ducky Believer in Buggyism
1,238 posts · joined Aug 2003 ·
and what was it???? who paid for it ???how much was it? Do you still own it or wish you did???
Baby Loves to Mumbo
how old/young were you when you got your first vw
twoguns simply aircooled
4,275 posts · joined Nov 2002 ·
25. deloris. 72 beetle in primer and rust witht he rear brakes clamped off. blew the motor and parted teh rest. no not really.
Simply Cruzin'...
silver Dangerous when poked
2,169 posts · joined Dec 2002 ·
My first was a 67 blue Delux, I bought it from my Girlfriends Mum for $700, It was only 9 years old. It eventually became a Baja!
Keeping it real !
Dannyboy half man , half horse
2,306 posts · joined Jan 2004 ·
Keep this up Ducky , i'm nearly at my 1000th post!!
I was 17 , it was a white hand painted 1500 68 bug , cost 100 pounds , paid for by my Saturday job!
Took the bumpers off , lowered it and drove it solidly for 3 years , everywhere! A Transit van killed it whilst parked up! End of my first love!
Dan🙁
I was 17 , it was a white hand painted 1500 68 bug , cost 100 pounds , paid for by my Saturday job!
Took the bumpers off , lowered it and drove it solidly for 3 years , everywhere! A Transit van killed it whilst parked up! End of my first love!
Dan🙁
"If i had to explain you wouldnt understand"
The Lower Class
The Lower Class
Adam_C Custom Title Time!
1,180 posts · joined May 2003 ·
63 fire in the engine bay, surface rust and a pillar rust, nice guards prettymuch complete, still sittin in the backyard ..... guna be welded up one day 😀😀 one day
andrewh Officially Full-On Dubber
284 posts · joined Jan 2004 ·
I was 19 (I'm now 20). It was a 1974 Beetle. I only got it in January so it may not surprise to hear that I've still got it. My parents bought it for $800.
oval TOFU Bitte, ein Bit!
2,946 posts · joined Jul 2003 ·
I was 17 when I bought my Metallic Green 72 beetle... I paid half of the $4800 for it... It was restored with a new paint job and reco-ed engine...
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...and Robert's ya father's brother...
68AutoBug Beetle Restorer - Experience over 138\% - YIKES --
11,654 posts · joined Aug 2002 ·
I was 18 years old... was working... bought a 1959 beetle with a lot of front end welding... Never gave any trouble..
I wish I had photos of it.. was grey and I painted across the rear Matt black.. maybe the front too... the putty used to keep falling out of the back valance so I kept putting and flat blacking... glad to have it... NO....
2nd Beetle couple years later was a red 61 model looked great - replaced 36hp engine for a 40 horse.. and rolled it coming off Hexham bridge near Newcastle on the Night I got engaged to My wife.. Pushed her back on her wheels... No not the fiancee 🙂🙂 My Beetle - then drove back home to Gloucester, had the body replaced with a grey 1959 model - but the bonnet & front guards were still red... Got married with this car.. then gave it to My Dad... {not because I was married in it ???🙂🙂)
Lee ...
I wish I had photos of it.. was grey and I painted across the rear Matt black.. maybe the front too... the putty used to keep falling out of the back valance so I kept putting and flat blacking... glad to have it... NO....
2nd Beetle couple years later was a red 61 model looked great - replaced 36hp engine for a 40 horse.. and rolled it coming off Hexham bridge near Newcastle on the Night I got engaged to My wife.. Pushed her back on her wheels... No not the fiancee 🙂🙂 My Beetle - then drove back home to Gloucester, had the body replaced with a grey 1959 model - but the bonnet & front guards were still red... Got married with this car.. then gave it to My Dad... {not because I was married in it ???🙂🙂)
Lee ...
- Helping keep Air Cooled VWs on the road - location: SCONE in the Upper Hunter Valley - Northern NSW 320 kms NNW of SYDNEY---
0 posts · joined Feb 2004 ·
19... click my www thingy .lol.... self funded... 64 baja.....one sad sad story .lol but I am still in one,,,,,just,,,,can't,,,,settle for a norm car! I drive a rat,, but it's mine.....allllll...moinnne..:P
Boozer Demented But Determined
1,999 posts · joined Dec 2002 ·
16 my Dad got mine in a package deal with 2 others and parts for $1200 from some guy near Tenterfield.
THe MC Bat Commander's motto: "Never do now, what you could do for 24 hours straight, all night, the night before."
zac_smits Coolest Person Ever!
3,634 posts · joined Jan 2003 ·
15, 1964 type 3 notchback, my dad bought it for $500 back in the 70's of a widow, and he gave it to me. we are still working on it, and i love it to bits!!
it's called bertha, and can backfire at will!!
zac
it's called bertha, and can backfire at will!!
zac
MOB: 0423890217
Desert Moose Cut Cut Cut
2,098 posts · joined Mar 2004 ·
67 bug, had it some time then made it into a baja.
cost was $800
and yes I want it back, but it was over 16 years ago
:cry
cost was $800
and yes I want it back, but it was over 16 years ago
:cry
MickH Hairy Gutted Sloth
3,389 posts · joined Sep 2003 ·
I was 17 years old and bought a white '67 fastback in 1984. Paid for it myself...a whole $500. Was a good solid car and I wished I still owned it!!
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dak dak ute Seriously Crusin Dubber
119 posts · joined May 2004 ·
15, 73 double cab and 72 panel
byronbus dsk
4,204 posts · joined Jul 2003 ·
10 years ago, a 67 splitty was my 1st VW, I loved it, didnt buy it, swapped if for a $2000 subaru with a blown head gasket (didnt know at the time Todd if you're watching), many great times in that splitty...sold it and the guy eventuallyu sent it OS :cry
Great that my 1st VW was a split, then ventured into bays, but now back into "the older the better" philosophy
[Edited on 29-6-2004 by byronbus]
Great that my 1st VW was a split, then ventured into bays, but now back into "the older the better" philosophy
[Edited on 29-6-2004 by byronbus]
Bizarre Moderator The artist formerly known as blue74l
12,789 posts · joined Aug 2002 ·
21 and paid a lot for those days (1982). It was a 64 and paid $1200.
It was PERFECT. Never really appreciated just how perfect till later. Kept it a couple years, till i got a company service vehicle (Subaru Sherpa - BWAHAHAHAH!!! ) Sold it to a friend.
A week later some drove through a stop sign a tore the front end off.
Here boyfriends dad bought if for the motor to drive a bush saw on a farm. Went up a year or 2 later to strip parts off it. All came off easily - scrapers trim everythig was perfect. Went to put it on the 67 i had then and found all the bog, rust and fibreglass on the heap of crap i bought.
Should i have kept it??? YOU BET!!
It was PERFECT. Never really appreciated just how perfect till later. Kept it a couple years, till i got a company service vehicle (Subaru Sherpa - BWAHAHAHAH!!! ) Sold it to a friend.
A week later some drove through a stop sign a tore the front end off.
Here boyfriends dad bought if for the motor to drive a bush saw on a farm. Went up a year or 2 later to strip parts off it. All came off easily - scrapers trim everythig was perfect. Went to put it on the 67 i had then and found all the bog, rust and fibreglass on the heap of crap i bought.
Should i have kept it??? YOU BET!!
Futue te ipsum!!!
baybuscamperkid prince of insufficient light, ruler of heck
4,316 posts · joined Aug 2002 ·
15. (picked it up 1 week before my 16th b/day) $500 for a 'non-going' 76 p/van converted (seemingly by an ape) to a trakka campervan.
Reimagined/Recycled/Upcycled Cool
handycam king of something
1,338 posts · joined Oct 2003 ·
i was 12 " it was a 66ish bug that we swaped a old holden gray motor 4 it i loved it 🙂
barls Administrator Causer of Chaos and Mayhem
9,474 posts · joined Jun 2004 ·
18 it was the 72 that has been writen off and posted.
“We all pay for life with death, so everything in between should be free.” Bill Hicks
the chaos project - click me
the chaos project - click me
kombikim disfunctionally capable
1,521 posts · joined Dec 2002 ·
I was born 16/12/56 , came out of hospital 25/12/56 & there it was ! 1954 beetle
Please, I need drivers side window regulator (winder mechanism) for my '54
pyr0 flame-on
4,457 posts · joined Mar 2003 ·
17 brought the 79 micro off a mate at school who's family loved it but never appreciated it. still got it now, even after changing engines once and loosing compression in 2 cylenders now.
will i sell it ever ? more than likely not
will i sell it ever ? more than likely not
Founding member of the C'town Rat-Pack
Bami Seriously Crusin Dubber
177 posts · joined Jun 2004 ·
24, Squareback, I did, $200 (no motor), still got it (only had it a couple of weeks)
~Bami
~Bami
splittychick SplittyDelicious
1,240 posts · joined Jul 2003 ·
24,bought a '71 kombi ...went halfs with a friend from the States where i'd been living for afew years.We flew from there to here(Q.L.D)& bought the kombi to travel in.After we'd travelled around & i made my way home to Melbourne she took off back to California & i bought her half out & realised I had found my obsession!!:thumb
mscabrio Cabriolet Queen
2,308 posts · joined Jan 2004 ·
I was sweet 16. My dad paid $1500 for a blue 1968 Semi auto beetle ...... It's name was Gertie (who knows why) It broke down quite a bit but got me where I needed to go. A few years later I gave her to my boyfriend at the time (he is now my husband) and I bought myself a 1986 Laser (which I killed a few years later after a big accident). Gertie never foragev me for this and spat something out th side of it's motor, when it was all better it then snapped an axel while flying down the freeway (not good !!!). It then went to Beetle heaven after that. Do I wish I still had it ?????? YES ! I have a framed photo of it on my mantlepiece at home
karmannghia60 Karmann Ghia Sucker
1,459 posts · joined Aug 2002 ·
I was 21. THe car was a 71 Superbug. I paid $1450 for it.
Starbug rustbag
2,408 posts · joined Feb 2003 ·
at the ripe old age of 23, a hot red 68 bug, for $4K (a LOT much now that i come to think of it) and ive still got it, sitting outside my house not game to drive it anywhere till i can get it fixed.
in the beginning, the universe was created.
this made alot of people very angry and is widely regarded as a bad move.
this made alot of people very angry and is widely regarded as a bad move.
rustycamper Officially Full-On Dubber
204 posts · joined Jan 2004 ·
I was 25 and living in Tucson Arizona. I paid $US2k for a beautiful genuinely rust free 1971 hightop camper which I wish I still had.
~air fooled~ two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl
1,429 posts · joined Mar 2004 ·
i last week took proud ownership of my first vw!! well three kombis to be exact at the decaying old of age of 22. all for $850 total!! two were bought from the damaged vehicle auctions to use as parts on the third which was bought to put on the road! wahoooo!!!!😎😎
lulu94 Wolfsburg Wizard
449 posts · joined Dec 2003 ·
i was 16 and it was a 54 beetle that was given to me as it was in very poor condition, when we got it it had a plastic bag for an oil capand no handbrake
poor thing didnt last passed my learners as when going up a hill i did something to the gear box and it was jammed.
sold it to a family friend who had the means to fix it up for his daughter and the silly cow didnt want it so he sold it and i have no idea where it is now.
i miss it very much and it has taken me 6 years to get another one, the 1970 that i have now and im working on.
Danielle
poor thing didnt last passed my learners as when going up a hill i did something to the gear box and it was jammed.
sold it to a family friend who had the means to fix it up for his daughter and the silly cow didnt want it so he sold it and i have no idea where it is now.
i miss it very much and it has taken me 6 years to get another one, the 1970 that i have now and im working on.
Danielle
1968 pearl white beetle:kiss
1600 engine😉
soon to be supercharged 🤘🤘
1970 and 72 Squarebacks 70 soon to be rotor powered
1600 engine😉
soon to be supercharged 🤘🤘
1970 and 72 Squarebacks 70 soon to be rotor powered
Robo Compulsive Aussie Vee Dubber
4,491 posts · joined Feb 2003 ·
19 years old, I bought a 65 Beetle, and because I am an idiot I sold it ten years later for $500. It would be worth ten times that at least now.
Rob...😎
Rob...😎
Boxer Power
Member of DMLRK.....Die Mittler Lebuns Resto Komeradschaft
Member of DMLRK.....Die Mittler Lebuns Resto Komeradschaft