Kelley Park, San Jose? Sunday, April 17. Whoo-hoo!

You ain't "got" nothin'. See you in the hate thread!!

I didn't take any pictures at the show, but I did find this one of HH. Sorry if it's oversized.
You can see my cooler in the back and lawn chairs behind. A total white-trash picnic; and proud of it.

That is a nice picture Kyle.

Jim Douglas Jr wrote:

I didn't take any pictures at the show, but I did find this one of HH. Sorry if it's oversized.
You can see my cooler in the back and lawn chairs behind. A total white-trash picnic; and proud of it.

Some day I will have nice paint, bumpers, turn signals, rag top, same color seats. But Im still young and dumb. Some day

It all takes time.

Paul, that's sweet.
You can do it. I didn't do this all at once. Aside from all that Dann and I put in in labor....
I spent several YEARS collecting stuff at shows and on The Samba, buying what I wanted or needed as I could afford it. My door panels, seatcovers, and headliner, all second hand on The Samba. None of them had been installed, they were new/unused, but I got them at an average of 40% discount.
Turn signals, from shows, 5 bucks each, sweet original Hella lenses 15 for the pair up front, 10 for the almost perfect pair in back.
The bumpers were a fortunate gift form a friend of ours, Phil. They were a defect, undrilled. Dann worked like a maniac to drill that stuff - they're stainless.

The list goes on. The point being, make a list, and start searching and buying bits. When you can swing it, get a seal kit, your carpet, your seatcovers, your door panels. Go to the shows. The swaps are chock full of good stuff. I saw a good set of German hubcaps go for $25. GERMAN, NICE, $25! Four years ago, I let a fantastic German bumper escape for $35. I'd just gotten there and didn't want to haul something back to the car right away. STOO-PID! the good bumper I have on the back of my other '63 - $40, The Samba.

You need a list, and you need to do searches on the Samba and even eBay like 2-3 times a week.

...and you have us to help you.

True DAT!