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some of the car i will post here were unfamous i want to say by  ,any were known by name, but not never really had the gratitude(recognition) or heard about them in magazines, why ???
and some other weren't know

if some of you have any info don't hesitate to post

thx
fabs



there's some east /midd / west coast gasser

first  bug power unlimited

second the SNG
it look like that the SNG was named before the Small car goodies

i remember the car was featured in hot vws

 ;) yellow fever  = lime fire ??? for me yes
those car are "very" similar ,same front decklid with 2 big scoop for tacho etc...

 ;)

next one is LIL RED

is the one in b/w is the same car that the chop top one ???

bed bug  :o :o who know this car ??? the race shop was a sponsor of the car , nothing about tis car ???

 ;)
lil bugger   :-\ anything about  this one

chingus khan

 ;)
something similar with TARBABE  ::) ...FAT DADDY

more unknow gasser

moonshadow

deutschland

sonic muffin II

zundfolge

great work fabs!

Here is the Wagon masters Car Owned by PJ & Grant Greven

Hi Fabs,

great topic! Back then there sure have been a lot of cool cars which didn't get the attention they deserved compared to the famous cars we all know.

Don't want to hijack your thread, but does anybody know until when exactly sedan-based cars racing NHRA gas-classes needed to be equipped with a push bar if bumpers were not fitted?

(http://img163.imageshack.us/img163/2361/bugpower.jpg)

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Saludos,
Ole

The stinger exhaust would definitely make push starting difficult.
Lil Bugger has "attention caution exhaust" written in German on the decklid.

The SNG Chopped sedan was owned by Stephen Nathanial Godfrey, or as we know him, Steve Godfrey who started Station One here in Phoenix.

The LIL RED car was one and the same. The chopped version was obviously the laster version of the sedan. The picture you posted of it in the staging lanes is one that I took and posted a long time ago on one of these forums. I have the original negatives of the shot.

Rick M

must be lime fire, but with trim. i really like that car, still can't get why, but i really do.

more
porcupine

bananas

blue streak

bowwow

i know there's a car in norway with the same name "hiltler's revenge" nothing news guys  ;D ;D it was in 1980 at bug in , don't know what car is it the name was there too  ;D

another car : the ORANGASUM based on an early body ,with late decklid and light , Common thing in the time ???

white lightning , yes that car still exist today Under the dress / name of flakey jake  :o

the greven bros owner of the wagon master ,the car had several paint scheme

Hi fabs, good work as usual buddy ;D

I really like the paintwork on the SNG car, think it's got the right balance of restrained & in 'yer face at the same time if that makes any sense.. ::)

Funny you mentioned white lightening / flakey jake, we were just looking at it this afternoon & discussing its previous life!
Cheers,
Kev

Looks all late to me, Fabs. Notice the fuel door, and the slim '65+ window pillars...

thx buddy i appreciate  ;)
and it will be cool if flakey jake become again the white lightning

may be i'm wrong zach , i've noticed that , but for me it look like <-65 pillar , but just seen the door handle and there're late one
Any remark is good to take  ;)

 ;)

what about Squirrel ??? only a few picture of the car are on the net , i never seen some picture on the magazine oh yes just one

now the car is in japan

more

aardvark

growler

rollerskate

king floyd jr

faulks wagen II

wacky wagon

wicked wagon

and tea time this gasser was a florida based car , and if you look closely it look like a bill mitchell car like buzzin bee III and thunderbug II

saturday night fever

mr vw texaco

bug iron

quisp

To be correct, Hitler´s Revenge is Finnish.   ;D
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(pic taken from terovirta.com)

my mystake  ;)

Moonshadow is up for sale on thesamba at the moment - well, whats left of it, anyway...

http://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/detail.php?id=901519

 :o

...seems like it´s not very much!  :(

some east coast or midd gasser "i suppose" ::) ::)

 ;)

love that karmann with american racing torq trust D spindle mount  :o :o

 west coast ;) and texas

the barnacle

common wealth bug ???

some unknow gasser  ???

more to comes , but will do some little research  ;)

I grew up in San Antonio and did occasionally get a chance to visit Alamo dragway way down on the other side of town. I'd go with my brother (on the rare occasion he would take me!) when he ran his bug, which I still own and run today.
I remember seeing this car very well. It was purple in color and ran in H and/or I Gas back in the day and was very fast. Wish I could run across some color photos ...
Never got to get too close to it, but I was just a punk kid back then.

... this was back in the early and mid '70s!

some more of kottens life long love

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i think this is the same care arrest me if I'm wrong

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If I'm not mistaken, the Stuttgart Express later turned into "Sudden Impact", which was owned and driven by Charlie Dickerson for quite a few years. I believe that the car was one of the early low nine second door cars; powered by a mechanically injected, turbocharged motor on alchohol. David "Pappy" Crow (http://cal-look.no/lounge/index.php/topic,20.msg169963.html#msg169963) is has been friends with the former owners for years, and could probably tell us a lot more about it.

The car went to east Texas in 2003 or 2004, was run a few times, went to a different East TX owner in early 2006, and is still there as far as I know.

Here are a few photos of the car that I took back in May of 2004, which is the last time that I saw the car. If I did some digging, I might be able to find some pics of the car from the late '80s or 'early '90s when when Charlie Dickerson was racing it.

(http://www.speedshots.net/images/asst/DSC02684.jpg)

(http://www.speedshots.net/images/asst/DSC02791.jpg)

Very cool Eric!
I remember seeing Charlie run that car at the first Texas Bug-Ins at Green Valley Raceway back in the late 80s.
Never knew or guessed it was the early Stuttgart Express car!

Another I remember but have no photos of was run by a guy named Pat in San Antonio out of the Buggy Shop ... ran H or I/Gas I believe.
I bet Dave (also affectionately known to us as 'The Birdman!') would remember that car from back in the day.
Last I heard, and as of 10 or so years ago, the car was still in the back of his shop, untouched since all those years ago.
Pat has since passed some years ago and I have no idea what became of the car.

This shot was taken at OCIR, and is the rearend of Dave Vanderbeke's I/Gas sedan..

I think the Mini Mite was driven by Paul Bernardo, a longtime Bug-In bracket 1 racer.

Bug Magik - Scooter Heaton R&S Performance - Orlando Florida.

sw TOO.... any info?

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here (http://cal-look.no/lounge/index.php/topic,2774.0.html)

This Picture reminds me of the Film 'Boogie Nights'........

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The gentleman on the far right of this picture is Mike Childers, who was the high school shop teacher of these lucky high school members who built the car. This car was at several bug-ins.

RM

This unfamous car was originally the better know "Mouse Trap"

and after that paint scheme it became the "whip it"

;)

Thanks for posting better pictures of Bug Magik!!  You know, Scooter still has Bug Magik completely in tact in his shop garage, original crazy paint job and all.  Also, The inside of his shop has VW murals on the walls done by the same artist (the artist has long since passed away).  I was trying to encourage him to bring this car out once again, either to shows or even to race it.  He told me he didn't think people would appreciate it.  I told him that the car was a piece of VW racing history in Florida and the East Coast but he still didn't want to take it out/ :(  Bummer, this car is well built, very cool and a time capsule for sure.

The Stuttgart Express was built in San Antonio, Texas by Glen Williams and crew.  It was the AHRA K/gas record holder in 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980 and 1981.  The 1981 record was set at 11.29. 

Later, it was painted white and became the Sudden Impact and eventually went turbo power.  At the 1985 Bug-In at Green Valley, it ran a 9.88, breaking Bob McClure's sedan turbo record, held since 1979.

The car has a new owner, as of March of this year, and is being restored as the Stuttgart Express.

These photos were found in the HVW's archives.

Bill Who is the new owner?  I here the car is in Houston Texas now? ;D ;D ;D

That's the rumor :-X

the mini mite car in the backdrop was shortened 1 foot and owned by Joe Peterson

(http://cal-look.no/lounge/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=11534.0;attach=38509;image)

I realize this thread has hasn't been posted to for a while,but this is the first time I've read it.

The White Lightning on the bottom is a different car than the other White Lightning/now Flakey Jake car. It's an oval window,unlike the other. It also apparently has history dating back to the 70's,and was camaigned in the super pro class on  the east coast until the early '90s (that is likely where that pic came from).  Ran hard for a small motor. We talked to the owner a couple years ago. It's still around,and looks the same,albeit in storage for several years. The owner from Pennsylvania has been out of the scene while racing V8 cars.

I learnt it not so long ago .....here's another picture of the white lightning ,

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 the other white lightning was driven & owned by bruce lowry member of the california volksmaster

That's really cool! That was/is one of my favorite east coast cars,neat to see a period picture of it.

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This all polyester body was at the Small car connection yard in the summer of 2011. Anyone who knows more about its history??

Moonshadow wasn't exactly an "unknown" car... maybe from the gasser days, but it was pretty well recognized in the '90s when Jay Schumacher ran it in Pro Turbo... later purchased and raced by Ken Cervone, I believe, who also had the Dragonslayer Pro Turbo.

That's the Quaterflash body I believe. Got a feeling Marc Beuler had something to do with it. Fabs will tell us more!

Edit: found more here - http://cal-look.no/lounge/index.php/topic,19580.msg276078.html#msg276078

Thanks to Mr. Speedwell I can contribute a fraction of information to this thread.

One of my friends owns the Lil Red car from the first page.
It now lives in Vancouver Washington and is run by Matney Racing.

It does look like the SNG car though....
But it also looks similar to the chopped version of Lil Red.

I am awaiting my friends response at this time as he will no doubt have more information to add.

I took these photos at my car clubs show the Woodburn Bugrun this past June...
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It is currently powered by an 1835 with turbo and runs in the low 11's.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v229/hubba617/Woodburn%20Bugrun%202012/2012-06-02_14-58-14_2.jpg)

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v229/hubba617/Woodburn%20Bugrun%202012/2012-06-02_15-05-46_100.jpg)

This photo is from a different Vw show that is held in August called the Rose City Bug in.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v229/hubba617/car%20stuff/2012-07-29_13-10-12_433.jpg)

Thanks to Speedwell for having such a complete set of photos for all occasions.

peter i've talked with travis , and he said that the car was the SNG before ....here're the words from travis : It was SNG at the time. I was told that it was an NHRA igas or mgas record holder until they contested the windshield chop. I was also told it was the fastest thing in Alaska years ago and have pics from it running in Alaska which is where I think it took on the Lil Red name. As for the car now, its a time capsule. The car physically hasn't changed other than I had to put an updated fuel cell and seat belts in it.
here's the SNG (in the background running against the lil red

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I am glad that you contacted me on Facebook and we were able to do some digging to shed some more light on this car.

Peter aka Catbox