A few pics from the weekend...

[Fastbrit]

What a delight to see Roger Grago at Cars'n'Coffee!


Freeman Thomas (designer of the New Beetle etc)) and Cris Huegas (RGruppe boss) present Roger with his bespoke clothing!


The Ghia Guys – Frenchy, Doug Mische, Roger Grago!


Fell in love with this Parilla – yours for $6000 (a genuine bargain)


Following Roger and Mike Sofka (former DKP II) on way to breakfast in Doug's Cayman S


Dustin was so excited to see this Synchro at Bug-In that he let one slip...


A certain red '51


And again...


Cool...


Lightning Bug (almost) lives!


Buzz, buzz...


Calabrese's Kaboom!


LIGHT-ning Bug!


Too perfect resto? I think not! It's being restored, warts and all!


Scary, but light...


Who?


The future? Tesla on the 5 freeway...


That's all folks (for now...)

[Rennsurfer]

AWESOME, Keith!

[speedwell]

thx keith 

[Sarge]

Damn, that under the front end shot of LB is SCARY!  

[Fritter]

Those welds ARE scarey.... .  Isn't that a DDS single axle beam?

[TexasTom]

Awesome pics Keith.
Seeing those details almost makes me think I was there ... 
TxT

[Diederick/DVK]

nice one KS! looks like you had a ball!
thanks for sharing 

[Fastbrit]

Those welds ARE scarey.... .  Isn't that a DDS single axle beam?

VERY scary!

A little story: when Mark and Paul took the DDS car to the east coast to sell to Billy Mitchell, they had to prove it could run the numbers. Paul drove the car and one pass it took a violent leap to one side. Checked it all over and then on the next pass it did the same thing, for no obvious reason. It turns out there were no grease nipples on the king-pins and they had started to seize. As Paul turned the steering wheel, rather than the wheels turning, the whole upper beam, which was welded between the front inner fenders, and which carried the steering box, actually moved! What happened was that the body flexed to a limit and then suddenly the king-pins freed up and bang! the wheels turned!

To help prevent this, the Schleys added the central 'strut' on their own car to make sure that 100 per cent of the steering effort went into turning the car, not bending the bodywork... As for the quality of the welding, in this day and age of hobby MIG-welders that turn us all into 'experts', we tend to forget that back in the day there was only gas welding and arc (stick) welding. Both hard to master in comparison. But, yes, it does look scary!

[Tony Wilkie]

Cool! Thanks for sharing...It's great to see Cris still doing the Porsche thing. He knows Porsche's! (met him through my cousin, who grew up with him in the bay area)

tw

[Ole]

Those welds ARE scarey.... .  Isn't that a DDS single axle beam?

VERY scary!

A little story: when Mark and Paul took the DDS car to the east coast to sell to Billy Mitchell, they had to prove it could run the numbers. Paul drove the car and one pass it took a violent leap to one side. Checked it all over and then on the next pass it did the same thing, for no obvious reason. It turns out there were no grease nipples on the king-pins and they had started to seize. As Paul turned the steering wheel, rather than the wheels turning, the whole upper beam, which was welded between the front inner fenders, and which carried the steering box, actually moved! What happened was that the body flexed to a limit and then suddenly the king-pins freed up and bang! the wheels turned!

To help prevent this, the Schleys added the central 'strut' on their own car to make sure that 100 per cent of the steering effort went into turning the car, not bending the bodywork... As for the quality of the welding, in this day and age of hobby MIG-welders that turn us all into 'experts', we tend to forget that back in the day there was only gas welding and arc (stick) welding. Both hard to master in comparison. But, yes, it does look scary!

Thanks for sharing that story. You should write another book...

[Dustin]

Keith, do you really want to go there? Have you forgotten the pictures that we've held back sharing with the Cal-look Lounge? Scott P.... Prepare to upload!!

qoute: Dustin was so excited to see this Synchro at Bug-In that he let one slip...

[Geoff P DVKK]

Thanks for posting the pic's, Wish I was there to see it all in person..... VW Classic just over a month away!

[j-f]

Thanks for sharing all those pics 

That's interesting to see how the quickest cars from back in the day where build and how they are done today 

[bugnut68]

Thanks for sharing all those pics 

That's interesting to see how the quickest cars from back in the day where build and how they are done today 

I think it's safe to say that we've come a long way in terms of race cars that handle well... lol.   I'd go with new tech over old school any day if I were to build a purpose-built race car.

[qubek]

I think it's safe to say that we've come a long way in terms of race cars that handle well... lol.   I'd go with new tech over old school any day if I were to build a purpose-built race car.

BLASPHEMY!!!

[TexasTom]

BLASPHEMY!!!
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LOL!

[bugnut68]

I think it's safe to say that we've come a long way in terms of race cars that handle well... lol.   I'd go with new tech over old school any day if I were to build a purpose-built race car.

BLASPHEMY!!!

Lol, that may be so for the hard-core gasser fans... but I'm merely speaking in terms of modern-day race cars.  Let's face it, I'm sure there's a reason why the Red Baron team (Calabrese crew) isn't running s straight front axle on their seven-second Pro Mod.