Hi, Frenchy
Gotta tell my mates, that's a forum we can meet legends
Comin back to the inernet look...
This is gonna be a long post. (Again) Sorry
Well, Americans, Brits and Scandinavian Cal-look freaks has hell lotta history, fellas from other coutries of EU shorter, but at least 10-15 years of tradition.
Guys like me and Greentom are in kinda diffrent situation. While fathers of some of you were srteet racing in hot cars, in our coutry a volkswagen was a rare sight.
Iron Courtain, cold breath of Red Army on our backs, Y'know...
Tradition of Aircooled VWs movement (in general in) Poland is dated since around early nineties. And the idea, that It's possible to modify a bug for 1/4mile competition is little more than completely unknown for about two years. Starting from the time when the drag competion in general began to be seen on TV and Marcin'the Fingerman'Palusinski started to compete with other cars with a bug. I like to think of him as a pioneer - kind of contemporary Polish Bene Berg or so...
Fast bugs are still something inimaginable for most people here, because they havent seen 'em in action. The non-beliver Thomas syndrome you know...
The most popular opinion about bugs in our country is that It's old, exremely unreliable and very slow car.
In that kind of conditions some fellas of mine and me are trying to open people's eyes.
The opinion about slow VWs is seen even among the 'dynosours' of our our scene.
Without internet there would be almost no info about it.
You are talkin about 'wannabes' copying the style.
I'd be happy if in Poland the passion for california look of ous (my mates'n me) wouldl spread as a copies of cars presented here for instance (for the begining).
I'm sick of seeng "pimped' golfs and hondas down the streets laughing about old beetles.
For me there can be a thousand of Aronson's car copies driving around instead of these slow, no-style bugs I can see at our shows.
What is nice about our no-tradition situation is that we are now building that tradition. It's just a few people for now. But the thing that is cool about it - is that these people think for themselves in creating their cars. They do not copy
They focus on the attitude, rather than fancy stuff.
My intention is not to show that this is a kind of a strange country. The point is we did not have access to info about it all before internet. Even if someone went out foa a show abroad ('90s) and seen some cal-look cars he wouldn't get the point without the info on So Cal roots background.
The timestone was the Keith's Seume book.
Okay... It's really hard to speak my mind at the moment...
It's the best forum I've ever read - soon after my club forum of coz
Greetz, dudes
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