Nah...go the type3....dannyboys is up for sale
Nice square...good for shopping etc...c'mon i'm sure you could sell her on a type3.
Stanley I guess the reward is in the doing of it
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THE TOMORROW PEOPLE
helbus Administrator Mad fabricator, paint and body
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I tried, but she has her Beetle tattoo and loves them too much.
helbus Administrator Mad fabricator, paint and body
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I have looked on the forum and in the trading post and cant find any Beetles in Vic for sale that are ready to go.
There were quite a few yesterday at DOVW, but I wasn't looking then and didn't get any numbers.
There were quite a few yesterday at DOVW, but I wasn't looking then and didn't get any numbers.
penguin ackkkkkk thhhhhpt!
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Hmmm, I walk out of medical and I see a large grey smoke making, kerosene burning, noise polluting, fuel air bomb in the making leaving. I sthat meant to be some sort of omen for my broken type 3???????? Its dead again, all part of yesterday's evil attack on VWs, that must never be spoken of!
'Ah, whatever................'
jenz58 Postal Menace
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Pete it was nice seeing you at DOVW yesterday...how did you last out....you are amazing for so soon after the op!!
When did Fleurs beetle get written off 🙁
You guys are having such a bad time of things lately...it can only get better from now on!! :thumb
Bel won another trophy for beetle 58-67....didn't expect it this year cos she has some chips in her paint and I never do get the touch up paint when I ask then I forget
Nice to see new cars every year and some nice interstaters
Pyro...hope you didn't have any dramas getting home...and did you catch up with zac??
The weekend was a test for my new man...cleaning Bel all day Saturday then the DOVW all Sunday...thought I was nearly pushing my luck but all is good 😏
When did Fleurs beetle get written off 🙁
You guys are having such a bad time of things lately...it can only get better from now on!! :thumb
Bel won another trophy for beetle 58-67....didn't expect it this year cos she has some chips in her paint and I never do get the touch up paint when I ask then I forget
Nice to see new cars every year and some nice interstaters
Pyro...hope you didn't have any dramas getting home...and did you catch up with zac??
The weekend was a test for my new man...cleaning Bel all day Saturday then the DOVW all Sunday...thought I was nearly pushing my luck but all is good 😏
"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
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
Stanley I guess the reward is in the doing of it
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What happened penguin....not the square.
Those things keep me in a job...i don't care how much noise or smoke they make.
I may have sold my beetle
Those things keep me in a job...i don't care how much noise or smoke they make.
I may have sold my beetle
pyr0 flame-on
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hey guys made it home this afternoon. didnt get to catch zac tho we did a runner to albury then had to stop cause the sun was goin down.
i tell ya what tho this week end was fully of massive drama's 😵💫 :jesus
hey hellbus i saw ya at DOVW you were pretty deep in conversation tho and i was entertaining a young lady at the time so i just keep cruising, too bad to hear about the beetle. your bus looks way better in the flesh than it does in the pics too 👍
any trophies jenz ??
i tell ya what tho this week end was fully of massive drama's 😵💫 :jesus
hey hellbus i saw ya at DOVW you were pretty deep in conversation tho and i was entertaining a young lady at the time so i just keep cruising, too bad to hear about the beetle. your bus looks way better in the flesh than it does in the pics too 👍
any trophies jenz ??
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helbus Administrator Mad fabricator, paint and body
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Hey Jen congrats on the trophy. It was the extra polishing that did it. And in regards to the chips, they shouldn't be marked too heavily against a car when judging as that shows it is driven not hidden.
Pyro, I was kept pretty busy talking about the Suby conversion, so I understand it was not easy to get to me. There was heaps of interest in it and I suppose Custom Off Road will be getting a fair bit of interest in their conversion gear. The Helbus looks ok, but not trophy standard. It's a daily driver so there is only so far you can go.
Pyro, I was kept pretty busy talking about the Suby conversion, so I understand it was not easy to get to me. There was heaps of interest in it and I suppose Custom Off Road will be getting a fair bit of interest in their conversion gear. The Helbus looks ok, but not trophy standard. It's a daily driver so there is only so far you can go.
jenz58 Postal Menace
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Good to hear you're home Pyro....did you need that battery or was it smooth sailing back...did you stop at David's backpackers in Albury?
Yep a trophy for Best Beetle 58-67
:kiss
...oh and Eddie who is going through a conversion and was SO patient with me all weekend :kiss 🙂
Yep a trophy for Best Beetle 58-67
:kiss
...oh and Eddie who is going through a conversion and was SO patient with me all weekend :kiss 🙂
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Hmmmm, you asked for it.....where to start.
Okay, leaving Amberley in the morning Osama was a wee bit reluctant but I put that down to not driving him for a week or so. He ran fine all teh way to the show at about 110km/hr. From a phone call I made while driving I gathered that Festy was alive and purring* along as well.
After a great day in the sun and drinking cokes (I am still recovering from last week) it was time to go home..............
Right,
Osama wouldn't start and had to be roll started (I thought I may have left the radio on so wasn't worried about anything there)
Cruising back with $2.63 in convoy we came across a very nice oval in the left lane and I thought 'damn, didn't think they went that slow!!' overtook it then realised it was stopping not just going slow! His car just wasn't going. After about 1/2 hr there just watching as Steve, Shaun and $2.63 figured out what was wrong we were on our way again (I didn't turn Osama off to charge his battery).
We got to Bris and I got a phone call asking to tail $2.63 out to her place since I live thataways now. (Very fortunate phone call!!!)
Pulled into Hungry Jacks, got some food, then on the way out Festy decides to spit the dummy and blow fuel out his tail pipes and stop!!..... about 200 m from Thoruns place luckily!
Right all into Osama, up to Thoruns for lunch then back to Festy. Got back to him by foot after putting Osama in under the house (downhill.... I'll get back to that later)...... Festy has a new fuel pump, plugs, leads etc. Has fuel in tank, fuel in lines and was blowing fuel out the exhaust???? we tried and were working on it when the heavens opened... and opened and openend!!! with her window down!!
After watching lightening hit the power pole opposite and blacking out Throuns neighbourhood, we gave up and pushed Festy uphill to Throuns place. I went to start Osama to get him out and put Festy in... wouldn't start. $2.63 took her battery out to start my car, the battery wouldn't fit (terminals on wrong sides), we pushed Festy into another garage, took the battery from Thoruns damaged square, started mine, got him on the street ready for a roll start, swapped batteries over again, got $2.63 into the car, roll started then headed off to Amberley where my Subie was patiently waiting and plotting (its all an evil ricer plot I tell you!!). Anyhows, so at the end of the day out of three cars, one is in the same state it was (Thoruns - damaged but drivaeable) and two are dead. $2.63 with an unknown/diagnosed illness and Osma with a cactus battery (which by the way is about 2/3 the size of the one from Thoruns car, which may explain why I keep killing it).
There, its off my chest, I feel happy now that others know why that weekend is never to be spoken of again!!
*apologies to all cats, purring is not an adequate noise to descrbe Festy and his tail pipe explosions, but its much more polite than saying "Festy was farting along"*
Okay, leaving Amberley in the morning Osama was a wee bit reluctant but I put that down to not driving him for a week or so. He ran fine all teh way to the show at about 110km/hr. From a phone call I made while driving I gathered that Festy was alive and purring* along as well.
After a great day in the sun and drinking cokes (I am still recovering from last week) it was time to go home..............
Right,
Osama wouldn't start and had to be roll started (I thought I may have left the radio on so wasn't worried about anything there)
Cruising back with $2.63 in convoy we came across a very nice oval in the left lane and I thought 'damn, didn't think they went that slow!!' overtook it then realised it was stopping not just going slow! His car just wasn't going. After about 1/2 hr there just watching as Steve, Shaun and $2.63 figured out what was wrong we were on our way again (I didn't turn Osama off to charge his battery).
We got to Bris and I got a phone call asking to tail $2.63 out to her place since I live thataways now. (Very fortunate phone call!!!)
Pulled into Hungry Jacks, got some food, then on the way out Festy decides to spit the dummy and blow fuel out his tail pipes and stop!!..... about 200 m from Thoruns place luckily!
Right all into Osama, up to Thoruns for lunch then back to Festy. Got back to him by foot after putting Osama in under the house (downhill.... I'll get back to that later)...... Festy has a new fuel pump, plugs, leads etc. Has fuel in tank, fuel in lines and was blowing fuel out the exhaust???? we tried and were working on it when the heavens opened... and opened and openend!!! with her window down!!
After watching lightening hit the power pole opposite and blacking out Throuns neighbourhood, we gave up and pushed Festy uphill to Throuns place. I went to start Osama to get him out and put Festy in... wouldn't start. $2.63 took her battery out to start my car, the battery wouldn't fit (terminals on wrong sides), we pushed Festy into another garage, took the battery from Thoruns damaged square, started mine, got him on the street ready for a roll start, swapped batteries over again, got $2.63 into the car, roll started then headed off to Amberley where my Subie was patiently waiting and plotting (its all an evil ricer plot I tell you!!). Anyhows, so at the end of the day out of three cars, one is in the same state it was (Thoruns - damaged but drivaeable) and two are dead. $2.63 with an unknown/diagnosed illness and Osma with a cactus battery (which by the way is about 2/3 the size of the one from Thoruns car, which may explain why I keep killing it).
There, its off my chest, I feel happy now that others know why that weekend is never to be spoken of again!!
*apologies to all cats, purring is not an adequate noise to descrbe Festy and his tail pipe explosions, but its much more polite than saying "Festy was farting along"*
'Ah, whatever................'
penguin ackkkkkk thhhhhpt!
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So what?
did my horror story turn everyone off for yesterday or were you all busy as well?
did my horror story turn everyone off for yesterday or were you all busy as well?
'Ah, whatever................'
zac_smits Coolest Person Ever!
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you scared me off :P:P
nah i've been at a mates farm for the past few days. just relaxing, drinking free beer, going shooting, and then doing donuts and drifting in their fields with my fully sic mazda stationwagon lol.
i'm very pissed that i missed dovw, but we had some family show up, and i couldn't really leave..caus i hadn't seen them for ages etc..you know how it is.
if any of you out of towners :P(melb or further) need a place to stay in vic, there's plenty of room at our house here.(down in geelong that is...10mins from the beach, close to lorne and the great ocean road etc) so yeh..just a note.
and pengy, love the apology at the end. though the dead vw's aren't so good.
nah i've been at a mates farm for the past few days. just relaxing, drinking free beer, going shooting, and then doing donuts and drifting in their fields with my fully sic mazda stationwagon lol.
i'm very pissed that i missed dovw, but we had some family show up, and i couldn't really leave..caus i hadn't seen them for ages etc..you know how it is.
if any of you out of towners :P(melb or further) need a place to stay in vic, there's plenty of room at our house here.(down in geelong that is...10mins from the beach, close to lorne and the great ocean road etc) so yeh..just a note.
and pengy, love the apology at the end. though the dead vw's aren't so good.
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pyr0 flame-on
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scared me off ?? mwahahaha
i was a little buisy yesterday tellin everyone my crazy road trip story lol
heres a pic i took of your beetle jenz 😉
spewin i didnt catch ya at the day of or after it zac. just give me an excuse to cruise down again 👍
i was a little buisy yesterday tellin everyone my crazy road trip story lol
heres a pic i took of your beetle jenz 😉
spewin i didnt catch ya at the day of or after it zac. just give me an excuse to cruise down again 👍
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penguin ackkkkkk thhhhhpt!
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Well from the various pics on the forum it looks like DOVW was good fun for you all.
I can report that Festy is runnign again, but has a bugered front shock at the moment, so he's not quite out of hospital yet. Got a much bigger battery for Osama and may lend him to lildub and $2.63 while I am south to keep him running along.
I can report that Festy is runnign again, but has a bugered front shock at the moment, so he's not quite out of hospital yet. Got a much bigger battery for Osama and may lend him to lildub and $2.63 while I am south to keep him running along.
'Ah, whatever................'
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festy isnt havin a god run at the moment it he penguin 🙁 good to hear he's gettin better tho
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wow now that was breif rob 😂
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Stanley I guess the reward is in the doing of it
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i win
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Just thought I would let you all know, with all my spare time I am doing some serious Beetle hunting. We go looking this weekend, and whatever we get, we are going to register it with the KOC numberplates from the dead beetle RTA transferred. We will also be having one minutes silence on Saturday at 11.00am for our fallen comrade. 2 years and the KOC never ever failed to start. Daily driver the whole time and did nearly 20,000 miles. :cry:
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here that people a minute silence in the tomorrow peoples thread too 😉
good luck on the weekend searching helbus.
hhmmm seems to be a pretty quiet weekend planned on my end.........ill have to see what i can do about that b4 today is over 😀
good luck on the weekend searching helbus.
hhmmm seems to be a pretty quiet weekend planned on my end.........ill have to see what i can do about that b4 today is over 😀
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Man
I wouldn't be able to cope very well with the loss of a loved one like that! You can replace them but its never the same. I will show my respect for your loss with a minute's silence, but after that I might have to raise a few glass's in her memory as a mark of respect. Oh and when you bring the new baby home we will have to raise a few more to wet the baby's head!
Rob...
Rob...
I wouldn't be able to cope very well with the loss of a loved one like that! You can replace them but its never the same. I will show my respect for your loss with a minute's silence, but after that I might have to raise a few glass's in her memory as a mark of respect. Oh and when you bring the new baby home we will have to raise a few more to wet the baby's head!
Rob...
Rob...
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😵 we went and had a look at a beetle today and fleur :kiss likes it. It doesn't have the chirrup sound, as it has different pipes out of the muffler and being a 1600 it actually has some torque.
The next thing now is negotiations.
The next thing now is negotiations.
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i'm still looking at that one with the girl..but now i don't have to worry about the beetle so much hehehehehehehe
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Well my age has just gone up another year. The big 40 today! Boy dosent time fly. I can still remember sitting at my desk in primary school wondering what it would be like in the year 2000, and the fact that I would be 35! Ahh well Im gunna take Pige out for a ride now and have a cake with my car club mates.
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Happy Birthday to rob
Happy birthday to rob
happy birthday to robbbbbbbbbbbbbbo......
happy birthday to rob!
the vw stripogram is on its way 😀
Happy birthday to rob
happy birthday to robbbbbbbbbbbbbbo......
happy birthday to rob!
the vw stripogram is on its way 😀
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happy b'day Rob :beer
quick scroll back on morrie peeps.
bugger, helbus poor fleur, but good to hear she is able to move on and embrace a new vw love.
whoohoo jen. a man in ur life AND a trophy.. happy days 😵
Just brought Osama home............. I now understand the attraction peeps have for type 3's .... they are made for cruisn! such a pleasant drive after the baja :duh so quiet 😉 thorun and I are going to end up bickering over custody while penguin is away 😀
As of this morning Festy is finally running well again after wasting a week on fiddly, stupid things going wrong. Thorun agrees he definately threw a hissy fit when he saw me riding past in the oval at the gold coast show. The final straw was when he saw me touching it's bits, and HIS tools being used on another ride. He must have heard Thor and I giggling at the semaphores driving back, so he thought he would teach me a lesson 😠 such a sook!
I have given festy lots of reassurance that Osama is just visiting and there is definately nothing mechanical going on. Man, he is worse than a jealous boyfriend 😂
quick scroll back on morrie peeps.
bugger, helbus poor fleur, but good to hear she is able to move on and embrace a new vw love.
whoohoo jen. a man in ur life AND a trophy.. happy days 😵
Just brought Osama home............. I now understand the attraction peeps have for type 3's .... they are made for cruisn! such a pleasant drive after the baja :duh so quiet 😉 thorun and I are going to end up bickering over custody while penguin is away 😀
As of this morning Festy is finally running well again after wasting a week on fiddly, stupid things going wrong. Thorun agrees he definately threw a hissy fit when he saw me riding past in the oval at the gold coast show. The final straw was when he saw me touching it's bits, and HIS tools being used on another ride. He must have heard Thor and I giggling at the semaphores driving back, so he thought he would teach me a lesson 😠 such a sook!
I have given festy lots of reassurance that Osama is just visiting and there is definately nothing mechanical going on. Man, he is worse than a jealous boyfriend 😂
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Yay we went today for a second look at a beetle and we have decided to go for it. Fleur will be cruising in a Beetle once again.
Stanley I guess the reward is in the doing of it
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Hey happy birthday rob...40 doesn't hurt a bit...have done it for a year now.
all the best man...:kiss....:beer
all the best man...:kiss....:beer
helbus Administrator Mad fabricator, paint and body
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40 - wow. Life begins for you. 🙂 :birthday