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What do you think of this for the position of Lucas indicators?
Welded up a 68-72 1200 fender to transform a european 67 to us look...
Some pics of the fender and the car it's coming on.

Put it where you think it looks right, thats all that matters :)

I guess you're right, it all up to personal taste's

looks good to me -but i think the best way to tell if it's a good position is by fitting those fenders to a car and have a look at the whole front

Will be trying it on my 67 next week, will show soon....

On an early fender it usually goes in place of the horn grilles.

Nice 67 Jelle!

Take a look at other rides, i think they look perfect on the black bitch for example.

Or ask Kurt to do a little measuring  ;)

Mine are fitted in in place of the horn grills.

I like 'm on the place off the horn grils on a bumper car, without bumpers I would place them lower...

Look at the red dots, for the position of the indicators... I like them better on the left car...

nice line you drew, certainly makes sense!
but i'd personally never run them with bumpers (and i've never seen them with bumpers)

the ones on the left look good! but don't go a tad lower or it will look odd!

lower is kind of cool...

Couldn't have put it better myself  :)

Heres a Picture of my Old 67 with painted headlight Rims Lucas Lights and Euro Bumpers with short guards

me too.
(http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a266/herrvee/my-old-school/dyn006_original_612_816_pjpeg_22318.jpg)

(http://images.thesamba.com/vw/gallery/pix/177468.jpg)
Towards the inside of the horn grille hole.

Hmm, I think we need to see the rest of that car. 

jelle there's a report on an hot vw with the right place to put lucas on fenders if i found the mags i scan it and post ok  ???
rgd
fabian

 ;)

Fabian, that would be great!!!
You can pm them to me if you have bigger versions...

Thanks
Jelle

 ;)

 ;D

Does the old white greg aronson car have lots of positive camber, or is the picture fooling me?   

My '67 USA front fender whit holes for lucas... ;)


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  for everybody here's the report from the hot vw 03/2003 written by deano her famous lounger ;D

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Now you will cannot any more you deceive to put your lucas  ;D ;D
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thanks :-*

I think Dean's old Looker got it about right  :)

(http://www.funkenblitz.com/upload/67-Heaven-21.jpg)

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for me that the right place  ;) peter have you put the lucas on the horn grill hole  ??? ???

to me that looks slightly higher than the horn grill.....looks pretty good to me.

i'm sure Pete will tell us.... ;)

Hi Speedwell Do you have any more Pictures of the red 67 with 8 spokes thats my car before I whitched to alloys even has the DSK stickers in the Windows  LOL

I've never fitted the Lucas lights , I leave that to Alex , I'll ask him if he has specific measurements .

But I think they look right on his car .

 

Alex put them where my horn grills were, so he would probably have done the same on his

sorry shubbee but i've just this one of your car  ::),  question you add the fuschs after the eight spokes ???  when you had this car and which was these characteristics engine displacement, gauges, steering wheels, seat ,etc. ;D i'm curious  ;) did she was in report in a old magazine  ???

I go getting ideas above my station (tea boy/burnout hooligan) and get it wrong  ::)

No Alex doesn't put them where the horn grills were, he started to tell me where but I got distracted by naughty pictures on the internet. Sorry  ;D

Thanks for all the great pictures and ideas, I fitted them on my own 67 this weekend...

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WOW -they look great! -but why do you want to respray the car? that two tone look really suits it fine! i don't think that it won't be a cop magnet anymore if it's completely gold! :P

cool jelle nice look  now change the color  ::) ... ;D made a real cal look  ;)

Perfect look's ! Great job lowfastbus !  ;)

Thanks for the comments guys... next week I'll be trying to mount the buggy bars, if I get em delivered.
Next dilemma, mount the rear buggy bar above or under the double quiet pack??

ya gotta go above the QPs but I vote leaving the nerfs!

i vote go for them -i like them and no one's using them nowadays

The Car Use to Belong to another DSK Club Member Scott Bakken it was Featured in Hot VW's  with the 8 spokes It was Featured with Khris Klingermans 68 Bug The Artical  title was listed as Calif Killers both cars were street cars and both ran 11:70's  I Bought the car from Scott less motor  I Built another motor 78x90.5 with a big set of heads and IDA's for it , took out the roll bar and put a full cal look interior in it and changed the 8 spokes to alloys I Ran The Car at Orange County with full interior Dual Qp mufflers and Slicks it Ran a 11:73 et in the 1/4 @117 mph

Scott's Medfly?

No the MedFly was another car Scott Had that he Sold To Don Meling it was later repainted Red and Was Sponsored by Car Custom It was on the cover of Hot VW's in the 80's I have known Scott Bakken Since 1975 we were in DVB together then we formed DSK in 1977 alot of us went away from bugs for a while but Scott never did he is a member of DKP III now he has the white Sunroof Clone that was on the cover of Hot VW's and is also building a 63 Convert which Buddy Hale Painted

you want to say this one shubbee  ??? but she was orange on the picture  ???

 ;) here's the dasboard of scott's car

I put them in as shown

it was Red The Picture dose look Orange But That Was the way I Bought the car from Scott less Motor now would you like to know what I paid for the car? Back in the Day?  I Bought this car as shown  in the picture Including the slicks on the rear less motor for $2500.00 Cant touch a Beater these days for that What Happened to The Old Days things cost a 100 x more and its all made in Japan and China it makes it so hard to recreate a Old School Cal Look these Days But I Have Every Piece I need now to  Build my Ruby Red Old School Cal Look

cool way shubee cal look revival  ;D

hy shubee more picture of your old ride  ;) inside roll cage  engine & rear wheels i see you have rear disc brake?? very rare at that time no ???

 ;)

Here they are on my 67.
(http://images.thesamba.com/vw/gallery/pix/332016.jpg)

4 Wheel Disc Brakes were Rare Back Then But the car Ran 11:70's  as Pictured Street Legal all Steel, you have to be able to stop it when you get it going  LOL what a ride that was, what issuse is the Car In ? I Need to Find another Copy of The Hot VW's Mag. CALIF Killers??

lets have some more pic's of that beast  :)

Which Beast?? LOL

 I Need to Find another Copy of The Hot VW's Mag. CALIF Killers??

it's august 1978 issue

Woohoo, the buggy bars have arrived!!! Thanks to Guillermo from G.A.S.!!!
Try them on this weekend...

Cool dude - I'm deffinetly putting buggy bars on my new project  :)

yes that's pure cal look guys ,  that's the right way to build a cool cal look   ;)

that's a wicked pic!

 ;D yes cool cal look  ,he came from the DVB vw club  ;)

That was Mark Sueters 67 Sedan We were in DVB together heres a Picture of Mike Sellers 65 Cal Look also a DVB car the thing that was Cool about mike being in the Club he was a Cop And signed off all are fix it tickets  LOL

I Remember Installing those Buggy Bumpers see how the back sits up more closer to the car we used to heat them and bend the tubes to get them to fit right then weld straps on them to mount them the rear was hard to mount  because the bumper has to fit between the Rear apron and the QP muffler But I like them when there mounted right the rear looks funny if you dont  heat it and bend it so it sits more upright like the picture  look at the angle of the rear Buggy Bumper Verses the front Buggy Bumper angle.

he was a Cop And signed off all are fix it tickets 

 ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D  .... some cops are cool  :D

cool story shubbe i want more and picture  ;)
here's some other picture of those car i love the big wheels those are very cal look attitude  :o

shubee what's the color of the 65 ??? and the 67 was blue if i remember the report in hot vws

Fitted the front buggy bar yesterday, I'm happy with the results!

Cool!!  :)
But what are those white pieces attached to it?

Those are pieces of the attaches that I made for mounting the buggy bar... they weren't cut to length when I took the pic.
They're cut now and invisible...

Poor photoshop try-out of what it should look like when finished...

Car Looks Good the Lights and Bumpers Make It!!  But Those center Wheel Caps Need to Go  they stick out way to far Love the wheels hate the Caps here are pictures of the cap I had made for mine I Copied an Original  But made it to fit the JGE Torkers The Indention in the center is for an American Racing Sticker

The 65 was VW Mexico Blue and the 67 was a real light blue close to the 68 and 69 VW color

Here is another Idea Tom Kettle used on his 62 Cal Look he machined the wheels to except porsche alloy caps

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Had a play about with light positions this afternoon amd settled on this, wings to weld up next :)

My suggestion to figure out where to install your Lucas 488s, is to take a photo, or Xerox of a Lucas lens with ring and seal, cut it out around the edge, and use that as a paste up against your fender/wing. Tape it on, stand back, and move it around until you have it right....

more here (http://cal-look.no/lounge/index.php/topic,5058.0.html)

I had originally stuck the lens to the wing in various positions with blue tack....... :D
Eventually settled on position in pic - 40mm in from wing beading & top edge of indicator lines up with bottom of headlamp mounting.
As said elsewhere in this thread, its down to personal taste.
Now to weld my wings up :)

Here is where I mounted mine. Took a while to make the positioning look symetrical to the eye. I just made templates with tape and kept repositioning them until I liked where they were.

(http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o4/bsilva84/Brians%20DRKC%2067%20Bug/67bug002-1.jpg)

(http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o4/bsilva84/Brians%20DRKC%2067%20Bug/67bug003-1.jpg)

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Hi Brian,

They look spot on. Can you tell me if your wings are genuine US Spec 67 wings or the later 68 on. I am looking to replace my wings and will be using lucas 488's but have been told the 67 wings are different to the later ones in shape, thus this will effect the position of the indicators.  Thanks

Yes, that is true. The headlights can be located slightly higher and wider than an OEM German '67 Fender/wing, so beware.

You've all got it wrong ;D

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Just a suggestion... or three.  ;D

Ha! Poor car looks like a Christmas Tree! :D

Straight time, My fenders are actually fiberglass. They are from US spec 67 molds so the geometry is fairly close. I compared the fenders measurements to the originals and they were almost spot on. I did have to fabricate the headlamp buckets and brackets to get the headlamps where they were supposed to be but other than that it went smoothly.