The Cal-look Lounge

Somebody has to start this thread ;) So do post photos of DAS' cars.. Members who post regularly, Yves, Roland, share some stuff from the most influencial VW club in Europe..

Fast-Freddy in the pits of Spa Francorchamps
(http://www.terovirta.com/images/2000_SpaFrancochamps_23.jpg)

(http://www.terovirta.com/images/2000_SpaFrancochamps_22.jpg)

(http://www.terovirta.com/images/2000_SpaFrancochamps_18.jpg)

Boss' Golden Oval at Bugshow/Spa 2000
(http://www.terovirta.com/images/2000_SpaFrancochamps_33.jpg)

(http://www.terovirta.com/images/2000_SpaFrancochamps_34.jpg)

(http://www.terovirta.com/images/2000_SpaFrancochamps_36.jpg)

(http://www.terovirta.com/images/2000_SpaFrancochamps_35.jpg)

(http://www.terovirta.com/images/2001_Spa_84.jpg)
The Bo$$-man himself  ;)

Pat's sunroof
(http://www.terovirta.com/images/2000_SpaFrancochamps_40.jpg)

(http://www.terovirta.com/images/2000_SpaFrancochamps_41.jpg)

Anthrazite Gray '63 ('62?)
(http://www.terovirta.com/images/2000_SpaFrancochamps_42.jpg)

Xavier
(http://www.terovirta.com/images/2000_SpaFrancochamps_44.jpg)

(http://www.terovirta.com/images/2000_SpaFrancochamps_45.jpg)

Off-road Oval
(http://www.terovirta.com/images/2000_SpaFrancochamps_46.jpg)

(http://www.terovirta.com/images/2000_SpaFrancochamps_47.jpg)

"Fleming pre-cal replica"
(http://www.terovirta.com/images/2001_Spa_41.jpg)

(http://www.terovirta.com/images/2001_Spa_40.jpg)

One of the cars (if not the car) that started the nostalgia drag racing thing in Europe
(http://www.terovirta.com/images/2001_Spa_25.jpg)

(http://www.terovirta.com/images/2001_Spa_27.jpg)

(http://www.terovirta.com/images/2001_Spa_26.jpg)

(http://www.terovirta.com/images/2001_Spa_61.jpg)

(http://www.terovirta.com/images/2001_Spa_62.jpg)

(http://www.terovirta.com/images/2001_Spa_56.jpg)

Mike's early Oval, one of my all-time favourites..
(http://www.terovirta.com/images/2001_Spa_63.jpg)

(http://www.terovirta.com/images/2001_Spa_64.jpg)

(http://www.terovirta.com/images/2001_Spa_65.jpg)

(http://www.terovirta.com/images/2003_DasDragDay_01.jpg)

(http://www.terovirta.com/images/2003_DasDragDay_04.jpg)

(http://www.terovirta.com/images/2003_DasDragDay_15.jpg)

(http://www.terovirta.com/images/2003_DasDragDay_06.jpg)

(http://www.terovirta.com/images/2003_DasDragDay_17.jpg)

(http://www.terovirta.com/images/2003_DasDragDay_10.jpg)

(http://www.terovirta.com/images/2003_DasDragDay_09.jpg)

Pat (http://www.pat.be)'s shop
(http://www.terovirta.com/images/2003_PatOpening_01.jpg)

Emrerson's Corvair-powered Fastback
(http://www.terovirta.com/images/2003_PatOpening_14.jpg)

(http://[img]http://www.terovirta.com/images/2004_Bitburg_31.jpg)[/img]

(http://www.terovirta.com/images/2004_Bitburg_19.jpg)

Kobus
(http://www.terovirta.com/images/2004_Bitburg_20.jpg)

(http://www.terovirta.com/images/2004_Bitburg_18.jpg)

(http://www.terovirta.com/images/2004_Bitburg_10.jpg)

(http://www.terovirta.com/images/2004_Spa_16.jpg)

(http://www.terovirta.com/images/2004_Volksworld_02.jpg)

Fast Freddy's firetruck that became the EBI bus..
(http://www.terovirta.com/images/2006_BugShow_06.jpg)

(http://www.terovirta.com/images/2006_BugShow_04.jpg)

(http://www.terovirta.com/images/2006_BugShow_103.jpg)

(http://www.terovirta.com/images/2006_BugShow_97.jpg)

(http://www.terovirta.com/images/2006_BugShow_100.jpg)

(http://www.terovirta.com/images/2006_BugShow_102.jpg)

(http://www.terovirta.com/imagesToo/2007_PATOpenDay_009.jpg)

(http://www.terovirta.com/imagesToo/2007_PATOpenDay_007.jpg)

(http://www.terovirta.com/imagesToo/2007_PATOpenDay_006.jpg)

(http://www.terovirta.com/imagesToo/2007_PATOpenDay_005.jpg)

(http://www.terovirta.com/imagesToo/2007_PATOpenDay_008.jpg)

(http://www.terovirta.com/imagesToo/2007_PATOpenDay_022.jpg)

Damien's car without graphics for change  :)
(http://www.terovirta.com/imagesToo/2007_PATOpenDay_033.jpg)

One of Pat's rides
(http://www.terovirta.com/imagesToo/2007_PATOpenDay_041.jpg)

(http://www.terovirta.com/imagesToo/2008_EBI_027.jpg)

(http://www.terovirta.com/imagesToo/2008_EBI_022.jpg)

(http://www.terovirta.com/imagesToo/2008_EBI_026.jpg)

(http://www.terovirta.com/imagesToo/2008_EBI_025.jpg)

Great threat Tero. European Cal-Look history in the making!!!

Lots of nice stuff guys!!

It's about time!!  Nice job, Tero.  8) 8) 8)  Now, how about some club "stories"  ;)

Nice cars and people . what i like most is that you are the club in europe i know that brings the most cars for racing . Keep on like this

See you
Udo

DAS who are they then :P :D ;D

i've tons of pictures from the das but i've a little problem with the computer i will post later

great post, great cars, great club and great people
well done DAS.

Great thread,now it's up to you DAS-guys,to tell some story's.
I'll like to hear them.   ;)

[blush] Wow, err, mmmh, yeah [\blush]

Most influential club in Europe I don't know... but somehow I hope we do, because there are some very motivated people in the club that put a lot of effort to 'promote' this scene.

Also, I think the reason why the club is so tight (and some will say selective) is that we're first and foremost a bunch of friends. The cars follow naturally.

So, what do you guys wanna know?

I'll give you my favourite top 3 cars in the club 
- Xavier's sepia 67 on centerlines (the archetype of cal-look)
- Philippe's green oval (went 12.6 w/o nitrous, we'll see this year)
- Roland's Jeans bug ;D



(PS: that's quite a collection of pics Tero, thanks for that!)

Nice Topic Tero!
I looked in my books,and find some.

Spa 1996.

(http://94.100.115.45/513400001-513450000/513441001-513441100/513441048_6_upIm.jpeg)

And this was Budel 1995,is this car stil alive guys?

(http://94.100.113.233/513400001-513450000/513441101-513441200/513441159_6_CblZ.jpeg)

(http://94.100.114.12/513400001-513450000/513441001-513441100/513441077_6_uXc5.jpeg)

(http://94.100.113.212/513400001-513450000/513441101-513441200/513441115_6_V_V6.jpeg)

This was also Budel 1995.

(http://94.100.115.105/513400001-513450000/513441201-513441300/513441214_6_T9bC.jpeg)

(http://94.100.113.159/513400001-513450000/513441201-513441300/513441244_6_Ocgv.jpeg)

(http://blogsimages.skynet.be/images_v2/000/002/114/20090306/dyn007_original_822_605_jpeg_2114_8135f9584cdaaa2a41a38ebe84593441.jpg)

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(http://blogsimages.skynet.be/images_v2/000/002/114/20090306/dyn006_original_822_647_jpeg_2114_2e05c653e945cadca07938246467a384.jpg)

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(http://blogsimages.skynet.be/images_v2/000/002/114/20090303/dyn003_original_822_629_jpeg_2114_eb64c42dd2e43a6e0ac42a3daf5f21f6.jpg)

(http://blogsimages.skynet.be/images_v2/000/002/114/20090302/dyn003_original_822_612_jpeg_2114_495d69a52ef18c2f20b5641a95b3f2f6.jpg)

(http://blogsimages.skynet.be/images_v2/000/002/114/20090302/dyn004_original_822_684_jpeg_2114_0c56a9a557fae4df10c27da5c43b0a7f.jpg)

(http://blogsimages.skynet.be/images_v2/000/000/000/20090302/dyn008_original_822_612_jpeg__dbf17dc6ab18c2a78f6498908735b646.jpg)

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(http://blogsimages.skynet.be/images_v2/000/002/114/20090224/dyn007_original_822_742_jpeg_2114_256db8674f4bc80cfe8fa4b632b843d2.jpg)

(http://blogsimages.skynet.be/images_v2/000/002/114/20090220/dyn003_original_822_687_jpeg_2114_8656176e828103e244c705e1f037c498.jpg)

(http://blogsimages.skynet.be/images_v2/000/002/114/20090306/dyn005_original_822_683_jpeg_2114_d464c569fee9f5e13c007020b88e47f9.jpg)

the black one is mine  ;D ;D ;D and none are das car  :-\

jeepee  the water green car of the twins was sale in 95/96 in france in i remember well
the grey bus was owned by emerson , pat had the beige off road oval

DAS club was first a resto cal oriented club, before seen the light through "The Bible".  ;D ;D

Lot's of cool cars and nice people  ;)

I remember my second visit to Spa: it must have been in 2001 when I arrived in my freshly rebuild oval (I was given the "bible" about one year before from some guys of a german club called DFL or omething like that... :D . The car can be seen in the background of one of the pics, parked next to Manuel Brügger´s (Luftkraft) stunning grey single cab). I was so overwhelmed when I drove to the plateau where all those beautiful cal lookers were parked for show and shine. Right in the middle was a huge tent with lots of cal lookers parked around it. It was the DAS club booth and I was overwhelmed by the quality of the cars. The one car that was my favorite back then was Mike´s blue oval with gasburners and a Berg 5-speed if I remember correctly.
On the long trip home to Wolfsburg we talked for hours about what we had seen as we had never seen so many cool european cal lookers in one place before.
Well done, DAS!

Tobi

Hey have some pictures from Budel the black the green en bleu car, always wondered if they were DAS cars.

What is a little less known fact is that while they have world class Cal-Lookers in the DAS club, they also have world class potato fries. Give them a try if you have the chance!  ;D

Well i would just like to say thanks to all the DAS guys and girls. For welcome us in to your homes and spend your own time with us.

Sorry will post some photos of your cars later but here the ones of Nico asleep. I know i have posted them before but i still think they are funny.

(http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b115/gold65turbo/nico.jpg)

(http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b115/gold65turbo/nico2.jpg)

(http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b115/gold65turbo/nico3.jpg)

Are you sure Fabian?
They posted ones on there Blog,long time ago.
(The picture is mine.)

jeepee i know my car  ;D ;D ;D the black one was my 9years daily driver , the 62 pale green is xavier(Godfather of my daughter) and the blue one with 4.5 "/7" fuchs is marc"hellcat" car

at the time we were the volks vw dub unlimited club , an old school/cal look club in belgium  ,we were well known in Belgium as the DAS at this moment there

96 was the year when i put the flat4 on my car  , at the time there isn't so much car with brms/f4 , she  was awared at the super vw national in ancy(france) the same year

awesome cars!
are the DAS lot going to have another big display in the uk this year...?

OK,Fabian,I believe you. :-\
So I have to remove this picture? ???

no why  ;D

i took the same pictures too with the same angle
but sorry for non posting picture because problem with windows and internet explorer  :'( :'(

Ok then I post them. ;)
I hope you like them.

(http://94.100.114.11/514450001-514500000/514473701-514473800/514473773_6__aDS.jpeg)

(http://94.100.113.166/514450001-514500000/514473901-514474000/514473945_6_68lh.jpeg)

(http://94.100.114.194/514450001-514500000/514475101-514475200/514475141_6_Kbuw.jpeg)

Some more.

(http://94.100.113.146/514500001-514550000/514531701-514531800/514531709_6_8Sh3.jpeg)

(http://94.100.114.93/514500001-514550000/514532101-514532200/514532125_6_M7ln.jpeg)

(http://94.100.113.113/514500001-514550000/514532101-514532200/514532184_6_-63Q.jpeg)

Cool topic, a great bunch of people with some very cool cars for sure. Keep on Buggin'...  8)

Bitburg Test Session in July 2007.


Wheather was nice and the week-end was looking good.
(http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b166/yvre/P1010822.jpg)

As usual, Chris broke his gearbox on the saturday.
(http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b166/yvre/P1010783.jpg)

But on sunday, Mike also gave up due to clutch problems...
(http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b166/yvre/P1010818.jpg)

...closely followed by Phil, who blew a nice big hole in one of his heads!!!
(http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b166/yvre/P1010824.jpg)


Oh well, we still had fun!

Awesome pics, guys but we need more club "stories" here.... you know, drunken tomfoolery ::) ;D

Hmmm....

Can't remember any of those... ;) ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

Frank

Thanxs for the kind words Tobi, Mike's car runs a "normal" 4 Speed tranny with a "Berg 5" shifter handle...but indeed a very nice Car...!!!

Frank

Thank You Udo...!!!

Frank

   sigh..... ::) ;D

Awesome thread guys, would love to see more pictures!

How about UK road trips? I know there's been a couple!

(http://vw.zona13.com/gallery2/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=1477&g2_serialNumber=1)

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Some really great cars!  I've always enjoyed Pat's sunroof car.........clean, small but stout engine(69x90.5 if it still the same as when I spoke with him some years back) and a pretty color combo.  The tan car with American's (please excuse me, I don't know who owns this car) is beautiful as well...........heck, they are all great!  Thanks for the pictures.

Pat's car had a 1776cc until last year (best E.T. around 13.15 I think). He switched to a 78mm crank last summer and immediately did a 12 something (can't remember). Well, when I say He, I should say She... Vanessa (his girlfriend) is driving the car nowadays... and she's faster than him!!!

He is now building a dedicated racer.

Thanks for the update Yves.  That is one serious project.  Again, congratulations to everyone in the club and give my best to Pat.

Dave

I have lots of memories connectet to DAS and his members, but there is one that will always be remembered.

Seven years ago my friend and fellow club member Sven and I took off for a trip to the Super VW Nationals in France. You have to know that the french border is just 15 min away from my home in Germany but we had to go to the other side of France - to Lège-Cap Ferret at the Atlantic coast some 1300 kilometers (around 800 miles) to go.
We drove all through the night and arrived at the following morning in our camp. Kobus was so nice to book a cottage (shanty, what ever you want to call it) for us and our swiss friends Chritophe and Marc. The green Split used to be Christophes car and now resides in the states, the Ghia is mine. The cottages were between pine trees and and there were lots of VWs, mainly Cal Looker, mainly DAS cars.

It was so cool to get up in the morning, woken up by a barking pair of IDAs or two... And imagine you open the window shade in the kitchen and you are looking at Muppet Racer - great!

Another picture of our little camp. Sorry for the crew cab on 17" cup wheels.  ;)

Anyways, I guess you got the picture. Sunshine, cool show, fantastic cars, what else can you ask for. Our good friend Serge Le Flohic of Super VW Magazine invited us to his house so we drove in a convoi to his place. It was awesome to drive with so many DAS Lookers in one long queue. The following pictures are taken in front of Serges house. Wonder what the neighbors thought.  ;D

Another one. I was really proud to have my car there.  ;)

The best part is still to come.  :D

At the early afternoon of the last day of the show (Saturday) Sven and I drove back to our cottage. The swiss guys had left allready and our plan was to clean up the place, packing things up, taking a nap and then going to a 60s styled McDonalds in near by Bordeaux in the evening. After meeting up with other people there we wanted to go on our trip back home.

It never happend this way...

We were just sitting in the car, talking about the last days as all of a sudden the windshield broke a thousand pieces. A big hole was at the passenger side of the windshield, luckily Sven was ok. We stopped, had no clue what had just happend. I thought: "Ok, it's nothing serious, it's just the windscreen. It's easy to fix!"

Yes, easy if you have a new windscreen. But we weren't in Germany were I know people with Razoredge parts, we were in the middle of nowhere. It took me a while to realise that...

Some Germans stopped to help us and so we took the windshield - or what was left of it - out of the frame. Some other friends of ours from Hamburg, Germany, came by in their Split Bus and we followed them in their slipstream back to our camp.

Back at the cottage we started to think about what to do. Sven suggested to lend two helmets of Serge and drive back in style.  :o

After an hour or so the DAS guys came back from the show and Kobus, Freddy, Laurent and the twins instantly started to help us finding a solution. Laurent suggested to use two Type 3 sidewindows he had like on a v-screen 356. We tried it and even "borrowed" a wood slat from one of the slatted frames in the cottage that we wanted to use as the center piece. Needless to say it was to flat to cover the whole opening.

Suddenly my friends from Hamburg suggested to take a Baywindow windscreen. They even knew of an abandoned Bay close by. Ok, give it a try I thought.

They drove to that place, took the screen and came back. Kobus gave us the rubberfoam mattress of his T3 (T25 for you brits) Bus, that is located on top of the engine service flap. We used it to dampen the Baywindow glass and taped it onto the Ghia. Then we took the T2 screen and taped it also. After that we cut out the rubberfoam from the inside.

It was dark in the meantime, we still had to clean the cottage and packing up. We were frickin tired because we got up that morning by 6 a.m.

I rubbed Rainex on the screen because it looked like it was going to rain. I really wasn't sure if this would bring us back savely but there was no other chance. We left Lège-Cap Ferret by 10 or 11 a.m. and had no sleep. When we hit Bordeaux after like 40 km of driving I was so tired that Sven had to drive. We swap seats every hour, one and a half at the max. We just stopped for gas and to pee. We had rain two times at night and we didn't drive faster than 120 km/h (75 miles) all the way.

The Ghia looked like it had diving goggles...  :D

And that is the view from the inside:

After 15 hours of non-stop driving we arrives at my house - tired but very happy.

I was really glad to had Kobus, Freddy, Laurent, the twins and the guys from Hamburg. They gave us good support and encourage us.
Thanks again after seven years, I will never forget your help! And Kobus, I think I still owe you a rubberfoam mattress!  :-[

That is real Cal Look friendship!

 :o :o :o :o awesome georg

Hi Georg,a nice story with a happy end.
It's nice to have some people who are willing to help when you're in trouble(especially so far from home).
Like you said:"callook-friendship"   ;)

Fantastic story! Love the pictures, too.
Thanks!

Tero, thanks for this dedicated post :)
It's great to see unseen DAS pictures taken by other peoples !

Hum, I need to answer to Sarge (he told us some great stuff last week :) 
So, what about stories and histories from the Der Autobahn Scrapers vw club ? This is Belgian Volks Genesis... Let's degin five years before Das was created.

When I was reading Sarge's stories about is school memories with his VW friends I was thinking about Pat Deperne (Beril green '62) and me at school. We met in '88 in a art and achitect school from Brussels caled St Luc. We were in the same classes during 2 years.
I well remember his low '6O  Resto-Cal parked in front of the school. For a school work we went together to Versaille, King of france Palace  whit the '60. +/- 350km from Brussels.
What a incredibel travel for me ! This car was so cool, so old, so low ! On the way we saw a Split bus and Pat and the guy made a hand sign. So far from your home you knew this guy ? I asked him ! ...He told me "No, this Bus is a Volkswagen too" ! I was thinking ! Hey ! Thats a realy cool car !

In '89, my neighbour and best friend was restoring a '72 1300 in azul blue and customizing it a bit whit large white painted modular wheels :) Like all the Bug Fans at this time, we buy custom parts to one of the first Volks Shop in Brussels "VW Auto kit " (chee d'Alsemberg). They got a lot of Jonhy speed an chrome parts :) My neighbour took me to a garage where I met the boss, Fabio, the brother of Rowan (DAS '67 yellow). Some years after Fabio began his well known shop, whit Pat, ScaraBe. Pat and me go separately to a show at the parking from Autoworld museum from Brussels. "Hey what are you doing here ? Hum, something like you I gues ! :)

In '90 Pat left school and and make his military classes during one year. I did'nt saw him again until 1992.
In '92 I buy a Buggy and I decide to go at is home. He was there working on the restored chassis of his actual '62. Until this thime we never stop to see eatch other. We went to Jabline where he won a best of show trophy wit the fresh restored '62.

In July '93 I brought a german imported sea blue '66 from "Le garage de Paris" a place dedicated to VW too. The '66 became my daily driver for years. Whit Pat's help the beetle became à Resto-Cal on  4,5 polished Fushes. At this time, like today, I was leaving in Brussels. at 25km from Pat's father's house Braine-l'Alleud. I remember my father just past away and I was there as often as possible after school and the weekend.

We went to Volkswagen auto dismantler all over the country to take parts. Type 3 long ratio gearboxes was the holly grale to finde. We try to go as fast, as low as possible. Some places of our local highways were in real bad shape and by night we made scratching on the road... making udges sparks all the way.
I met there (Braine l'Alleud) new buddy from the town. Phil Poliart ("No fear' Green beetle) and after "The Twins" Fred and Mic and some one who left the club now David Baland ('55 black Oval - DKP replica).

At this time there were a dying club in Waterloo caled "Doc Genie Cox VW Club". (translation: like doctor in genicology vw club...)
Pat and Phil where members of this 20 dissapeared members club. We took the same stickers, we whent to the same meeting place, the Quick hamburger restaurant, all freeday, during one year. Some time we were only two or tree people on the place. Having the new Super VW magazine was always a cool moment to share. We learn about Cal-Look at this time whit articles about DKP story from Stephane Szantaï.

In July '93, Pat whit his '62 an me whit my Buggy, went to our firs Bug Jam at Santapod in England. We discover Drag Racing Races. We foud this so incedible ! We saw pictures in magazines but we discover the track, the sound, the smell ! It was realy amazing for us and so different from our continental basic meetings. It was like USA for us!!! We swore ourselves to do Drag Racing one day on this track ! UK seene was so active compare to what we knew at home.

In November '93 we decide to found a new and more serious, DKP inspired, name for the club. Late at night in the garage from David Baland. Pat, Phil and me talked about names. And we remember what we dit on the highway during the year... And our new name ; Der Autobahn Scrapers was created. Pat Designed the new logo and the new stickers took place on the lateral windows.


That's "my begining souvenirs..." back in the days... :)

Pictures :
Pat '60 in '91
Pat' '62 un '92
Our LowFlyer back in '93 or '94

The club is also realy active in Off Road whit the DOD Der Off-road Division. Here in '94 Rowan's '68 passed where famous others do not want to pass.

WOW....  Great stories guys!! 8) 8) 8)  Reading this stuff brings tears (happy ones ::)) to my eyes.  There's something about having to "Mc Giver" stuff up out on the road when misfortune strikes that makes travel in an old air cooled car exciting.  Thanks for sharing some interesting stuff... makes The Lounge what it is! 8) 8) ;)

R.E.S.P.E.C.T.
Great guys & cars. DAS rules!
Souvenir from the '05 DAS Drag Day...

Ok, here we go with some more DAS pictures from 2002. These were taken in Lège-Cap Ferret.

These are from Spa/Francorchamps 2002 - with a very young and long haired Xavier  ;D

Mike and Nico, also in Spa 2002

Even older, from Spa 2001

And some more from Spa 2001

Cool pictures Georg and Stephan ! :)

One thing I remember from the early begining, when de club was not DAS mamed.
At this time, when you got a new VW project you can always talk about it whit Pat ! Often he think about it during the week an maide a drowing from the future car project...  

He is a great artist and put his/our ideas on paper. It was always a cool moment to discover his own car modified before you did it ! And to see what the car is going to look like ! Talking - Dreaming - Drowing - Making ! That's the way we did :)

Pictures :
Pat's own car project.
His display project.
Phil's green Beetle project in '89-'90
My sea blue '66 project.

See : http://vw.skynetblogs.be (http://vw.skynetblogs.be) if you want to see other VW drowings projects from him ?

Pat drew also his own Shop catalog whit almost 5.000 sketches when he worked whit Fabio at Scarabe.

Unfortunately, now Pat dont have the time anymore to draw but I knew he like that.
Tree years ago we asked him to make the EBI 1 T-Shirt. Like often, he did the drowing black and white and I put the colors.
It's always cool to do some artistic thing like that whit him. :)

VW Action last summer  ;D

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Cool cars, cool club and even cooler people. Respect!  8)

Mike, who owens the blue late modell on my pictures from Spa 2001? And is he still in the club? Haven't seen the car in a while - like it alot so!

That windscreen fix is awesome Georg! I'm surprised it didn't start a trend!  :)

It has always been a pleasure to meet up with the European guys, I guess with clubs like DAS it's all about a great attitude and maybe a few mixed grills. Though there are some great cars in the club over the years it's the people that have come to make it what it is. As an aside speaking personally the best time I ever had with my car was largely thanks to DAS and their Drag Day so thanks for that. Anyway keep the stories and photos flowing.

 8)

oh, yeah? ;D now Georg doesn't dare leave home without spare window, padding and jesus-tape..

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Georg,
the 73 you'r talking about was own by Jean-Philippe Bernard. He was on the club at the begining. Sold his car +/- ten years ago to build a Oval, after à Notchback, after a 356. He never finish the projects and lost contact and interest.
He is working for the Waterloo Volkswagen dealer for years. We kew he regret his blue car... We still knew the new owner he is working near the Macdonald from Waterloo.
But the stickers where taken off and the car is not anymore in the club.

Georg I found also a picture from Lège cap Ferret ! I well remember your incedible adventure whit your 34 ! Cool to remember thoses days but at that moment it was not so cool ;/ Hey, man, that makes true souvenirs :)

One of my earliest memorys regarding DAS was VW Euro 1996. I knew maybe a handful of people in Germany who were into Rest Cal and traditional Cal Look.

And then there was all of a sudden that white Looker packed with Empi parts. And it was on european plates, from Belgium. I couldn't believe my eyes and waited for the owner to come back to his car. The guy was very young, didn't even had a drivers licence and his name was Kobus.  :D
Next to Kobus car was the twins green big window beetle that was stolen a few years later. At that time DAS was close to three years old and it was the first time that I saw some of their cars in the flesh. I was really happy to find some guys who were also into these looks, knew anything about Empi, DDS and so on.

Great memories, indeed.

Your talking about the Twins '62. In the scene in '95, stolen in '98 and never come back...
A lot of people remember this car ten years later ! Great car !

here some pictures :

damn nice pics, even some pics i never saw !

Those catalog and t-shirt illustrations are cool!

I am not into "rat look" VWs, but the one on the previous page is pretty sweet. It has good look to it and best of all its a late model, so no early VWs were harmed ;D. Any info or more pics on it?

if you're talking about the conv in the 1st page it was mine..

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The previous owner said last time he washed it was 1974...

Lowered on the front with a slightly narrowed beam, 1 click at the back, 1915 engine with 40 idf, engle 110 aac, simple t-bird. I've had lots of fun in that car and I did around 10.000 km with it in about 18 months.

I had to sell it to be able to afford my bay-window that I love, but I miss that car.

So i know it was rusty, with chrome wheels, lowered at the back but i had lots of fun DRIVING it! And not posing with my perfect paint... ::) wich is what i'm doing now with my 68  ;D

Next time i'll write a story about this club. Because, i think everyone should know, they're all evil and not friendly at all in that club!  :D

No, this one

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I think the first time i saw Kobus' car was at the volksworld show, it must have been about 95/96 ish.  cannot remember exactly.  It was on display and was the first car i saw that was loaded.  I have some old photos somewhere.  I must try and dig them out.

Great pics, Georg! They definitely bring back some memories... that trip was one of the coolest weekends in my own personal VW history  8) Good times!

Still alive 15 years later at EBI 1

Here are some of my earlier DAS pics... I got some more and probably older photos, but they aren't digital  ;)

Spa 2000 and Super VW Nationals 2001

I think the first appearance of the Muppet. 2001 at Super VW National.

Was there ever any idea about what ultimately happened to the twins' Bug? Those parts are out there somewhere... >:(

nobody knows... but i know for sure that every time i walk on a swapmeet, i keep looking for those "hot" parts ...

When the car was stolen Fred park it in front of his girlfriend 's house.
The most incedible thing is the same night his twinbrother Mic cross, 2km from his house, a Beetle on tow on the other way of the road going to Charleroi. It was by a winter hard raining night, he did't recognize his car...
Ten years after its always a hart break for them !

i can imagine so, having your car stolen must be a nightmare!

sorry for asking, but i wasn't around back then, but was this a well-known car in the european cal-look scene back then?

Yes it was as the owners were...

Very very inspirational club and group of guys & girls  8)

Diederick,

there wasn't much of a "Cal Look scene", at least not in mainland Europe. I think the scene was bigger in England, that was at least my impression by reading Volksworld.
In the very small Cal Look community back then the twins 62 was an outstanding car. Back in 1996 (that sound like 5 min ago for Sarge and John ;D) there was just a handful Cal Look people on the old continent.

Thanks for the explanation, Georg!
So, did the scene over here on the mainland really pick up at the beginning of this decade, then? At least that's what I take from reading the stories on here.

I've heard of the twins, but I have no idea who they are. Forgive my ignorance  ;)

Hey Diederick, how about starting a new thread?  ;) It's still the DAS thread. 8)

Therefore a picture from DAS Drag Day 2005:

Some more from me.
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hey Died just to help you out a bit, on the first page there are some pics off a sunroof with americans on it and it has racing number 51 in the window from EBI. couple pics later you see the owner. Rolands car was also from them, but he allready told the story.

and xavier, the off-white goes pretty good with the sepia brown, good combination.  ;D

Hello Lawrence the "rat look" your talking about is not calling "rat look" anymore... it's a style, we call them now VolksRod. ;)
This car was not a car whit DAS stickers but just a car build by 3 members... just for fun. Pat bring back a scrappy '68, Dav guive the seats and I guive te Engine.
The new owner modify the rear of the car in "hebmuler style" and the engine is now a 2.3 l.

I met him by hazard. Riding in brussel's park in the summer 2006. I took some pictures :)

This was my 68 offroad with 16" split wheels, 181 front beam and gearbox. Those pictures where taken at a 4x4 weekend back in august 1994. This was the first of several offroad bugs within our club. Der Offroad Division (DOD) was created.

 :o :o :o  That looks like some serious fun!  ;D 8) 8) 8)

Will those wheels bolt straight on to yours Sarge? I've a plan in my head for your car  ;D

this thread is cool! it brings back allot of memories  :)

my computer is ready now i will scan some old pictures from the club  ;)

Bring it on Speedwell!!! :)

ok go on  ;D ;D ;D

1st pict was taken at my first vw event it was in 92 at petit rechain near verviers  at that time i never knew it was the bug show and it  was the 2nd edition

pat was there with is 62 resto cal ragtop 

those were taken at bomal in 92 too pat is the guys with the blue turkis hat

marienbourg may be 92 or 93 don't remember , here's the 60 of pat

this one was at the cinquantenaire in brussels in 2001

that one was the opening day of is new shop in nivelles
and here's is  356 envemo porsche replica

another pictures taken at bomal in 94 this one was owned by laurent dejaive  the boss of  old dreams car carroserie now laurent have a very nice lowlight with  48 ida

nows the twins car
i met the twins for the first time at hogne in june 95
they asked me if i want to made a gear in their blue eau  colored fake 66  teh car sporting a set of 2.0 l fuchs

here's  the trio who was featured in the volksworld in 95
i've taken the pictures at the vw mania in malines in 95

on the left  laurent 62  , middle pat62 ragtop , and on the right the twins 66

here's the december 95 volksworld report

another twins car , grey 67 with sunroof it was the 1st of may at drogenbos in 96

the famous  62 turkis graÜn
 for me it wa sthe first time i saw the car  and may be it was is first appearance public
drogenbos 01/05/ 97 (eur) 05/01/97 (usa)
 
at that time you didn't see not too many rocket wheels

france  , ancy le franc in 96 at the 9 super vw nats
 the car was in the top 20 with my black car it was a great moment

lège cap ferret 99  , 12th super vw nat's

another great  moment , the wheels on the rear on the 1st pict are mine now , those are crestlines the twins removed the rocket wheels and put the crestline wheels to do some burn out

and i've still those tyres in my house , they'were on my empi 5  :o :o

as you can see the tyres have some damage due to the hard burn out doing that day  :o :o

 i will sale those one

here's the burn out

that day a fire started in the engine bay due to  some oil on the exhaust and the  belt was destroyed, if somebody of the club could comfirmer my statements  thx  i not sure about the oil on the exhaust ,

 ;)

 :o

here's the engine bay before  & after the fire  :'(

another car built by the twins
i took this one at le bug show in 2001 it was a 65/66 sea blue

 the famous manx from the twins
spa le bug show 2001

See the Speedster Replica on the left of the manx...
it was built by "Le Petit Ben" based on an Apal Replica that I found in Brussels.... great car, with a superb paintjob....

I saw that car today... it's now owner painted it flat black........ uggghhhhh.....

yes kobus here's a picture of petit ben speedster at  le cinqueantenaire in 2001

after the manx , the twins build another great car ,fred 've the gobi beige and mike buy  a convert from ron lummus or built by ron  if i remember well  ::)

How did shots of the 90's get to look like they're old?  :o

Some cool pictures.  8)

some members are +40 years old

Super cooool!!!! Thanks Fabs.

The white 67 sunroof belonged to Phil (the deaf guy who owns the green oval on Raders now).
I first met him at a VW meeting in Drogenbos in 93. I loved that car! We discussed for quite a while there, and he invited me to the weekly meet at the burger joint in Waterloo. And I'm still going today  ;D

You mean quality wise?
Probably scanned from a photo album...

another great car emerson late fastback

this one was powered by an 2.3 L corvair engine

 one  of my favorite fasty

oh yes  :o :o i don't understood the sense of the phrase

and yes those are scanned from my personnal photo album

It looks like a different era, maybe some of us are getting older than we thought?

 :)

lège cap ferret in 99

emerson was awared with the fasty  8)

here's the best burn out i ever seen   :o :o :o

only with the 2.3 L don't remember the hp he delivered

 :o

 :o

 ;)................ 8) 8) 8)

other burn out at bomal in 2001 or 2002 , but that day the engine had some trouble

after the 2.3L , emerson put a 48 ida 3.1L corvair engine , with an home made exhaust , the tone which went out of this engine was really terrible, there was no other engine which could imitate this tone

awesome engine

le bug show , spa 2000

Awesome job on the pics, bro! 8) 8) 8) 8) 8)  It helps to have great subject matter, too ;) ;D

thx bro  ;)

Is that fastback stil around and looking the same? I have not seen it in a while..

fabs, can you photoshop the denim hot pants and workboots out, they are plain wrong.

yes still the same and 've another corvair engine he was at das drag day last year and the year before

yes i remember this guys he was so sexy  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D  , I know what only he made there, but he was present in every burnout  ::) ::) ::) , and now you can see his sexy legs  ;D ;D ;D ;D

here's another fastback  this one was owned by gilles , the car was sitting on a rare set of american racing lemans  pictures was took at vw mania in 97

 Gilles isn't member any more of the club (finally I suppose), but he has just redone a very beautiful orange  NSU TT  with gaz burner

here's the famous 68 of roland  ;D

nicolas and benoit germeau aka muppet racer & redex

here's the 65 the first time i saw the car it was beige with empi sprintstars  it was at the bug show in 97

one month later at the vw mania in malines , the car was sitting on a set of centerlines

after a quick repaint the car was gulf blue or a similar blue
 at the begining she had the sprintstars and after original rader wheels 

the pictures with the rader wheels was took at lege cap ferret during the 12 super vw nats in 99

 8)

now the car is repaint in ruby red and as know as the 65 redex

i remember going to the barn of nico where the muppet racer were , it was in 2000

more ;D
note the car was just as is debut no stickers etc...

 :o
 i remember well that day  with nicolas , the redex was under construcrion , and nicolas exit the car especially for me  , and let me take the pictures , and i remember we had talking about the trim inthe rubber windows , and he said that in the day there isn't cal look rubber and they removed the chrome trim from the rubber and to be the closest as possible of the detail, nicolas had moved the chrome trim of the rubber like in the old day

engine detail  , first stage

Thanks fab for those pictures. Those memories. You seem to have more pics of the previous stages of the redex than me, the owner have!  I even did not remember that my brother fitted it with the centerlines of the muppet. But I should as my brother used to take my car as a test car for all its future car pieces! Keep on posting! Thanks.

my pleasure ben  ;)

here's alain mate model it look like a 1200 standart model , the car started  with empi 4bolt sprintstars and after and added some fuchs  , the car was featured in volksworld in 97/98 ??

alain is passed away one or 2 years now

RIP

pict took at drogenbos 96

mike  aka macravens here  ;D

mike is this your car the blue one with ritter wheels spa 95

at the beginning  the oval had gas burner wheels

pict took at spa le bug show in 2001

 ;)

here's little ben
he own a lot of car but mine favorite was jean michel carlouet 59 with american racing torq trust D 5x130

das drag day 1

spa 97 & 98

quality pics as always speedwell ;)

thx ;)

Bug Jam 01'

Hi

Others pics of DAS car and members .

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A few change for this cool oval for this year ...
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Xav
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Vanessa with Pat's '62 . Hard launch !!
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After waching ,runnig  !!
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And "Gus" the youngest member of DAS .  ;D
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Gus already knows which car in the club is the coolest!  ;D

 ::) ::) ::) ::) ::) ;)

Frank

really??? why did you have to strap him down then?

1. Always strap kids down. You should know that!  ;)
2. He was reaching for the shifter & the gas pedal, so you never know..   ;D

roland this will remind you some souvenirs  ;)

fast freddy 57 at the 1st freddy files and stephan aka blue star  at 1st freddy file too ,  if i remember it was pat who had the car

yves swedish 67

dams 58 1776 turbo engine a real gaz eater :o :o :o :o i never seen a engine Consuming so much fuel  ::) ::)

Great job on the pics, bro!! ;D 8) 8) 8)

thx  ;)

another pictures from roland 68   8)

big phil oval

stephane antracite grey 63  8) waiting for is 2.3L

i don't remember ever seen steph's car with US bumper , may be one of the club here, can be answer you  ::)

fabs

I believe the car is European.
I wouldn't be surprised if he had drilled the holes on purpose - to make it look like a US car sporting euro blades (same with Pat's car).

many beetles here in italy had US bumpers...it was an optional ...
but i think you know that..maybe i've lost something.... ::)

Maybe... maybe not... If he bought his car in germany it can be an export model like my old white 64 that had US bumpers and came from germany.

this tread needs an UP!

here is a nice pic. don't think i posted it before.

AWESOME pic Nicolas!!

Seen on TheSamba.

DDD2 Muppet Racer

That bus is located in Holland now, and have made a transformation.

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Those picture's are a little big. Here are some smaller ones.

cool to see that the big off road bus is still alive!!! hope to see it in it's full monstrosity on the road again soon! (ebi offroad track perhaps???)

here's a photo of the 2 Off Road Vans that are still in Brussels cruising the streets now, not as effective in the mud as the beetles, but sure nice and easy on those speedbumps they have here!

the cammo one is Mike's and the red one mine

Always thought those busses were cool toys, useful too.  8)

I found some old ones. From spring 94 or 95 in front of Pat's house near Waterloo
Pat's '54 offroad and my old sea-blue 66. On the 66 I change the 4,5 fuchs with Lemertz 4,5 and 5,5 because of new front diskbrakes. I realy need them because we put a T3 gearbox under the car. My car was prety fast at this time, like 170km/h on the highway.
Pat's Beril green '62 whit one peace windows and polished Fuchs (just to try, for fun).

Good to see it’s still alive !

You guys may not know it, but the club is holding a weekly meet at the local burger joint since its beginning. Usually, after eating, we hang around in the parking lot chatting for hours until we can’t stand the cold anymore…  :)

A few years ago, we would also drive to a nearby bar and had a few drinks there to finish the evening.

I remember one day, Dav (the previous owner) came with the bus and, as we spent some time outside, he proceeded to show us the new subwoofer he had just wired in. He only had one tape – with some real loud techno music (that will probably be alien to the majority of US folks on this site).

We chatted for some time, then decided it was time to have a drink. And as you can imagine, leaving the fast food parking lot was always a good reason to have a bit of sideways action as the cars were engaging on the road.

There were these 2 guys along the road that were hitch-hiking. They were watching all the cars blast past them, but only one person stopped to take them… Dav' in his bus (with the music still playing loud), with a face and behaviour probably akin to somebody high on coke.

You should have seen their faces when they saw the bus stop, but more importantly when they stepped out of it!!!  :D I don’t think they had ever seen something like this!

Cool story, Yves!  Back in the '70's, it was common to pick up hitch-hikers (and to hitch-hike as well).  I stopped once for a guy in the '63... had the close ratio's, solid mounts and a stout 1835 with IDA's.  I left hard... banged through the gears and got to the next traffic light which, luckily for my new passenger, was red.  He couldn't get out of the car fast enough.... ;D

1995 while working at Competition Engineering in Tempe, AZ one day 3 guys came in the shop (Mike, Rowan, Pat).  They were very interested in early pop out windows and early convertible decklids (I think they purchased all we had).  They hung around most of the day and asked me if I knew of any Type 2 buses for sale.  I knew of a guy who had a 59 blue panel that was forsale.  I ended up inviting them over to my house for a few beers.  They ended up buying the panel! They said they were on a west coast tour for VW parts.  Bugorama weekend came and they attended.  I gave Mike my trophy.  I introduced them to Frenchy Dehoux who spoke french which they enjoyed!  I must say I have not meet 3 nice guys as them in a long time.  They liked my vert and gave me a few DAS decals and a couple shirts.  I kept in touch with Rowan and Mike for a few years after their visit.  When Keith Sueme shot my vert for Volksworld they were the first to congratulate me and gave me a hard time for not wearing my DAS shirt. I have always kept and eye on their club and their cars.  DVB has grown into a icon club.  One day I will visit them in Waterloo!

Welcome anytime Wayne!!!

this panel  ;)

Thats the one!!  Still looks great!!!  Who owns it now?

i took the colored pict in 95 , and the b/w in 96 , don't know who is the owner today , may be mike know  ???

The panel bus is now somewere in France. Same colour, dropped on Centerlines wheels.

We took back tree split van at the end of our Californian Trip. Two CrewCab (beige-red-67/blue-61) and the grey 61 panel. You can see them on those pictures.
We maid a roadbook from the trip and this is one of the drowing I maid.

I remember the license plate!!!

I like that.  8)

so much history with this club. i like the stories. so keep them coming.  :)

Hum...  ;D I got some private stuff... your thinking about this one ?

When I bought the split the two licence plates were on it. The californian owner keep the front one.

You want a story Nicolas ? Take this one :
 
We bring back thoses tree vans at home after our cal-trip. I drive the bus six months until someboddy stole it in front of my mother s'house.
One night my mother call-me and ask me if I was gone with the bus during the last 5 minutes, without give her a goodnight ? I was comming back from a august VW show, 100 km from there.  Back home... my bus was gone !
It was a verry bad feeling. Every boddy who passtrue this kind of experience feel realy bad ! And you imagine a lot of stories... Why Who ?

More than one week later, some boddy call me realy upset on my phone !
And ask me : "When are you going to move your F... van ? He sil parked on the front of my garage door from two days !!!!" 
? Hum... ok I come, where are you living...? I asked ! :) This guy found my phone number on a paper in the bus. "Call 0097756XXX if my car disturd". Paper I put on the front window when I was in a bad parking situation.
So, I bring my Bus back, but... unfortunately without his realy good engine...

I got no job at this moment and I sold it. I just I keep the rear Californian licence plate as a souvenir.

Now, the bus stil in belgiun in a garage waiting for a restauration.

my car at freddyfiles (ninovemeeting) 1 or 2 (pictures by speedwell) ... nice pictures, fab, meanwhile i lost these cool blue carb tops, i frikkin do not know where i lost them (otherwise they won't be lost i guess) - they matched my blue interior  ::) but the major thing i know from back then was that i just found out about the wonderfull world of dzus-fasteners (or how do you type that?) and that i just ordered my (local) body-guy to make me a rear valance that was easily removable with those dzus fasteners. the rear of my car was photographed alot then. at that time, it was a kind of exoticness tea spooning a "big" (that ain't big now anymore) engine into a little engine compartment.

i hope to find some oldschool pictures real soon, and most of all, some time to scan them.

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i hope you guys love the pictures. i have posted these pictures on my blog, with MY memories ... i invite all you to post YOUR memories by these pictures here on this thread !!!

more pictures ok fred here we go  ;)

autobahn line up at spa "le bug show" in 95

 ;)
bo$$ late model

dav kg

michel 's low light

le bug show 96  ;)
kobus  64 gtv ,  pat 62 and the twins 62 turkis green

autobahn line up at le bug show 97

3th pic is bo$$'s golden oval and ben's "redex"  65

 i remember calling this 356 preA" frankenstein " , there's a lot of welding on this car , but she's looking good , that was kobus who sale this one , it was the first time i saw a preA model with real empi 5 & brms  and the old look a like lettering look good on the car , and if i remember well the car had an 48 ida engine just for the show  :o :o :o

first appearance of emerson fastback the yellow one  is rowan 67 and she was 's first appearance too

another line up at  bug show 98

not a das car but the first appearance of my 61 with my personnal touch  ;D ;D ;D

and this one is fred's oval , he want to made a copy of badrazz , the car is an 60 model he cut and welded all parts from an  oval  model , like the rear window , front trunk , and dashboard , when you saw the car , you never knew that it was an 60 model
4x6" fuchs with 135/15 on narrowed front beam , and don't remember the size at rear
very nice car 8)

le bug show 99  :autobahn line up

golden oval and the fastvair  :o

xav sepia brown

speedwell, do you have pictures of my car (1957 big window) with empi 5 spokes ?
i can't find any picture anymore, had them on my car for only two shows ...

no i don't remember ever seen your car with 5 spokes what year it was ???

here's yours on the dragstrip at  le bug show in 99 with the twins  ;)

not das ;D ;D ;D  my daily driver same year

le bug show 2000

golden oval with swiss mag supercharger

pat 62

xav 67  and bo$$ at the trophies delivery

le bug show 2001

fleming's pre cal look was in belgium  :o :o :o

muppet racer  ;)

mickael 63 and  xavier's brazilia on chromed empi sprintstar

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this is the only picture i have from my car with empi 5s (somebody else gave it to me to scan). any others ?

le bug show 2002

at the race
muppet racer
pat
stephane & little ben(porsche)

coxyde (belgian coast in 97)
 das off road bus , high phil with the 53 offroad , kobus gtv  and the twins 68 blue late model
the other car was from my old club , xavier 62 patel green , xavier white convert 69(i driving this one to the event) and mc fly blue 67(fake one)

bernie was present at this event with the dark lord oval

This one with the 61 crewcab was took at Badcamberg in '96.
With : Michel Spaak, Mike Walravens, Blue Nelson, Rowan Kennis and Pat Deperne.

A young boy , 16 years wihout driver license !! , but with a sexy car.. beetlebash , i dont remenber the year .. 97 ??

@ french super vw nat' Ancy le franc :
Emerson bus
Dav KG
Pat 62'

@ french super vw nat' Ancy le franc :
Alain 1200' (RIP) 96'
Laurent 95'
Twins 95'

Aaah.. that brings back some memories!!! 1996 it was!

You guys forgot the nice postcard.
How many DAS members are here on the Lounge?

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Found some pics from Bug Jam 2002 in a album, of the Muppet Racer, nice car  :)

Hello Fabian,
At this time my oval wasn't about Fleming at all (Fleming had BRM after the Cal-Parts/Crestline- don't know exactly- period)
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Here are pictures of the 55 when i did it a little bit like the Fleming one (many differences).

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Here's a picture of Laurent Dejaeive's 62 when he was in the club....now owner of a 57 KG and the bodyshop OLDREAM CARS:
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Thanks Yves for remembering me this story about these fellas in my Off-Road bus, great to remember this happy stories....

I'm not in the club anymore, but still great to shares those memories with some cool fellows....that's life 8)

David  ((Dav)

You guys rock! 8)

-The blue 73 is not from the Bo$$ it was from Jean-Philippe Bernard (Mike had already spoken about him and his cars in a previous post)

-The white 412 with cookies next to my ex-69 KG was from Luc. The 62 on the other side is, as previously mentionned, from Laurent Dejeaive.



-The 72 orange standard 1200 on page 6 is not from Alain, it was from Freddy (who now has a blue 59 with Fusch), from which i bought it and later sold to Chris who is now a DAS member.

pic when she was mine :
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i found some old pics (scanned):
my then-girlfriend 72 1302 next to my 69 KG

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and from the off-road division:
my ex 66

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and my ex 181

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Voilà, j'ai fini de vous embêter.  ;)

Cool pix Dav! ;)

A few more.....

 ;)

Just foud this one !
This photo was taken at Bitburg's Das Drag Day 2 in 2004.

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very, very nice pics ... i still use this picture of my car (white 1957-58model NZU-999 licenseplate) as desktop.  8)

I'm gonna wake up this thread....

Here is my "new" 64 cal look.

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I think that some other cars are also missing, Sebastian's Turbo, Yvres 67 Turbo for example.....hey guys ...post your cars....!!!


Most of the DAS member are leaving Belgium for the Classic week on 28 may until 9 june. DAS in California.....The very Good Trip

We'll keep you in touch with this (I hope so) memorable trip....

 ;)


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I thought the classic was 21st June this year?   ???

Love Emys corvair powered Type 3.. i know it was presented in an old german vw speed... but i don´t know in which issue ?!

Picture at this year DDD12.
My 64 cal-look in tow behind my 78 Dodge B200 Maxivan ( Hendricx conversion in San Jose CA).

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Some news :

A 65 cal-look is under construction in the club. So maybe a new car for next summer  ;D


If you like cool pictures, what about the 1/2  48IDAs under construction for the DDD thropies ??

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The Dodge van & Beetle combo looks perfect..you could be waiting in line on Sand Canyon to get into OCIR. 

Now with stickers.

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So, some of you asked about club stories….
I don’t know which « stories » you expect but I have one « à la Bullitt » movie…sort of...

Back in the end of the 90’s, some guys of the club rented a garage to work on their cars…
To make a long story short, some thieves broke into and stole a 66 panel split bus (double sliding doors), some working tools and beetle parts, some of which came from South Africa.
There had been a lot of thefts at this time in the VW scene, and all the signs were showing that the thieves would have come from the Charleroi area (Charleroi is a former mining town  with big poverty and a bad reputation, 70km south of Waterloo).

One of our friends knew someone who lived in this town (he was a respectable citizen) and was in the VW scene. We went to meet him and he showed us where some well-known bad guys were storing their cars and had their garages.
During one of our investigation trip we met the bad guys in question in one of their garage, we talked to them pretending being looking for beetle parts to buy, during the conversation, we noticed that some boxes in the garage were from South Africa (the solen parts!!) and the chrome 356 wheels that were on the stolen panel . :o
We left politely and we went to the police to report the fact…

A week later, the police called us to tell that we were asked to go to the thieves’s garage to pick our stolen parts….
Pat took his split window bus (lowered with Empi 5 wheels 135 front /185rear, 1600cc DP with a 32/36 Weber) and with Mike we went to meet the police and recover some of our parts.
All three sitting on the front bench seat, the parts being stored in the bus, it was an heavy load…..

We were just leaving the place when I noticed a yellow Type 3 fastback with Borbet wheels and a ragtop,…… one of the thieve‘s car!! , coming the opposite way….Pat made a quick U-turn and started to follow the Fastback.
The fastback being chased by a split bus began to accelerate faster and faster in the narrow streets of Charleroi, so do Pat he also accelerated, this pursuit is still in my mind,….. doing 60MPH in streets where you couldn’t cross another car coming opposite, taking 90° turns at fast speed on 135 tyres (the edge of the Empi were marked ! ), burning red lights,…..the guy was really trying to escape....At one point the guy tried to join a main road but he was stuck because of the traffic, Pat had managed to place the bus on the left side of the fastback and I began to furiously open the split door into the fastback side, 3 or 4 times,….the traffic moved, he managed to overtake and we followed him as he get on the small Charleroi’s ring where his fastback took the advantage on the split….he tried to fool us by pretending staying on the ring just before leaving to an exit but his ruse failed.
We followed him in the exit, he burned again some red lights and stopped in front of ….. …a police building…..he ran into it and pretended to be persecuted by us.
We explained the story at the officer who listened to him and us …..he unfortunately had to let the guy go as he had no charges against him…..

This is were Pat told the thieve that he had not heard the last from the Waterloo’s guys !!

We had recovered some parts, some tools, the split 356 wheels, ……the right side door of Pat bus had yellow paint on the edge, the front Empi rims were marked, and the brake pedal was bent……but what a pursuit !!

We were three friends, we were the DAS founders, we had lived a memorable adventure….
.....but that‘s not the end of the story…… ;)


next chapter on his way : fast food rodeo...

 ;D Cool dit bud!

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Printed picture of this bug is hanging on my closet since 2003.
At that time, I was testing new Epson color printer...  ;D

 :o :o :o 8)  NICE story!!! :)

It was not the end…..
So you remember that Pat told the thief that we were from Waterloo,  „You haven’t heard the last from the Waterloo’s guys !!“

Some week later my mother told me that 2 guys went to her home pretending to be police officers and asking for a guy named Pat (my parents home was well known in the neighborood to be a beetle place).
But she though that the 2 guys were too weird to really be police officers, so she asked them their police card….they told her that they had left them in their car and left to pick them…..they never went back !

A week later we were at our fast food Friday cruising night (it was around winter so we were inside the fast food).
At a given time , I went out with my then-girlfriend to escort her to his car on the  parking when I saw a black Nissan Micra (waouh exotic!) with 2 guys and a girl inside. This was one of the thieve‘s car !

I turned around and came back inside the fast food to alert everybody….we decided to go outside to see what they wanted ! (and catch them if possible!)
We went out around, we were around 10 guys, …the Nissan had moved a little far away on the parking….we went to her direction with the idea of surrounding the car…
This is when they started the engine and drove into our direction….they really tried to crush us …they could have escaped but not they charged us with the car….
I had a snap hook as key holder, I threw it on their car and broke a rear glass….
Another guy put a coin into a trolley and charged the Nissan with it ( courageaous guy !)… ::)
Another one went to his car ‘s trunk to take a tool and he threw it in the side panel of the car…
Jojo (RIP) had no better idea than to stand in front of the car and jump on the hood (like in the movies!!) holding at the wipers….but he didn’t last long and felt (unharmed)… :o
With all the noise people were going out from all the restaurants and shops around…girls were crying and screaming (as always), …..

It was a big mess….finally the guys left and a few minutes later the police arrived but didn’t managed to catch them…..

We learned later by our friend in Charleroi that he had seen the Micra and it was in very bad condition (in fact it was the car of the thief grirlfriend !! ahahah)…

We "recovered" the Split panel in a Belgian aircooled VW shop, the owner had bought it to the thieves (supposedly without knowing the fact that it was stolen….while the fact had been well related in the VW scene!!) , he didn’t wanted to give it back witout money in exchange, so it stayed (and is still) under a car port with a leaking roof, and is now rusted and in very bad shape !!

I could have told you about some more stories related to this affair, but I prefer to do not .... :P
Just to say that the thieves did not emerged unscathed.... ;D

The end…..
 ;)

True stories !
I was in this bus ! :)

Some news

A new car in the club.
Benjamin's 65 Traditional Cal-Look sunroof beetle

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Color is Porsche Golden green, engine is 2332cc with IDAs, front disc brakes rear T3 brakes,...

Love that car. Perfect DKP II era look to it, and the wide rear wheels remind me of Mike Billings '67. Awesome.

At DDD 2016

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Volksworld Show 2016

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At our friday's cruising

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Airmighty Cover

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Thanks, Mike Billings 's 67 was a great inspiration.

Some pictures from our 2016 photoshoot.

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In 2017, is the DAS 25 years old .... be ready for the party   ;D

Dig the anodized Fuchs. Nice car.

Cool pic's, those made my day.
Thanks for sharing.
DDD 2016 line up was a blast, so many cool old shool car's  8)
Looking forward to the 25th birthday, mad how fast things go along, as i even was at the 1st DDD...
Greetz,Felix

Great cars, nice to see some news :) Post here more often !! (for us arseholes who still don't have facebook  :D)

Here are some scanned pictures of the begining.

Before DAS was created.


Our friday's cruising on the Waterloo's Quick parking
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Xavier's 1302(not Adam), Mike's 66, Twins's 72, My 72 Gemini
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Pat's 62, Mike's 66, my 72
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My 72 and Mike's 66
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Wow what a beautiful car.

I love that car too - we were really excited seeing it the first time in Bitburg.

I'd like to thank DAS for the nice club post card I received in the mail today; just the best!!  I haven't had my car out of the garage much lately but
getting that card got me off my ass and out on the road for a couple of pics.  The weather here in SoCal has been pretty damp this year and the hills
around home are all green for a change plus the sun's out, it's clear and you can still see some snow on Mt Baldy.  Cheers guys!! ;D

Looking great Sarge, as always!

Where is that Ballard Motors plate frame from? I can't read the top...

You're Welcome Sarge, nice to see your car in the sunny CA weather !

We would also need some sun around here ...  :-\

Regards

David

Thanks, Zach!  Ballard Motors was in Anaheim on Lemon St near the 91 freeway... it later became Volkswagen East and
was a sister store to Volkswagen West in Garden Grove.
They were the dealer that originally sold the car to a German couple who lived not far from DKP headquarters.  Ballard
Motors never had the cachet of Don Burns or Chick Iverson....

Your card was a pleasant surprise!  As KS pointed out earlier in this thread, you DAS guys ROCK; thanks again to you all!! ;D

Thanks for the history lesson :) Cool knowing where your came car from. There's a Ballard (neighborhood) up here, I was thinking it may be related.

bro , nice to see your car on the road again
 ;)