: Wed May 24, 2017 8:34 pm    Post subject: Re: Show us your 80's/90's customs! Reply with quote

Not for that price.
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PostPosted: Thu May 25, 2017 6:39 am    Post subject: Re: Show us your 80's/90's customs! Reply with quote

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Not for that price.


Looks who's listing it, most of his stuff is up there in price.
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PostPosted: Thu May 25, 2017 8:49 am    Post subject: Re: Show us your 80's/90's customs! Reply with quote

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Not for that price.


Looks who's listing it, most of his stuff is up there in price.


I don't think Randy decides on the sell price. I bought a bug from him and he had to go to the owner to present my offer.
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 04, 2017 9:44 am    Post subject: Re: Show us your 80's/90's customs! Reply with quote

Last month, a long time friend Stanley Escalano contacted me that he wants to bring out his 1955 Oval window Bug "BadRazz" back to the shows next year.
So I went to his pad in Salinas and talked about some upgrades he wants to do.
He wants to refreshen the transaxle, rechrome some parts, and some upgrades.
He definitely misses driving his ride with us to the shows as he's seen my adventures on my Facebook page.

So here's pictures I took last month when I visited Stanley:
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 07, 2017 7:43 pm    Post subject: Re: Show us your 80's/90's customs! Reply with quote

That car is sweet ,, used to see it around ,, and at kelley
park a few years back ,, its got the look and the stance
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 09, 2017 6:46 am    Post subject: Re: Show us your 80's/90's customs! Reply with quote

Banzai KG wrote:
Last month, a long time friend Stanley Escalano contacted me that he wants to bring out his 1955 Oval window Bug "BadRazz" back to the shows next year.
So I went to his pad in Salinas and talked about some upgrades he wants to do.
He wants to refreshen the transaxle, rechrome some parts, and some upgrades.
He definitely misses driving his ride with us to the shows as he's seen my adventures on my Facebook page.

So here's pictures I took last month when I visited Stanley:
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Bad Razz was a Bad Motherfucker in its day. Still is.
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 11, 2017 9:48 pm    Post subject: Re: Show us your 80's/90's customs! Reply with quote

sportin-wood wrote:
BAD TEMPER II can be yours....

https://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/detail.php?id=2057431


60k...that's gonna be a hard sell.
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 17, 2017 6:12 pm    Post subject: Re: Show us your 80's/90's customs! Reply with quote

Bashr52 wrote:
Bryan67 wrote:
Not for that price.


Looks who's listing it, most of his stuff is up there in price.


Laughing You cheap bastards Wink
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 25, 2017 6:03 pm    Post subject: Re: Show us your 80's/90's customs! Reply with quote

This up for sale now! https://newjersey.craigslist.org/cto/d/vw-rolls-royce-conversion/6230743573.html
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 25, 2017 7:14 pm    Post subject: Re: Show us your 80's/90's customs! Reply with quote

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This up for sale now! https://newjersey.craigslist.org/cto/d/vw-rolls-royce-conversion/6230743573.html

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Price seems unreasonable
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 25, 2017 9:55 pm    Post subject: Re: Show us your 80's/90's customs! Reply with quote

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Price seems unreasonable


Quite possibly the understatement of the year.
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 25, 2017 11:15 pm    Post subject: Re: Show us your 80's/90's customs! Reply with quote

The bastards thread is up there guys /\/\/\

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