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[alex d]

Is it just me ot at one point it had a big-window drivers side door and a small window in the passenger side?

[JS]

Excellent thread, Fabs!!! 

[speedwell]

thanks trond , j-f , js 

[speedwell]

Is it just me ot at one point it had a big-window drivers side door and a small window in the passenger side?

wich one alex may be is one empi fiberglass door , and the mount was an late model 

[alex d]

Is it just me ot at one point it had a big-window drivers side door and a small window in the passenger side?

wich one alex may be is one empi fiberglass door , and the mount was an late model 

look at the '69 and '70 pics

[speedwell]

Is it just me ot at one point it had a big-window drivers side door and a small window in the passenger side?

wich one alex may be is one empi fiberglass door , and the mount was an late model 

look at the '69 and '70 pics

this one
the door handle look like an 65 model , may be like i said up the doors are fiberglass and may be moulded on an 65 one

[deano]

irwindale 69 the ip 1 had is new vinyl flower power roof   

This photo I believe was taken at the old Fontana Raceway....

[speedwell]

irwindale 69 the ip 1 had is new vinyl flower power roof   

This photo I believe was taken at the old Fontana Raceway....

may be deano , the day i pîck up the picture on the net it was written irwindale now  I didn't live it socal and does not know too much the landscape to tell to recognize the place
thx for the info deano

[Jon]

Great work Fabs!! You are the man!

About the doors, didn't someone here on the lounge say that tey had two different sets of doors for that car? One set of steel "small windows" and a set of fiberglas "big windows"?
Supposedly to allow them to weigh the car up or down according to what class they wanted to enter.

[deano]

Great work Fabs!! You are the man!

About the doors, didn't someone here on the lounge say that tey had two different sets of doors for that car? One set of steel "small windows" and a set of fiberglas "big windows"?
Supposedly to allow them to weigh the car up or down according to what class they wanted to enter.

Yep, that was me. And, "some" of those doors still exist! (and not in Ventura)

[danny gabbard]

wow great collection of picture's, thanks for spending your time posting. so how's your new beer company budweiser.

[speedwell]

wow great collection of picture's, thanks for spending your time posting. so how's your new beer company budweiser.

[Harry/FDK]

Fantastic Fabs !

[speedwell]

thx hurry 

[Nico86]

Thx for this interesting article, if you want to do others don't hesitate !

[Nico86]

[Fiatdude]

irwindale 69 the ip 1 had is new vinyl flower power roof   

This photo I believe was taken at the old Fontana Raceway....

Yes Fontana -- you can see the HV power lines in the background

[Nico86]

Fabs, you should seriously consider writing a book.
I'm very glad I can just read your threads here, but your stories and pictures would be good to have in book form :-)

I'd buy that !

[Fastbrit]

Fabs, you should seriously consider writing a book.
I'm very glad I can just read your threads here, but your stories and pictures would be good to have in book form :-)

I'd buy that !

Just the small matter of obtaining the original photos and the copyright... It's all very well borrowing photos from other places on the internet, or scanning out of magazines, but that doesn't mean you have the legal right to use them. As soon as you commit to print, watch out... This is why you tend to see the same photos over and over again published in magazines and books - and why it took so long compiling material for the two Cal Look books I did. I have approximately 4000 scanned images for which I obtained the right to use in print, but I don't have the time to do another book – and no publisher would a) be interested or b) be prepared to pay enough to make it worth while. Both Cal Look books lost the publisher money...

[Andrew]

So there are two Cal Look books, right.

White Beetle cover and Red Beetle cover?

  thanks,

Andrew

[Fastbrit]

That's correct...

[Neil Davies]

So there are two Cal Look books, right.

White Beetle cover and Red Beetle cover?

  thanks,

Andrew

Or the Old Testament and New Testament as many know them... 

[Nico86]

Fabs, you should seriously consider writing a book.
I'm very glad I can just read your threads here, but your stories and pictures would be good to have in book form :-)

I'd buy that !

Just the small matter of obtaining the original photos and the copyright... It's all very well borrowing photos from other places on the internet, or scanning out of magazines, but that doesn't mean you have the legal right to use them. As soon as you commit to print, watch out... This is why you tend to see the same photos over and over again published in magazines and books - and why it took so long compiling material for the two Cal Look books I did. I have approximately 4000 scanned images for which I obtained the right to use in print, but I don't have the time to do another book – and no publisher would a) be interested or b) be prepared to pay enough to make it worth while. Both Cal Look books lost the publisher money...

How about using new medias such as Blurb? I don't know how it works though, but a lot of photographers on Flickr uses it to "publish" their books.

[TyeDyeBug]

is that roof checkered on the 67?

[Fastbrit]

Fabs, you should seriously consider writing a book.
I'm very glad I can just read your threads here, but your stories and pictures would be good to have in book form :-)

I'd buy that !

Just the small matter of obtaining the original photos and the copyright... It's all very well borrowing photos from other places on the internet, or scanning out of magazines, but that doesn't mean you have the legal right to use them. As soon as you commit to print, watch out... This is why you tend to see the same photos over and over again published in magazines and books - and why it took so long compiling material for the two Cal Look books I did. I have approximately 4000 scanned images for which I obtained the right to use in print, but I don't have the time to do another book – and no publisher would a) be interested or b) be prepared to pay enough to make it worth while. Both Cal Look books lost the publisher money...

How about using new medias such as Blurb? I don't know how it works though, but a lot of photographers on Flickr uses it to "publish" their books.

And where's the time and financial reward coming from? The unit cost of producing a 150-page book would be astronomical... Self-publishing like this is not a viable option for anything other than a vanity publication ("Hey, look at me and my photographs!"). Also, as I say, time is a major problem - it normally takes between one and two years to put a decent book together.

[Neil Davies]

Is there an option of crowdfunding? Ginger Wildheart has released albums and a book through Pledge Music. His first go at it resulted in him raising 555% of the total needed, at which point he stopped the process so all the purchasers got an album 6 months or so later once it had been made. And of course he made quite a bit more money because it was all on pre-orders. I'd be willing to pay £30 for a book and have it delivered when it's ready - I ordered Ginger's book last November in the final week before the pledge deadline and it arrived in July.

[Fastbrit]

Maybe when I retire form editing one mag and working on a second I'll have time. I returned the advance I was paid to do one book three or four years ago as I realised I just wouldn't have time to do it (How to build a high-performance VW engine).
I've never been at ease with the concept of crowd funding, I'm afraid.

[Nico86]

The saddest thing about all of this is the amount of knoweledge/infos that won't be shared. But ehre's not much to do about how things work I'm afraid. Hopefully we'll have new great books in the coming years maybe!

[cedric]

Thx fabs for the cool story!

[nicolas]

Maybe when I retire form editing one mag and working on a second I'll have time. I returned the advance I was paid to do one book three or four years ago as I realised I just wouldn't have time to do it (How to build a high-performance VW engine).
I've never been at ease with the concept of crowd funding, I'm afraid.

this may be a very personal opinion, but from all the books i have a few stand out for sure. the callook book, the how to hod rod book and by far the one i have looked at the most must be the green technical book. i have looked at it so much, maybe it is starting to get outdated, maybe some things are revised, but all in all it is a great instruction manual to get into different tuning levels and available parts.
in an age of internet so much is said, some very true and innovative, but most just plain guesswork and copycatting. so a good reference book is what could be considered a jump start to see for someone how things can be done.
i think i can use a parallel with photography here  it is great to have worked with manual cameras, film and a darkroom to know how things basically work. it doesn't mean digital isn't the way to go (it's not really important). but knowing your stops, diaphragm, speeds, iso,… is knowing what you will get as a result insted of a hit and miss tactic.