Johnny's Speed & Chrome Employee Rollcall

[bugnut68]

I know I heard somewhere that JSC was the company responsible for shilling the Type 3 cylinder tins as "Super Cool Tins" for Type 1 set ups, as well. I've heard it from more than one source, but have no idea if it's true or not.

That being said, their promotion of their sharkline fan shrouds (they were the shitty angle-cut design for external only oil coolers but with a high-tech exterior finish) was hilarious: they claimed that fan shroud dissipated heat better than any shroud on the market... lol.

[Red Fau Veh]

I remember the one thing they sold that was impossible to have enough of was these tiny blue glass gems that you stuck on the rear taillights, they sold them out so fast that there was a waiting list for them. I also remember how strange it was that every item they sold was packaged in a blister package meant to be hung on a peg. I mean literally you could buy any item they sold in a resale package. We used to fill huge pallet size boxes full of parts destined for other countries like Brazil. Entire vw shops were purchased in a box!
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1971 Deluxe Sunroof Bay 1905 stroker, dual idf40's, 74mm Scat forged crank, engle 110 cam. CB 044 heads, AutoCraft rockers, chromoly push rods
1973 Orange transporter stock type 4 with dual 40 Dellortos and Empi single quiet pack
1969 Adventurewagen blue whale Gene Berg 1776 built by Dave Kawell dual 36 DRLA's, Vintage Speed exhaust, Bosch 019 screamer
1961 Swivel Seat camper, L345 grey

[Zack1978]

[msturbo]

My name is Wendy Palm.

Does this ring any bells?

: )

[Red Fau Veh]

Whoo Hoo! Finally a former JSC employee speaks up! I believe you were partly responsible for keeping the radio on KLOS hehehe! Before working there, I worked at a newspaper called the Daily Star Progress, bet you know where that place was! GuadaLaHabra in da hizzy!
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1971 Deluxe Sunroof Bay 1905 stroker, dual idf40's, 74mm Scat forged crank, engle 110 cam. CB 044 heads, AutoCraft rockers, chromoly push rods
1973 Orange transporter stock type 4 with dual 40 Dellortos and Empi single quiet pack
1969 Adventurewagen blue whale Gene Berg 1776 built by Dave Kawell dual 36 DRLA's, Vintage Speed exhaust, Bosch 019 screamer
1961 Swivel Seat camper, L345 grey

[j.goodspeed]

The white 66 beetle was owned by Kevin VanHorn from Modesto CA. I just saw him a few weeks ago. Also Chris Addington's Ghia before the Rodbuster rebuild... Good times...

[evlwevl]

Ok, I'll admit it. I worked there as well, but just for a short time. I worked at the warehouse doing sales....miss the smell of that bakery, was it Nestley?
I was one of the last employees when the store was closing up. It was fun until that last day when we were just sitting there with nothing to do and nothing to sell so I quit as well. I'd say that was around 94-95

PS Heidi and Frank took over the morning show for Mark and Brian. I miss KMET
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Make it three yards, motherf*****, and we'll have us an automobile race
-The Driver(Two Lane Blacktop)

55 Prostreet Bug
59 Daily Driver Bug
63 Baja
00 Turbo New Beetle

[68Bug-lite]

[71sbeetle]

Looks like they were know all the way in Tahiti too
My Mother-in-law's boyfriend's car that he bought as a teenager and plans on restoring back ..... someday ....

Tahiti Moorea Feb Mar 2011 081 by 71sbeetle, on Flickr
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Alte Schule Vintage and Performance VW club
www.gareymartin.com
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[tat2d]

i dont know if anyone will remember but my father paul watkins was an engine builder for johnnys way back in the day.

[Seb67]

Bought the windshield for my '67 there back in the day. Car still isn't on the road

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1964 Type 1

[evlwevl]

I used to work with Don
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Make it three yards, motherf*****, and we'll have us an automobile race
-The Driver(Two Lane Blacktop)

55 Prostreet Bug
59 Daily Driver Bug
63 Baja
00 Turbo New Beetle

[Cashier]

I almost went insane from listening to KROQ for 50 hours a week. I liked the music but it was the same songs over and over again. Remember how I put prices on all the stickers that I found and put them in the display case? People went crazy over them, especially the Oakley windshield stickers and Gigantic Bad Boy Club stickers. We had Oakley blades in every color and combination. In the 80's all we needed was a paper and pen, we never worried about viruses or apps or email security. All the employees had invoice boxes and I still love handwrites to this day.

I named my cat Mickey Thompson

[Red Fau Veh]

[Jon Schmid]

[oldschool5er]

I bought stuff from Johnnys all the time I just had to be careful about what I bought. I loved going into the store though because of all the action going on and the display counters. I probably spent over $20k with them. They had good and bad quality you just needed to know the difference before you bought. Last year 2013 I built a new engine using parts that were bought in the early ninetys, one of those parts were from JSC in a fully bubble packed package. Of course I opened it up and used them. NOS JSC labeled valve covers.... fired the motor up and sob they leaked LOL should have known. Pulled em off and here they sit NOS except installed for 20 min. I would have been better off leaving them untouched in the package Lol. But that was the way it was back then it was a crap shoot because of the quality of the parts coming in. Really though in this case it was because I tried to use 24 year old JSC VC's on some new CB heads lol. Even CB Performance was a crap shoot back then Lol. I was KNAC all the way back then, couldnt handle KLOS lol.
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HRE in Westerville,Ohio

Full machine shop with all types of CNC. Rapid prototyping available, CNC Plasma cutting, 3D printing and Laser engraving.

[skills@eurocarsplus]

sounds like johnny was a bit shady...

http://hotrodcraft.com/index.php?topic=399.0

http://ultimateaircooled.com/drag-racing/14922-johnny-s-speed-chrome.html

also sounds like him dead now
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[Red Fau Veh]

[bugnut68]

"Legend." Lol. I just don't get the ridiculous pedestals on which people put sellers of car parts.

[Red Fau Veh]

Ok then, name a more important and infamouse vw speed shop from the past, you can't.
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1971 Deluxe Sunroof Bay 1905 stroker, dual idf40's, 74mm Scat forged crank, engle 110 cam. CB 044 heads, AutoCraft rockers, chromoly push rods
1973 Orange transporter stock type 4 with dual 40 Dellortos and Empi single quiet pack
1969 Adventurewagen blue whale Gene Berg 1776 built by Dave Kawell dual 36 DRLA's, Vintage Speed exhaust, Bosch 019 screamer
1961 Swivel Seat camper, L345 grey