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Stock Steve
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 04, 2021 9:32 am    Post subject: Re: Creeky the '69 Bug Reply with quote

Legacy tribute "CREEKY" plate in honor of my former '69 Bug...

I sold my trusty "Creeky" '69 Bug last year, on which I used to run a Connecticut "Early American" vanity plate, "CREEKY." I don't have an antique car available now to put it on (and it wouldn't seem right actually to put that actual plate onto another car). Did realize, however, that I could request a vanity "regular" Connecticut passenger plate (on "Save The Sound" base, which I think is really attractive) with the same inscription, and did so just recently. So, now, "CREEKY" lives on, as a tribute, on my '05 Outback.

BELOW: The pair of CT "EA" ("Early American" was CT's former designation for antique plates--available to any car 20 years old or older) plates (& frames) that I ran on my former '69 Bug. The "SKOOBIE" plate was on my '05 Outback until I replaced it with the new "CREEKY" plate (see the next image):
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BELOW: New "CREEKY" plate as-installed on my dirty, grimy (too cold to wash) '05 Outback. Looks dull & grimy due to piece of plastic in front of it that I use to protect the plate. "SKOOBIE" just came off of it; note the skinnier font used for the seven-digit plate, to make it fit onto the Long Island Sound base (which has some of its width taken up by the lighthouse graphic):
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 15, 2021 7:07 am    Post subject: Re: Creeky the '69 Bug Reply with quote

This is one of my favourite bugs , glad it found a good home.
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 15, 2021 8:21 am    Post subject: Re: Creeky the '69 Bug Reply with quote

calvinater wrote:
This is one of my favourite bugs , glad it found a good home.


Thanks so much Calvinator!
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 06, 2021 9:11 am    Post subject: Re: Creeky the '69 Bug Reply with quote

I had a set of these on the Creeky Bug and ended up selling them--these are NOT easy to find! If I wasn't already flush with 14s (I have set of 5-slots on my '70 Bug, and also a set of 14" Gurneys waiting in the wings, eventually to be refinished), I'd try to grab them. These appear to be the Western Wheels version that appears to mimic the "Minilite" look. Definitely cool in my book!

https://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/detail.php?id=2464031

I ended up selling my set, complete with the tires, to someone who was restoring, I think, a "Puma" somewhere up in Massachusetts. Here's an old circa 2016 picture from the Creeky Bug days:

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