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Looking through an old drawer I came across about 30 slides and a small stack of negatives.  Just got the disk back this morning.  Some lame pics some real gems.  Enjoy.

btw.. look close at the blue bus and you can see a Keg inside.....  hah..

More...  Dave McNew chilling, My blue 56 and Bob Davis's green car.  Mine was freshly painted without an interior so no stickers in the windows yet.  Not until it was COMPLETE.  And the Deek Ghia (Dee Phillips I believe)

nice find Scott :o :o

who is the light blue car aside the choptop , the car had real empi 5, is this the same one  aside Mark's MYTOY car??

A couple more.  I wasn't going to post this picture of myself but it's just too damn stupid not to post and its a decent pic of some of our club trophies.  Can you tell why they called me Worm back then?  A bit thin would'nt ya say? Obviously I was a non conformist back then.  My shorts were vintage and long (for the time)!  Check out everybody else......... ha
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look at the oil sump details  , that was another times , you don't see this nowadays  ...mike maybe ghia
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...a beautiful rag top ghia.  One of the first I recall seeing...

is this mark dean67
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There isn't a lame photo in the stack.  Thanks, that really brings back a lot of memories.  Your blue '56 was right on.

Thanks Dave..........

theres more

Isn't that a great color on the Vert?  We need more blood red cars. Sick car real 5.5's,  Didn't anyone ever wear a damn shirt?n how about all the trash on the ground too?

...a late model with one piece windows is all goodness.

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I'll finish it off with a nice DKK line up

thx for sharing with us Worm

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You must not be claustrophobic to drive that blue choptop!  :D

Thanks to share those photos with us, Worm  ;)

I second ALL of that!  Thanks for sharing a nice slice of Cal-Look pie. 8)

Many thanks for sharing those beautiful pictures  ;)

that's why there was a opening roof  J-F ...  ;D ;D

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I hadn't thought of Dennis Rose (red shorty van) in long time -- don't know if that is good or bad LMAO

Great pics Worm, the ragtop Ghia belonged to Glenn Gaskey, my brother Randy painted it in '81, it also looks like one of our 16"  Powerlite pit bikes in the top of the shot. I wish I still had mine.  Thanks for the memories  Bill

Anything for you Billy boy...........

It was actuallly deeeeeep black  Martinez's best of show car.  VERY black.  The So Cal sunset made it purple-ish.  Blew our minds at the time actually.

Thanks Sarge!  You're the best.  What are you doing on your computer?  Get back on your damn bike bro..........  Luv.

Great find, WORM! Thanks for posting.  Always fun to see old pics.  8)

Here's some more.  Lyle Schaeffer.  The baddest MF'er that ever lived.  If we ever needed an enforcer, "hey Lyle", trouble over.....done.  Oh btw we needed one....... 
P.S. the girls liked Lyle too.

Thats it.  Thats all of em of worth seeing.  Good times.

I love that Manx. When I grow up, I'm gonna build one like that.

Cool pics! Many thanks for sharing them  :)
There were so many nice cars built in the past... and many years before I was born  ;D

Bill's brother painted it raspberry, the only color he would paint it. The aluminum door panels were painted too. The car looked huge inside. Thanks for posting Worm!

Scott , that chop top  was kevin News car , car was painted by Kolor Me Kustom in La Palma  and the color was midnight blue they said in the report that the color look different depending the lightning
the car had abernie bergmann 1835cc with 40dcn webers
hope it help  ;D
tha car was in DKK??

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Love this green sedan.

very cool pics! many thanks

Reminds me of Marks "Green Machine"

Cool pictures this one could be a picture of my ghia in the background.

Frenchy

I like all the yellow ignition wires too. Nobody runs em anymore. I need to find a nice set....  8)

WOW!! That's great Worm. Brings back memories. ;D

great pics loving this late model. just looks so damn right

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Great pics from a great period of time.

Love the Manx buggy!  (I still want to build one!   ;D )

Thanks for the flashbacks. True cal-look cars simple and clean without trim.

Cool pics Worm, I agree on that late model, very Cal-Look for sure.

Ted

Mirrors, 1 piece window, and width of front beam.  The silver color is sweet too.  

I was thinking of detailing my case like the black Ghia.  Yeah right,  Rainbow colors didn't have the same connotation then that they do now,  hah

Glad we all enjoyed these. Wish I had more.  And I find it interesting that I rarely took any pics of my OWN car,  there were a LOT of sweet rides in So Cal back then.

And btw Fab's I wish I could answer all your questions about who's was who's etc....  I was in DKK not IBM......  Brain is foggy. Hah. I can say that the blue chop was not in DKK. Far as I know.  The red one was.   Also found two Bug in unused dash plaques from 27 and 28 in the bunch. 

Awesome pictures Scott!!!  I had recently purchased the square back from Dave McNew and was stoked to be in the line up that day with you deeks. Hope to be in it again someday :)

These pics are from Bug in 27.  And of course on the other thing Silly

cool car  :)

Wow! thanks for posting. loved these pics

VWs sure were more colorful back then.  8)  So many tasty cars.

And you sure can't beat slides for vibrance.

This picture is the definition of the cars I dreamt of as a kid.
Check out how wide that front beam is, how the rear just squats enough to let you know this is no bone stock thing with rims.
Look at how the sky shines in the front tire... all the way down to the rim. A tell tale of a wide rim and a narrow tire just clearing the arches, talk about stretched rubbers. No low profile mumbojumbo.
And the shine in the rear tires tells the opposite tale, the shine stays in the upper part of the sidewall indicating a fat tire filling the arches just so. Hand polished fuchs shows of elbow grease and the black details gives the car the dark tones the car needs.
And the arial letting everyone know, this is a real car...  not made yesterday!
in short, I LOVE it!

Thanks for sharing Scott!
 

thanks for sharing. the late model car sure is nice as several pointed out before.
and i DO run yellow ignition wires  ::), i even have single color wiring in the car, oh well  ;D

thanks for sharing...miss those days

I think I need to dig out all my old bug in, drag day and vw nationals photos......got some of the Jones car on it's bumper and lee leighton. then figure out how to scan them.....

Its those tiny little details that "Make" a car..... And I'm sorry to say but ALOT of people just don't "Get It"

I'm kinda diggin the red car in front also.....

I know this is way late....but that's my 65 sunroof " Blue Hawaii"(pre BRMs).....this bug in I had 2 cars in.......fun!

The blue car that Dave is using as a pillow is Scott Hall's.

Yes I believe it is. The give away are the turn signals.

Good eye for detail my friend.  ;)

That's Joe Larson's car. He sold it, bought it back decades later and it's back in the DKK line up. He painted it an ivory this time. Looks outstanding.

Thanks for posting those Scott.

Brings back a ton of memories. It was a great time to be a kid and into Cal-Looks.

It was an excellent time to be in Der Kleiner Kampfwagens and I was blessed to be part of it.

thx Todd  ;)

THE RED TOP CHOP IS AWESOME ,