The art of driving a Cal-looker and getting old, but only on the outside.....

[SOB/RFH]

We all get older (I am getting close to 50 if I have counted right) and it is as if some of us sticks to this interest while others move on to other interests uring the span called life. Driving a Cal-look car with a HiPo motor takes skills and to survive I think the "getting wiser with age" contributes to lowering the number of occasions where incidents or accidents occur more seldom then back in the days of youth. So the possibility to survive raises with age and so does possibly the number of tickets too.....but what does the people around us/you think about it........Something like: "When are you going to grew up" and also the impact of the younger excluding the elder from due to the fact "that they don't understand it and wants everything to be so serious"...........I like the art of ageing and would like to stay in business for a while (like 15 years at least) but am afraid that age takes it toll and interest evolves in to talking about "back in the day when...." instead of walking new paths in search of more horsepower or just experience the art of having fun!! So what do you think about getting old and the art of driving a cool cal-look car with dignity? 

[Petter Carlberg]

Well i´m only 32 but I´ve collected a lot of "adult-points". Like: own a house,pay tax,have kids,store candy at home...
But nothing makes you feel like 15 again like going through the gears in your IDA-equipped VW

[Sam K]

I'll be 30 next month and I've ocasionally found myself reminiscing about my high school years when fixing up my Bug and chasing girls were my only real concerns in life. Back when I could open up the newspaper and find a clean bug with a blown engine or tranny for a couple hundred bucks, head down the pick-a-part junkyard and get everything I needed to fix it, spend a day or two working on it and have a decent little car that I could drive for a while and sell to buy more parts for my '67. Good times!

[Bewitched666]

Well i'm almost 40(next year) and i hope to do this for years.Been into vw's sine my 16th and am into cars since i was born i guess.
My dad is 65 and ocasionally still drives the family pro mod trans am(most of the time i drive it).

I like tuning and vw and it keeps me young,lol

[airstuff]

I'll take a look at this topic in about 20 years or so when I get a lil older 

[Bernard Newbury]

I am 63 and have accumulated all the adult points in life and will become a first time grandfather later this year. I still race my car and am aiming for a 9 sec pass this year. I have had all the comments “aren’t you a bit too old for that”, “when are you going to grow up” etc and my answer is “when I can’t use the line lock or shifter”. The down side to age is your reaction times!!! An important part of the ingredient is good company with like-minded people. There is no rule in the book of life that you have to stop doing what you enjoy when you reach a certain age. I also treat my work with this attitude because  ‘Old’ is a description not a category and a good guide to live by is “don’t stop doing things because you’re getting old, you get old because you stop doing things” …….....I rest my case. Bernie

[Rennsurfer]

I also treat my work with this attitude because  ‘Old’ is a description not a category and a good guide to live by is “don’t stop doing things because you’re getting old, you get old because you stop doing things” …….....I rest my case. Bernie

Amen to that! We've had an old saying like that in skateboarding... You don't quit skateboarding because you got old, you got old because you quit skateboarding. Same theory applies to surfing, as well.

I'm gonna be 46 this June and been skateboading since I was ten and surfing since 13. It's parallel to the Cal Look thing, too. My parents never acted or lived old... they were quite the opposite. So I guess it got passed down to my sister and me. And our kids are getting it.

[jhicken]

b]Amen to that! We've had an old saying like that in skateboarding... You don't quit skateboarding because you got old, you got old because you quit skateboarding. [/b]

I quit skateboarding because I got fat ;^) and old!

-jeffrey

[rick m]

50 years old is young!!! 

Hey Bernard....got you beat. 8 grandkids for Anne and I now! You're 63 now??? Sheesh!  How can you use a clutch and shifter anymore?  :-)

How you and Carol been anyway?  Still in Southend?

Rick Mortensen

[MYTOY]

Funny how thing's change.I will be 48 this June and thought I would never own a bug again. Since this whole DKK reunion thing started a couple of months ago now I just acquired a '67 bug. One week later it's dropped w/BRM'S and feels like the (good OLD day's) here's to getting old.

[Rennsurfer]

Funny how thing's change.I will be 48 this June and thought I would never own a bug again. Since this whole DKK reunion thing started a couple of months ago now I just acquired a '67 bug. One week later it's dropped w/BRM'S and feels like the (good OLD day's) here's to getting old.

YEAH, MARK! That's awesome! Can't wait to lower mine next week and put the on BRMs, too. Let's see your car when you get a chance. Here's to us old D.K.K. farts driving aircooled cars again.

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[jhicken]

Yea Mark, post a few pics! I know what you mean, I just picked up a '69. It's on a truck on it's way to Jersey. I can't wait to dig into it.

-jeffrey

[Worm]

Yeah Mark..... come on wit dah photo dude.

[Rennsurfer]

couchPICScough.

Pardon me.