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 Post subject: The "Blast from the Past" thread
PostPosted: Sat Aug 19, 2017 11:55 am 
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We were down at my mom's house in San Diego a couple weeks ago and I went through some of my old photo albums that had some of my previous VW's in them
I thought it would be fun to have a thread with photos of VW's long gone of everyone's. The older the pics the better! Include a little description of when you had it, got rid of it, etc.

I'll start.

This was my first VW. I got it when I was about 13 with the idea of having it ready for when I turned 16. It's a 59 and looked just like it did in the first pic when we got it. Needless to say the car needed a ton of work. We got a good deal on another baja bug (a 65) that was pretty much ready to drive so I ended up taking that one.
The 59 Sat as is for several years. Eventually I built it up as shown for my dad, basically for him to sell. It was a nice car, wish we kept it.


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 Post subject: Re: The "Blast from the Past" thread
PostPosted: Sat Aug 19, 2017 12:10 pm 
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So here's the 65 Baja that I ended driving through high school and a year or so of college. This one was more or less a "stock" Baja bug when I got it, other than a class 11 roll cage. I added a lifted and beeded up front beam, long ranger tank, 4-pt seat belts, wheels and tires built and 1835 for it, added lights, and eventually I converted the rear to IRS with boxed arms and the shocks mounted to the cage inside the car. I also built a custom front pre-runner style bumper. I did all the body work on the car too, it was basically ready to paint.
One Saturday morning I woke up early to go somewhere and the car was gone, stolen in the middle of the night, with everyone home. To my knowledge it was never recovered. Luckily the owner of a WV shop I used was familiar with the car and wrote an appraisal of it, which helped me get a good payout from the insurance company.


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'55 Outlaw Oval- 231 hp daily driver :shock:
'56 Oval Vert- Okrasa 36 hp
'52 Standard Split Window
1953 Fleetwood Travel Trailer
2010 FJ Cruiser- The Mountain Goat
30 Ford Model A Pickup Hotrod
Conklin Performance & Engineering
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 Post subject: Re: The "Blast from the Past" thread
PostPosted: Sat Aug 19, 2017 10:26 pm 
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I use to have all my old photo's of my old builds in my tool box. Spilled somthing on them and they all stuck together. :(

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 Post subject: Re: The "Blast from the Past" thread
PostPosted: Sat Aug 19, 2017 10:31 pm 
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Well that sucks! :cry:

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'55 Outlaw Oval- 231 hp daily driver :shock:
'56 Oval Vert- Okrasa 36 hp
'52 Standard Split Window
1953 Fleetwood Travel Trailer
2010 FJ Cruiser- The Mountain Goat
30 Ford Model A Pickup Hotrod
Conklin Performance & Engineering


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