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Hi all,

After more then 8 years in a wet garagebox where it freezes in wintertime and is to hot in the summer, my 1966 callook bug is back at home in my warmed garage.  I own this car since 1994 and it is restored since 1997 and I feel it is time to tread it a little more with car now.

The golf6 has to sleep outside know, but then again, that's a company car, so I should not mind.

Philip
Flatline Lowriders
Belgium

good choice phil ,grand Pa & grand Ma inside and the youngest outside  ;D ;D

Nice said, Speedwel, but remember this.  At the lights grandpa can beat the shit of their little grandson ;D

Philip
Flatline-Lowriders
Belgium

Well done!

And now get to work on the lowlight!  ;D

gr
Wout

you should post a bit more pics of your car. it is actually a remarkably 'subtle callook' car (the ones with bumpers and trim,...). one of the nicer ones in it's genre in Belgium.  ;)

Hi Philip

Bring the car to me, and we can make some foto's  ;D

gr
Wout

@ Nicolas: Thank you very much for this nice comment.  Sometimes I want to sell the car and build a new one, but when someone with your taste of callook gives some sweet comment like that, me and my car are meant to stick together forever. ;D

@ Wout: Maybe we should do this.  Xavier mentionned some years ago that he wanted to feature my car for Boxertje, if he still wants this, you can take the pictures ;)

Philip
Flatline Lowriders

It's hard to get a callooker in the magazine  ::)

gr
Wout

But then again, Wout, getting this car featured in Boxertje is no priority as well  ;D

Philip
Flatline-Lowriders
Belgium

no problem, just my honest opinion. BTW thanks for the nice comment as well  ;)

hi there, nice 66, do you have any interior shots?

I will take some interior shots and it maight be a good idea to post some pictures for the beginning up till today.  The outside of the car always remained the same, but the dash did change a bit over the years.  I'm a vintage VDO pervert, so now I got the dash I wanted.  I come back on this when I have acces to all my pictures at home.

Philip
Flatline-Lowriders
Belgium

x2 ! Nice car.

Hi all,

I took some pictures of the dash as it is right now and will stay forever :-)  The Empi GTV steering wheel was a wedding gift from my wife Eva, with who I'm married since 12 years (anniversary today!!), Shifter is a Early Bergshifter and all the VDO gauges are working perfectly.

Philip
Flatline-Lowriders
Belgium

First of all,congrats with your anniversary Philip,AND that dash looks GREAT!!!(like the whole car).
And try to make a feature for "boxertje",it deserves it.Have fun with it.

Peter  ;)

Some pics over the years  8) Now that's a car that always gets my attention.

And happy anniversary from my behalf too.

Spa '00
(http://www.terovirta.com/images/2000_SpaFrancochamps_58.jpg)

Volksworld '06
(http://www.terovirta.com/images/2006_VolksworldShow_18.jpg)
(http://www.terovirta.com/images/2006_VolksworldShow_17.jpg)

Spa '06
(http://www.terovirta.com/images/2006_BugShow_71.jpg)
(http://www.terovirta.com/images/2006_BugShow_72.jpg)

EBI III
(http://www.terovirta.com/imagesToo/2008_EBI_038.jpg)

Spa '10
(http://lh3.ggpht.com/_j5YMO-ms6rk/TEy4k0m7-XI/AAAAAAAAHJ0/UMDuk5JyiHM/s800/IMG_6391B.jpg)

nice bug dude
and the ghia ???

EBI 3 ...

gr
Wout

sweet!!! mine long way more to go.

any chances of shots of your seats, door panels?  ;D

Hi everybody,

How nice is this to get a revival of my car after so many years it was actually finished (1997!). 

@ Tero: thanks for the nostalgia pictures.  The first one shows me when I was waiting for Ivan Mc Cutcheon to get the car featured for Volksworld.  I think it was 1999 or 2000.  I had no kids at that time and my oldest son is 8 now!   I do remember that I used this particular picture to communicate to my friend that I had bought a new project: the 1957 Ghia.

@ Wout: Good things come to those who wait  ;)

@ Pupjoint: I will take some shots, but nothing special there, I decided on the interior in 1996 and there was not much available for my budget, so stock TMI beige seatcovers went on.  I will replace the seatpads this winter to sit a little more confortable :-)

@ DKK Fred: I doesn't take a 1967 to create something nice, although I would love to own a 1967 on day, but when I bought this car in 1994, 1967 beetle weren't that hot at that time.  I was more then happy then, that it was a before 1967 model, so I didn't need to change wings and decklids to make it older  ;D

Thanks to Philips '66 I got in love with Cal-Look beetles.
 
I think this is a nice example of a classic callook car, wich is timeless and an inspiration for a lot of other cars!

And after 13 years it still looks as good as in 1997.

Just one small mistake about the year, one year to old ;) :) :) Just kidding!!

Thanks Philip!

Hey Kurt,

But 1966 Callook bugs are rarer ;D

Philip
Flatline-Lowriders
Belgium

Yeah Yeah smartass!  :)

'67s are the Deuce Roadsters of Cal-Look  ;)

If somebody would like a vintage VDO setup like mine...

http://cal-look.no/lounge/index.php/topic,14150.0.html

Cheers,

Philip
Flatline Lowriders
Belgium