What happen to all the old east coast drag vw

[junkyard racen]

My dad and I was talking about how the vw scene was in the 80's and 90's.   

[WV-VW]

So.....What do you want to know?

[Krylon Monster]

Which ones??  I am sure a lot are parked right now or just sitting around in a garage.
 
Jersey Attitude, a green 63 bug that raced in Pro has been sitting since the late 90's an just surfaced on ebay with the owner still having it.

Squirmen German, from Gene Cook was apparently crushed an taken to the junkyard by some dumb ass

PacMan Ghia is sitting in a garage.

Westmorelands Muscle Bug with the Adam Wik front end was re-painted and now just re sold a little while ago

Kelly Westmorelands Muscle Bug that ran pro was for sale for wayy to much money.

Jaimes Toy and Billy the Kid still race from time to time

Sean Dowdles Twister super pro car has been sold to a guy on the forum an runs a turbo motor

The Rare Hare is sitting in one of the Sartwells shops and apparently isnt to much needed to run again

Jitter Bug is sitting in a garage in New Jersey and apparently owned by someone who screwed a lot of VW people. No one know where he is

Hum Bug has been re-painted, sold an now back with the original family

Chuckles front engined altered was sold to Darren in Michigan an re-painted an runs up there still

X-Terminater was wrecked at MIR a lot of years ago, Rashad Ali owned

Bad Attitude, George Chimalenski owned has been sold an stiill raced out of New Jersey


I owned Sidewinder, a pro car, for a bit then sold it. Sitting in Deleware with a broken trans


Then you have cars like Serious Business, Lethal Weapen, Westmorelands dragster, Robo Bug, Raggedy Anne, Money for Nothen, Tazmanian Devil stretched ghia, Wicked, Dennis an the green Valley VW choptop, John Halls yellow drag buggy, Jack and Karen (husband an wife team) had an orange bug, Guy from P.A with the green ghia an dragster both with water-cooled motors hasn't been out in a long time

[Ohio Tom (DdK)]

Wow, that about sums it up...
How the heck can you remember all that?

I have seen Darren's car run. It's a nice ride.

[orangepeel]

Scotty you forgot, your dads car, My orange car, Mike Carlssons Blue Beetle, The Old "Time keeper" , Mini Funny III, Strip Teaser, Strip Teaser II , Riveted  And Dont Forget The Black Kawell Chop Top Squareback. Lots of East Coast cars out there in garages waiting to be Re-Born again.  Lets face it, Not alot of High performance parts distributers  on the east coast. Everything is in Ca.  The next generation is slowly bringing cars out . The prices on everything is alot more plus fewer jobs has taken its toll .

[Krylon Monster]

Eric Heyman from P.A with the VW Trends featured 11, sec, all motor street bug was sold an now resides in Western P.A and is for sale

Carey Angels pinkish car with "optimism" on the windhsield was sold an resides in the south, still raced

Ed Stuart I believe passed away and he ran some nice cars

Jimmy Phetteplace still owns a VW shop in Pensacola Florida. One of his dragsters is still raced infrequently. His Fiat is for sale on thesamba

Nasty Boys turned their car into a pro stock looking deal and still runs sometimes. Goes 6.60s I believe

Mike Carlson from NY with the blue super pro bug sold it, wound up in Ohio an was recently for sale on thesamba

Some other still active are Tim Vinkuns out of New York state with the orange 70's bug. Was all motor, now turbo powered and still going. Us, the Pocaros from NJ are still going with the tan bug and I am building another car. Sourcers Apprentice owned by John Martin is making a return,


Then you still have the AutoHaus yellow chop from P.A driven by Mike Williams, Temper Tantrum turbo car from P.A, Dirk Millers super pro car was sold to someone in the Carolinas about 5 years ago,  Honey I shrunk the bus an a pink dune buggy owned by Mike Corbo from P.A,


Ohio Tom....  Its amazing that I am 23 and remember this crap from when I was like 8 years old but don't know what town I worked in 3 days ago!!!

And as far as the above post...Timmy posted while I was typing...so here we go....

Time Keeper is alive and going 6.50s I believe and Wendall Denny Jr. drives it at the bug outs, thats about all.

Kawells type 3 is sitting at their shop, probably never to be run again

Aragona's Mini Funny is around and on Long Island. Last time to the track was about 2006

Riveted is still being raced. I had him first round in Monrovia this past year

[bugnut]

One of my favorite cars with a connection to my region is Noel Latour's car... I think it's a '67, and was originally build by a Medford, oregon guy named John Coffman.  Used to be pink with blue and crazy '80s graphics going diagonally down the sides.  April 1990 VW Trends feature was called "Wild Thang."  That was one of the first drag VWs I saw run in Medford '89!!! Woo hoo, the good old days...

[JCquick]

Hum I know where there is a few few

[Ian M]

Another car that made an impression on me around '90-91 was a metallic blue Oval with yellow headlights running Super Pro that was all steel and said "200 Proof" on the side. I remember being really impressed with that car as a teenager,he always did big sideways burnouts and ran low 7's in a car that looked like a street car.  The last time I saw it run was '92 or so. I always kinda wondered what happened to it.


At Mason Dixon in Hagerstown Gene Cook and I ran into the the guy who ran (and still owns)  the car that was called White Lightning.It was a white ragtop oval with blacked out headlights and flared '70s style rear fenders that ran in Super Pro. It's apparently  been a race car since the '70s,always pulled nice wheelies and ran strong with a small (1800cc range IIRC) motor. It was always one of my favorites in the early '90s,I don't think it's run since then.

Gene and I was standing in line at a V8 race waiting for chassis cert when he walked up and started talking VWs.  We were pretty suprised when he told us he had that car. The guy now runs a 9-sec  chevy V8 powered bracket race bug with '59 Caddy fins (seriously..) ,plus a Chevy II and a '59 Impala that he hauls to the track with a semi. He said he's considered getting the White Lightning car back out from time to time.

A good friend of mine bought Sam Leigh's "Evil Beetle" yellow super pro oval at the Bugout in Manassas (was running 6.90s@101)  around '95,ran it a few times,then sold it to someone local and I've never seen it again.

Another Super Pro car..I think his name is Henry Williams ( ?) which is on the door in gold letters- His maroon car has looked EXACTLY the same for years. I have some old IVWA newsletters from the mid '80s and he's been running that car in the same form since then,and I don't think I've been to a VW race that he hasn't been racing!

[Ian M]

Squirmen German, from Gene Cook was apparently crushed an taken to the junkyard by some dumb ass

Yeah,it's gone. The guy parted it out,then cut it up and hauled the remains to the recyclers. That was after he detailied it,spend $$ on redoing all the Vinyl graffics and new wheels etc. All it needed was a motor and it was ready to race again!   

[Jake Raby]

My favorite was the Tasmanian Devil Ghia...

[Krylon Monster]

Also remember Sid Polium in the super pickle, automatic type 3 wagen. He owns Sidco signs out of the south.      Another bug with an auto was Lightning Bug. Brownish orange, steel wheels and ran 9.30s in the eigth mile

[jersey joe]

Peter Soultnais (SP?) owned "200 Proof". I am pretty sure he bought Mini Funny 3.

White Lightning was one of my all time favorites. Old School and hauled ass.

This is a good thread. Keep it going.

[Oliver Frey]

The White Ligthening Sedan was actually originally owned by Steve Shook and was an NHRA Gasser that held some record. Shook some of you might remember owned the Ex Jeff Payne, Ex Sterling Adams, Ex Alan Fore 57 Oval, that's now Lee Street's Jokers Revenge. Originally painted in McDonalds NHRA Prostock Theme.

Serious Business is now owened by Barry Neighbors. Bad Attitude 1 and 2 are in Jersey. The first Bad Attitude is now Mopar Inferno red and owned by Jimmie Hooks.

Riveted is being run by Leo Yates out of Manassas.

Hyper Bug is another classic owned originally be Steve Gentry now owned by Adam Baggitt.

Strip Teaser II turned into the second Mega Bug and last I heard Larry Burnette owns it.

What ever happened to Full Metal Jacket that turned in E-Racer?

[Krylon Monster]

E-Racer owned by Jerry Spear out of PA was sold 5 years ago with trailer to a guy in Texas and no one ever saw it since

[HUMBUG]

Westmorelands dragster= x Tim Norwood rail (I think its still around with new owner)
Evil Beetle=Hyper Bug owned by Badgett Brothers (Dad bought it from Sam Leigh and then sold it to Steve Gentry)

[Dougzilla]

He built this and will run with NCVWDRA in 2010.







Geno Boyd used to race this one.

[junkyard racen]

I remember all them cars when I was little

[Temper Tantrum]

Temper Tantrum bug will be back in 2010.We will be running 2 cars again next year. Here's a pic from 90 of the old Temper Tantrum

[junkyard racen]

I was about two years old when I went to a vw race that I remember when I was that age. I remember seeing my first super pro bug called blue thunder

[HUMBUG]

Shawn Byram bought Dirk Millers old car. The end result of it was you dont TNT on state paved highways after to many natural lights. Then he bought Cary Angels pink car.

Is the White Ligthening oval owned by Dave Fisher out of PA now?

There were a couple cars called Blue Thunder (Sartwell boys had one,and guy named Kim Hinsen from NC had the other)

[junkyard racen]

It was Sartwell Boys cuase they had a rabbit too.  They was both baby blue. 

[HoleShot Photos]

Henry is still running strong...

[junkyard racen]

I see at most of the sevwa races.  That isone of my favorite cars.

[orangepeel]

Dont forget The Beetle Maniac, Money for nothing and The rear engine Beetle/ Truck called High Steppin.  As for Gene Cooks Old Squrmin German? We have gone round and round over the years. He win's anginst me , then at the next event I get a win back. That car Haunted me ! If I knew it was forsale.....I would have OWNED IT! To the person that Bought it ,and then Cut it up? Thanks  for killing another good CAR!  What a shame!

[Krylon Monster]

Wasn't beetle maniac a rag top out of NJ?  High steppen is still run at races pretty often

[junkyard racen]

The Squrmin German was a nice car.  Even the name was cool that car was the reason I brought a race car.

[HUMBUG]

Ive got a trivia question. Who owns the EX Super Pro Dave Webster (from WV) silver Ghia?

[gkeeton@zbzoom.net]

Eric Heyman from P.A with the VW Trends featured 11, sec, all motor street bug was sold an now resides in Western P.A and is for sale

This is for sale now? Contact info? I can only think of 4 "street" beetles that have run in the 11's in the last 10 years, or so in the Western PA/Eastern Ohio areas, so this car must be in deep hibernation.

The problem I see in my area of Western PA. is that the average life span of a new car is about ten years. The last time I got parts off of an Aircooled VW in a non-VW specialized salvage yard was 1996. With the recent high scrap values of the past two summers, you would be hard pressed to find parts for a car 15 years old in local salvage yards. Most of the younger new generation racers I see are into cars that they can still get cheap parts for at salvage yards. These are mainly 95, and newer Golf's/Jetta's, or 95, and newer Integra's/Civic's. Aircooled VW's are simply no longer driven as true daily drivers, and their popularity decreases with each year. The people mentioned that used to race nice VW drag cars, when they go to sell their cars, they will have a much smaller available audience that would have the interest in Aircooled VW's that they once had. Dougzilla is trying to change this in the Western PA/Eastern Ohio areas by having some VW Bracket Racing at Quaker City Raceway, and forming The North Coast VW Drag Racing Association. Anyone reading this post that personally knows anyone mentioned here, get on their ass, and tell them to start racing their junk again!

[orangepeel]

Beetle Manaic was owned by Doug Stewert.  How about Wolf Gang express, Pic of the litter,Sig Fried and Bly,Lil Blue,Dave Perkins Blue Chop top,The quiet Giant Dragster,Small wonder,No Glass Act Still going strong, Many cars from Ken Kisher, Bill Rathbun dragster. I have hours and hours of footage from 1991-1995 . Maple Grove and Manassas Va

[Krylon Monster]

How about this.....Who knows of an old drag VW sitting in a garage? Why isnt it out racing?  I am sure that HumBug and JC Quick know of a few...lets hear about them!

[HoleShot Photos]

How about this.....Who knows of an old drag VW sitting in a garage? Why isnt it out racing?  I am sure that HumBug and JC Quick know of a few...lets hear about them!

Just buy mine...

[Ian M]

Here is a pic of Evil Beetle I just remembered that I scanned a couple years ago. I have other pics from Manassas fom the 90-95 era,I have to get them out and scan them in sometime. Tarheel Shaker,Bionic Beetle,Clarence Chester,No glass act before the current paint bob,white super pro car wih "Circle auto repair" on the side,Hot Wheels Ghia,and a few others I don't remember.



How about Squrimin German before it was Squirmin German. Avalanche,circa 1990.    

[scottsain]

are there any pics of gene's car when he was racing it as the squirmin german?

[burnt63]

Henry is still running strong...

and another car that hasnt change since i started going to races as a kid....no glass act.