Re[2]: Windows and Racks

[Toby Erkson <Toby_Erkson@ccm2.hf.intel.com>]

Yes, it is cheaper since it doesn't need to have the groove AND there's no 
need to include the chrome strip.  The Cal Look actually has been around 
longer than a fad -- it is truly a style.  Cal Look seals will indeed 
devalue a car if you are trying to create a pure stock vehicle.  If you 
don't care about stock, eh, no loss.  I'm not crazy about chrome and think 
there's too much on many cars as it is (Porsches are a good example of 
chrome usage -- low to none!).  How to get the stock seals w/chrome strip?  
Create a demand because each dollar is a drop of oil to the business 
engine.
     Toby Erkson
     air_cooled_nut@pobox.com
     '72 VW Squareback 1.6L modified to 2.0L
     '75 Porsche 914 stock 1.8L

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Subject: RE: Windows and Racks
Author:  type-3-errors@umich.edu at SMTPGATE
Date:    2/3/97 11:21 AM

Anyone know what started the CAL look thing anyway??  is it that much
cheaper to
produce the window rubber without the groove cut??  It seems to me that OE
repros would be easier to get than something different but in our VW world
the opposite seems true.
     We cant seem to get the original look repro's any more so everyone
is going
CAL look (for monetary reasons as well) but is this devaluing our
cars in the future??  will the Fad pass as most do?  In many other
Antique car categories
originality is much more stressed and the money goes to producing a repro as
close to the original as possible.
    Just seems to me like finding a VW (not just T3) with the original look
is getting pretty hard.

My 2 cents too...

Keith