VW Car Club Stickers Whats The Deal??

[67Screamer]

 

Everyones at it.



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[Fastbrit]

Everyones at it.

Aren't they just!
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[alfie the monster]

Pah we'll have to change the name of the club now... 

[Peter Roberts]

Pah we'll have to change the name of the club now... 

Or just shoot all the other clubs down , daga-daga-daga-daga-daga 

With cars like Simons Killer 67 !

[jose del orto]

I think it's human to be jealous of a logo, especially if behind this logo there are years, decades of bloody passion within a very exclusive group as DKP, or DBR, or similars. It's normal that this fact leads one to be proud of his belonging.
But come on guys: can't you just be honoured by the fact that the whole cal look scene is considering DKP, DBR, DKK and so on as a mythos, as the George Washington of the aircooled scene, and therefore like to drive with your sticker on the front window of their awful cars? The same happens for Empi, DDS, BRM, and all other nostalgic names.
If you take a look at a car, whatever the stickers say, you'll at any case immediately know if it could be from DKP, or if it's a nice "normal" or if it's a bunch of scrap!
I never had a DKP, DBR, DKK sticker on my car, and never will, as a matter of respect. But please do respect everybody's freedom of decorating the own aircooled baby as wished, be glazed and keep cool!

[Shubee2 (DSK)]

JOSE how would you like to Be in a Club like DKP,DKK,DSK,or others that set the Pace For the Car Look And See Some Pile Resto Rod Chromed out Custom Slamed and Decambered with a Roof Rack ,Mudflaps,1641cc motor with a chrome air cleaner and a  EMPI 4 Tip Exhaust system all the extra Trim Bullshit And Running  a DKP,DKK,DSK sticker I know if I was A member of that Club I would Be Pissed like you Said Others Need to Respect The Original Cal Look Clubs of the 70's and use there style as a Building Point for your own Car But Dont Put A Club Sticker on A Car that was Never in Those Clubs  I have  Personally Scraped Club Decals From Other Cars We had a few Members in DSK that Sold There Cars and Left the Club Stickers On We Tracked down the cars and Off they Came The Club Sticker Are Club Property and Should Not Be Sold or Reproduced Out Of Respect For The Clubs That Brought us the Cal Look in the First Place....... Just my 2 Cents

[Rick Meredith]

I couldn't have said it better myself Shubee.

I too have tracked down cars with DKK Stickers and removed them. A razor blade scraper was always in my glove box.

And Jose, to club members, these stickers are not "decoration" they are a symbol of who we are. I don't know where you live but if I was to wear a Hell's Angels jacket there's an exceedingly good chance that I'll have the crap beaten out of me... ya think it's a decoration to the HAMC??

[SOB/RFH]

I don't think that stickers from DBR ever will be copied....besides, what's good in putting them on a car that is nicer then ours are If it can go sideways and you as person attend the meatings and are considered cool......anyone would fit in....but over the years the car (and probaly the personn) will develop into certain "rules" or identification!

I think that a membership should be deserved and respected. I also think that time as a matter of setting the "rules" and making the group of car homogen!! Anyway!! Happiness is a Hot VW!!

[yvre]

F#ck. I am in the club, and I don't even have stickers...

Somebody got 150 bhp for me?

[Cornpanzer]

But come on guys: can't you just be honoured by the fact that the whole cal look scene is considering DKP, DBR, DKK and so on as a mythos, as the George Washington of the aircooled scene, and therefore like to drive with your sticker on the front window of their awful cars? The same happens for Empi, DDS, BRM, and all other nostalgic names.
If you take a look at a car, whatever the stickers say, you'll at any case immediately know if it could be from DKP, or if it's a nice "normal" or if it's a bunch of scrap!

This is the faulty logic the Chinese are offering when the steal designs from European and US manufacturers.  At a recent trade show, a Chinese forklift manufacturer was displaying thier new product which looked EXACTLY like ours in every respect but color.  Under the skin, it was the technical equivalent of a "hood-ride".....but it was indistinguishable from ours on the outside.   Do you think we felt 'honoured'?     

[jose del orto]

When I spoke about "decoration" I was exactly meaning the "unofficial" stickers, not the right ones. And it's obvious that the right ones are much more important for you. If not, you hadn't a razor blade in your glove box ready for use... I respect it, as I said. OK, the club sticker represents who you are. But aren't there some other, much more important things representing this? All the years you spent in the VW scene, the people you met, the meetings you attended, the prices you won, the gearboxes you broke on the strip, the magazines your cars were published in. Come on: you, the "big ones" of the callook movement,  feel angry and get almost aggressive if a "child", a youngest member of the worldwide vw folk considers your clubs as a mythos on earth and feels that his shitty car will be better after putting a sticker on it? Their stickers don't have the same deepest meaning than yours! Your cars are known all over the world, we would say "wow look at that, it's a DKP I Car" even if you would scratch the sticker away, as they are so exclusive! I respect everyone's opinion about this topic, and I'm not a Chinese guy. So don't wolly! Gleetings flom Eulope

[LuftsickTero]

The idea of putting counterfeit club stickers is bit funny. Since belonging to the club, at least for me, is not totally due to the car but also the chemistry and the other members in the club. I wouldn't put any decals etc to my cars from the clubs I don't belong to no matter how much I would like their cars or some of the cars. Like living in different country or other side of the globe, without knowing that club's people in person, how do I know if they represent or share the same values as I do or what if they turn out to be complete idiots when you meet them   This all reminds me about the one liner from Marx brothers' movies "I cannot be a member in a club that would accept me as a member". 

[Fastbrit]

To put things in perspective (at least from my point of view) I cannot tell you how proud I was to be invited into membership of DKP III. I had admired the club since the 1970s, came to know the guys, met them regularly (at one stage, I was probably attending more club nights than some other members! ) and owned a car which met all the criteria laid down in the club constitution. The night I was given my decals, allowed to buy my club jacket and call myself a member was a night I will never, ever forget.

Imagine, then, how I felt when, at a VW show in the UK which I was attending in the chop-top (complete with club decals), somebody said to me, "Of course, both (insert name of another magazine guy – go figure...) and (insert name of a VW specialist) are both members already, aren't they?". "No", I say. "Well their cars have both got DKP decals – I thought they were members..." came the reply.

I was immediately put in a position of feeling I had to defend my right to carry my club's decals. THAT is why it is so wrong for people to put fake decals in their cars. 

[Lids]

Imagine, then, how I felt when, at a VW show in the UK which I was attending in the chop-top (complete with club decals), somebody said to me, "Of course, both (insert name of another magazine guy – go figure...) and (insert name of a VW specialist) are both members already, aren't they?". "No", I say. "Well their cars have both got DKP decals – I thought they were members..." came the reply.

I thought they were too, doesn't one of the cars also have a DKP bonnet badge?

[Fastbrit]

Imagine, then, how I felt when, at a VW show in the UK which I was attending in the chop-top (complete with club decals), somebody said to me, "Of course, both (insert name of another magazine guy – go figure...) and (insert name of a VW specialist) are both members already, aren't they?". "No", I say. "Well their cars have both got DKP decals – I thought they were members..." came the reply.

I thought they were too, doesn't one of the cars also have a DKP bonnet badge?

Sadly, yes...

[alfie the monster]

This is the faulty logic the Chinese are offering when the steal designs from European and US manufacturers.  At a recent trade show, a Chinese forklift manufacturer was displaying thier new product which looked EXACTLY like ours in every respect but color.  Under the skin, it was the technical equivalent of a "hood-ride".....but it was indistinguishable from ours on the outside.   Do you think we felt 'honoured'?     

That hits the nail on the head 

[quickkafer]

The Club Sticker Are Club Property and Should Not Be Sold or Reproduced Out Of Respect For The Clubs That Brought us the Cal Look in the First Place....... Just my 2 Cents

I totally agree!  I had seen some knuckle head selling stickers last year on ebay from a Cal-Look club that was based in the San Gabriel Valley area.  Someone said he saw what bootleg DKP stickers were bringing so he thought he'd off a stash of old club stickers.  I would bet that would really piss off some of the original members.

What people will do to make a quick buck!    I don't think anyone holds anything sacred anymore. 

I've got nothing but respect for the older generation.  I'm not a young kid by any means at 34 (on 3/22  ) but most of the guys my age are so self absorbed and don't understand the whole "VW BROTHERHOOD" thing.  My best friends in this hobby are all older than me by at least 15 years, and have taught me a lot over the years.

Case and point:  I knew a guy my age that bought a 1/4 window just because it had an old DKP sticker on it.  (I don't see anything wrong with that.  Hang it up on the wall and use it as a "trophy" item.)  But not this guy!  He cut up his brand new window seal, removed the old 1/4 window, and installed the DKP stickered window.  All of this so he could be a DKP-want-to-be!!!  God only knows if the sticker was real or a fake!  What an idiot! 

Scott Faivre

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[DeanoVW]

Volkswagon   

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Volkswagon   

 

[nicolas]

Volkswagon   

does that make it a sticker from a different club then???





 

[speedwell]

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[LuftsickTero]

Volkswagon   

Is that "Volkswagon" generally nickname or typo?

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