groundlevelbert finally here...

hey all...

applied for an account shortly after bugapaluza back in april and was finally activated this afternoon...

65 type 1...body off pan resto...powdercoat pan and suspension components...fontana grey with rick harris pinstripes...2275cc with DRD Level 7s and 48IDAs...chrome fuchs and airkewld bad series brakes...

thanks for letting me hang...

groundlevelbert
franklin, tennessee

that is a sweet big window!

thanks...several have told me that it needs to drop, but i'm pretty happy with the stance...i slammed
them back in the 80s and bent more front fenders and ripped off more quiet packs than i can remember...

this car is stock height in the rear with 16x7s and only runs drop spindles on the front with a stock
beam and 145s...i never have clearance issues and it rides like stock...i'm an old man now and it suits
me just fine...

sweet car man

Very clean ride. have seen it at the show. You got robbed Best of show, by peanut butter and jelly. You coming up to CYW fall. Im sure maybe 2 of us " might " be there.

are you planning on making it to Eureka ?
we talked about it at BAP.

not sure what i am doing this fall...my kids are both in sports and one of them just started high school,
so i know i'm going to be committed to football friday nights and other stuff, but i'm going to get out
as much as i can...

planning on showing up at bug blast in birmingham in a couple of weeks--got 'best of' there last year...
probably going to do vws over memphis as well...i showed last fall at CYW and basically got shut out on
any of the big awards...it's tough to travel almost 300 miles for a top 75 plaque...

when is eureka? that's pretty soon, isn't it?

VOLKSWAGENUT wrote:Very clean ride. have seen it at the show. You got robbed Best of show, by peanut butter and jelly. You coming up to CYW fall. Im sure maybe 2 of us " might " be there.

PBJ...that's pretty funny...the 58-67 custom class was probably the most competitive class at BAP this year...
ended up with a 3rd in the class--my worst outing ever...but i took home 'best paint'...i won 1st in class the previous
year and the car wasn't completely finished yet...

PBJ is going to difficult to beat...it's just SO over the top with the leather wrapped wheels and the engraved velocity
stacks...there's a lot of 'wow' factor with that car at first glance...

groundlevelbert wrote:

VOLKSWAGENUT wrote:Very clean ride. have seen it at the show. You got robbed Best of show, by peanut butter and jelly. You coming up to CYW fall. Im sure maybe 2 of us " might " be there.

PBJ...that's pretty funny...the 58-67 custom class was probably the most competitive class at BAP this year...
ended up with a 3rd in the class--my worst outing ever...but i took home 'best paint'...i won 1st in class the previous
year and the car wasn't completely finished yet...

PBJ is going to difficult to beat...it's just SO over the top with the leather wrapped wheels and the engraved velocity
stacks...there's a lot of 'wow' factor with that car at first glance...

Yeah , thats what we where talking about , Cars like that have so much going on that its distracting . So it really is hard to notice flaws and such. Not to say its not a nice car but IMO its not the best car that was there.

Welcome to the site. See you at the shows man.

When is the memphis show ? have thought about doing it a few times but its a pretty good haul.

If I drive 300 miles I'm going to hang out with friends and have fun screw the trophy that don't mean anything

TURBO wrote:If I drive 300 miles I'm going to hang out with friends and have fun screw the trophy that don't mean anything

So what month is your car in???

I activated you.. for some reason 6 people went into inactivated.. sorry !

Sweet car !

VOLKSWAGENUT wrote:

TURBO wrote:If I drive 300 miles I'm going to hang out with friends and have fun screw the trophy that don't mean anything

So what month is your car in???

Thats funny !

PBJ is going to difficult to beat...it's just SO over the top with the leather wrapped wheels and the engraved velocity
stacks...there's a lot of 'wow' factor with that car at first glance...

Yeah.. when I saw it WOW was exactly what I said to myself...

i showed last fall at CYW and basically got shut out on
any of the big awards...it's tough to travel almost 300 miles for a top 75 plaque...

Whats "tough" is someone spending 10, 20 or 30,000 bucks to build a car as well as untold hundreds of hours of time to fetch a 5 dollar plastic trophy thats generally made in China and falls apart in 6 months.

The "Return on investment" economics don't add up on that one much to me...

Here is a synopsis:
Cost to build VW- 15K+
Time put into project- Months or years
Cost of enclosed trailer to haul the "Princess" in- 5K+
Cost of "watercooled piece of crap" to tow said trailer with for hauling the "Princess"- 25K+
Cost of fuel for said "watercooled piece of crap"- 175 bucks +/-
Cost of Hotel room at the show site- 129.99/ night
Cost of Show entry, cleaning gear to polish the "Princess" and incidentals- 100 bucks

Value of seeing the look on the face of the Owner of the Princess when he doesn't win his 5 dollar trophy at the show- PRICELESS!!

BTW- Lots of show organizers are going to top 40, 50 or 75 shows to increase the comraderie of the events and to keep the "trophy hounds" at home... They get tired of hearing people whine about not winning that 5 dollar trophy! Hell I have seen fights over a 5 dollar trophy and have seen one thrown across the ground at CYW when someone didn't get his "princess" recognized the way he wanted..

Your a total jerk!