Thread: wouldn't this be fun?

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Originally Posted by glennsexton

I grew up in Southern California. I remember a VW called the "Inch Pincher" that ran in the 12's and was very streetable. A company called EMPI made a lot of really great stuff for those little 4 cylinder bugs. I bought a '69 from Economotors in Riverside and put a lot of EMPI stuff on the car - power pulley, racing distributer, dual port heads, twin Webers and an extractor exhaust. I could pull the front wheels of the ground hitting second gear! It was a lot of fun...

Glenn, if you are from Tigard, find a place in Sheridan, OR, called Techtonics....the owner of the shop is named Darrell....Vittone... yes, the guy that DROVE that Inch Pincher, along with Dean Lowry (RIP), runs his own watercooled VW performance shop out of Sheridan.
BTW, his dad, founder of EMPI, Joe Vittone, turns 86 on Valentine's day, still going....