You must fight and fight and fight until they like them dammit! 🙂
Ok, ok, I guess we have to accept that some people maybe possibly somehow aren't into dubs and if you aren't just interested but obsessed, it can make it very hard for your partners. If you accept each other's different interests though, it can work. Showing interest in your partner's hobbies is usually a good way for them to accept yours.
My bf wasn't interested in dubs till we spent every weekend working on my old baby just to make the thing run. He learnt to love them pretty quickly! Now I have to drive him to work everyday cos he wants to go in Herbie. His Celica isn't good enough anymore! 😀
My husband was always a v8 man right into hotted up commodores, toranas etc etc etc. He has finally seen the light and now I can't prise him away from my beetle ... or keep him off this forum !!!!!
Hi Honey, time to log off the computer and come in for dinner !!!!!
:kiss
ahahahahaha use guys crack me up its good to read this as a 16 year old kid it gives me some pointers as what not/what to look forward to when my time comes!!!
for know ill just enjoy the obsession with my family and keep the VW's alive!
cheers
rhys
it aint just cool its aircool'd
Completely understandable reaction frenzix. 🙂
Like the back of a volkswagen?
www.fortyseconds.com:sandrine
I got my drivers licence late in life & always loved & wanted a bug.
A few yrs ago I finally got my licence & I bought one & started slowly doing things to it to give it that extra sparkle because she didn't look real good when I bought her.
So over time I have done many things to her & now she is
starting to look pretty good.
My very supportive husband & I started with no knowlege on her or any VW for that matter, but over time we learn't many things on the way with it.
Over time that bug has started a BIG obsession with VW.
I now run a branch of Klub VW here in Byron Bay, have met so many (& still meeting) some very beautiful people out there as well as here on the forum.
My hubby has watched my obsession become larger & larger
over time & supports my interest.
Now we have bought a 58 Microbus & I think he has gotten just as excited as me with the thought of a great resto approaching.
I married a good one who never gets jealous with me chatting VW to other guys, going to events alone, hanging out with guys, puts up with many ph calls etc. (thats why I maried him )
At the time when we met no cars were involved then....
he owned a Ducati & raced it & I went along to watch & support him......funny how life goes....
Funny how they say "find someoone with the same interests as you"....our passion together at the time was owning & restoreing a old Home (queenslander)
That passion has finished....been there & done that...now its VW...
Our home now has 3 VW's ...my 61 Bug, 58 Microbus, a 2002
VW (commercial) Transporter we use for our business.
(and the sons 2 Mazda's... 1 RX7 & 1 STB 1300)
So our interests have both changed along the way but still the same as well.
I have been lucky enough to find a great man who supports
my many interests & puts up with my love of VW's.
I consider myself very lucky....
Judy
[Edited on 30-3-2004 by ByronBug]
[Edited on 30-3-2004 by ByronBug]
59 Microbus Kombi (MERCY)
64 Microbus Kombi (CHANNON)
i am hearing so many beautiful stories and tales.
there really are some beautiful people out there.
Only hope i find one of them!!!
i was a holden man when my wife and i met.
She was 17 and her dad just bought her the car that she always wanted, a little bug.
Her choice of car didn't phase me as it only took her to work and tafe, the rest of the time was in my Kinga.
over the years that we have been together i have managed to snag the bug off of her.
Albeit that i had to spend $16000 on a new car for her in order to get her to hand over the keys.
But it was well worth it.
some people are like slinky's
they have no useful purpose
but they are fun to watch
when you push them down the stairs
Hmm, funny how some people seem to persuade themselves into becoming dub-heads, while others couldn't be tortured into doing so.
My sister grew up in Europe, I lived here, so when she came over we decided to travel a bit. So we needed a car. Although I didn't know anything about Kombis (uh, they're Volkswagens right?) she said that's what we should get (just 'cause they're cool, and she didn't like "bogan-wagons" = commodores), instead of a stationwagon commodore (Looking back now, I shudder when I realise how close I was to getting one of those things!)
We got a baywindow, and had a very educational experience driving it, occassionally on two cylinders, around VIC, SA, & NSW this Summer. I love my bus. Now my housemates tease me about my obsession. I bought a little splitty model at the Jamboree the other day. My sister still just thinks kombis are cool. She's into Datsuns (strange huh).
I became a dubber of my own free will.
As long as partners are not ones that can't handle time apart, I see no problem in having (some) different interests - I agree that it's even a good thing. Then again, finding a nice girl in a dub, wow, that'd be cool now wouldn't it, and philosophising be damned!
Cheers volks,
Aurel.
PS: how grouss was the jamboree on Sunday!
omg its everyone of my friends coz im only 15 and u know all 15 yr old guys into cars ALL JAP (NO AFFENCE!) I MEAN THE JAP CARS ARE GOOD BUT I LOVE THE VOLKSIES 100% BUT THE MISSUS ISNT COMMING IN THE CAR THATS HOW I HANDLE IT 😀
Gehts notch?
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I think they are very good heaters. Even if they do make you smell like your engine.
🙂
EgeWorks wrote:My Ex thought it was too feminine for a guy to drive a Beetle - that and she hated the lack of a decent heater🙁 I think people who have serious hang-ups about cars (maybe Magnas excluded) need to stop and relax a bit...
Mine burns my ankle sometimes!!
Helbus wrote:I think they are very good heaters. Even if they do make you smell like your engine.
🙂
EgeWorks wrote:My Ex thought it was too feminine for a guy to drive a Beetle - that and she hated the lack of a decent heater🙁 I think people who have serious hang-ups about cars (maybe Magnas excluded) need to stop and relax a bit...
Part of Melbourne's Unreal Aircooled VW Community
Well, wear ankle protectors Jay!!!:thumb
.......and Jay......just look at what you've started here....:jesus.......hehehehe
You'd think Spring was in the air or something??!!!:alien
The fair lady Melanie hates my VW,s & they have always hated her back.
When ever something has gone seriously amiss, she has been driving.
The throttle jammed wide open on the baja, she was driving.(I fixed the problem but she never drove it again)
ALL 6 BOLTS came loose on a CV joint & it fell off the kombi, she was driving.
So she has a Mazooda & I have my VWs. We don't touch the others car.
Well my friends are gone & my hair is grey, I ache in the places where I used to play.
Jen - I just close the vent 🙂
Spring does seem to be in the air! heh.
Part of Melbourne's Unreal Aircooled VW Community
I want one like Judy's, where can I buy one,, and how much will it set me back (approx price is fine!)..😀
Hey jay, namechange for you I think.....
Jay Aka 'Da Luuurrrrvvve Dokta'.....(cue 70's disco music, disco ball and polyester flares)...... is in da houzzeee! "oohh ahhh yeaaahhhh,,, I feel da lurrrve, it's in the air,, thick and gooey, like sump oil flowin, all over the floor...... :P
Only prob is fighting over whose turn it is to drive
My hubby and I both Love veedubs, I have 3 daughters we take them to all the shows they love it. Last time we took a couple of their girlfriends camping and let them sleep in the kombi they thought it was great, got them up early and went to the Big pineapple veedub show. All the way home they were deciding what veedub they are going to buy when they get their licence.
Jodie
Love your Bug
Member of DMLRK.....Die Mittler Lebuns Resto Komeradschaft
I am extremely lucky that my fiancee loves dubs too (not to the extent of my compulsive obsession, but enough to tolerate my addiction)!
It helps having been together for so long, so she has been around since my interest in vws started - spending oodles of dosh, and any spare time on my dub is not too big a deal! (most times).
Alan
Hehe nice topic. For me my gf doesnt mind my car at all in fact i think she loves it more than i do. What she doesnt like is the "fixing up the car" parts, leaves that to me. When i met her she didnt give a crap about cars that much but i am slowly turning her round he he, but she just thinks my car is cute. And she would drive a volkswagen any day, so hopefully i can get her to drive a volksie for her first car...maybe a beetle. And she will come to all the volkswagen shows i go to, she wants to learn.
<hr>"I choose to Cruze VW Golf Mk1 Style!!!"
OMG That sounds like Fleur talking about me.
I still have a hotted up Holden though.
🙂
mscabrio wrote:My husband was always a v8 man right into hotted up commodores, toranas etc etc etc. He has finally seen the light and now I can't prise him away from my beetle ... or keep him off this forum !!!!!
Hi Honey, time to log off the computer and come in for dinner !!!!!
:kiss
reviving an old thread here. mine tolerates it cause she doesn't know any better and she knows that when im talking to her and stop when we are out that im checking out a dub not another woman. so she loves the fact that i only have eyes for her. so im committed to teaching her about vws
“We all pay for life with death, so everything in between should be free.” Bill Hicks
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There's nothing to compare, however the warmth of my wife's Vee Dub bonnet keeps me on the straght and narrow.
"Please don't tell my wife" lol.
:sandrine
Started a new job recently & the guys who work there think its great that a chick is "into" cars.
The girls are shocked that I love my car like an addiction.
Then they realized its a big part of my life...car, internet, Klub VW, days off to go to vw events. etc.
I am seeming to break their mould of the "car beven" lol.
This is another reason why I started a All Girl Dub Day for all the girls to share their love of VW's together.
Not just sit on the passengers seat of their boyfriend's car at vw shows & not talk to no one...... get out there & get a VW
their cheap, parts are easy to get, won't break the bank balance & you can only spend the little $ you have on them & still have a nice car......
Judy 🙂
59 Microbus Kombi (MERCY)
64 Microbus Kombi (CHANNON)
i used to have a wife who didn't like my van, now i've only got the van and it doesn't mind if i look at other vans, or sit in other vans, it doesn't take long to warm up and its cheap to keep!
i plan to live forever.....so far so good.
My Lady loves VW's as much as me! can't do any better than that! and she looks better than me too! Just
Rob...😎
Boxer Power
Member of DMLRK.....Die Mittler Lebuns Resto Komeradschaft
CoopGirl is almost as much into them as me!
Hopefully she will have one own of her very soon!
She's not so keen on the project expanding in the garage...
well Eirinn (the appointed "Goddess of love") my girlfreind is on the search for a Beetle of her own right now so there is no dramas with her being annoyed about my dub. she knows she comes first before my car anyway.
Nick
62/60 model bug eye baja bug, (Full Build in Progress)
1974 Chevrolet Luv
1970 MK2 Ford Cortina GT
1979 Yamaha RX125 Two Stroke tracker project.
2004 Harley Davidson Sportster XL Custom
my wife is coming aroun d she never used to like them when i had tjem scattered all over the yard and I got rid of them cause it was getting out of hand but now were building a new house and Ive got a big shed and yard to hide them all in.
she likes the look of my chrome flash bug though and says she wouldnt mind driving that
marcel
My Wife was a Dub nut before we meet and she converted me.
Will my son says VW S>>t you can pick your friends but rels your stuck withem
My daughter well she went to the first girls day out meet a lot of people even though she dosent want a VW she loves coming to the shows to see the cars and have a fun day with the people .
UPDATE my wife Kathy and daughter Em have spent the day shopping. Em asked if she could drive the fastie Kathy has not been back in the drivers seat all day now Em wants a type3 off her own so we have another convert to VW's
Marc
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