The Cal-look Lounge

Will all have gone back to stock cars or will we be using hi tech solutions in our lookers?
Look where we was ten years ago!

What do you think? 

I will be staying in the 70s timebubble. Once you´ve built your car, keep it as is or move on to another project, but NEVER change it!!!!
Just put it under a dustcover and take it out for a spin once in a while, or just put it into hibernation.
Styles will change and you might move onto other projects, but California Look as we know it, will never change.
The only ting that will change is the source of parts and project cars. Enthusiasts that come after us, will probably be rebuilding newer models to get that old look.
Sounds horrible, but that might just be the case:((.
PC

I am with you, PC! My Ghia will stay that way it looks today. There will be technical change, but from the overall appearance it will look like back in 2006.  ;) And I hope most people will do it that way.

A few years ago my friend and club member Tobi wanted to respray his fantastic cherry red Oval. I told him not to do it, because so many people know that car through all the magazine features in VW Speed, Volksworld, Super VW, Käfer Revue and it would be a shame to erase the cars history – or it's at least harder to recognize. In the end he left it cherry red, because we made a deal... ;D And I am sure today he is happy that he didn't change the color.

Look at Dave Rhoads '64! It's such a cool car because it is a true refugee from the 70s, unchanged since than. Maybe in ten or twenty years time people will say: "Look at this car, it's the old car from (insert your name), it's a true 90s Cal Look car.  :)

To stay with PC: If you want to follow a new trend or just build a new project – take another car and leave your Looker as is!

Mee too brother! I like cars built with state of the art 1976 techology! ;)

We all gather at organized sunday morning meetings, parking our cars straight and between the white lines in a pre booked parking lot, looking at each others cars that has not changed in years and now and then a new kid drops a bomb with all those ohhhhhh so sought after aftermarket parts compiled on one car and we droool while slowly walking by. Cars are not anymore valued by there timeslips or how mouch the front wheels are yanked of the ground on take off, more based on how mouch they are worth in money.....................naaaaaaa then again I sincerly hope we have fun and gladly enjoys the timeless look of the near perfect cars of 70's rage and goes sideway out of the parking lot when heading home at midnight speed shifting in to the night!! Timeless cars and careless drivers!!!!!

Sorry to disapoint you georg but it changed last year!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



I had to wash it :D

5 years of dust looked bad,cheers richie,uk

Does that mean without engine on a trailer?

 ;D ;D ;D

I think that many people who think that Cal Look would be a fashion will change the style of their cars sooner or later. In germany I have heard of some people that they are already bored by "The Look". Some of them are going to change the style of their cars to some kind of "german folks style" which - in my opinion, will be the next big fashion in europe.
For me personally Cal look is absolutely no fashion but more of a lifestyle (sounds stupid but that´s how I feel about it). When I bought my oval 8 years ago I was fascinated by the resto style which was slowly becoming popular in germany...until one day in the year 2000 I met some strange guys from a club called "Der Fieser Luftkühlers" who showed me the "Bible" of  KS. The very next day I ordered it at amazon and comletely read it in one evening. From that day on I didn´t care about roofracks etc. anymore. I was amazed to read about the history of clubs which where formed long before I was even born. I´m still fascinated by those cars which were running extremely fast ETs on tzhe quartermile - ETs which I´m still dreaming to achieve today! :D
Those pics in the books formed a picture in my brain of how a period "Looker" would have to look like and I´ve tried to replicate it as good as possible without abandoning personal details. I think that more and more people will try to build Lookers the way those cars looked back in the old days whereas in recent years most people seemingly favoured what I would call 90s cal look: cars with complete trim, interior etc.
When looking at the cars at the last DAS Drag Day in Bitburg this development was clearly visible. I saw way more traditionally built cars than at any of the drag days of recent years...

Shut the f#§* up, Ole!  :)

Well it's been 10 years plus. Where has the California Look scene changed and where have things remained the same?

I like that some cars brought new and innovative solutions (especially for racing) but some other cars stayed the same :) And I like to see cars built exactly and perfectly such as 60s cars, some other as 70s cars, some other as 80s cars, 90s cars...

The pure genious of an air-cooled VW is its simple technology and I love that Cal-Look keeps this simplicity and enhances it.

Is it me, or has dechroming become more popular again the last 10 years?

Don't know. But turboing your cal looker has..  8)

The amount of horsepower has increased for 10 years, that is for sure. But I like that the look (all variations of it) kind of remain the same.