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As you may have read Ive been very lucky to take on the looking after and preserving of Doug's Wocket, cant wait....

Heres some pictures of ME Helping Doug get it ready for Classic this year and fastbrit drinking and sleeping again in the car, it must be his age.  ;D

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Very nice car Russell,In a few years the Amercan guys can drive their own ex-cars to EBI!! ;D ;D
Hope you bring it to EBI#3.Grtz.peter.

congratulation Russell  ;)

you'll need more drivers  :D

nice

i like red :)

That is an incredible car and a work of automotive art. I was quite surprised to hear of the sale. It will have a good home!

where is she gone  ::) ::) ::) ::)...................................................... ;D ;D

And the extra pair of front seats?????

Coors Light, KS?! :o For shame!!

I know, that's why I've got my eyes closed as I can't look anyone in the eye... The only saving grace was that it was free.

 ;)

It's not like there wasn't any other choices of beer there Keith!

What extra front seats?  You mean those leather-wrapped beach balls I gave to Beecher????

nice one russell that is one very cool 67, but then again i am just a tad bias ;D
when & where will you "unveil" it cos i for one cannot wait :o :o :o

lovely car russell.didnt realise it was running brm,s? were they always there? is there a full spec on it dont know much about the wocket :)

hmmmmmmm just look at that paint  ;D ;D ;D Your a lucky boy Russell  ;) :)

yes sure was, even featured in Volksworld and Hot VWS many years ago....

Most likely place to unveil "again" will be either Volksworld 09 or EBI 3 but again this may change......

can anyone put up the feature from volksworld or hot vws mag please ;D

How abut buying the back issues? ;)

what issues then KS?

Hey Doug

How about a little background history on the Wocket.

I remember "Crazy Pan Guy" being talked about before the Wocket's debut. Tell us how "Crazy Pan Guy" came about.

HEY DOUG, DON'T FORGET TO TAKE THE STICKERS OFF...... ;D

Now Now John, the car is being passed on as is and hopefully will keep its stickers, the car will alway be Dougs and a DKP3 car regardless of the owner and i would like to keep this little bit of history together so when it parks next to Arnies DKP1 car with stickers it shows the qualitly level of this very famous club over the years.

I know that the rules suggest that the stickers should be removed if the car is sold to a non club member but as Im a collector and wanting to keep the car as is it shouldnt make any differance, you will never see me pretending to be a DKP car club member even if i would truly love and would be honured to be part of such a great club with great people.... alas i live 5000miles away so this is always going to be unlikly, however i can always dream......

superb

As far as I know they have always been there. The rears were widened to 7" (before FF offered them in 6 1/2").

Cool! What engine does it have?

Oboy.  Well, for those who don't already know [both of you] I have a reputation for doing everything twice. [Surprised nobody posted the VW Speed article - they called me "Mr. Twice Guy"]

The first attempt at repairing the pan went horribly wrong.  A baterry only half-panel was welded in and not done well.  Then, my good pal Jerry, who was going to help me pick the pan up and take it to be powdercoated did me a 'favor' and delivered it to them without me to save time.  When I picked it up a week later, what I picked up was a beautifully powder-coated ugly pan which became affectionately known as "Frankenpan".  It was that ugly.  Uglier.  The body mount flanges weren't even straight, and the welding was atrocious.  Had I seen the pan before powdercoat, it would never have gone to Olympic.

I set it up in the garage, assembled it with all the powdercoated suspension pieces and the Berg 5-speed and the Flat 4 BRM's, and I looked at it, and Looked at it, and for 3 months I could not get past the fugliness.  Supportive neighbors [not car guys] said, "It'll be underneath; nobody will know."  I'll know.

Finally, I couldn't stand it anymore, I stripped it down, took it to Darren at BFY and told him to have the thing stripped, the pans halves cut off, and the best new ones he could find welded in, then have it re-powdercoated.  Apparently, a guy working there though I was nuts to do it all over, and started calling me Crazy Pan Guy.  The name stuck, and one day, at a show in Orange, this guy yells out, "Hey, it's Crazy Pan Guy!'  I'd never heard my new nickname until then, but the guys I'd gone to that show with made sure I heard it plenty after that.

But that was only the beginning:  The body was painted - twice, the front end was done 3 times, the motor was done three times, and I've had 8 different exhaust systems on the car.  Why?  Because all of it just wasn't right.

I'm pretty sure I could have built that car for half what I have in it.

Hope this isn't too boring.  Wouldn't have bothered, except Mike asked...

uh-oh.

Keith, your wisdom is required here...

[Russell, do NOT make a crack about Keith's 'wisdom - we need him now]

Do you mind if I tell it?

86 x 94

Scat Superlight flanged crank
Jet 5.50" titanium rods
Cima pistons with B&B thin-wall wrist pins
CB Perf. CNC wedgeports flycut for 10.5:1 compression
Engle FK-10
Pauter 1.3 roller rockers
Mallory Unlite w/ vacuum
Custom 'Wed Wocket' carb linkage pushing old 48IDA's w/ 40mm vents, custom drilled for vacuum signal [they said it couldn't be done]
Berg Big-Boy 'Backwards Possible' manifolds - matchported
40 hp non-fresh fan shroud, dimple filled to look like 36, intake 'bell' spaced to allow late-model fan
I honestly don't remember which exhaust I wound up with, but it's a 1-3/4" merge from Tiger at A-1
Aluminum Kennedy Stage II pressure plate.

The rest is probably too boring.  Maybe some of this is, I don't now.

what box and gears were you running doug? what times did you run?

It's a rhino case Berg 5 with the following:

1st thru 5th: 3.80, 2.35, 1.58, 1.21, 0.89

R&P: 3.88 w/ ZF limited slip

I never raced the car.

>>>>But that was only the beginning:  The body was painted - twice, the front end was done 3 times, the motor was done three times, and I've had 8 different exhaust systems on the car.  Why?  Because all of it just wasn't right.<<<<

And that my friend, is why it is, what it is!

Got your e-mail BTW

I appreciate that!

hey doug i wouldnt worry about what other people think.it was your car and you done what you wanted with it.obviously it wouldnt be the same car and have the same following if a little blood hadnt been spilt.youve had fun with it and lots of memories ;D good on ya

Hey Doug, you forgot the prototype cast iron IDAs, he he...

The linkage is the very definition of "ART" You would think Doug was an engineer or something......

Great car, enjoy.
What a relief to buy/own something that needs nothing.

I can see a little mushroom cloud from behind the orange curtain.
Like that one I saw when I sold my car. ;)
KS habitually brokers/exports So Cal’s nicest VWs. :-\

Doug what will you build next?

http://cal-look.no/lounge/index.php/topic,6709.0.html

is this the crazy pan guy's car?  :D

and what seats are those?  8)

Yes, the one and only...

Seats are Corbeau's that were covered with the same leather in the rest of the car.

Hey Doug,

We always cut slack to old guys re-telling the same old story.  :-).... I will have to make a road trip over in the chop this winter.  I almost forgot what you look like...all domesticated now with that awesome partner Les!  Talk with you soon.

Rick M

Mike, I do not 'broker' cars – brokering implies financial gain. I will give my help/advice willingly – for free – if someone finds a car.

Also, I do not 'export' cars for financial gain. I have personally imported four cars from the USA, only one of which did I sell a few months later when I realised it wasn't what I wanted (a stock '67). The first was my Studebaker in 1991, the second the chop-top in 1995-ish, the third the aforementioned '67 in about 1998 and the fourth was my own car last year. Hardly a case of 'habitually brokering and exporting'...