The Cal-look Lounge

 ..... to our newest member; Jim LoGudice! 8) 8)  Nice to see you here, Jim.

Thanks Fred,

I'm glad I found you guys!

regards,
Jim

Welcome Jim,

You found a cool place to visit ;D

~Dave

Dave,

You are right!.  VW folks are the greatest in the world.  I have a collection of cars and when we moved from CA to AZ 4 years ago, we ran into Frenchy Dehoux at a porsche meeting, (my buddy for many years in CA) who immendiately came to our home and helped me take care of my rides and got me back into VW's again.  My wife and I love our VW's more then any of our other cars and I have to say it is because of the people.

regards,
Jim

Welcome to The Lounge Jim!

Best rgs
BB
Norway

Jim Welcome

Hope you enjoy the fun we have here  ;D

Russell
Scotland

Welcome jim , now lets see the cars  ;D

Welcome Jim! Your car is one of my all-time faves! Sorry your name has been consistently spelled wrong over the years! ::)

Hope you're coming to Classic, in which case I look forward to meeting you. In the meantime, here's a better version of THAT photo – courtesy of Dean Kirsten... :)

(http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t318/Photokernow/ea9824c2.jpg)

Keith Seume

Welcome to the Lounge Jim , pull up a chair get yourself a beer and enioy your stay  :)

Jim is your car one of the 3 '67s' on the front of the feb 1980 Hot vws with the yellow and green bugs?

I think your car turned up again recently

Jim,

Where in Arizona do you live? Would love to meet you. I promoted the local Bug-O-Rama event from 84 to 2005 and finally called it quits due to having too many irons in the fire.  Just enjoying my own cars now. Would like to hook up with you some time.

Rick Mortensen

hello, a very big welcome and i hope you can enjoy the place like we do.

hy jim welcome to the lounge , it's cool to have another "old boyzzz"  ;D ;D from the 70's cal look scene
i hope you will enjoy this place , you will be addict like us  ;D ;D

rgd
fabs

ps : here' we go for some souvenirs  ;)

jim what's the hood bagde on the front decklid ??? DKP hood badge ???

I thought so too.  I have a bunch of photos of the '67 packed away somewhere that I will see if I can find.  I'll try to scan them and make PDF's to post.

You know, that car was something else.  Back at that time, the BIG car magazine was Hot Rod and a photogragher named Dane Gingerelli came and took pictures of it and did a spread in the magazine.  He also told me that this was the first VW to ever be in Hot Rod.  We broke into the American hot rod world with a little gutter sniping bug.  I loved it!

Regards,
Jim

me too  ;D ;D

You got it!  When we were finishing up on this car my buddy, Ron Fleming pulled out a new DKP hood badge to finish it off.  When I sold the car, I took it off and I still have it.

Regards,
Jim

Looks like that the photo credits in the scan above in Speedwell's post go also to famous Hot Rod photographer; Steve Reyes (Popular Hot Rodding / Super Chevy)..

Have to dig up the Hot Rod issue.

That's pretty good going on both counts. Cool car, welcome to The Lounge.  8)

Welcome to The Lounge Jim.... Any friend of Sarge's....


Well we won't hold that you're a friend of Sarge's against you!  ;)


Just Kidding Sarge!  ;D

 :o :o :o >:( ::) ;D

   Good morning Jim. How was the Porsche meeting this morning. I received the invitation from Rich in the mail. Soon after the Classic I will stop by and remove the engine and transmission from the bus for restoration. Are you planning for the Classic next weekend.

   Take care
   Frenchy

Hey Frenchy,

We just got back from the 356 Outlaw meeting this morning and we had about 30 356's, (we were hoping to see you there).  We are not going to the Classic as we have other obligations but tell everyone hi for us.  The bus is waiting for you.

Thanks,
Jim

356 Outlaw meeting?? You wouldn't happen to be attending the big 356 event up in Sedona this October, would you? I hear there are going to be 2-300 356's!! I live up in Prescott and I'll be making the drive up, probably in my GTV. Would be great to meet you there.

Welcome Jim and have fun here.  ;)

Hi Jim, Big welcome to the Lounge!
Love your 67!

Hey Trond,

thanks for the welcome.  I went to your websites and you guys are doing exactly what we were doing in "the old days"  Your cars are very creative and bring cal-look cars to the next level, I congratulate you!

Regards,
Jim

welcome and enjoy the company

Hi Ron,

I've never down loaded pictures before so I am going to try.  They may come in 2 loads as the files may be too large,

Regards,
Jim

Here is the Porsche.

Regards,
Jim

 :o :o very cool car jim , they look nice and clean , i would like to own the same wesphalia  as yours, to made some trip in m ycountry

Hi Jim,
Welcome to the Lounge.

Mags
Norway

WOW cool collection Jim - Welcome to the Lounge, This is where all the cool kids hang out  ;) :)

Welcome Jim. ;)

Yeah - welcome Jim!

Just wanted to say, in December 1975 I had just turned 16, and was living in Riverside, I picked up the Dec 75 VW Greats issue, and saw your car, - THAT WAS IT!! - I had to build a 67!!
Your car is probably the single most influential car, that got me into Cal-Look VWs. (Not blowing smoke up your ass either - I carried that issue around with me everywhere.)


About 18 months later, I had my 67 - de-chromed, new paint, Empis, Recaros, 1835... ect. Wanted Alloys and IDAs, just couldn't afford them at that time.

Anyways, thanks for the inspiration!!


 

Thanks for the kind words.  I was a very fortunate guy to have freinds like Greg Aronson and Ron Fleming to help me with ideas and putting things together the right way.

Regards,
Jim

Hi Jim and welcome to the lounge...  I'm sorry to say I haven't been visiting it as much as I should lately but do drop in to check things out from time to time.  I don't have a VW and haven't since the white '63 but like you have an older Porsche. Yours looks great! Mime is a '66 911 and have had it for going on 30 years now.  Needless to say I've gone through a few times since I've owned it.  Ron built the motor way back when I first bought  it from Greg Turnney and it's been running strong ever since.
Anyway, cool to see you on board and look forward to dropping in once in awhile to hear the latest.

Take care for now,

Jim

Hi Jim,

I found this site while surfing the net where I saw some references to my '67 and Mike Billings'.  When I cam on here, a saw a picture of my '67 along with your '63 and Dean Kirsten's '67 in front of FAT and have been reuniting with all kinds of old freinds.  Once a VW Guy, always a VW Guy .

Hope to see you next time in CA.

Regards,
Jim

Thats the lounge for ya guys - Keepin the spirt alive  ;) :)

(old topic, but) just received my latest issue of Hot VWs, one more cover car from him 8)

Wow!  I haven't seen this yet.  Deano told me that it was in the July issue so i was not expecting to see it for a while.  What a treat after all these years to have this honor.

 8) 8) 8)  Nice job, Jim!

Hi Jim, welcome. I have a copy of that Hot Rod Magazine with the shots by "Dangerous Dane Gingerelli". I will try to scan and post it.

wow, thank you, that's cool!  I would like to see that again.  At that time, it was a big deal to me to have the very first VW in Hot Rod Mag.

Regards,
Jim