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ByronBug High Priestess of Unequaled Coolness & Flower Child

1,446 posts · joined Sep 2002 ·

#96489
:sandrine
As we live with a lot of tourists driving
kombis you don't get the wave often from them.
But we have a group of us VW enthusists who live around here local & always get the hand out of the window wave...
makes you feel good that others share your passion ....😀
Stay Happy
Judy
59 Microbus Kombi (MERCY)
64 Microbus Kombi (CHANNON)



modulus Veteran Volks Folk

2,009 posts · joined Jul 2003 ·

#96492
I'm selective; I wave at yellow and white 1975 T2 double cabs. So far, business is slow.
Peter Hill
1975 Type 2 Double Cab
modulus.com.au

byronbus dsk

4,204 posts · joined Jul 2003 ·

#96493
I hang half my body out the window when i see other utes 😀
www.dsk.com.au

KOM123 Smiling Assassin

1,164 posts · joined Aug 2002 ·

#96538
h2ocool wrote:i was recently introduced to the wave at the German Autofest saturday cruise... i waved at everyone and it was really cool.... :thumb
Dang Rob, I can't believe we were both at the Autofest and didn't catch up! We've chatted on the forum and in email too!! Oh well, next event! I will have to wave if I see you on the roads 😀

68AutoBug Beetle Restorer - Experience over 138\% - YIKES --

11,654 posts · joined Aug 2002 ·

#96584
What about when you "beep" at all the little kids looking at the strange car...
they love it.... and besides the beetle is the most recognisable "car" in the world..
My grandsons have Kombi t shirts and pjamas and beetle tee shirts & shirts,,,
"beep" "beep"'
Good one herbie...

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sooty Seriously Crusin Dubber

132 posts · joined Oct 2002 ·

#96644
I always wave when I am driving the kombi...but I had my 1st experience driving a beetle the other day, holy crap!! how do you guys do it?

I learnt to drive in the kombi and the kombi is the only car hat i have ever driven.

I shook for like half an hour when I got out of the beetle...you sit so low how the hell can you see anything, and oh my god, the nose!! you can't even see the end of it!! tiny windows, 1st look in the side mirrors and i nearly shit myself they are small!!!!I don't know miles!!!!

I am not trying to bag your passion, but thank god for kombi's!!!!!
Although I have to admit about the fourth time I drove the beetle I was starting to relax and it was kind of cool....but if another vw had passed there was no way of releasing the steering wheel from my deathgrip!!! :o:o:o
I am still too scared to try to park it at the shopping centre...I can do the kombi without blinking, but you can't see the front of the car in the beetle!!!
phew...sorry anxiety level was raising...is there a trick to parking when you can't see where your car is?

youngone Casual Dubber

23 posts · joined Aug 2003 ·

#96792
pray! nah the beetles are quite smaller than kombis and sedans and the like. you can get away with being tucked into the park. Hate driving a normal car after being used to my bug- always get into trouble having the back end stick out a mile!:P

i'm a brisbane bugger, wave a bit, would probably get scared if someone flashed me. to me that means there's cops ahead and i probably should slow down!!

LittleMissHerbina Seriously Crusin Dubber

184 posts · joined Jan 2003 ·

#96795
The guy who sold me my car told me that its only polite to wave to every vw you see.
I have alwys done this.
I hate it when i wave to people and they look at me like
'what the hell are you looking at'.

Its so rude, there needs to be more VW spirit. :bounce

ByronBug High Priestess of Unequaled Coolness & Flower Child

1,446 posts · joined Sep 2002 ·

#96810
:sandrine
I get the younger generation pointing & looking & playing punch buggy...
I then toot her little vw horn....& get them waving.
The older generation look at her & smile
& usually give the thumbs up...
and again I toot her little vw horn...& a get a laugh out of them.
Its all good! & fun
Judy



laugh & a smile
59 Microbus Kombi (MERCY)
64 Microbus Kombi (CHANNON)



fuz Slammed & Awesome Dubber

80 posts · joined Aug 2003 ·

#96936
when i first started driving beetles i thought that the car was encouraging violence "PUNCH BUGGY!!" but then i figure the little losers deserve it so i go around the block HEHE .. no really..

i wave at everything.. even trees and i love it when the "cute punch buggy" blows the doors off their rice mobile

Boozer Demented But Determined

1,999 posts · joined Dec 2002 ·

#100947
I had the best wave the other day. I was hooning along in my baja and i see this pretty much white stock standard beetle coming from the other way, i gave my normal one handed wave to the young female driver???, and then i thought "screw this, I can do better." So i chucked my entire arm out the window and waved as we passed with her doing the same. It was fun as! I was smiling the whole way home... I wonder if it would be possible to do a high five? though if you're both doing 80kms in towards eachother then your hands are going to be slapping at 160kmh! that might beak a few bones...

Black_math Blaupunkt

1,111 posts · joined Sep 2003 ·

#100955
On my way hoem for LIVID i waved to all these hippes in there kombis it was soo kool and when i waved everybody on bord em waved back😀

Boozer Demented But Determined

1,999 posts · joined Dec 2002 ·

#100957
Kool mate! did ya have fun?😎😀:thumb

Black_math Blaupunkt

1,111 posts · joined Sep 2003 ·

#100959
THE WHITE STRIPES AND LINKIN PARK WENT OF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IT WAS TEH GOD DAMIST MADDEST THING IIVE EVERE SEEEN!!!!!😎😀😀😀😀😀

helbus Administrator Mad fabricator, paint and body

7,386 posts · joined Sep 2002 ·

#101164
I like waving to other Kombies when I am in the Kombi, and Beetles when in the Beetle. Although I look at all VW's whenever possible and I wave back when any one else does.

I also like to wave to little kids, because they see a Kombi and especially a Beetle as a familiar shaped car.

One kid today had his eyes popping out and mouth wide open as if he had just seen a cartoon character cruise past.

Kids seem to notice bright orange and purple things. 😀
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jenz58 Postal Menace

9,121 posts · joined Aug 2002 ·

#101208
I'm still wavin:thumb

Noticed a lot of young guys in their old Datson/Mazda type cars cruisin up to Dr L lately and really checking him out. I give them a wave

We may get some converts😎
"All you need is trust and a little bit of pixie dust!"

http://forums.aussieveedubbers.com/viewtopic.php?tid=22473
http://forums.aussieveedubbers.com/viewtopic.php?tid=56558#pid535643

...so I don't loose the links to my rides again hehehe

Starbug rustbag

2,408 posts · joined Feb 2003 ·

#101357
While out fixing my beetle on the road today some kids punched eachother up when they walked past. I thought it only fair to give them a thumbs up:thumb

Not really wave related, but it is funny to see people inflicting hilarious punches to other people when stopped at traffic lights.😀

Purple Martin Fahrvergnugen

913 posts · joined Feb 2003 ·

#101435
I always wave to kombis, but beetles never seem to wave back so I sometimes don't wave to them.

I'll always return a wave from any car! Even if it's non-vw, it might be a dubber borrowing their partner's car.
1959 red & white Beetle
1975 Kombi camper

kombi_76er Slammed & Awesome Dubber

78 posts · joined Oct 2003 ·

#103119
yeah the wave is definetly traditional but wer does it come from????
i luv the kombi wave my 1st eva drive in a kombi i drove past a fellow kombieer and i received a wave my old man said quik u gotta wave back n i started waving like crazy. That whole day i had the biggest grin on my face and i realised that the kombi was the best car i could of eva brought 😀:thumb

Black_math Blaupunkt

1,111 posts · joined Sep 2003 ·

#103120
Wat you got? as in model, and mods?