Dean's Bug-In Photos

[speedwell]

Fairmount Park Riverside

[Jim Ratto]

gorgeous car.... but I'm wondering where the pic was taken. Awesome backdrop

There's a lake up in the Riverside area that has been used for years. That is where many of the Empi catalog photos were taken as well. I used it on Hobi's car back in '77.... Not sure of the name... Sarge?

is it a Starbuck's/Jamba Juice/Chipotle strip mall now?

[deano]

the white 356 is Aronson's with 2.0 Vw right? Nice car. Man that looks good with summer vacation coming up soon. Perfect for a Big Sur run. 

Yes, and I think that red 911 in the back ground is Darrell Vittone's...

That red 911 is a short wheelbase car and Darrell's was a long wheelbase car.  Great pics Deano! 
The metallic orange car appears to be the one that Pat Ganahl  (Rod&Custom/Rodders Journal) drove for several years.
Whos black oval was that?  How can all of these cars be MIA now???

Dave, I know what car you're talking about, but that is not it. Pat's car was not that nice, cool, but not that showy. And all this stuff about short wheelbase this, and long wheelbase that, you've been hanging around the wrong crowd too long.

[Sarge]

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Jim Edmiston....  I know that name from somewhere--O.C. VW circles?

TRJ forwarded your email to me with the photo of the bronze bug. It looks kinda like mine, but it isn't. The major giveaway, for me, is the larger side windows in the doors. Mine was a '60, with the smaller side windows. Also, this one has the horn grilles filled, but it doesn't have louvers in their place.

For a brief history, I gave my bug to my son, Bill, when he turned 16. He loved it, but they kept trying to steal it out of the high school parking lot here in Glendale, and he got understandably paranoid. So he finally found a buyer for it (it took a year), in Detroit, and I delivered it with my '56 F-100 and flat trailer, courtesy of Petersen Publ. expense account (of course I did stories/photos along the way). Bill had fallen in love with early '50s customs, particularly '50 Ford shoeboxes, so we found him one, which he drove until about a year ago. He found a good '56 oval up in the Bay Area (where he lives), and has built it into a really nice slate blue/white interior "Cal Looker" for his new daily driver. It really looks good.

The guy who bought my (our) '60 in Detroit took it to one local show and it's picture got in Hot VWs with the caption "We don't know what Pat Ganahl's car was doing in Detroit."  As far as I know, no-one has seen it since.

But it was a good car. I drove it daily for about 15 years.

Best, Pat Ganahl

[OgCalLook]

gorgeous car.... but I'm wondering where the pic was taken. Awesome backdrop

There's a lake up in the Riverside area that has been used for years. That is where many of the Empi catalog photos were taken as well. I used it on Hobi's car back in '77.... Not sure of the name... Sarge?

Fairmont Park - used to hang out there as a kid and watch the Low riders cruise

[OgCalLook]

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[58vw]

Mo photos from my box of pixs...

deano.....the top pic of the mini mite car...do u have any more...its the funky looking car...i beleive it was shortened by a foot

[Chris Andrews - The Mailman]

gorgeous car.... but I'm wondering where the pic was taken. Awesome backdrop

There's a lake up in the Riverside area that has been used for years. That is where many of the Empi catalog photos were taken as well. I used it on Hobi's car back in '77.... Not sure of the name... Sarge?

is it a Starbuck's/Jamba Juice/Chipotle strip mall now?

Jim, the park and lake continues to exist. Last weekend, I took my son there as he wanted to feed the Ducks and Geese.