Cal-Look.com - Nostalgia Corner by El Dub

EDITO : 2007 is over... Once again, I didn't attend many shows this year... But of course, I managed to made it to the first European Bug-in... Hard to believe it was already 6 months ago, but boy what a show it was... EBI was THE meeting of the decade, THE show not to miss, THE one!!! I think that 3 guys deserve a big 'hats off' : Kobus, Mike and Ffred! Guys, you did an outstanding job! Good news is that EBI2 is already planned... So, please, schedule the 4-5-6 of July 2008... Already sounds exciting... Once again, it's been a too long time without hearing from me... Again too busy to work on the website...

Another very very good news is that the California Look book #2 from Keith SEUME is planned too... Wow... Hard to believe but this news comes from the man himself... So, I think we can rely on... Add the return of the Fontana Bug-in #33 from Rich KIMBALL (planned for April, 11th) to the list and it seems that 2008 will be a year to remember for the nostalgia scene. Sounds exciting...

Now, enjoy this little update and HAVE A GOOD 2008 !!!

El Dub - 15 February 2008.

THE FIRST EUROPEAN BUG-IN GASSERS LINEUP...

70's CUSTOMIZIN'...

One year has passed since I introduced the idea of a new Nostalgia look inspired by the seventies cars... Not sure many of you have been enthusiasted by this "back to the future" look, but I'm sure it's a very good alternative...

I'm so enthusiast that I decided a while back to revamp my own daily driver... So, watch out for the complete story and the final results in the months to come...

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COOL SECTIONS

IGUANA AGAIN...

Can I put my two cents by guessing that Iguana was THE old racer of the last season? Impossible to open any specialized magazine without a focus on the Iguana replica that is said to reside now in Scotland under a very lucky guy auspicies...

But to really appreciate the replica, what about a revamped section devoted to the original one, the one & only, Bill CLARKSON's ones!

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HISTORY : EMPI GTV...

Let's begin an all new section devoted to special edition bugs... Of course, the most desirable of them all are the ones modified by the legendary EMPI company... Simply called GTV standing for Gran Touring Volkswagens, those bugs were called Mini Porsche, Small Wonder, Muscle beetle or whatever the name, they were considered as very special cars...

"HAPPINESS IS AN EMPI GTV" as they said back in the days... The same apply today, believe me ;)

Read on two different period writings about early GTVs thanks to Magali who was friendly enough to type them for us all... Those are very interesting period facts about that very special edition...

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AIN'T NO BIG THING SLALOMER...

They were so many cool cars at EBI that it was really hard to pick up the ones that would deserve a special mention. But, as far as I'm concerned, the 'AIN'T NO BIG THING' slalom bug was one of my favourite.

First : it's a period car and it smelled the seventies.Second : it's a pure slalom bug, and only a few of them remains... I have spent quite some times detailing this beauty, so I thought it would be interesting to compile a little section, helped by an old writing published in the late VW Trends.

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GET REGISTERED TODAY...

It definitely had to be done... You own an EMPI GTV bug? Original one, cool repro one? What about registering it on the new EMPI GTV REGISTER I just decided to put together.

All you need is sending me cool pictures, the story behind your Muscle Beetle and it will appear there next to my own 67...