The Cal-look Lounge

Not sure if its already been posted but

Nostalgia Drag Car (The Wild Thing Ghia) $4000


http://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/detail.php?id=931130

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yes ever posted by uncle keith   ;)

I was in the staging lanes getting ready to go when it made what I believe was it's first run. I only made it half way and hit the left wall hard :-\

I emailed the guy whose selling it and confirmed that it belonged to a guy I had interviewed here in Lakeview, Oregon, of all places, about four years ago.  HIs name was Don Fisher and, circa 2006, was speaking on behalf of a developer that was looking to put in a housing subdivision in Lakeview as well as a proposed (in retrospect quite overly ambitious if not ludicrous) strip mall project here in town.  If anyone here saw the kind of town that Lakeview is, you'd understand why the proposal was so ridiculous.  Anyhoo, long story short, he blew out of town as quickly as he came in, leaving behind a couple of half-built homes that were evnetually demolished three years or so later and last I heard the feller is in New Orleans. 

As it turns out, i guess he wasn't blowing smoke about the Wild Thing ghia, though I seem to remember him throwing down ridiculous numbers it ran, like 8's or something...;D

That is one ugly chop job!