The Cal-look Lounge

Those pictures taken from some dried up grassy park in 1972 of the DKP cars... there's a number of them in Keith's book... (Mahaffey's split, Arnie's '67, your '63, Stan Davis' late model, mark Thurber's brown car...)
What was going on that day? Where was that park? Looks like there were DKP cars as far as the eye could see...

Tell us the story Sarge

Those pics were taken at Featherly Park in Yorba Linda.  It was right after the park opened, so the shrubery was pretty sparse. 

here're the picts  ;D

timeless, calssic, super-cool, all bitchin cars.

more  ;)

Mahaffey's car looks deadly serious in those pics. Love the stories elsewhere about that car

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Always liked this one. Any chance it is still around?

--louis

The car had an accident. The wheels were sold to Harvey Rosenthal for his 66 bug.

True...it only lasted a few months after John sold it.  I have plenty of memories of cruising in that car...and working on it!

Do you remember any engine specs on the Butternut, Sarge?

I love that one too.  Being from "pre" Cal-look days as far as magazines are concerned, was it ever featured?  Would love to see detail shots of it.  I imagine if there were any, we'd have seen them by now.

I wanna say it was 78.4 X 88.  We'll get the straight scoop right outta the horses mouth tomorrow afternoon... ;)

shit.......you invited a talking horse to the party??  Ratto will be a happy guy!!!  ;D

Atta boy, Carlos!!  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

just show me the way to the handrail I'll be fine.

ok let's get back in topic.  we don't want to piss people off now. 

Sorry guys it was my fault........... I started acting like a child again  :-[

I can't wait to hear all the cal-look stories .........!!!!

That's more like it!! ::) ;D

can  you remember the dash of john"s car ???
we can see there's 2 big gauges ,and small one and plexi on this one ??? and what steering wheel it was ??

I'm pretty sure John had VDO instruements...we worked at Auto Haus back then and that was where you'd get most of your stuff.

sarge is this this one??

may be not the wiper are in the opposite way as john's car

Wrong steering wheel too.


--louis

looks like Lazenby ran Motolita.

That sounds right, Jim.  Thinking back on John's car...it started life red.  As a 40hp, it had a Judson and an 010 distributor.  It was later repainted at Babe's in Fullerton...the color was firemist green metalic and was truely a thing of beauty with loads of clear on a flawless base.  John had Babe's reshoot the car in butternut years later but the job was rough (the paint never really hardened) so he drug it over to Becker's to get it right.

Maybe Thurber's car?

its look like a sepia  brown no ??? not a brown metallic

maybe Hunsaker's?

I love this car

As I recall, Lazenby had Fleming build a new engine towards the end of his ownership of that Bug ('73ish?). It was an 78.4x88, with Fleming heads and IDAs, 120 or 130 cam, and a magneto.

F' em if they don't have a sense of humor... I say!  :D

Mmmmm.... I wanna lick it...
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It has ALWAYS been one of my All time favourite volkswagens - its just PERFECT ;D ;D ;D

My friend Brad from my old club, Half A Brain, is building a replica of Lazenby's butternut car. He's a bit of a perfectionist though, so who knows when it'll see the road! It's been painted 3 times already, and he's just changed the doors, wings and welded in a ragtop section! He managed to get the first set of JGE Torkers from Jon Abbott to go on the car. He has been in contact with John Lazenby to find out the colour of the car and although it's correct (Corvette Warbonnet Yellow IIRC) it looks too gold - maybe it's because the old photos have yellowed with age.

Maybe Luca's a little more down ! ?
NO ?

But color are 'lickable' !  ;D ;D

yep, i'd prefer lower mounted indicators, but otherwise I can't find any fault on it...

The indicators up high are better than being mounted too low.  It appears they are on the same baseline as the head lights. 

The only thing I would change is the rear stance.  The wheels could use a little spacing out and it appears that they have positive camber.   Perhaps it was backed into that spot causing the pos camber though.

I NEVER noticed that about the indicators before - oh well its still my all time favourite  ;) :)

 ;D ;D :D ;)

It's still a lickable volkswagen !

he maxx lickable is my job  >:( >:(  don't forget that man  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

How could we forget that dude  ;) :)

;D ;D ;D

when you come out, keep a safe distance from me, ok buddy? Even though I am a greasy, spicy Italian.

you said spicy hmmmmmmmmm  :P :P  i like that , may be  i will lick you  friday night at nick's  ;D ;D ;D ;D
rgd
fabs

I'm always nude and speedwell always licking !!!
I late you imagine what happend when WE are together !!!
 ::)

 :P

 ;D ;D

Boys!!!! Boys!!!! c'mon, keep it on topic. If you want to post about sausage and cookies, go to Off topic.  ;D

Sorry sorry Mr Jalous !  ;D

For me that's this one me reference !

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Ive got his first set in my garage, waiting to go on my car, they do look more gold than the original butternut, but like you say its probably down to the old photos. The holes for the lucas lights are lower too, in the horn grills.

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So 'right'....

The color was '71 Corvetter Warbonnet Yellow, but as I recall once painted by Leonard Becker it was a shade or two different.  Actually looked better than the factory color I thought. 

I'm flattered that you guys think so much of this car.  Of course it was my pride and joy and I tried to take a different route than most were doing.  As stated before I wanted more of a "formal ride" rather than a race car.  Guess that is why I like my Chryslers so much over Mustangs, Camaro's, etc.  They are fast, but offer a lot of comfort, which now is a VERY IMPORTANT thing.

I look forward to seeing the finished re-creation.  I would be more than happy to provide any info I can regarding the car to getting it completed.

John Lazenby