oldspeed!!!!!!......cal look or not cal look????????

[Frank LUX]

That black dkp1-style oval is really nice but it's pre-callook, definitely NOT callook. Nosedown-stance is mandatory on a cal look car, together with a hot engine (not necessarily with IDAs) and a nice set of wheels with big n'littles. Oldspeed is a term used for cars with period correct bolt-on hop up parts, mostly on a 30hp engine or with a transplanted 356 motor, no or maybe a little lowering.

just my $ 0.02

I'm with you LuftKraft!

There is such a thing as Pre-Cal-look...

I'm totally with you guys....!!!

Frank

[Jordy/DVK]

 I guess it's most important that everyone thinks and understands that the Old Speed look, and the Old School Cal Look are two different styles that form a perfect combination or complement to eachother. Better than any two styles...

 It's not in the name, it's in the spirit...
 And I guess those are quite alike for the two styles discussed...
 
 And whatever name you attach to it I do like both...
 
 

[Lee.C]

Hi there guys - its taken me a while to read all this thread but I do agree with a lot of you - you see these days I think we all get a bit obsessed with buying up Original Empi/vintage  parts - in my mind people back in the day just did what ever they could to make their VW go a little faster, handle a bit better and most of all look a bit cooler.

I used to be obsessed with only buying Original Empi parts until I spent a load of money (read as too much ) on an original empi Eliminator Shifter, now this shifter looked AMAZING but when it came to driving hard (read as racing my friends) it would let me down nearly every time - hitting reverse instead of second!! so that got sold and I brought myself a "Sparkomatic" Formula Vee style shifter which looks almost as good but works perfctly

I guess what I am trying to say is - Don't just sucked into thinking you have to have all matching Empi parts because in truth no one did back in the day so why should we.

IMHO I prefer Race Trim parts anyway 

[Shubee2 (DSK)]

I think it's a mistake to divide this cars into

• cal look
• oldspeed
• pre-cal look
• old school
• school look
• old cal
• oldcalspeed
• caloldlook
• invent name and put here
Dont Forget Resto Rod And Resto Mod and the LOOK??(What LOOK?)

all this styles.
it's a subculture in a subculture, no need to give it 3425 different names. i completely lost the overview of all this and think it's annoying. it's not what cal look should be: plain and simple.

cheers
andi

[alex d]

uhmmmmmm, interesting discussion, my thoughts are that a Cal Look car can be at the same time an Old Speed car, I'll explain later, now i have to have breakfast 

[alex d]

for example:

a 68 with a 88x69 (empi slipper skirts), type 3 ported dual port heads, Sig Earson camshaft, a pair of Solex 40P11s, 4 lug sprintstars, period steering wheel, original empi quickshift, original Empi camber compensator and sway bar, etc. would qualify as an old speed in my book, as it has all period-correct speed equipment. If you lower the front (pulling leaves, selec-a-drop, cut'n turn), then it becomes a cal looker too, doesn't it?

take the same 68 but change the engine for a 2332 with DRLAS and it will be just a cal looker (and faster), but it won't be an old speed car, as the go-fast part is not period-correct.

usually when one hears of old speed, thinks of Judson superchargers, Speedwell, Okrasa, TDE and the like, but a 100% period correct looker would qualify as well in my book.

[jick]

i dont care what you call it,     it's still one of my favourite cars of the last few years.

[bathing ape]

your car is class,lovely

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I'm gonna fit a Shorrock supercharger to my Old-School '67 (model 68) bug. Shorrocks were available from I guess the middle of the 60ies.
 
 


 
 

Hey Jordy !
I am using a Shorrock Supercharger also !
 

[streetvw]

my UNcles 67 circa 76


had this in it

 1679 single port shorrock super charged beasty

[speedwell]

cool shorrock waouww 

[streetvw]

yeah it was a big bugger as well, origonally designed for a 2.5ltr daimler V8 engine

[.]

Streetvw,
Didn't you sell that motor on e-bay ?
 

[streetvw]

yep!! my uncle passed away in Feb 2005 and we had to sell a lot of his stuff off , the motor ended up going to Denver in the US and was said to be destin for te rear end of a ghia!!

[Zach Gomulka]

yep!! my uncle passed away in Feb 2005 and we had to sell a lot of his stuff off , the motor ended up going to Denver in the US and was said to be destin for te rear end of a ghia!!

I think I know the Ghia!!! He is a cool guy, I met him this past summer, Too bad I cant remember his name He also bought the Race Trim breather from me- it was NOS.

[Zach Gomulka]

More...

[Turtle001]

fingerlickin!

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Yes, That's Howard's Ghia, but not the Shorrock he bought from "streetvw".

[Lee.C]

small world guys - Also I have never seen a Race Trim breather box like that one - SICK

[Zach Gomulka]

small world guys - Also I have never seen a Race Trim breather box like that one - SICK

As far as I know there are 3 different versions, that one being the latest. I didnt have the heart to take it out of the package and do the modifications to it that I wished, so I found a pair of early ones