Lonnie Reed...The Head Shop....Some tales from you old timers

[SOB/RFH]

So I have heard some storys from the 80's with The Head Shop gang (the super) racing a Berg (all gutted) car and the, then all the wedge port heads that were the top of the line way back then. Has any one of you got some good stories to share with us. And I for one would love a "The Head Shop" sticker on my carof anyone has one up for grabs!!!!

[Fastbrit]

I have two different Headshop decals and a Headshop T-shirt, all of which Lonnie Reed gave me a few years ago...

Lonnie's motors were real grenades. High-compression and permanently on the edge. in my California Look VW book, there is a photo of a grenaded motor – although I couildn't really say it at the time, that was a Headshop motor...

Lonniw went on to be head of "Imagineering" at Disney, designing many of the rides at Disneyland and at what was originally known as EuroDisney. I first met him and Pam, his wife, at Montlhery in France, where they had come to watch some drag racing. I happened to be there with No Mercy, they stopped for a chat and the rset is history!

[SOB/RFH]

That grenaded engine was in the first Hot VW I bought....and in the Seume Cal-look book..............So that was the wedge port on the edge then

Imagineering fast V-dubs or EuroDisney must be pretty close when it comes to having fun

[SOB/RFH]

Ohh by the way. The ads of the time with all the fast wagons and there times...yum yum!!!

[Rick Meredith]

The Head Shop used to be on my way to work in the late 70's. I would pop in there occasionally. I think I still have a Head Shop T-Shirt. He did my first set of dual=ports on my '67 (1641cc with Kadrons). Just some mild ones. I couldn't afford to have him do a set of heads for my 1776cc IDA motor. Those were actually done by a guy in my club.

I was trying to remember who did my SP heads... It was a shop off of Superior in Costa Mesa.