VW owners are a unique breed. We see much more than an amalgam of metal, plastic, and rubber; we see a blank canvas.
Some may want to do a full-on restoration, complete with every accessory imaginable; some may want to build a street-fighter Beetle, with 17" wheels, "boomer" stereo, and air bags. That's all fine. We should try to stick together as a group, to build, rebuild, and restore our chosen types of cars, Volkswagens.
There are plenty of people out there driving their Camaros, Mustangs, and Hondas that just don't get it. They never will. It takes a special kind of person to want to wrench on a 25-50yo car, that has less-than-great heating, underpowered, and sounds like a runaway lawn mower!
It is great to see the Cal-Look cars, Carson-topped cruisers, now, V-Rods! It's great that there are people using today's technology and applying it to our vintage VWs.
Hippies, punks, metalheads, preps, wannabes, and everyone else in between. I think the world of ACVWs is large enough to be all-inclusive to anyone who has a special place in their hearts for our favorite "little car".