'71 Deluxe - Now with Super Secret Subaru Swap!

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Went to the small but very cool and family oriented Angel's Camp Show yesterday.

 

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This little racer was awesome! John Milner is the legendary owner of the yellow deuce hot rod in American Graffiti. I'm not sure if the lettering is just a tribute or if the driver is really a dude named John Milner or what.

Volksrod trike?

I met the owner of this bus, he was a pretty cool cat. He made his own horseshoe plates for the rear of his bus, and up front he's got wagenswest spindles and a stock width adjustable beam. He used bug adjusters and said they slip sometimes :shock: !

He also said he checked out my deluxe right before I bought it. He tried to buy just the side step. Obviously he didn't have any trouble finding another one! He was selling his extra step for $75.

 

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80's Custom survivor.

It even had the proper louvered rear view mirror.

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was there.

This young lady was very pleasant.

I really liked this gauge arrangement.

Like I said, it was a very family oriented show.

This pink bug was bagged. The fender was parked on the tire.

This oval rag had an asymmetrical flame job. Very well played.

I kept it cool with buying stuff by only picking up an interior cargo door handle repop, some sun visor clips, a vintage child's bicycle seat which I think I'll put on my trike, and this shirt for my sister.

 

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Very cool. Love the photo's P. Quality 8)

 

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Thanks Chris.

I got my yearly bonus so I ordered my horsehair padding from Wolfsburg west, plus clips for the emblem up front and the script at the rear of the bus. I bought another floor jack so I can pull the engine and tranny from the camper.

I also picked up some vehicle dollies for $30 a pair. It was a coupon that was limited to one set of two dollies so I'll have to find another coupon and go get another pair. These things are normally $90 a pair! It's going to be awesome to be able to move my bug around the garage on casters instead of backing it out and back in and so forth.

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Next up: engine and transmission swap!

 

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Cool. Could you find me a couple of coupons too! I could do with some dollies :lol:

 

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again with the weather and excellent pics! 8) , im very very jealous

 

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Engine. Transmission. Out. 8)

 

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One of my buddies and I took our kiddos to BusFest in Vallejo, CA yesterday. Neither of us were looking to buy anything but he ended up with some Old School 16" Porsche pattern BBS style mesh wheels for his bug and I bought a full length rack for my bus :shock: !

I'll be posting up pictures shortly!

 

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Engine. Transmission. Out. 8)

I see those dollies are being put to good use! :lol: Don't get oil on that nice clean concrete drive :mrgreen:
When are you putting the motor in the Deeluxe?

 

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I see those dollies are being put to good use! :lol: Don't get oil on that nice clean concrete drive :mrgreen:
When are you putting the motor in the Deeluxe?

Heck yeah, those dollies worked out great! Too late about oil on the driveway, there's spots all over, but no big pools or anything like that. I use a biodegradable degreaser every once in a while to clean it up.

I did have some old fuel lines crack and spill all over the driveway when pulling the engine, but it was quick to evaporate in the dry heat.

Okay as promised here are the pics from Busfest!

At first I thought this Dalmatian was fake because he was sitting so still.

I'm still in love with this Ghia.

 

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I bought the rack off of this green bus. The "nice rack" jokes were relentless. Wait 'till you see how we got it home!

 

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My son had a blast with all the other kiddos! We dug the fun family vibe at the show.

Check out this crazy camper conversion, it had a weird slide out extension and a bubble skylight and even some solar panels.

This splitty paintjob on a late bay was not working for me. The owners were very nice though.

Homemade re-bar roof rack.

Here's how we hauled the rack and my buddy's new rims home:

Which resulted in this:

I'm pretty sure we drew the Cop's attention because of the crazy rack on the roof but he let us go with a fix-it ticket for having window tint on the front side windows.

Overall it was a fun show! Hopefully next year I'll be able to take my Deluxe.

 

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Bug-O-Rama #66

My sister went to UC Santa Cruz- I had to get a picture of this license plate frame in the parking lot.

The "Karmann Ghetto".

Der Renn Kafer Cup cars:

I kinda fell in love with this brown split. This seems to happen to me a lot...

My seester likes it too.

Isn't this Ghia from the UK? So sick!

Slick 'vert.

EB in the for sale section:

 

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Some of the water cooled guys are so weird. Case in point: pastel teddy bear camo.

Band-Aids can fix anything.

Dug this bubble top split camper with the spare BRM up front:

I've seen this pigalle fastback around a lot the last few years and it looks better than ever.

It's hard for me to believe that early 90's trends are retro now.

Bus Lineup.

I wish this one would have followed me home.

 

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The Hi-Lighter EB! When you look away from it and close your eyes, you can still see it!

 

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This was a fastback version of my beetle.

356 Lineup.

I liked this one- it's VWAG 1.8T powered.

 

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Murdered out split panel.

Finally got pics of the sides of this sign written EB- hella cool.

Cool fire themed single cab.

 

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Swap area.

Not as big as last May.