Loser, winner ....

[Tim Donahoe]

I went to the Wolfgang International Show & Shine today, but didn’t win a trophy . However, I spent five bucks on raffle tickets and won a $100.00 gift certificate at Wolfgang’s.

The problem is, I don’t really need anything now ....

Lots of bugs, buses, Things, Karmann Ghias, and the weather was in the 70’s.

Tim

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[mark tucker]

you will need it at some point. glad you had a good time.

[Buggeee]

Hey Congratulations Jerry! [Oops, I mean Tim. Your secret is safe with me ]

Great pictures. Whats with that shorty?! Lol gotta love those. And the W bus.

The season is open. "All thats left to do is smile, smile, smile..."
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72 Super Duper http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=672387
(adopted out) 61 Turkis Pile https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=728764

[Tim Donahoe]

Buggee, who’s Jerry? No secrets here. My name really is Tim Donahoe.

The 23-window bus belongs to one of the guys who works for Wolfgang International, so he has a custom “W” sign on the front, instead of the VW sign. Wolfgang manufactures all the side safari windows for buses, I guess.

The shorty was made by a guy who has two of them. He cuts the middles out and puts the car back together, using metal and 3/16 inch metal reinforcement. No fiberglass. Lots of welding and sanding, he said.

Tim
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[Tim Donahoe]

The last photo of the blue 1961 was used in the recent VW Woodstock commercial, where the bus is pushed by the concert goers, then the blue Bug is exposed.

Tim
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[Dwayne1m]

[vamram]

Nice double-take Tim! If I end up going out to CA to check out that other Super, I'll have to make a side-trip to Redding to have a beer (or two) with you, and to Wolfgang International. Out here in the mid-Atlantic, I feel like a character in an apocalyptic movie where you hear of places on the short-wave radio, then at the end, I take a trip to the west coast and see that they're real!
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'74 Super 9/16 - present, in refurb process.
'73 Super - 6/18 - Present - Daily Driver!
'75 Super Le Grande...waiting it's turn in line behind '74.
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[hitest]

That white '69 (ish) beetle for $3K has $600 worth of pedrinis on it!

Your car presents very well Tim. The Wolfgang bus is more as a "look what we can do" design study- those safaris down each side are custom- but the sell the front and rears.
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[Buggeee]

[Tim Donahoe]

I went on a tour of their shop. They make the front safari windows, too—and possibly the rears (I didn’t look to see, actually). Their bus may be an advertisement, but I’d love to have it!

Victor, are you still interested in that Chico Bug? You didn’t get back with me on it. Let me know.

And that’s Gerry Garcia—not Jerry. All Deadheads know that .

I loaded the first picture twice somehow, but the guy looked so cool, I didn’t think the doppelgänger was too scary ....

Tim
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[Buggeee]

[Buggeee]

[Tim Donahoe]

Buggeee, that cooler is a Thermodor. You put water in it, and when you’re moving along on the road, the air enters the front of the unit, makes contact with the water, evaporates some of it (which, not only makes the air more moist, but this evaporation process also makes the air cooler than mere water. For instance, when you get out of a swimming pool, the water begins to evaporate off your body, and you feel a chill because the evaporating process is much cooler than the water in the pool).

And thanks for the correction about Jerry. For years I’ve thought it was Gerry. Either way you spell it, your joke went right over my head, and I thought you had me mixed up with another Samba member.

In California, long hair on men seems to be more prevalent than what you’ll see back east. Long hair on retirees (like me) is even more common. It’s a cultural thing, I guess. Like I told a nun in 1967 while I was laying in bed in a hospital in Gallup, New Mexico (due to a car accident in a friend’s VW)—I said if long hair was good enough for Jesus, it was good enough for me. She replied that Jesus as a Jew, and long hair was a Jewish custom. Go figure. There’s no arguing with a nun ....

My brother was a Dead fan (as well as The Mothers of Invention; The Fugs, etc.), but I was more into Crosby, Stills, and Nash; Simon and Garfunkel; Jackson Brown; the Eagles; Dylan; Arlo Guthrie; Peter, Paul, and Mary, etc.

Tim
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[Tim Donahoe]

Oops, I forgot to mention this: out of all the bugs present at the show, my Sun Bug was the only round windscreen present. And there were a lot of bugs there today.

And the judges aren’t prejudice against Round-screen Supers. The judges are the people who come to show their bugs, and the lookyloos. Three years ago, at this same show, I won the best stock (The Way It Was) award. So, the crowd wasn’t down on Supers. Either that, or I had many more VW friends than I was aware of .

Tim
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[Buggeee]

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I can't remember the last time I won an award for showing a vehicle. Between popular vote, and the politics sometimes involved with judging, it's more of a pain in the ass to deal with. I already have gained the respect from those that matter. I go to see fellow enthusiasts I don't get to see that often. After 29 years in the hobby, the bar has been raised pretty high for workmanship on a vehicle for it to draw my attention at a show.

[vamram]

Hey Tim - oh yeah i'm interested alright. I pm'd you, not sure why my reply earlier didn't get to you.

Victor
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'74 Super 9/16 - present, in refurb process.
'73 Super - 6/18 - Present - Daily Driver!
'75 Super Le Grande...waiting it's turn in line behind '74.
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Save the Supers!!

[Cusser]

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