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I was lookin through some old box's I had.... and came across theses stickers I had from late 70's or so !! I hadn't seen these in years !!!

Who's Al Martinez?  ;D

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Yeah mark ..That would be cool to see.....!!. I also found some of my old KLOS rainbow/band stickers !..From the the same time !.....I wonder what ever happend to Mike Martinez's black chop top...??????

Went to Japan, engine blown up, sits in collection… usual story.

isn't owned by that guy "teddy Bear"  :-\ :)

 ;D ;D ;D

it's akira ueno aka BEE HAUS
 
i know he have the larry shaw car and this one look the martinez one with a flaming ??keith?

FLAMES.....!!!!!!!.......What a shame...!!!!..... :o

Where's Bill,

Hey Mister.... your car's on fire!!


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Yeah mark ..That would be cool to see.....!!. I also found some of my old KLOS rainbow/band stickers !..From the the same time !.....I wonder what ever happend to Mike Martinez's black chop top...??????[/quote]

That was my favorite chopped Bug of all time. We had a nice red one in D.K.K. too. I have a few of the old KLOS, KMET, and the old new wave/punk era KNAC ones, too.

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Here are some of my old collection. I never wanted to put them on my tool box, so I put them on this creeper. My favorite one is probably the Tayco one for the color and graphics.
Notice the gray paint splatter? That's from when we painted the floors at Rolling's Automotive, I rolled around on it and cut in the corners :)

   I am pretty sure this is not the 1st M Martinez chop that you are all familiar with.  There was a 2nd car in the 80's or 90's that looked like this.

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Best sticker I have is from Same Day Cylinder Head Service in Fullerton. I'll have to see if I can get a pic of it.

It says "Good Head the Same Day" then underneath is the name and phone number.
 
 ;)

Painting the floors at Rollings Automotive.....LOL!   Been there..Done that. Another example of coercion by Harold Rollings  >:( >:( >:(
I love the use of a creeper, wish I'd thought of it. When I left that place I pulled up my pants...went to a VW dealer and doubled my income.
But that was a long long time ago...C'est la vie!


Kinda miss Vaughn  :(

My old tool box. Hated to sell it for a bigger box but i had to, The new owner probably has no appreciation for the stickers at all.
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I didn't know there was a "second choptop"...??? what did it look like ..?....And what ever happened to Mike Martinez...?

Different car…

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So it looked like the first car..?...So is this the one he raced..? or was it the first car..?

How about that for a stroke of luck - that one has your name written on it!  :D
My guess is to stop other people using the photo on the net rather than claiming its your pic?

Maybe the name is on the car itself?
Kieth's next chop top purchase?  ;)

Give that man a banana! ;D
Turn to page 61 of my last book for the answer… 8)

don't you like old gummy stickers for glass with no glue that remember ones we put on window at xmas when we were child?

i love them. i am trying to do some for my club to put on rear window, but i think no one will make them.

i have some old automotive ones. and i like them so much.

One of my old tool boxes, now here in our back room. Notice the rare BAE sticker in front, along with the Brad's Upholstery one, Bug-In something.... Lonnie Reed's Head Shop on the side... On the top there's a late-model DDS one, original Race Shop, Bonneville 1972 and chrome FAT.

Lonnie Reed's sticker, designed by Lane Evans, circa 1978...

Used to have t-shirt with that logo on it.

That was one of my favorite stickers....I aways thought it was kool..!.... 8)

I think the sand dragster on Lonnie's sticker was known as the "Hair Drier"'.


Of course, I have been wrong before  ;)

I have these two – were there any other colours?
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Ok...I just found another sticker "The Deeks" are familiar with....!...Not sure what year it was ....?

I might have to dig out some of mine now...loving the Meguiars sticker ( I thought you chaps called em decals ;) always wanted to put the Meguiars one's like that on customers cars - so if anyone has a spare or finds one - I'm your man..as anyone who has visited Planet Paintbox knows - everything is covered in em...I have loads of old Grant steering wheel ones if people wanna do swaps..

Nice thread..Si

Phil, I do not think Lonnie was into turbos that early on. Most VW sand dragsters used dual IDAs during that time, as A/Fuel was a little exotic during the early late '70s for most VW guys (except Kawell and Longergot of course!). I believe the dragster shown in the logo was actually owned by Sand Tires Unlimited's (late) Dave Beckett. But the graphics shown were a Lane Evans addition.

Keith, those shirts were most Penny Towncraft T-shirts, or perhaps early Anvil. There was most likely a pale yellow or buff color one as well. 

Speaking of the Meguiar's sticker, I met one of the founding family at a custom car show in Anaheim with my old '67, and he helped me wax my car so it would look better under the show lights. From that point on, I was a big Meguiar fan!

Yeah I got that sticker from Vince years ago..It's been in a box every since then..!! Deano ...Do you think that maybe Phil might be refering to "NO-DOZ" dragster...? I remember the first time I saw it at O.C. on it's first run the hair on my arms stood on end ...!!.... :o

I had the beige one... don't know if there were other colors.

Decals at least over here implies that they are water transfer whereas stickers are self adhesive.

thus, how many siimilar black choptop have they built???

Don t think they are that old(copies of old) but this is how my fridge used to look like for ten years until it broke.


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I think Deano's probably right, the sand dragster that I recall didn't use forward body work. I was helping Lonnie thrash on it the night before a Bug-In. The thing that stands out in my memory was the frail chassis...scary frail for a car not designed to run the 1/4 mile.