The Cal-look Lounge

Sheep enjoys getting me steamed, emailing me links to these really ridiculous cars for sale on Samba. I cannot believe what some of these morons have done to what might have been some decent Volkswagens! And the prices these cretins are asking for what amounts to no more than a rusted and jimmied-together pile of crap, with many of the basic automotive functions disabled (lights, brakes, etc....), but "engineered" with loads and loads of accessory garbage spilling off every outside surface of the car. Some of the photos I have seen of these "cars" (we have to use the term loosely....as they remind me more of the trash sculptures that used to be displayed along the bayshore freeway in Richmond CA by Golden Gate Fields than actual cars). I just don't get the fascination with wanting a pile of trash for a car, and then thinking it's cool.....and then demanding top dollar for these roaches. My God....rust, twisted wires together, missing parts, tires that rub headlight wires, missing fresh air hoses, chrome taiwan engines, jungle gym roof racks hung everywhere, lowered to the point of lunacy, awful primer paint jobs, these cars are the worst segment of the hobby, I just don't get the thinking (or lack thereof)  ??? ??? ???behind such awful cars. Did I mention how fricking awful these cars make the VW hobby appear? AWFUL! >:( >:(

pee yook!!!

Does Better Homes and Gardens feature mobile homes?????

Well.....it is just the thought process I cannot grasp. If I was fortunate enough to find a nice, tidy, let's say '63 Bug, the LAST thing I would is fuck it up like so many of these cars. And not just because I'm performance minded.....but because I think your car says something about you. Doesn't it? Do these people feel this way? Judging from their ads on the Samba, it seems they do... they boast and brag about the what I find to be such poor decisions they've made. The extremely narrowed beams.....done because of disc brakes and tire clearance? Nope think again.....it was simply monkey see monkey do...all cosmetics. They're not concerned with brakes at all....let alone disc brakes! Their ads on the Samba smack of such smugness and the very essence of the look of these cars just completely turns me off.......take a 1967 or earlier bug, slam it to the point where it shouldn't be driven (weigh the car down with some airbag crap to make things worse), cobble up some homemade RHD "kit" that is a fatality waiting to happen, coax the last few breaths out of some mutant single-port F case "1835" with stock carb, chrome air filter, 009 distributor, chrome tin (covered in grime and greasy paw  prints), some header installed without gaskets, and maybe half the nuts, some haphazard-teenage made wiring harness, just waiting to start a fire, rotten fuel hoses, axle boots that would leak if there was any oil in the transaxle, about 6 degrees of negative camber, worn out (4 different) tires, no fender beading, intermittent electricals, bumpers held on with one or two 5/16" bolts jammed into 8mm threaded holes, no interior, windows that don't roll up, oh....but wait, the roof rack, the bug killer, the cooler scoop, the decklid rack, the the fake whitewalls flapping in the breeze.....these all make these cars worth the $15,000 these idiots demand for this crap!!!

And, they expect car features too!

I think that´s a swedish 59 model. Unless the doors and rear fenders have been changed.

 Well... I'm planning to get my '51 split through inspection and drive it "as is"... 
 Just plain original, not slammed etc... no changes... looking the same as it did back in the 70ies when they put it in the barn... 
  (I will remove the dead mice from the headliner though...  ;D  )

 (http://www.keversite.nl/fotoalbum/fotos/55650.jpg)

"Gil Gonzalez? Sure we know Gil. We killed him last night. Tied him to the car and dragged him."

Hey! I figured out how to make the quote thing work.. Maybe I am not so lame after all

no more American Graffiti for you Mr Ratto

OK  Mr. "I still have points but I finally figured out how to use a digital camera & a computer"  no more technology for you.. go back & set your dwell young man.

Maybe she will make you watch some sort of Meg Ryan & Tom Hanks tragedy instead.  You will be so emasculated after that you will have to sit down to pee.

what was the movie you insisted we watched every time I came to your mansion, Sheep? Hot And Saucy Pizza Girls? Didn't it win an Oscar?

I think Jim will have to keep watching that movie about the transvestite volley ball team, he tried to make me watch when I was down visiting. He knew every word to that movie it was real creepy :o

to me a beater is something that happens due to lack of time, money or both. these guys appear to take pride in ruining a car!! They are nowhere near safe, as far as I can tell. There were a few real screwballs that used to "build" crap like this in the Bay Area when I worked at BH. Same guys that never had jobs, always were filthy dirty from laying in gutter to scrabble under their cars to admire how they had worn the 6mm sump nuts flush with case....
An extreme case i remember.....the King of the Idiots....he had a barndoor Bus...and  did a backyard conversion to make the poor thing RHD and his goal was to get the Bus so low it would grind the steering box on the ground as he drove. Unfortunately, he succeded. He removed ALL of the torsion leaves in the beam, and used bungee cords to retain trailing arms into beam tubes. The only thing holding body up was the 125 temp tires rubbing inside fender wells.  :o

$7000 for this?
http://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/detail.php?id=479293

check out the "perfect running" 1776...yeah I'm sure it runs great with those gaping holes in rear tin.

I'm sure the 009 distributor and stock carb run great together too.

A $7K car that doesn't have the 95 cent bumper bracket grommets installed? Or how about an operating license plate light (no wire going to it)

"So cool....."


WTF?  ???

No. His initials were Dave Gillis.

ARE THE INITIALS OF THIS PERSON JM

Hey stealth67 I like your avatar. Where did you get it???

Hey stealth67 it looks like someone is trying to copy your name.

it has later doors 59's have pull door handles which this car has but you can see the hole in front of the handle for the later verison