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Inch pincher 1, everybody knows her, but already have you try to redraw his evolution ???
I want to say by all these small details which allow to see the improvements brought by empi or also the small changes to the level writings / paints
I hope that you go to make your contribution to this topic and also to share also can be some new photos 

let's go  ;)

fabs

at the beginning inch pincher was just a simple oval used as a daily driver , empi goes to the bahamas garnd prix in NASSAU in 63  an d won the grand prix

after empi add some products they sell  on the car to promote the shop products
here's the ip1 with rader wheels and shorrock supercharger
may be in year 65/66
on the cover of the 66 empi motoring guide there's ip 1 with the rader too

empi shorrock supercharger

after  that empi add some new BRMS wheels on the car and new engine with the famous 48 ida in the year 66 too
the cover of the rod & customs is  oct 66

After that I am not very on  ::)  when empi put red brms on ip 1 may be before the black one  but everything in the level body corresponds to the previous model except wheel rims
any idea ???

it looks to me as if the inch pincher name was added sometime after the 1966 catalog was printed.

Is that Book Drag Strip available anywhere?? :)

  I'd love a copy.. :-*

here's the engine , note the white strip ,that what i know that the engine was the one of that first stage ip1

search on ebay

after that  ,i don't know when exactly   ,but empi goes to bonneville with the ip 1 ,after bonneville empi add some  empi air scoop on the rear quater panel
the crapy pictures was took at the winternationals in 68

after , may be late 68 the car still change  , new paint sheme/signwritting , the rear windows was bigger they replaced the oval window by the 58/64 model
i don't know if at that time the fender and decklid were fiberglass one ??? maybe

here's an old advertiser of empi in an dune buggies hot vws magazine with the ip 1

now the ip 1 had some red brms onthe front  different pictures but same combo on the car , note that the one from the cover it look like some sand on the tyres ???  some race in the sand or sand on the road ???
note that the  car had a new decklid too the one with the big place for manos(gauges)

the ip 1 with is new decklid and red brms  on the very cool empi trailer bus

on this picture you can see some new modifications on the car like the rear taillights ,  the front headlights were bike units , and the rear buggy bar
 look the pinstripe  around the door handle , he wasn't there on the picture above

now we 're in 69  and the car had another  new paint scheme and new lettering on the rear quater panel , but the front hood still the old one with the big embossing for the gauges  and original wheels at the rear may be just for the towing , but i know that the trailer bus was there too 

and  have you ever seen the ip 1 with pie pan wheels ??? may be the only picture i know with dds wheels

irwindale 69 the ip 1 had is new vinyl flower power roof   :o :o

here at the 69 winternationals running agains the little giant killer fiat , and the schley bros in their lightning bug

here's the ip 1 running against the dds car atthe bug in 3 if i remember well
note the big sticker on the rear window

now were 're still in 69 , Once again the lettering of the back panel has still changed, this time  darrell's vittone name  seems below the power of ip 1 which was at this moment there of 208hp
 ::)

those pictures were taken the same day may be ,because the number on the windows were the same , and it was at ocir

now we're in the year 70 the car was in report in hot vws mag  ;)

may be the last race for the ip1 was at the supernationals in 70's

here's some story about ip 1 ;)

 ;)

 ;)
everybody knows that the floorpan of the ip 1 was used to welcome the body of ip2 , but that's another story
hope you like this little historic about the car ,
post your pictures if you have some cool one
rgd
fabs

That's a great report Fabian!  :o :o

Fabs, you should seriously consider writing a book.
I'm very glad I can just read your threads here, but your stories and pictures would be good to have in book form :-)

Is it just me ot at one point it had a big-window drivers side door and a small window in the passenger side?

Excellent thread, Fabs!!!  ;D

thanks trond , j-f , js  ;)

wich one alex ??? may be is one empi fiberglass door , and the mount was an late model  ::) ::)

look at the '69 and '70 pics

this one
the door handle look like an 65 model , may be like i said up the doors are fiberglass and may be moulded on an 65 one

This photo I believe was taken at the old Fontana Raceway....

may be deano , the day i pîck up the picture on the net it was written irwindale now  I didn't live it socal and does not know too much the landscape to tell to recognize the place ::)
thx for the info deano

Great work Fabs!! You are the man!

About the doors, didn't someone here on the lounge say that tey had two different sets of doors for that car? One set of steel "small windows" and a set of fiberglas "big windows"?
Supposedly to allow them to weigh the car up or down according to what class they wanted to enter.

Yep, that was me. And, "some" of those doors still exist! (and not in Ventura)

wow great collection of picture's, thanks for spending your time posting. so how's your new beer company budweiser.

::) ::) ::)

Fantastic Fabs !

thx hurry  ;)

Thx for this interesting article, if you want to do others don't hesitate !

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Yes Fontana -- you can see the HV power lines in the background

I'd buy that ! ;)

Just the small matter of obtaining the original photos and the copyright... It's all very well borrowing photos from other places on the internet, or scanning out of magazines, but that doesn't mean you have the legal right to use them. As soon as you commit to print, watch out... This is why you tend to see the same photos over and over again published in magazines and books - and why it took so long compiling material for the two Cal Look books I did. I have approximately 4000 scanned images for which I obtained the right to use in print, but I don't have the time to do another book – and no publisher would a) be interested or b) be prepared to pay enough to make it worth while. Both Cal Look books lost the publisher money...

So there are two Cal Look books, right.

White Beetle cover and Red Beetle cover?

  thanks,

Andrew

That's correct... :)

Or the Old Testament and New Testament as many know them...  ;)

How about using new medias such as Blurb? I don't know how it works though, but a lot of photographers on Flickr uses it to "publish" their books.

is that roof checkered on the 67?

And where's the time and financial reward coming from? The unit cost of producing a 150-page book would be astronomical... Self-publishing like this is not a viable option for anything other than a vanity publication ("Hey, look at me and my photographs!"). Also, as I say, time is a major problem - it normally takes between one and two years to put a decent book together.

Is there an option of crowdfunding? Ginger Wildheart has released albums and a book through Pledge Music. His first go at it resulted in him raising 555% of the total needed, at which point he stopped the process so all the purchasers got an album 6 months or so later once it had been made. And of course he made quite a bit more money because it was all on pre-orders. I'd be willing to pay £30 for a book and have it delivered when it's ready - I ordered Ginger's book last November in the final week before the pledge deadline and it arrived in July.

Maybe when I retire form editing one mag and working on a second I'll have time. I returned the advance I was paid to do one book three or four years ago as I realised I just wouldn't have time to do it (How to build a high-performance VW engine).
I've never been at ease with the concept of crowd funding, I'm afraid.

The saddest thing about all of this is the amount of knoweledge/infos that won't be shared. But ehre's not much to do about how things work I'm afraid. Hopefully we'll have new great books in the coming years maybe!

Thx fabs for the cool story!

this may be a very personal opinion, but from all the books i have a few stand out for sure. the callook book, the how to hod rod book and by far the one i have looked at the most must be the green technical book. i have looked at it so much, maybe it is starting to get outdated, maybe some things are revised, but all in all it is a great instruction manual to get into different tuning levels and available parts.
in an age of internet so much is said, some very true and innovative, but most just plain guesswork and copycatting. so a good reference book is what could be considered a jump start to see for someone how things can be done.
i think i can use a parallel with photography here  ;) it is great to have worked with manual cameras, film and a darkroom to know how things basically work. it doesn't mean digital isn't the way to go (it's not really important). but knowing your stops, diaphragm, speeds, iso,… is knowing what you will get as a result insted of a hit and miss tactic.