The Cal-look Lounge

Bolt on Select a Drop? I never actually saw one of these... but wasn't there some big 3/4" sway bar involved and the torsions got "clamped" down into a lowered position somehow? There was a stupid blue/bright pink/day-glo green '69 at high school that I seem to remember having one.

RX exhaust system? If there was ever a header to get you a ticket.... 

The clear plastic (tinted in your choice of red, blue, smoke, or clear) 009 distributor caps? And their sideways "Porsche Style" brother?

The matching clear plastic generator backing plate (between generator and fan)?

The chrome, louvered, fan belt guard? Supposed to save the lives of those that wear a tie when working on their motors I guess.

The really cool red trans mounts that looked like they were made of Red Vines licorice? Not the usual urethanes... these were WORSE. Kind of translucent....

What else?

nothing wrong with clear dizzy caps !!!

 ::)

what about the dayglo coloured rocker covers and matching alternator breast plate mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm nice ;)

not really a hotrod , but i'm sure you'll appreciate it :D

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Cars-Trucks___1970-VW-VOLKSWAGEN-BEETLE-BUG-CAMPER-MINI-HOME_W0QQitemZ140264640905QQddnZCarsQ20Q26Q20TrucksQQddiZ2282QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item140264640905&_trkparms=39%3A1%7C65%3A1%7C240%3A1318&_trksid=p4506.c0.m245

I have both of them somewhere in my stuff, in blue, I even have the one you put in front of the generator pulley ! I bought it a few years ago, but I never mounted it  :D. I don't even know if you can still get it in a shop now.

How about the billet look ribbed firewalls JSC used to sell.

matching fan shrouds. Weren't they called sharkline?

dont empi still sell all this shit ???

















(ducks for cover from the empi mafia) :)

Don't know about "Hot Rod" parts but what about those CRAP rear gearbox mounts that are sold where the studs are too long and won't let you refit you engine  >:( ::) :)

what about the gadget that mounted on the front of the hood ??
think it was to keep flies off the screen ??

heres one of my cars hotrod parts ....  sadly no more   ::)

(http://i180.photobucket.com/albums/x216/iancross182/melissacam072.jpg)

hey RACEHEAD.... I'm surprised you haven't chimed in.... I SAW you sell almost all of these fine parts at one time or another....

"what about the gadget that mounted on the front of the hood ??
think it was to keep flies off the screen ??"

These have been around since the 50's - I think we're talking more about "Modern Crap" ;) :)

I sold more of that crap to kids like you Jim - Sucker born every minute - At one point we were getting truck loads of all that stuff - I have tried to forget all that crap - Seems useless now - but in the day the more bolt on shit the better - I dont know if any body but me have ever seen a single side draft weber manifold - wish i still had it - talking 1970's ish.

I snapped one of those red urethane nosecone mounts in half the first day I had it in my car. I also had one of those clear distributor caps, but it cracked right away and made my car miss. I swapped it for the stock one in my dad's bus and it ran fine in the bus for years!

If I had seen this on ebay I swear I would have bought it! I have wanted one of those for years.

Pure 70's funk - did work on one long time ago - very weird to drive -  :o

What about "wink mirrors"?

You are forgetting the long polished cylinder that went over the distributor so it looked kind of like a Mag.

how about eyebrows. and crome louvered running boards,how about lack of part's like no decklids.

Mark, you're a sick, sick man, and in need of professional help! I mean, a Wink mirror?! ;)

I have to confess to buying some dayglo pink running boards...  :o But only so I could shorten them to clear the flip front and removeable wings on my race car! They were immediately painted satin black, and only cost £5 brand new because our local place hadn't sold any for years! :D

what about the 10 foot long flexi arials ?

all the cool guys had them looped over and fastened at the back , all the jackassses had them swinging about whipping people and scratching cars :D

How about those plastic rings that you could paint in the color of the car and fit to your tires, like a whitewall? Anyone seen them in use?

Anyone else remember those useless pieces of crap called turbochargers? Never did catch on (except in out of the way places like Ohio). No place on a Cal Looker! :D
And as for fuel-injection! Pah!  ::)

Vitalloni mirrors
sew fine interiors
centerlines
pastel colours
stingers
 ;D

my car has most of the stuff listed above  :-[  :o :D

when i was 17 way back in '87  i got a bolt on select-a-drop for my '66....it cost me about £70 when the only dude around who could lower my beetle by cutting and turning the beam was gonna charge about £200......no contest......bolt that sucker on.....for a day or two......it only lowered the car by about 2"  and rode like crap.....i kept the car in my garage for a couple of months while i got the cash together to lower the front.....i didn't want to drive it round till it was dropped......i've always been kinda vain.   ;D

how exactly did that thing work? I never understood it. Did your beam feel warm from all the tension inside?  ;D

hey Jim......you're right that there was a reallly heavy duty anti-roll bar and a very thick gauge T bar kinda thing which bolted on under the framehead...as i recall the cross/top part of the T had two holes in it that corresponded to the two holes in the framehead just either side of the tunnel and bolted thru'.....the vertical line of the T came forward and linked somehow? to the anti-roll bar with a big nut/bolt arrangement......by tightening the nut it clamped up the bar thus pulling up the lower torsion bars.

or something like that?

it was 21 years ago and i was a dumb kid....as opposed to the dumb 38 year old i now am.

 The beer or soda can on the coil  ;D

;D

I sold some of them - and yes thats how they worked - or should i say - thats how they installed -  :o

 :D   :D   even knowing nothing back then i knew it was a piece of shit.

how about all the guys makeing cheese grader's out of there decklids with louvers

I used to see a guy running around So. Cal. years ago in a blue '64 with a louvered W decklid...oddly enough, I kinda liked it. Seems like his name was... Rohn Jayburn or something like that... ::)

One night at scooters now nicks we were hanging out maybe even drinking in the parking lot and this turqoise bug with about a million louvers on any place they could punch one. backs in and parks. So I walk up { when I was a smart azz } and tell the guy that his car was the largest cheese grader that I had ever seen. Lucky again I did not get my azz kicked. Just thought I'd share that now were talking louvers

now thats funny! I dont care who you are. But really I can sneak your 67 in.

Fred,
I'm thinking that Jayburn guy really needed the louverd decklid to give that mighty type IV some breathing room... or some such thing.
Oh well, at least it was an original W lid. ;)

~DR.