1990-1993 (FORMERLY 4 YEARS- NOW CONDENSED TO 3)
Jim Ratto:
Quote from: Bruce on October 21, 2016, 06:47:35 am
Quote from: Jim Ratto on October 20, 2016, 17:08:00 pm
.... Bill's car, ......, the V-8 looking turbo muffler attached to the merged header (way before this was de rigueur on modified VW's around the world), .
This was more significant than you think, Jim. That was the first car to ever have a big V8 muffler on it.
Hi Bruce, I remember Greg Brinton's car, when it had the 1914 in it, had same style. Greg was my contact at Rimco way back then, and when calling down there, must have been 1991 (?) I asked him about it, he told me some guy named "Tiger at A1" made them.
Of all the cool "one off" mufflers I've seen over the years, it was Dave Mason's side exit that I liked the best. It looked all-business, and sounded like Mt Vesuvius going off. I'm surprised his muffler style didn't take off like the V8-turbo/magna-mega flow style did.
Jim Ratto:
Quote from: Fastbrit on October 21, 2016, 15:29:23 pm
Fun reading! Realise that our paths must have crossed at shows back in the late 1980s/1990-ish as I was in the USA three times a year back then, going to a variety of events along the way including Jamboree, the Goodguys VWevents and a whole bunch of PRA and other non-PRA drag races. Buying my Wilwood brakes from SCS, served by this tall skinny guy in glasses who I later came to know and love as Mark H. Seeing the rats running around the back warehouse area at Johnny's Speed & Chrome on Beach... Seeing Bill's car at a cruise night at the burger place on the corner of Beach and Orangethorpe way before I ever met Bill. Happy days - when Pomona swap meet was really good, too.
Thanks Keith. We probably did cross tracks somewhere. Back then I tried to make it down to every Southern CA VW event I could. The following summer, 1991, I was out with a girl, having dinner and a movie, the night before Jamboree. When the movie was over and I was taking her home, she asked what I was doing after. "Driving to L A" was my answer. She ended up just coming with me. Fiat again.
Bill Schwimmer:
Quote from: Fastbrit on October 21, 2016, 15:29:23 pm
Fun reading! Realise that our paths must have crossed at shows back in the late 1980s/1990-ish as I was in the USA three times a year back then, going to a variety of events along the way including Jamboree, the Goodguys VWevents and a whole bunch of PRA and other non-PRA drag races. Buying my Wilwood brakes from SCS, served by this tall skinny guy in glasses who I later came to know and love as Mark H. Seeing the rats running around the back warehouse area at Johnny's Speed & Chrome on Beach... Seeing Bill's car at a cruise night at the burger place on the corner of Beach and Orangethorpe way before I ever met Bill. Happy days - when Pomona swap meet was really good, too.
We used to have a bunch o fun at Pomona, I am thinking I taught Keith the concept of buying & selling stuff out there. It was pre internet so there were plenty of deals out there. I remember Mark H. had upset one of the vendors out there and I had to do the deal for him. It was for a set of gasburners, I am pretty sure it was $180 for the 4. Great times.
Jim Ratto:
Quote from: Bill Schwimmer on October 21, 2016, 19:29:45 pm
Quote from: Fastbrit on October 21, 2016, 15:29:23 pm
Fun reading! Realise that our paths must have crossed at shows back in the late 1980s/1990-ish as I was in the USA three times a year back then, going to a variety of events along the way including Jamboree, the Goodguys VWevents and a whole bunch of PRA and other non-PRA drag races. Buying my Wilwood brakes from SCS, served by this tall skinny guy in glasses who I later came to know and love as Mark H. Seeing the rats running around the back warehouse area at Johnny's Speed & Chrome on Beach... Seeing Bill's car at a cruise night at the burger place on the corner of Beach and Orangethorpe way before I ever met Bill. Happy days - when Pomona swap meet was really good, too.
We used to have a bunch o fun at Pomona, I am thinking I taught Keith the concept of buying & selling stuff out there. It was pre internet so there were plenty of deals out there. I remember Mark H. had upset one of the vendors out there and I had to do the deal for him. It was for a set of gasburners, I am pretty sure it was $180 for the 4. Great times.
Pre-internet is the key. I would have never got the Fourtuned header discussed above as cheap as I did after the internet.
Sort of off topic, but in mid-nineties, when internet was barely used by car-hobby people, two similar situations happened over the counter at Buggy House:
1. Guy comes in one day and ask if anybody knows about Weber carbs. I was asked to talk to the guy. He said he was cleaning out his garage and found some Bug Webers and wanted to know if we'd buy them. I told him Webers were dated now, nobody really ran them anymore, but bring them by and we'd look at them to cannibalize for parts. Guy comes back in an hour with a pair of 48's, and asks me If I'd give him $100.00 for the pair. I tried to talk him down to $75 but paid him the $100.
2. few weeks later another guy comes in with a "VW distributor" and wants to know if somebody will trade him some H4 conversion 7" lights. The "distributor" was a Vertex mag. I traded him, but turns out the mag didn't fire. I forget what I ever did with it.
Zach Gomulka:
That stuff still happens!
When I was still doing upholstery a guy came in with a 69-70 convertible. All stock but with an original EMPI Eliminator shifter on it. I traded him straight up for a stock shifter :)
My buddy has a bunch of those stories. People just drop valuable stuff off at his shop every now and then. Or sell it for pennies on the dollar. It's the only perk that makes me wish I owned a VW shop :D
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