Where should I begin, I remember back in the 80's HansK Had a shop off of Scott Rd.in Surrey, there were some cool cars I remember and always lots of parts there. Frank Graff had his cool oval window, and I remember a guy named Darren that had a blue sunroof beetle that he used to show alot. HansK-you probably also remember Greg , that had a Orange 71 super beetle that was a show car (I think it was Slyvesters)Later Greg had a gorgeous Green oval that Dwayne Farmer bought. I remember driving past Darrel's house and seeing a black oval and a red vert slammed with Porsche Alloys.
For shops in the Delta Area, there was Europeon Auto (Vic) that painted many of the cars-Cal-Look Stuff and did performance engines. Not to mention, Ed at the Bug Shop, and Corey Dahl who used to own a real clean Black Oval,that was a drag car (Now Corey runs a shop in Port Kells,but does not work on VW's anymore.
I remember when Cal Imports was in a lane next to a Performance Engineering Shop in New Westminster when Steve Stanbridge had the Race Car(dark blue) before it turned into Weird Science, and I remember the cal-look 63 sunroof i think-that had 73 fenders on it.
Darren K (Kroc) worked there, along with Clarence.
Cal Imports later moved into a new location, behind A&W off of Kingsway, Lanny used to work there behind the counter, with a guy with long hair (Jim) anyone remember. Also Greg who I think was the Manager there.
I remember Darren K had a cool black cal-look bug with alloys that I think was sold to Steve's dad. Thunderbugs did a show and shine in central park-burnaby, where i remember Fritz the car! it was red with a big mill in there. Also, Markus had a green late model with a big mill too.
Not to mention Rene and Carol Lord, orange Late Model, and van, Roy, Rudy (Fast Rabbit)
This is going a long way back, also , Walt Kaiser Jr's Blue Notch that I detailed for him.
Mark Wisheart 59 and then Dwayne's old 79 Vert lowered!
Hans K-you remember Reese, Mike Walz, Brett Walker and his toys. I also remember Randy Gadios(not sure of the spelling that had a real clean two-toned bus!
In HansK garage, was my old oval in primer who once belonged to Greg H-later sold to Mike Gordon. This car was in Primer with Painted Fenderwalls. The pan was sold to Paul Jones that he used for his drag chopped beetle (X-Mike Hornak's Car)
Going to the Thunderbugs meetings off of Kingsway were great , and also meeting Marty,Mike Grocott, Lawerence Ming, Jeff Boylan (who painted my low 69-peach/piink were great people.
Not to mention Shane Marriot.
Flossin, yes I do remember your Ghia, as well as the vert-before it became a magazine car, do you ever see Kelly? or Jason? or Ted)-Remember Bigsbys off of Commercial Drive-you were always in the Sandblasting booth!
And yes, there was Mike Gordon's shop in Langley, the fondest memories are when his dad opened up his house to have a show and shine there in the driveway! Brian-you remember that!
I remember all the VW's that Mike and Marty and Brian had.
Brian,ever remember the drag car that we bought together?
Lawerence, Brian, Jeff, Rob Sterk (who owned Jeff's green car) Stephan, On-Zoom (Chris)-the guy that had a grey notch. I found him once on
www.vwdov.ca. Dwayne Farmer, Rob Algard, Pierce Owen, Ken Smith,Mike Hornak were all part of the V-Dub thing-Remember going cruisin in White Rock or down to bellingham etc-all good times!!
I could ramble on but, I will come to a close. I will see if I can dig up some old pics.
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Shawn
