'75 Original Hot VW Cover
deano:
Quote from: speedwell on January 19, 2008, 18:38:36 pm
those one ,were made by brad ???
Yes, by the time the feb '75 issue came out, my entire interior (black vinyl with blue velour) was done by Brad, including the trunk. That photo was taken the AutoRama show in late '74.
jholmes:
Quote from: speedwell on January 19, 2008, 19:00:44 pm
Quote from: jholmes on January 19, 2008, 17:06:28 pm
Quote from: vdubkid on January 18, 2008, 07:40:22 am
Those are some great photos. I noticed the antenna. Did you have a radio in the glovebox? 8 track player?Just curious. Also were those EMPI seats?
Yes, the tunes were in the glove box & as I remember there was a combo of an 8 track / radio at one time (again "not to date myself).
The frame of the seats were custom wielded (built) but can't remember where the fiberglass buckets came from. Greg Aronson might remember, I can ask him the next time I see him...
Jim
jim here's the pict from the stereo ;D ;D
Quote from: jholmes on January 19, 2008, 17:15:16 pm
Quote from: deano on January 19, 2008, 06:21:13 am
Your right Deano about the dash. The whole dash was replaced after the crash so might look slightly different. Rivets were used in both cases. Some pictures were taken earlier, I believe before the glass buckets were installed and before I owned the car. The car always had the fiberglass buckets when I had it. The passenger side hinged forward so someone could get into the back, which rarely happened. :)
thus the photo with the 2 small gauges and the other seats was the first version and then after the crash the buckets were installed and the dashboard changed and it have 3 small gauges in the place of the 2 , and consequently for this reason before there was a sticker becker bug house known with driver side and then it was a brad upholstry in place of old :D
jim can you tell us more about the crash if you know the story ::) that's greg who crash the car ??? if I correctly read what it is marked above ;D
Not much of a story what happened. It was me that owned and crashed the car at the time. I was going east on Lincoln Blvd around noon time. I think I was coming from FAT Performance. I was going through the intersection with a green light when some guy in a huge old American car (can't remember the make) pulled out from a gas station (on the other side of the intersection) right in front of me taking up both lanes. He was trying to go left (into my on coming traffic) but the traffic wouldn't let them continue his turn. He was stuck and so was I. I could have chosen to go into on coming traffic or jump the curb on the corner and take on the gas station. Neither sounded good to me at the time so I braced myself and "T" Boned the guy. All I know is I was looking at a green light and the next thing I saw was a big ass car taking up both lanes, stopped in front of me. The next thing, I was sitting on the curb looking at my car saying "Oh Shit"! Greg Aronson and I lived together at the time in an apartment so he was a great help to me (besides Breckers) in getting it back together, in fine shape I might add... ;D It probably took 3 months before it was back on the road.
Well that's about it... Hope you get the jest of it all, kind of hard to explain in an e-mail. ??? ;D
jholmes:
Quote from: jholmes on January 19, 2008, 20:49:35 pm
Quote from: speedwell on January 19, 2008, 19:00:44 pm
Quote from: jholmes on January 19, 2008, 17:06:28 pm
Quote from: vdubkid on January 18, 2008, 07:40:22 am
Those are some great photos. I noticed the antenna. Did you have a radio in the glovebox? 8 track player?Just curious. Also were those EMPI seats?
Yes, the tunes were in the glove box & as I remember there was a combo of an 8 track / radio at one time (again "not to date myself).
The frame of the seats were custom wielded (built) but can't remember where the fiberglass buckets came from. Greg Aronson might remember, I can ask him the next time I see him...
Jim
jim here's the pict from the stereo ;D ;D
Quote from: jholmes on January 19, 2008, 17:15:16 pm
Quote from: deano on January 19, 2008, 06:21:13 am
Your right Deano about the dash. The whole dash was replaced after the crash so might look slightly different. Rivets were used in both cases. Some pictures were taken earlier, I believe before the glass buckets were installed and before I owned the car. The car always had the fiberglass buckets when I had it. The passenger side hinged forward so someone could get into the back, which rarely happened. :)
thus the photo with the 2 small gauges and the other seats was the first version and then after the crash the buckets were installed and the dashboard changed and it have 3 small gauges in the place of the 2 , and consequently for this reason before there was a sticker becker bug house known with driver side and then it was a brad upholstry in place of old :D
jim can you tell us more about the crash if you know the story ::) that's greg who crash the car ??? if I correctly read what it is marked above ;D
Not much of a story what happened. It was me that owned and crashed the car at the time. I was going east on Lincoln Blvd around noon time. I think I was coming from FAT Performance. I was going through the intersection with a green light when some guy in a huge old American car (can't remember the make) pulled out from a gas station (on the other side of the intersection) right in front of me taking up both lanes. He was trying to go left (into my on coming traffic) but the traffic wouldn't let them continue his turn. He was stuck and so was I. I could have chosen to go into on coming traffic or jump the curb on the corner and take on the gas station. Neither sounded good to me at the time so I braced myself and "T" Boned the guy. All I know is I was looking at a green light and the next thing I saw was a big ass car taking up both lanes, stopped in front of me. The next thing, I was sitting on the curb looking at my car saying "Oh Shit"! Greg Aronson and I lived together at the time in an apartment so he was a great help to me (besides Breckers) in getting it back together, in fine shape I might add... ;D It probably took 3 months before it was back on the road.
Well that's about it... Hope you get the jest of it all, kind of hard to explain in an e-mail. ??? ;D
Oh, where did you get that picture of the glove box with my stereo? Funny, seeing that again! :o ;D
speedwell:
thx jim for the expalin ;)
speedwell:
Quote from: jholmes on January 19, 2008, 20:53:05 pm
Quote from: jholmes on January 19, 2008, 20:49:35 pm
Quote from: speedwell on January 19, 2008, 19:00:44 pm
Quote from: jholmes on January 19, 2008, 17:06:28 pm
Quote from: vdubkid on January 18, 2008, 07:40:22 am
Those are some great photos. I noticed the antenna. Did you have a radio in the glovebox? 8 track player?Just curious. Also were those EMPI seats?
Yes, the tunes were in the glove box & as I remember there was a combo of an 8 track / radio at one time (again "not to date myself).
The frame of the seats were custom wielded (built) but can't remember where the fiberglass buckets came from. Greg Aronson might remember, I can ask him the next time I see him...
Jim
jim here's the pict from the stereo ;D ;D
Quote from: jholmes on January 19, 2008, 17:15:16 pm
Quote from: deano on January 19, 2008, 06:21:13 am
Your right Deano about the dash. The whole dash was replaced after the crash so might look slightly different. Rivets were used in both cases. Some pictures were taken earlier, I believe before the glass buckets were installed and before I owned the car. The car always had the fiberglass buckets when I had it. The passenger side hinged forward so someone could get into the back, which rarely happened. :)
thus the photo with the 2 small gauges and the other seats was the first version and then after the crash the buckets were installed and the dashboard changed and it have 3 small gauges in the place of the 2 , and consequently for this reason before there was a sticker becker bug house known with driver side and then it was a brad upholstry in place of old :D
jim can you tell us more about the crash if you know the story ::) that's greg who crash the car ??? if I correctly read what it is marked above ;D
Not much of a story what happened. It was me that owned and crashed the car at the time. I was going east on Lincoln Blvd around noon time. I think I was coming from FAT Performance. I was going through the intersection with a green light when some guy in a huge old American car (can't remember the make) pulled out from a gas station (on the other side of the intersection) right in front of me taking up both lanes. He was trying to go left (into my on coming traffic) but the traffic wouldn't let them continue his turn. He was stuck and so was I. I could have chosen to go into on coming traffic or jump the curb on the corner and take on the gas station. Neither sounded good to me at the time so I braced myself and "T" Boned the guy. All I know is I was looking at a green light and the next thing I saw was a big ass car taking up both lanes, stopped in front of me. The next thing, I was sitting on the curb looking at my car saying "Oh Shit"! Greg Aronson and I lived together at the time in an apartment so he was a great help to me (besides Breckers) in getting it back together, in fine shape I might add... ;D It probably took 3 months before it was back on the road.
Well that's about it... Hope you get the jest of it all, kind of hard to explain in an e-mail. ??? ;D
Oh, where did you get that picture of the glove box with my stereo? Funny, seeing that again! :o ;D
if i remember well it was on the clf nostalgia corner here's the links http://www2.cal-look.com/nostalgia/aronson63.html
rgd
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