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sinclair Samba Member

Joined: July 01, 2004 Posts: 419 Location: New Forest UK
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Posted: Sun Nov 24, 2024 2:12 am Post subject: Re: VW Split Window Club of America ? |
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Sorry to wander off topic a little. I’m interested because the car is CCG military, plus two Belgian civilian owners. But the original paint makes me think it has American army connections. I’ll save that for another topic though.  |
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empiracer Samba Member

Joined: December 17, 2002 Posts: 1105 Location: Issaquah / Seattle, Wa.
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Posted: Sat Nov 23, 2024 10:14 pm Post subject: Re: VW Split Window Club of America ? |
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Two Glove Boxes wrote: |
empiracer wrote: |
Nice !
the Vintage Volkswagen club of America is still going
https://vvwca.com/ |
I heard it hasn't been in years but I just checked the website out.  |
Far as i know ithe Volkswagen Club of America has kept going all this time since 1976
However lets not get it confused with the subject of this thread the Volkswagen Split window club of America, this club focused only on Split Beetle and also probably earlier VW’s, i dont know exactly when the Split Window club called it quits late 80’s early 90’s ? |
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Two Glove Boxes Samba Member

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empiracer Samba Member

Joined: December 17, 2002 Posts: 1105 Location: Issaquah / Seattle, Wa.
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Posted: Sat Nov 23, 2024 8:14 pm Post subject: Re: VW Split Window Club of America ? |
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Nice !
the Vintage Volkswagen club of America is still going
https://vvwca.com/ |
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Two Glove Boxes Samba Member

Joined: March 03, 2005 Posts: 908 Location: Texas
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sinclair Samba Member

Joined: July 01, 2004 Posts: 419 Location: New Forest UK
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Posted: Thu Nov 21, 2024 5:19 am Post subject: Re: VW Split Window Club of America ? |
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A sticker in the back of my military 54 too
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Two Glove Boxes Samba Member

Joined: March 03, 2005 Posts: 908 Location: Texas
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Hacksaw-BoB Samba Member

Joined: March 12, 2009 Posts: 824 Location: Arizona
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Posted: Wed Nov 13, 2024 1:21 pm Post subject: Re: VW Split Window Club of America ? |
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A flashback photo in time . . . .
_________________ Hacksaw BoB
http://www.VintageVolkswagenModels.com
Collector of Vintage VW Toys
BoB's Restor-Version Shop |
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empiracer Samba Member

Joined: December 17, 2002 Posts: 1105 Location: Issaquah / Seattle, Wa.
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Posted: Fri Nov 08, 2024 9:34 am Post subject: Re: VW Split Window Club of America ? |
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Bob i love your display of badges, do you know who did the earlier hand drawn logo for the split window club ?
I would love to find one of the early decals for my collection? |
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Hacksaw-BoB Samba Member

Joined: March 12, 2009 Posts: 824 Location: Arizona
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Posted: Thu Nov 07, 2024 4:36 pm Post subject: Re: VW Split Window Club of America ? |
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_________________ Hacksaw BoB
http://www.VintageVolkswagenModels.com
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BoB's Restor-Version Shop |
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VWNYCMike Samba Member
Joined: March 30, 2022 Posts: 61 Location: NYC USA
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Posted: Thu Nov 07, 2024 1:28 pm Post subject: Re: VW Split Window Club of America ? |
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Very cool ! |
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Hacksaw-BoB Samba Member

Joined: March 12, 2009 Posts: 824 Location: Arizona
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Posted: Tue Nov 05, 2024 8:07 am Post subject: Re: VW Split Window Club of America ? |
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. . . . . . CHECK IT OUT
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http://www.VintageVolkswagenModels.com
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bwaz Samba Member

Joined: August 24, 2004 Posts: 1807
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Posted: Mon Nov 04, 2024 10:03 pm Post subject: Re: VW Split Window Club of America ? |
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What a great emblem! |
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empiracer Samba Member

Joined: December 17, 2002 Posts: 1105 Location: Issaquah / Seattle, Wa.
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Posted: Mon Nov 04, 2024 8:41 pm Post subject: Re: VW Split Window Club of America ? |
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Couple of pieces from the old club |
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Grant Reiling Samba Slow-Change Artist

Joined: November 28, 2003 Posts: 493 Location: behind the wheel
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Posted: Sat May 30, 2020 9:54 pm Post subject: Re: VW Split Window Club of America ? |
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I've had this decal on my '52 since the mid '80s
_________________ 1952 Azure Blue 12G (LHD Deluxe 3-fold sunroof Sedan).
"What you really know is possible in your heart is possible.
We make it possible by our will.
What we imagine in our minds becomes our world. That’s just one of many things I have learned from water."
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aa390392 Samba Member

Joined: March 28, 2007 Posts: 3601 Location: So.Cal
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Posted: Tue May 26, 2020 4:39 pm Post subject: Re: VW Split Window Club of America ? |
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Back in early 70's I contacted Steve, He directed me send for a free birth certificate, (yes free) from Wolfsburg, they sent me a nice little packet which included (4) 8x11 black and white glossies of a 1953 and history of my car. Not certain but I think I was a short time member who received quarterly news letters? _________________ .
getting grumpy & less tolerant!
55 ragtop
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ZENVWDRIVER Samba Member

Joined: November 07, 2008 Posts: 3340 Location: N.E. Oklahoma
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Posted: Tue May 26, 2020 9:10 am Post subject: Re: VW Split Window Club of America ? |
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_________________ 5/50, pastel green 11G - SOLD
8/50, gray 11A Beetle
6/52, pastel green 11C - SOLD
11/4/52, black Zwitter - SOLD to my little bro.
1954 Porsche, pre A, with VW 36 horse- SOLD
1/54, black 11C Beetle - TRADED
2/55 Iceland green Beetle, on a 1965 pan
3/55 113 Beetle, stratos silver
1955 Messerschmitt KR175 - SOLD, sadly
1960 single cab
1962 SO33, with SO 42 interior
9/63 Pacific blue, Ghia
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BulliBill Samba Member

Joined: July 09, 2004 Posts: 4693 Location: St Charles, MO
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Posted: Tue May 26, 2020 8:25 am Post subject: |
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joe h. wrote: |
Jeff used to also restore semaphores. He is very good at it too.
If you see this sticker, it's a Slater semaphore.
Btw empiracer, we should hook up for a cold one soon. I have some info on the subjects we were talking about at the brewery. |
As a weird point of side interest, Jeff was a great friend for many years. I stayed at his place often while flying out to attend the Seattle Vintage VW meets. I could go on and on and on about our adventures. I bought my first Oval Beetle from him.
As for his semaphore restorations, he was great. I still have a pair put away that he did for my '55 Oval with orange lenses and a pair of convertible semaphores he restored for a future project I have put away. He showed me how to restore them, and at some point he mentioned that he wanted to have those stickers for the cloth-wrapped windings made with his initials instead of SWF. I have a background in graphic and technical illustration, and long story short, I sketched his logo up, did final artwork of that logo in the above photo and gave it to him and he had them printed up and he installed that sticker on his restored semaphores from that point on.
Jeff was a great guy, a super-enthusiast, and I still miss his company!
Bill Bowman
p.s. Great to hear that Cliff Crate is still alive and kicking. He was (still is?) a lot of fun back in my early days of Volkswagening in the late 70's. He had an amazing collection of old rare VW cars and parts and a head full of knowledge! I hope he is still playing with them! _________________ I'm looking for these license plate frames for my fleet:
Coeur D'Alene - Lake Shore Volkswagen
Mission VW - San Fernando
Thornton VW - Stockton
Thanks for any help! |
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Daftendirekte Samba Member

Joined: July 26, 2010 Posts: 24 Location: Salem, Oregon
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Posted: Fri May 22, 2020 1:02 pm Post subject: Re: VW Split Window Club of America ? |
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So, I haven't heard of Steve Wood but I just did a sit down with Cliff Crate.
The story he gave me was that Bob Scott started the Split Window Club of America as early as '72 at his (Cliff's) chicken farm in the San Fernando Valley. Bob Scott, Rich Kimball, Jim Thompson, and some 25 other people got together to found the club and it morphed into the Vintage VW Club of America in 1976 or so |
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Herbie3Rivers Samba Member

Joined: May 07, 2001 Posts: 1271 Location: Pittsburgh, PA
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Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2016 2:15 pm Post subject: Re: VW Split Window Club of America ? |
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About 10 years ago I picked up a handful of some old newsletters from the club off Terry Shuler. A couple of them even had letters from Steve Wood to Terry. Great stuff. _________________ Yeah I like Herbie AND New Beetles. Got a problem with it? Tough.
2010 New Beetle Final Edition
2009 Ford Mustang Bullitt
1999 New Beetle GLS
1983 Mercedes 300D
1974 Karmann Ghia
1972 Super Beetle
1970 Beetle Sunroof
1959 Original Herbie #6
1956 Oval
Three Rvers VW Club
Pittsburgh Vintage Grand Prix
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