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Car Cruise in the AM
« on: May 31, 2025, 06:37:53 PM »
 My car club is doing its 45th anniversary car show/cruise in the morning. It's hard to believe a few of us young guys have been doing anything for this long.
 Lincoln Park in Galesburg Illinois. Like they used to say on the US30 ads, it's just a burnout and a quick quarter mile north of Galesburg Illinois on highway 150!
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Re: Car Cruise in the AM
« Reply #1 on: June 02, 2025, 08:47:29 AM »
 It was a perfect day in the park, we had at least 125 gorgeous cars and another 20 or 30 cheap bastards that didn't make the $10 donation to register. The local VW club was there, the guys asked about my brother who didn't show up. He taught a couple of them how to pull and rebuild the engines.  There was a 1950 bug with semaphore turn signals, a late convertible bug and two Karmann Ghias, one was a ragtop.
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Re: Car Cruise in the AM
« Reply #2 on: June 02, 2025, 10:59:22 AM »
It was a perfect day in the park, we had at least 125 gorgeous cars and another 20 or 30 cheap bastards that didn't make the $10 donation to register. The local VW club was there, the guys asked about my brother who didn't show up. He taught a couple of them how to pull and rebuild the engines.  There was a 1950 bug with semaphore turn signals, a late convertible bug and two Karmann Ghias, one was a ragtop.

Karmann Ghias!
My 1st stepfather had one of those. He put all 3 of us us boys (preteens) in the back seat with 1 of our (teenaged then) stepsisters, stepdad driving, mom in the passenger seat and the other stepsister (teenaged also) next to mom in the bucket seat.

I wish that one's top DID go down...
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Re: Car Cruise in the AM
« Reply #3 on: June 02, 2025, 12:14:28 PM »
My brother and I both had 66/67 Ghias, we raced on the Interstate but no one noticed. His was faster until my buddy got in his car then mine was faster. I had a white 64 beetle one night I stopped at a light and there was a white beetle at every side of the intersection. When the light changed no one moved, all four of us just saw there not believing it.

One guy there had a 2006 GTO, he bought it after selling his Ford GT. Wow. I bet the payment is easier to make.
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Re: Car Cruise in the AM
« Reply #4 on: June 02, 2025, 02:41:09 PM »
Did you bring a car Don ?
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Re: Car Cruise in the AM
« Reply #5 on: June 02, 2025, 04:26:02 PM »
 No, I am always too busy being the host and bookkeeper to bring a car. I had the dragster in the trailer but when I took time to try and get it out it wouldn't start. 
  I had to do the banking and balance the books today, I tried to reserve the park for next year but the calendar date jumps a week so I can't reserve it until next Monday. 364 days in advance.
  We have a race this weekend but I changed back to the carb and it doesn't want to start. I'll work on it tomorrow. We'll get our butts kicked anyway, our friends have been racing for months. They travel in the off season to where it's warm. Some of them have a half million in their Freightliner toter homes, stacker trailers and new cars. That makes it better when we win a round or two. Our usual motel is full, we might need to camp at the track.
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Re: Car Cruise in the AM
« Reply #6 on: June 04, 2025, 03:03:51 PM »
My dad had a Karmen Ghia, and, like Mark's family, all seven of us piled into it.
Mom and dad up front, my three older siblings in the back seat, my little sister and I in the little space behind the back seat.  Luckily, none of us are very big.

My brother (9 years older than me) was driving a curvy road with a friend following too close behind. He hit the brakes, and his friend rearended the car. My brother drove the car home and parked it in the alley behind the house (its usual parking spot). In the morning, my dad discovered the damage and called my brother outside. My brother denied any knowledge of the damage and insisted it was a hit and run during the night. My dad asked if the perpetrator got out of his car to clean up the glass from the broken tail light. My brother was busted, lol!

My dad eventually gave the car to my brother, who made the mistake of letting his high-school girlfriend rebuild the engine in shop class. We never saw the car again. :-)

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Re: Car Cruise in the AM
« Reply #7 on: June 05, 2025, 07:09:45 AM »
My dad asked if the perpetrator got out of his car to clean up the glass from the broken tail light. My brother was busted, lol!

Funny!   Ghia's are cool

         
               
         
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Re: Car Cruise in the AM
« Reply #8 on: June 05, 2025, 08:18:42 AM »
My Mom had a '71 Karmann Ghia.
A few months after she got it it was rear-ended by a drunk dentist while it was parked.
Got it fixed up and repainted. A couple of years later it threw a rod while my dad and I were driving home from a nearby town. That was the end of it.
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Re: Car Cruise in the AM
« Reply #9 on: June 09, 2025, 10:03:11 PM »
 It was common for the VW's to drop the #3 exhaust valve if folks didn't keep them serviced regularly. My brother noted the ones with excess lash because those were about to drop one. He kept a 1200 and a 1500 engine rebuilt and took motors in on trade or would loan out an engine while he rebuilt theirs.
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Re: Car Cruise in the AM
« Reply #10 on: June 09, 2025, 10:17:20 PM »
It was common for the VW's to drop the #3 exhaust valve if folks didn't keep them serviced regularly. My brother noted the ones with excess lash because those were about to drop one.
Your brother got it backwards, Don. ;) When the lash decreased, it was because the valve stem was stretching and the head was about to break off. The #3 cylinder ran the hottest because the oil cooler inside the fan shroud preheated the cooling air to it. The distributor points cam was ground with the #3 lobe a few degrees retarded to help compensate.
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Re: Car Cruise in the AM
« Reply #11 on: June 10, 2025, 08:34:44 AM »
It was common for the VW's to drop the #3 exhaust valve if folks didn't keep them serviced regularly. My brother noted the ones with excess lash because those were about to drop one.
Your brother got it backwards, Don. ;) When the lash decreased, it was because the valve stem was stretching and the head was about to break off. The #3 cylinder ran the hottest because the oil cooler inside the fan shroud preheated the cooling air to it. The distributor points cam was ground with the #3 lobe a few degrees retarded to help compensate.

 I got it wrong, my brother was a VW savant. L0L! If we had an engine out, we usually replaced the factory oil cooler with one that cooled more evenly.
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Re: Car Cruise in the AM
« Reply #12 on: June 12, 2025, 07:31:12 AM »
Went to a car show last Sunday:  "SuperCars at Sunrise",   the cruise there was very fun!

Since I dont own a supercar, I borrowed a buddy's blue car...



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Re: Car Cruise in the AM
« Reply #13 on: June 12, 2025, 07:47:54 AM »
  I always thought a Sunbeam Tiger would be a fun car to own. It's like an early version of a Cobra. Lightweight and V8.  Last year a guy came to our car show with a Kellison GT kit car, it had a Corvair running gear rather than the VW, one of the few that actually was finished. He built it in the 60's and had recently gotten it back out.
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