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PostPosted: Sun Nov 24, 2024 2:12 am    Post subject: Re: VW Split Window Club of America ? Reply with quote

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. Thumbs Up
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PostPosted: Sat Nov 23, 2024 10:14 pm    Post subject: Re: VW Split Window Club of America ? Reply with quote

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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. Think Think


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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PostPosted: Sat Nov 23, 2024 9:28 pm    Post subject: Re: VW Split Window Club of America ? Reply with quote

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. Think Think
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PostPosted: Sat Nov 23, 2024 8:14 pm    Post subject: Re: VW Split Window Club of America ? Reply with quote

Nice !
the Vintage Volkswagen club of America is still going
https://vvwca.com/
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PostPosted: Sat Nov 23, 2024 6:51 pm    Post subject: Re: VW Split Window Club of America ? Reply with quote

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Very cool Sinclair you know what split I will be putting that sticker on.
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 21, 2024 5:19 am    Post subject: Re: VW Split Window Club of America ? Reply with quote

A sticker in the back of my military 54 too
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 19, 2024 1:43 pm    Post subject: Re: VW Split Window Club of America ? Reply with quote

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PostPosted: Wed Nov 13, 2024 1:21 pm    Post subject: Re: VW Split Window Club of America ? Reply with quote

A flashback photo in time . . . . Popcorn

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PostPosted: Fri Nov 08, 2024 9:34 am    Post subject: Re: VW Split Window Club of America ? Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Thu Nov 07, 2024 4:36 pm    Post subject: Re: VW Split Window Club of America ? Reply with quote

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PostPosted: Thu Nov 07, 2024 1:28 pm    Post subject: Re: VW Split Window Club of America ? Reply with quote

Very cool !
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 05, 2024 8:07 am    Post subject: Re: VW Split Window Club of America ? Reply with quote

. . . . . . CHECK IT OUT Popcorn


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PostPosted: Mon Nov 04, 2024 10:03 pm    Post subject: Re: VW Split Window Club of America ? Reply with quote

What a great emblem!
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 04, 2024 8:41 pm    Post subject: Re: VW Split Window Club of America ? Reply with quote

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Couple of pieces from the old club
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PostPosted: Sat May 30, 2020 9:54 pm    Post subject: Re: VW Split Window Club of America ? Reply with quote

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I've had this decal on my '52 since the mid '80s
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PostPosted: Tue May 26, 2020 4:39 pm    Post subject: Re: VW Split Window Club of America ? Reply with quote

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?
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PostPosted: Tue May 26, 2020 9:10 am    Post subject: Re: VW Split Window Club of America ? Reply with quote

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PostPosted: Tue May 26, 2020 8:25 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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.

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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!

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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!
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PostPosted: Fri May 22, 2020 1:02 pm    Post subject: Re: VW Split Window Club of America ? Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Wed Dec 21, 2016 2:15 pm    Post subject: Re: VW Split Window Club of America ? Reply with quote

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.
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