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« Reply #30 on: September 11, 2008, 03:09:15 am »
Cool stuff, Mark. Thanks for sharing. Do you have any pics of the car with the 356 wheels. I bet it looks sweet.
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« Reply #31 on: September 11, 2008, 04:34:46 am »
Man, the Auto Haus picture is the BEST, Mark!  How can you forget the days of guys pulling up out front in their bugs and coming in to buy intake manifolds, Holley Bug Sprays, S&S Headers, Cibie headlights, buggy whips, Baja kits, roller cranks, Engle cams, 010 distributors....  At the Buena Park store, we'd have our bugs parked out back and when it was slow, be out there shinin' our shit.  I hated it back then, but I wouldn't trade the memory for anything in this world. Cool Cool
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« Reply #32 on: September 11, 2008, 04:47:51 am »
The shot of Mark's car at Auto Haus was what I saw daily after class at Long Beach State. Sometimes, in leu of class.
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« Reply #33 on: September 12, 2008, 04:08:12 am »
 Your car was why, I'm into VW's.. I remember drooling over it as a youth. Sitting at Robert Millers house. Or at the bike shop.
  Cool Thread!  Cool
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« Reply #34 on: September 12, 2008, 04:25:45 am »
Quote from: pip on September 12, 2008, 04:08:12 am
Your car was why, I'm into VW's.. I remember drooling over it as a youth. Sitting at Robert Millers house. Or at the bike shop.
  Cool Thread!  Cool

Hey, Pip! Cool seein' you on here, man. Thanks for the nice words. Robert Miller is the guy that did my paint work on that car. I have shots of him painting the mirror and headlight rings, somewhere. I gotta find those and scan 'em. He recently came down from Washington with his wife and step-daughter. Was cool seeing him and the rest of the Miller family at the Miller compound. GOOD TIMES!

Hope all is well with you and yours.
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« Reply #35 on: September 12, 2008, 18:00:51 pm »
I finally located a few more pictures. Here's one at Bug-In 30 or 31. I'm thinking... the latter.



Don't know what made me use my spare wheel cover... there's a fifth restored EMPI wheel underneath, too. D'OH!
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« Reply #36 on: September 12, 2008, 18:08:59 pm »
Quote from: DKK_Fred on September 12, 2008, 18:00:51 pm
I finally located a few more pictures. Here's one at Bug-In 30 or 31. I'm thinking... the latter.



Don't know what made me use my spare wheel cover... there's a fifth restored EMPI wheel underneath, too. D'OH!
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« Reply #37 on: September 12, 2008, 18:13:22 pm »
Can't tell, Fabian. The door handle on the driver's door looks like a square button and not a round, like on my car. My car was an early '66, but I added '67 dash knobs, seat belts, transmission, reverse lights, and door handles.
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« Reply #38 on: September 12, 2008, 21:27:09 pm »
Mark, didn't you say the plates are still in use from that car?
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« Reply #39 on: September 12, 2008, 21:31:46 pm »
yup he did!
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« Reply #40 on: September 12, 2008, 21:32:00 pm »
Quote from: John Rayburn on September 12, 2008, 21:27:09 pm
Mark, didn't you say the plates are still in use from that car?

For my orange car... yes, last I checked about a year ago. I have no idea about my Java Green one. I'd love to see both cars, actually.
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« Reply #41 on: September 12, 2008, 22:42:49 pm »
Let's go find them!
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« Reply #42 on: September 12, 2008, 23:45:34 pm »
Quote from: John Rayburn on September 12, 2008, 22:42:49 pm
Let's go find them!

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« Reply #43 on: September 13, 2008, 05:28:58 am »
Quote from: DKK_Fred on September 12, 2008, 04:25:45 am
Quote from: pip on September 12, 2008, 04:08:12 am
Your car was why, I'm into VW's.. I remember drooling over it as a youth. Sitting at Robert Millers house. Or at the bike shop.
  Cool Thread!  Cool

Hey, Pip! Cool seein' you on here, man. Thanks for the nice words. Robert Miller is the guy that did my paint work on that car. I have shots of him painting the mirror and headlight rings, somewhere. I gotta find those and scan 'em. He recently came down from Washington with his wife and step-daughter. Was cool seeing him and the rest of the Miller family at the Miller compound. GOOD TIMES!

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Thanks!

Hope all is well with you and yours.

Marc,
 The miller house is a fuck'n time capsule.  I was over there a couple weeks ago.  Ronnie pulled out a bill of sale,  I wrote him. When I was 12 fucking yrs old. for a mini bike I sold him!!!!  Thats 28 yrs ago Shocked  Classic!!!!!!
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« Reply #44 on: September 13, 2008, 05:34:51 am »
Quote from: pip on September 13, 2008, 05:28:58 am
Marc,
 The miller house is a fuck'n time capsule.  I was over there a couple weeks ago.  Ronnie pulled out a bill of sale,  I wrote him. When I was 12 fucking yrs old. for a mini bike I sold him!!!!  Thats 28 yrs ago Shocked  Classic!!!!!!

Oh YEAH! I was recently there, cleaning Robert's Ford van that he keeps down here for his So Cal trips from up north. Rosie invites me in to eat, as usual. And I was trippin'... everything's the same in there. I LOVE it. Felt like was a teen again. Then, when Robert, Ron, and Raquel all came over the next day... they bust out an album with pics of all of us when we were really young. PRICELESS! I think there was a pic of Ron's go-kart that I got into a four wheel drift around a corner. Ended up wasting a front wheel. He'd pull it next to my Bug and Robert's cars when we were getting our rides cleaned up for cruising Whittier Blvd. and clean his go-kart along side of us. Some great memories in that old big house. Think I saw a pic of when my orange Bug used to pretty much reside on the side of the house on the south facing corner. Rosie loved my car and called it her lawn ornament. Such a cool family.

Can't believe that mini bike bill of sale is still around. But I'm not surprised, though. I remember that bike, too. I'm gonna be bummed if they ever sell the house. That was where I spent a good part of my life. We painted bikes, motorcycles, cars, and anything else we could at that place.
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« Reply #45 on: September 14, 2008, 04:27:47 am »
Mark, any shots of you painting the orange car in the alley?
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« Reply #46 on: September 14, 2008, 18:57:28 pm »
Quote from: John Rayburn on September 14, 2008, 04:27:47 am
Mark, any shots of you painting the orange car in the alley?

Not me... it was Robert. But, yes... I have that picture somewhere. I gotta climb up and bring down a box full of very old pics. When I get some free time, I'll post it up.
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« Reply #47 on: September 16, 2008, 05:41:44 am »
That ought to be a cool shot. I can't wait!
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« Reply #48 on: November 22, 2009, 01:51:14 am »
Mark, didn't I hear you say recently that you found the picture of your Orange car being sprayed in the alley? If so, post it up!
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« Reply #49 on: November 22, 2009, 03:23:16 am »
Quote from: lawrence on September 11, 2008, 03:09:15 am
Cool stuff, Mark. Thanks for sharing. Do you have any pics of the car with the 356 wheels. I bet it looks sweet.

Lawrence, sorry... but this is only photo that I can dig up with those wheels, so far. My camera wasn't the best back then... but here it is when I was working at Long Beach airport, around 1985. You can see the For Sale stickers that I made from vinyl letters (just behind the D.K.K. club ones). That 'plane was cool... used to run the postal mail out to Santa Catalina Island every morning. I had to refuel it before sunrise. Old Beechcraft E-18 or something like that. Now, they're using an old D.C. 3.



Quote from: John Rayburn on November 22, 2009, 01:51:14 am
Mark, didn't I hear you say recently that you found the picture of your Orange car being sprayed in the alley? If so, post it up!

Dang, you've got a good memory, John. Yep... got it:



We waited for a nice day with zero wind, hosed down everything the night before, and he did a great job at blending/matching my previous paint. Had a fender bender that wasted the hood and front fender. The good old days, back when you could still buy factory sheet metal.
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« Reply #50 on: November 22, 2009, 04:07:01 am »
True history right there. Thanks for sharing Mark. Thanks for staying on him John. Thats what this forum is all about!
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« Reply #51 on: November 22, 2009, 04:08:41 am »
Shouldn't this be the "Fred Thread"?  Wink
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« Reply #52 on: November 22, 2009, 07:37:16 am »
It's the Fred Thread, indeed!
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« Reply #53 on: November 22, 2009, 15:27:50 pm »
That paint shot is MONEY!!! Cool Cool Cool
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« Reply #54 on: November 22, 2009, 17:55:03 pm »
Quote from: Sarge on November 22, 2009, 15:27:50 pm
That paint shot is MONEY!!! Cool Cool Cool
                                                    I've been bugging him a long time to dig that out. Well worth the wait!
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« Reply #55 on: November 22, 2009, 23:33:18 pm »
Never saw this thread before, great stories Mark ! Cool
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« Reply #56 on: November 24, 2009, 02:25:34 am »
Quote from: Nico86 on November 22, 2009, 23:33:18 pm
Never saw this thread before, great stories Mark ! Cool

Thanks, Nico. And thanks for always managing to find some cool VW pics that you post up.
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« Reply #57 on: November 24, 2009, 02:42:37 am »
Great thread! Love the alley shot.






Funny, I still used spell check on this! Whenever Mark is close by I always check myself.  Grin
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« Reply #58 on: November 24, 2009, 05:37:30 am »
Quote from: Casey on November 24, 2009, 02:42:37 am
Great thread! Love the alley shot.






Funny, I still used spell check on this! Whenever Mark is close by I always check myself.  Grin
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« Reply #59 on: November 24, 2009, 23:06:12 pm »
Quote from: DKK_Fred on November 24, 2009, 02:25:34 am
Quote from: Nico86 on November 22, 2009, 23:33:18 pm
Never saw this thread before, great stories Mark ! Cool

Thanks, Nico. And thanks for always managing to find some cool VW pics that you post up.

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