Porsches, VW's, an Olds, Oh My....AKA: My New Years Eve Weekend Adventure

Oh man ,I would have been in heaven.I am a long time German car lover.I have owned 58- VWs ( including a 57 oval,23 window micro bus,68 doublecab and I have had a few in vwtrends) I also have owned 2- old porsches.
I really Like the 356 limo and sedan delivery.The singlecab was awesome.The murals,bathroom and art collect was amazing.The ultra rare porsche collection was unbelievable.

Here is the 68 doublecab I owned,I sold it 4 years old.I wish I still had it,but I can say that about almost every car and truck I have owned.

 

brian is a good guy , i meet him at GG's indy a few years ago. thumbs up to ya brian !!! glad all worked out . damn good story hot rod lady

 

Well having 2 splitty buses and a '65 bug as well as the edsel between us,the missus n me dig that collection even some o' the stuff in the parts stash was incredible.............not sure 'bout the cut up 911's/356's but each to their own i s'pose.....as for the other guy,man hes' got enough projects to be busy forever hasnt he! cool thread..

 

Fun tour Denise.

Always look forward to your little adventures.

Thank you muchly.

 

awesome denise. thanks for posting the pictures. i think reading your story just made me late for work!!

 

As usual, GREAT WRITE-UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I always love your stories, but as someone said before me, you make me feel a bit sheepish as i'm in the "usually too lazy to walk 20 ft. to work on my junk" club.

 

Before Mike would paint it I had to promise him to change my key fob to one that didn't hang down and swing back and forth and scratch the column. My plans are to one of these days swap it out to a chromed one. You know how I love my chrome

Sometimes I wonder.
It sure would've been nice to have someone else drive home while I typed the story out on my laptop. Megan was going to go with me next weekend but she decided to have some girly jewelery party instead.

Big Chief pretty much summed it up. To each his own, BUT without seeing all the little details in person and the double entendre it's hard to judge the humor in it.

Anyone can have boring white walls but it takes someone with a sense of humor and imagination to pull off what he has done so sucessfully. We walked around and laughed as he pointed stuff out cuz really a person would needs days there to check out all the details to appreciate it all.

Everyone decorates their garages/homes in a style that suits them. Visiting someones home really revels their inter soul....or their wifes. I find it most interesting to see how my car friends display their treasures. Some just have an opportunity to do it on a larager scale. Lets face it we all know guys that have grill shells and all kinds of other stuff hanging on their walls. John's "displays" are really no different. He just uses the stuff he likes to look at instead of the stuff that would interest someone with a more traditional hot rod style.

I'll pick you up exactly a week from tonight about 8:30pm as I pass thru town again.

Downtown Dayton but it's not open to the public per say. Maybe we can get something going for the afternoon of the Sunday of the HotRodCinematic. Lots of HAMB folks passing thru Dayton on their way back home. Stay tuned for details.

Actually I met one of my closest biker pals at the grocery store about 10 years ago. Him and his wife a GREAT folks and live about 1 mile from me. Yeah just never know when/where your next friend is coming from.

You bet! I'm looking forward to the day bud!

 

Don't feel bad, most of the time I feel like that too BUT after 7 years I can see the end in exactly two months. It's really an incentive to get the job done so that everyone who has ever worked on "Project Big Olds" can be proud of the outcome when he debuts in March.

Trust me, the last half of March and April I will be a chair potatoe and probably just sit in my garage and stare at Big Olds for hours on end and not do a THING.

 

Internet Porn = See attached pictures...
wow.

Better stuff hanging off the wall than I will ever have the privilege of owning, and that game room has been in my dreams since I was, like... 12?

I could actually dry-hump that Orange Porsche with the black wheels... omg.

Thanks Denise!

 

great story

 

Wow! Nice '60 Cad, Mike!

I have to admit I was looking at it like a Thanksgiving turkey, though...

~Jason

 

I also want that game room.

I'll be playing the Powerball this weekend because of this thread.

~Scotch~

 

Really??? If I had that kind of $$$, my place would be close to that...hahaha....but then again I LOVE Porsches......

Thanks for the write up Denise......man, 911's coming out of the walls, 356 decklids for urinal stalls, Porsche pool table....am I dreaming???? And a Carrera GT???? WOW!

 

and if you win you'll have that car girlfriend you've always wanted tending bar for you and all your friends in that gameroom.

 

Denise, your stories never cease to amaze me. They are so great. The guys collection of Porsches and VWs are pretty amazing. I loved the custom 356 cars, especially the 356 shooting brake or whatever it was! The car is looking great, I was just talking to a buddy about going to Detroit, so hopefully I'll get to see it done!

MRAK

 

Ms. Denise,
Wonderful, Fabulous, Gorgous!! & the pics/story were good too.
Like everyone else I look forward to following your continued adventures. It's amazing what lies just around the corner or down the street you never know about.
Thanks for the tour.
Al

 

Wow, the rocks and trees and waterfalls I saw that weekend were cool BUT I should have come with you
That Porsche collection is amazing. I really hope I am able to see it someday.

 

It's amazing, every time there's an O/T thread that ACTUALLY INVOLVES FAST CARS some fucking noob has to come out and tell us all what the HAMB is all about, and what does and doesn't belong here, like we're all confused or something.

Whatever dude, it's an O/T thread. We have those sometimes. Deal with it.

Some really interesting stuff in there. I'm a big Porsche fan, so I could probably spend all day in there checking stuff out. Some stuff there I've never seen or heard of.

 

Sorry, but the correct question is "Which takes longer...the actual adventure, or waiting for my computer to finally load the story?" It took so long, the HAMB logged me out for inactivity! Oh well, definitely worth the wait as usual.

 

I tried and tried to talk you into going but NO...you just had to do something healthy and athletic

I'll see if John is up for showign a HAMB group around early this summer.

 

Hi Denise another great post ! love the chopped Bug , big olds is looking sweet !!!

 

Very nice tour !!! I remember storing that 40 .

 

Yes, your ears should have been burning that night cuz your name came up in conversation.

 

Hey Denise, if you get a chance, tell John hello from Dave Conklin's friend that worked for the VW Magazines... that Taj Magaraj is insane, isn't it? I'd had the pleasure of visiting more than once..And yes, Denise is right; John Dixon of the Taj Magaraj is a real prince of a man... down-to-earth, friendly, will talk with/to anybody, and loves to share his passion with just about everyone. I haven't tried it recently, but he used to have a website, www.tajmagaraj.com
It was loaded with photos, funny anecdotes, and just general "guy" and "car' stuff... well worth a visit if it's still up.. and knowing John, he'd be thrilled to have a HAMB crawl at the Garaj...
<edit> I just checked, and yes the website is till up, and I'll be damned if he doesn't have some of my articles that I wrote posted on there !!!

 

Denise, As usual, you fall into KaKa and come out smelling like the rose you are!!. Are you still thinking about coming out the Yellowstone for the run in the next couple of years?

Doug

 

yes, he certainly loves to share his stuff.

Yes, for sure, but not in 2008, gotta do Speed Week again BUT I got a large plan brewing for 2009....and I mean LARGE. More details at teh end of the year.

 

Wow! Wow! Wow!

Thanks for posting all of these pics. Enjoyed the last 1/2 hour checking them out!

 

Poor Denise. She lives such a boring, boring life.

 

That garage is absolutely amazing... that guy is loaded!
Thanks for posting.

- Jon

 

Yep, poor, poor me............wait till you read who's garage I got invited to visit next week.

Stay tuned for THAT "adventure"