My SOTO collection, show me your S.O.T.O. Memories

[fabfriar]

Two SOTO t-shirts I still have

[matthew henricks]

Bare with me. I was very young at my first SOTO meet. Maybe 12. Dad took me along. Garden Grove. 1980-something.

I remember Garden Grove, Dear Park and many other places as i grew up learning how to drive, work on and restore buses. (OK, a bug too) Somewhere we have all of our old new letters still. Fun to read the ads.

Flash forward 10 years or so. I was at a local book store and found the book "Classic Volkswagens" by Colin Burnham. Read the bus section of the book in the store since Charlie and his commercial buses were featured. That was unusual back then and Charlie always had time for my stupid questions. A great read. What does this have to do with SOTO you ask?

I got to the back cover.

(Why is this picture sideways Everett????)

A SOTO meet from 1980-something.

Hey, i was at that show. I remember it. My first SOTO and first VW show ever.

Hey, wait a minute. THAT IS ME IN THAT PICTURE!!!!

Goofy kid looking lost in front of the green 23 eating something. Dad a few steps ahead saying "Come on, lets go"....

Bought the book!!!

Have owned the same 1960 Single Cab we drove to that meet for the last 30 years.

[BarryL]

Came across my silverfish eaten membership card in my old slot car box.

[dirtslinger]

Does anyone have photos from a couple SOTO meets in the OC back in say 1986-1988? Not quite sure the years.

I was in high school and brought my green and white 67 13 window, almost the same as that 23 window posted above in the magazine.

I sadly don't have any pictures.

I also did a HOT VW's caravan to a Vegas show in 1987 I think, unfortunately those pictures got lost as well.
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1967 Class 5
1970 Class 11 HSD Racing
1972 5/1600 V-MAR/Rasta Baja
1956 Baja
1960 Sand Rover buggy
1965 Street bug
1967 Squareback

[obus]

[dirtslinger]

Nope, but I will now.

Thanks.
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1967 Class 5
1970 Class 11 HSD Racing
1972 5/1600 V-MAR/Rasta Baja
1956 Baja
1960 Sand Rover buggy
1965 Street bug
1967 Squareback

[obus]

[dirtslinger]

Sadly, there were none in there. I did find a picture of a friends bus, PP Stain, I would almost guess that I would have been parked next to him.
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1967 Class 5
1970 Class 11 HSD Racing
1972 5/1600 V-MAR/Rasta Baja
1956 Baja
1960 Sand Rover buggy
1965 Street bug
1967 Squareback

[Wade]

[dirtslinger]

Holy Sh*t, that's it!!!!!!
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1967 Class 5
1970 Class 11 HSD Racing
1972 5/1600 V-MAR/Rasta Baja
1956 Baja
1960 Sand Rover buggy
1965 Street bug
1967 Squareback

[dirtslinger]

I have the plate hanging in my garage, I got a ticket for no front plate and had to put white ones on it.

It was in Babes and bugs calendar the same year, then it supposedly went to Japan.
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1967 Class 5
1970 Class 11 HSD Racing
1972 5/1600 V-MAR/Rasta Baja
1956 Baja
1960 Sand Rover buggy
1965 Street bug
1967 Squareback

[Wade]

Dirtslinger.

Score!!!. I can't believe we found it. And now I see PP Stain parked in front. Nice.

Happy to help. Again, if you'd like the actual photos, shoot me your address and I'll drop them in the mail.

Cheers,
-Greg

[J Flare]

Good job, gscallon!

[Spezialist]

[Bryan67]

Ok... this thread made me dig up some memories. I`ll post my newsletters later. I was the SOTO Fresno chapter rep back then. And we used to drive down to Deer Park for the meets all the time. I used to have meets here in Fresno at Woodward park. And these eventually morphed the Madera Spring Fling.... The good old days.
Sorry about the sketchy pictures but they are in a photo album.

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[Skim]

[zehbeh]

[Fish]

In a box in the garage or a box tucked away in the closet I've got a video of the caravan to Famosa Raceway in Bakersfields from the early 80's. I'll look for it.
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# 303 and #156

Stop dead photo links! Post your photos to The Samba Gallery!

[Blue barny ute]

Hey there
I was in the Australian leg of the S.O.T.O in the early nineties which led to the A.S.K.K Australian Split Window Kombi Klub lots of great memories and crazy cheap prices! Unfortunately both my first splits a 64 single sold for $350and a 62 panel sold for $280 with the SOTO stickers ended in the tip not by me! I still have all the literature if anyone is interested in viewing just have to shuffle kombis to get to it!
Cheers!

[RockStock]

Please would someone be so kind to find the old SOTO Newsletter advert for my Barndoor Deluxe?
Probably sold out of Oregon. I was told it was in an early 1994 newsletter. Guess it could be a 93 or 94 edition.
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-StockRocks-