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Ginger Galloway, 54, founded Pinstripe Marketing & Interactive in 1998. The marketing firm focuses on business-to-business and professional services industries, such as law, finance, health care, architecture, engineering and construction. Based in St. Petersburg, Pinstripe handles brand strategy, content, public relations, digital marketing and design needs for clients.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Diversion<\/p>\n
Volkswagen Collector. Whenever Galloway is off the clock, she can often be found under the hood or behind the wheel of one of her three vintage Volkswagens: Blanche, a 1978 triple-white convertible Beetle; Rogue, a red 1973 Baja Bug; or Piper, a blue and white 1977 bus. Galloway\u2019s love of vintage Volkswagens led her to join Local Volks, a Tampa Bay area VW community that gathers weekly on the Dunedin Causeway, participates in local car shows and spends weekends camping and cruising in their beloved cars.<\/p>\n
Under the hood: Galloway\u2019s love of Volkswagens can be traced back to her St. Petersburg childhood. When she was a teen at Boca Ciega High School, her best friend\u2019s father owned a Tampa Volkswagen parts shop, called Butchers\u2019 Parts for VW, and often invited Galloway to tinker around with them under the hood. For her friend\u2019s 14th birthday, he was given a Volkswagen Beetle shell and a shopping cart, Galloway says, and thus their joint venture began. It took several years and some help from dad, but eventually the two teens built \u2014 and caught \u2014 the bug. \u201cThat experience, just getting to be a part of it and being around Volkswagen all the time I just grew up knowing that these are the coolest cars ever made,\u201d Galloway says. \u201cOf course I grew up with Herbie the Love Bug too, which only made it that much cooler.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bit by the bug:\u00a0Galloway remembers the day she saw her own true love bug. It was Christmas, and her best friend\u2019s sister had driven home from the Panhandle for the holidays in a beautiful, triple-white convertible Volkswagen Beetle. \u201cThat was it,\u201d Galloway says. \u201cThat was the one.\u201d Of course, her parents thought otherwise. \u201cThey were like, \u2018absolutely not, you need a newer car, something more reliable,\u201d she says. Instead, Galloway\u2019s first car was a 1998 Dodge Daytona she drove \u201cuntil the wheels almost came off.\u201d Still, Galloway dreamed about that car for the rest of her life until, in 2018, she finally found Blanche \u2014 a triple-white convertible bug of her own and her first Volkswagen.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Double trouble:\u00a0Blanche led Galloway to a new world: the Local Volks \u2014 which led to a new set of wheels. “They are truly the sweetest, coolest most down to earth, salt of the earth people you\u2019ll ever meet,\u201d Galloway says, \u201cbut hanging out with them, I realized that you\u2019re allowed to have more than one.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Ginger Galloway, founder of Pinstripe Marketing & Interactive, poses in her 1973 Volkswagen Baja Beetle named Rogue.<\/p>\n
Photo by Mark Wemple<\/p>\n
Full throttle: Next came Rogue, a rouge colored Baja Galloway purchased near the beginning of the pandemic as a more personalized project than baking sourdough or playing with puzzles. And, of course, any good VW collector has to own their own, iconic bus, she says. In 2021, Piper \u2014 short for Sandpiper \u2014 was added to Galloway\u2019s fleet. The classic VW bus has a backseat that reminds Galloway of a cozy diner, she says, with two benches facing each other and a small table in the middle. \u201cSometimes I\u2019ll go to the beach and open up my laptop and just work from right there in my bus,\u201d Galloway says. \u201cIt can also be a truck if you need to haul stuff, or a camping tent if you\u2019re out with friends. It\u2019s really the most versatile, and it\u2019s got the most personality.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hot wheels:\u00a0Herbie the Love Bug isn\u2019t Galloway\u2019s only VW celebrity crush. Her own Piper, the blue and white 1977 bus, landed a starring role in a 2023 made for Lifetime TV movie called Spring Break Nightmare, filmed in and around St. Petersburg, she says. Piper is driven by the villain of the movie, a handsome yet dangerous surfer dude who kidnaps a competitive surfer named Kayla with help from his friends, dramatically tying her up and throwing her into the back of Galloway\u2019s bus before slamming the door. \u201cI kept watching this movie going, \u2018Hey! That\u2019s my car! She\u2019s almost 50 years old, be gentle!,\u201d Galloway says.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Ginger Galloway, founder of Pinstripe Marketing & Interactive, poses in her 1977 Volkswagen bus named Piper.<\/p>\n
Photo by Mark Wemple<\/p>\n
Pedal to the medal: Piper also plays a starring role in a music video for the band Algorithm, and Galloway\u2019s other vehicles have been included in various photo shoots, she says. \u201cI try to get them to earn their keep because they are expensive little divas, constantly breaking down,\u201d she says. All three have also made appearances at Bug Jam, the largest Volkswagen show in the Southeast, held in Dade City every year over Veteran\u2019s Day Weekend. Local Volks, which has a large presence on Facebook, always wins the biggest VW club, Galloway says. And while she doesn\u2019t normally enter her cars in competitions, she can\u2019t help but brag that Rogue once won second place in the overall VW Baja competition at the prestigious festival. \u201cSo now she\u2019s got her trophy too,\u201d Galloway says.<\/p>\n
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