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Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2007 5:25 pm
by Rapid Randy Baker
Well I found this:
But nobody was doing any of this in there:

Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2007 7:02 pm
by WildcatOne
That sounds like the greatest, man. Great story, and from a different perspective...you're usually the guy driving the race! Very, very cool read, Rapid...Cheers, WC1
Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2007 8:13 pm
by draglist
Thanks, Rapid. Cool stuff. I'll vouch for those In N Out Burgers, too! bp
Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2007 10:10 pm
by draglist
PS -- Front page news! bp
Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2007 11:29 pm
by Rapid Randy Baker
Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 10:10 am
by jim sanders
Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 10:15 pm
by Eric David Bru
2 nice '56s in that post Rapid!!
EDB
Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2007 12:38 pm
by Rapid Randy Baker
Anybody want to see a few hunder bakersfield CHHR picts, try this:
http://s12.photobucket.com/albums/a245/ ... KERSFIELD/
Rapid
Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2007 2:40 pm
by WildcatOne
The VWs are awesome, Rapid! I love the convertibles...that one looks like it has some major engine upgrades...the oval is a hybrid. Great car. It has an engine hood and wheelz from a '64, but the car looks to me like it has a '59 body. I appreciate that he didn't paint it up all silly. To my eye, that is the easiest way to ruin a restoration. Good taste and a degree of restraint can make all the difference in how an old car looks. This one looks great just like it is, don't it...another example is last night in Beaumont, I went outside on a break and parked across the street was a bone-stock '37 Plymouth sedan. It was gigantic. Almost like a real-life cartoon car...an extremely LARGE car...it had the original paint job, everything was original and not restored, just brought along and kept running...dark green paint that you could just about peel off with your fingernail...but it was beautiful...must have weighed at least 5,000 pounds...quarter-inch-thick steel fenders...the body slightly thinner (I walked around it and knocked on the fenders, doors, trunk and body shell...varying thicknesses but the thinnest metal panels were more than twice that of new cars, which are as thin as paper) the original license plates...everything, seat covers over the original tattered velour-type deep-padded couches that were left alone...now, if this guy had taken this car and did a jazzy paint job on it, it would spoil the effect that the car got across...same with that VW...it is perfect, in my book. Thanks for shooting those pics, man...VWs have cred, and you picked a couple of fine examples of two different ways of fixing them up...Life is good! WC1
Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2007 7:46 pm
by Gator
Randy..The Broz,Gordy,Donnie & I did Milt's a few times..Great Food..
Your report is excellent!!!!!!!!