The Cal-look Lounge

Most Cal-lookers seem to be hard tops. Probably because they weigh less and are cheaper. Were verts ever thought of as real cal-look material? Any famous verts in the old days? Anyone have a favorite vert cal-looker? How about some pics of Cal-look drop tops.


--louis

Heres my old 67 vert. and my Friend Steve Walkers 53 Vert Both DSK Cars

Great looking Cal Lookers!

Verts are always a favorite with me, I really like the roofline. Here is mine.

my favorite vert is don metz 68. Car done over 20 yrs ago,still A-1 condition, don keeps a nice car. great porsche color ,I think sand biege?? alloys, 78 x88 motor.Yet, never in magazine...will try to find pics? bill

That red, oval era convertible is very nice. Shubee do you know anything about the blue oval in the background. It looks like a chop top with no engine vents, but a cabriolet decklid. The quarter windows have a different shape too.

Here are a couple I took.

One of my all-time favourite cars, one other favourite 'Vert was Wayne Elam's (in Volksworld around 1996-97?) black '65(?) but don't have any photos of that one.

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I think this car was featured in Volksworld in the mid nineties, did he also have a brown 68ishh with rivieras?  If so I'm sure it was featured.

Jelle

One from the DKP reunion... I "think" it belonged to Ken Cervone ???

Heck yes it is.

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Lets see some without chrome!! I remember there was a plain white 'vert looker featured in HotVWs years ago, it was alongside a stock black oval window. Anyone remember it?? It was bad ass!!

this is the vert that was pictured in the new testement  ;) is this the same vert that was shown in a small feature in HotVW's many years ago that was being detailed by Dyno Don?

The Blue Chop Top In the Back Ground Belongs to Grant Grevin another DSK Car it was a 55 Choptop it was later painted Red and featured in Hot VWs  the car was called Low red

If it was the same as the Volksworld featured one, it was a Hunsaker-brothers car - I just can't remember which brother! :D

The ultimate one without chrome is Richie Webb's car. T-bars, lucas indicators, nose down and gasburners. Pure cal look!

Cool. Any pictures of that car. I think there is already a thread for choptops. ;)

Erm, but it's got a hairdryer... :D

Yes, and I still have hair :o :P :D

cheers richie

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Dam KS beat me to it turbos are not Cal Look. :D

That is a great looking vert!

i like these with the chrome trim.it may not be "proper" cal look to many but they look right ;)

this one is very cool  8)
 i remember a report in hot vws with dyno cleaning the car
i will try to found the issue

A couple of my favorites...........

Yep, that was mine.
The car was a common site, white and mostly in stock form, back in the Camelot & Carl's Jr. days in Anaheim.
I bought it off of Tim & Carla Schull (s/p?) and spent a year restoring it.
The color was a non-metallic dark blue, the darkest I could find at the time.
Dyno brokered the sale to Bill Taramino shortly after it was finished as I got in way over my head money-wise trying to finish it.
It's strange to see it in print in the Cal-Look book after 20 years.
Thanks for that pic Sarge, got any others? Ken.

Bugger, you're right... Old age is no laughing matter – just ask Sarge. :P ;D

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Nice to finally put a name to a picture, Ken... Greg Brinton pointed you out recently.  That was a sweet looking car and I bet the guys would like to hear more about it (as well as some Camelot / CJ's tales ::) ;)).  Here's another pic for you from the reunion with the Berglar, Lazenby's '63 and your Vert as well as another I've been trying to figure out who's who in... any ideas on the sepia late model or the red car on the left?   My apologies for screwing up the thread here, folks! ;)


Where's the love, bro?? :'( ;)

the brown one  was in dkpII  don't remember the name , the car still exist
the red one was an gtv or a look a like

Don 'Shortz' Metz

correct i've just looking after the name in the rear view of the june 77 cover and see the name of don metz  ;)
thx keith

Looks nice that sepia late looker.But are that light's on the bumper?  :o

So, Metz had a hardtop, too ????  I don't remember seeing him at the event.....

The red 67 was Jim Bangs' GTV. He was in our club in the early 90's.

  Here's Don Metz' Vert guys....  photo is by Sarge awhile back.

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john is it a real gtv ???
where's the car today ??

the car will look good also with a set of baby gasburners for me   :D

I agree with you Fabian. Those 16" fuchs dont belong on that car :-X

How can you say that? Don's car has been around for 20 or more years and is one of the best-known Cabrios ever built. Way ahead of its time, a real trendsetter... It would be criminal to change it in any way.  >:(

Word!

                                             It was a GTV from Econo Motors. Jim worked there at Empi and for The Race Shop. I don't understand what you mean by a look alike, a GTV was not necesarily built by the dealer. Only a small number were built, most came in a box, or some were put together piece by piece over time. As far as the car goes, Jim was in a messy divorce and fell off the face of the Earth many years ago.                                                                 What word are you refering to ?

 I agree with Keith on that Don's car is one of a kind timeless. Built just right.

And I agree with Sander,this wheels belong to a German-looker. :-\

When it was built, there were no German Lookers...

That's what I was saying also. If that car was built today, it would probably receive some GBs.
But it's been like that before some of you guys were even born, so saying the wheels 'don't belong to the car' is a bit ridiculous...  ::)
Yes, the fashion has changed, but that is what makes this car so great (and the likes of the Goss/Seume/Richie top chop, or Doug Mische's Ghia, etc...)

Yeah....so there.

Wise words,  ;)

thx  john , i would said by look alike a real one or like your or mine with empi parts added on the car , but you answered to my question  ;)

fabs

 ;D ;D ;D

That looks really sweat. I think centerlines would look good on it too.

--louis

Because it is a DKP car,we can't see anything about it?

So since it was built long time ago (but after I was born ;)) or belongs to "too famous person in the scene" nobody can present any opinions about it? Well, it did look better in the Volksworld feature with the detailed 16" Fuchs and, IMO, less agressive rake would also work better with those wheels and tires.

 ::) ::)

 :D :D

Beautiful   ;)

is it because your car have teh same shoes ???............................ ;D ;D

oups sorry you 've pedrini  ;D ;D

back to topic now  ;)

Sorry, that's not my car. That car  belongs to Dennis (Mr Pedrini on this forum) of the FDK.

 :D
I had Pedrini's on my car, not baby gasburners  :)

Ps, the car is gone. Time for a new project.

This one is from our clubmember Jeroen.
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Hi Sarge,
             Is that the car that Dyno Don did a detailing article for Hot Vws on back in the early to mid 90's, I remember that car having a 1776 with 48 idas.

David

nice car that yukon yellow convertible.  :D

ahhh...remember that car well..sold it 87 to 90? maybe kenny remembers. broke my heart selling it. but kenny did it justice thats for sure..

p.s Sholl is the correct spelling.

thanks for the pics

My 79 vert.

No, all I'm saying is these wheels do belong to the car, since it's been like this for so long.

I agree, and it would look even better with a set of 15in wheels.

Anyway, back on topic:

I like that color. It reminds me of this 356 color.

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Would look good on a shaved and lowered cal-looker.

--louis

Yep, same car. it lost the 5 BRM's after I sold it, ::) and was fitted with Chromies & Porsche caps.
The car was sold again to another local Anaheim guy, about a block from my work, who painted it Guards Red.
Since the car was sold back in '89 it has remained within 2 miles of my house, but it's still always strange to see it after all of these years.

Bought it from you guys in October '88 and sold it in October '89.
I wish I had pics of it when it was white and Carla drove it. That car and driver were a staple of the Camelot cruise nights.
I have another early 'vert on the side of the house that may get the same color combo treatment.

Do it!!! :D 8)  Wasn't the color a mitsubishi or izuzu color or something like that?  Very unique and nice looking.
 ;)

I Liked Don Metz's Vert When he first had it out He Ran Phone Dial Wheels On It It Looked Good Everybody runs Alloys it looked really different Wish I had a Picture to Post with the Phone Dials On It

ya, white vert black top and 5 spoke empis...and aint that the truth...the staple of camelot...i always thought it was scott and that rasberry rag of his

Close, but no cigar.  ;D

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Hey, hey, hey, THAT is Mr. Pedrini's car. FDK.
Back to topic ::)

yes that's the car i will look after the report  and scan

The color was Isuzu Trooper-2 midnight blue.
Look for it at the 2011 Classic. Here's how the story begins... ::)

Cool vert,do you have more pic's?

better get to work...

Ah heck, that's a couple of weekends project - tops!
 :D

Thanks, Here are some more, Its powered by a 196hp 2332cc, efi, Berg 5, Quafie diff, Etc. They drive nice the late cars. Its just my crusier, Im starting work on my 65 bug soon.

Heres the engine.

And......that's just your cruizer?????  :o  :o  :o
Thx for the pic's and the info.  ;)

 :o :o I like your car way better after seeing the engine! ;D

I'll second that!

yes it's a nice & very late model convertible  8) 8)

here we go for th hot vws report with ken's convert ;)

it's named :"summer time car detailling"
aug94 & sept94

enjoy
fabs

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 ;)

 ;)

Another reason I hate to see cars that I've owned years later...To see the car in that condition was very depressing.
And for some reason the only front turn signals they could find to hack into the front end came from the cheapest trailer manufacturer.

i saw the orange turn signal on the bumpers , i asked my mind why they put those on the car ???... ::)

it was when bill owned the car,  that he was in this poor condition ???

nice turn signals ???

Here is mine... more oics on my webside.
sorry only in swedisch!

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Lovely car, Silversoar. Is it a 59? Can you tell us some engine specs?
Cheers,

Georg

Thanks for the kind words.

Here we go, engine:
2276cc with CB 44x37 oval CNC heads, FK10, SCAT 1:4, SCAT 5,4" rods and A1 1 3/4 header... com ratio 10,6:1... and a Cold Fusion nitrous system (not tried yet)
Gearbox:
4.12 R&P... 3.78, 2.06, 1.56 and 1.21. Superdiff och SAW short axles.
Real Porsche 4.5 and deep 6" with MH Racemaster.

Fun car to drive BUT the drive train is going to be fitted in my 54 cal looker... feels safer after what happen to my club friend "Fast54" - Håkan Lundgren.

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Nice Car!. Looks really well put together.

--louis

just found a pictures of ken's cab  but it was at the 7th jamboree and was owned by john galletta

i find this one
21 brm on it :o

y es i saw this picture today in an hot vws the bug in 23 it was an dsk car
may be shubee can tell a story with that car and wh sell the wheels ???

gary ???

::)  yeh,never heard that one before ::)

cheers richie

nice vert silversoar :D

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That's thing's obviously quick, the hood fabric's been blown off!  :D

That looks bitchin.  A very serious, all business look.  8)

thanks for the morning laugh!  ;D

We Entered the 67 Convert with 21 BRMs in it at bug in 23 In Worst of Show it was also hittlers 91st Birthday that Day We Wrote on the Hood Happy 91st Birthday Adolf and also wrote Where else can you get a 67 Convert and 21 Brms All For $15,000.00 Today Only  The Funny Part is we did it as a Joke And Ron Barrett Owner of Barrett Ent. In Azusa Wanted To Buy It  we pulled him to the side and told him it was a Joke and the wheels were not for sale if you notice the DSK sticker is upside down on the Wing window  we had chains going threw the wheels so they did not disapear but we did have one guy steal some wheel spacers for the lugs Lucky for him we did not catch him.

That's a nice touch..  ::)

And it's for sale AGAIN, at a slightly higher price... ::)
http://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/detail.php?id=734883

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Thats the same car? I like it much better in blue.

 :o :( how could you say such a thing?? :D  The current owner is a guy I've sold parts to over the last fifteen years.  I had no idea that was the same car!  I've asked him when he's going to bring the car out to an event but he showed no interest saying that he built it for his own pleasure and not for others to drool over.  Hopefully, the new (extremely wealthy ::)) owner will be different.

hey shubee2,
here's another photo from that dkk cruise 79 i think. 

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anyway thought your car was one of the finest out there.
jim

Hey Ken...is that the same black emron on that pan or was it redone and pinstriped again?

Anyboby have pict from a cal-look white 67' vert with black top , no trim and BRM , maybe from DKP ?? , This car make me hot ...

steph there's brian plummer convert it was a 54 model with fuchs , no brms  go here  to see the car http://cal-look.no/lounge/index.php/topic,7565.0.html (http://cal-look.no/lounge/index.php/topic,7565.0.html)

also henry or steve beecher ???  from the dkp 've a white cab on fuchs wheels pict  taken at the dkp cruise night  ;) this cab is very cool

not this one Fab , white 67' ...

sounds like the Mike Hunsaker vert,only that was a 60 or 61 model perhaps ?

don't remember mark to be honest  ::) i was so excited that day   i was seeing a lot of people that i dreamed to meet and my dreams was realized that day  ;)

yes that is the world famous Brent K. by the way,that is my wifes car!!!!!!!!!!!!

66' fontana grey from "Dynoarno" ..

Not sure, but I doubt that anyone would have powdercoated the pan and then restriped it exactly as it was done before.
My guess is more "creative" advertising.

looks in good shape for as old as it is

so when do we get to see YOUR car?? :-* ::) ;D

Thanks I should have never sold that Car LOL But I have had alot more after that one I Hope you Guys Like My 58 Old School Ragtop and 67 Sedan as Much when they are done  ;D ;D

here' we do steph  ;)

mike hunsaker it look llike a 67 because on the picture the rossi headlight look 67 units , but the car was an 60 /61 model
fabs

 ;)

awesome! and so clean!!

yes Fab , thanks !!! , sorry , in my memories it was from 67' .

I like this car ...

nicked from Samba..

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The white vert looks fresh.  8)
Mid 80s beach cruiser seafoam green 63' vert.
These were perfect polished real 5 spokes.
After a couple years they cracked, bummer.

Henry Marchena's awesome Split Vert

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Fabs, do you have the June '99 HotVWs? It's got the Hunsaker convertible in it, on Ercos!. What happened to this car? Bitchin!!

zach, sorry but june 99 is one of the hot vws missing in my collection
but i've this report  ;)

oups double post , don't see i've ever posted before ::)

Hey Fabs, I have a spare issue of the June '99 if you want it.

yes don, pm @ speedwell55@gmail.com for details
thx
fabs

Was post here before but it's a nice one so...

gr
Wout

Yep ! 8)

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My old cabrio 8)

Always liked that one Max. What happened to it?

Special deal for today only!

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Two 67 Yukon Yellow Vert for the price of one!  ;D

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Cool cars! Allow me to add these 2  ;)

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G'night  :)

I sold it on but kept the wheels..the new owner fitted some shiny fuchs and "interfered" with the rear ride height  :D
It hung onto it's heart and soul though  ;)

pictures i took from an early bug inn

few more

A friend of mine bought that burgundy 60' vert at that bug in

that's jeff lopez's car featured in the KS's first testament page 42.
cool car!

so finally i've the june 99 issue , thx to donny B for the extra issue
 ;)

 ;)

there are also KGC which are cal-looked.....like my own . This car was build by Eric Serafine in the U.S ......the rest here in switzerland did my P.C paintshop, hahahaha. ::)

There was a 'peechy' colored pre '67 vert from france with detailed fuchs, that I realy liked...
Saw that one a few times in magazine during begining of 90. (cap feret meetings as I recall)
maybe somebody got some info on that one.

Man, that looks hard!! What happened to this car??

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Thanks Fabs!

I think that was Steve Beechers old 54'

steve beecher old  54 was in england  , the car was for sale but don't know if it's sold

is this the one, eddie?
featured in VoWo a while (10 years or so) ago too.

Steve sold it a while ago, I have a funny feeling it's a stocker now  ???

you're right, there was something about selling all the performance parts in the ad when steve mortimer sold it.

Don t no for sure, thought the color was much lighter.

in france there's 2 orange convert one with fuchs and the other one with empi 5, all have polished wheels , but resto cal ,not cal look

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Anyone have new photos of Cal look Verts? I'd love to see some inspiration for my L41 '67 Vert project that I'm hoping to start soon.

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No new photos from me, but if that black '67 was mine, I'd lose the gravel guards, polish up the paint, replace the top (might get away with doing just the top outer, like we did on my wife's Golf cab) with a black mohair one and change the bumpers for either polished t-bars or euro blades and over-riders. Leave the chrome too, it's just a nice bit of contrast against the black. Stance is obvious, wheel choice more personal. Fuchs are like bellybutton, but they look so good, Centerline and Ercos might be too race for the rest of the style. Your choice!

Neil, unfortunately the pain isn’t as nice as it looks and the rust is FAR worse than it looks. I’m going to be doing a full restoration on the car and I’m hoping it will be everything I’ve always dreamed of in a cal looker.

In that case then, dechrome the sucker and add Lucas L488s!
My wife's cab project kind of stalled when I changed jobs several years ago and lost all my spare time. I bought a couple of donor cars - a '68 sedan for the floor pan and front end, the back of a '74 sedan and the cabrio only sections of a '68 vert, all to go with the rotten but cheap 1970 Karmann that we started with. It's been spread over a number of garages for too many years...

Edit: have a trawl through my gallery on the samba, I've not worked out how to link to pics on my new phone...
https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/album_search.php?search_author=Neil+Davies
Edit again: I'd even started a build thread on here...
http://cal-look.no/lounge/index.php/topic,9041.msg138422.html#msg138422