Hey folks... anybody seen this bug around or know where it is now?... it was a 1960 1200 belonging to my grandparents, Ken and Lyn Day.
Was purchased at Lannock Motors and had the rego BTV-860 when they owned it...
I believe it was Bahama Blue or a similar lightish shade of blue.
I'd love to find out where this former piece of the family is now... :bounce
Cheers!
1976 Kombi Trakka camper, "Buttercup"... driver.
1976 Beluxe Microbus, "Saphir"... resto.
1974 Kombi panelvan, "George"... shed.
1974 Superbug, "Schmeetle"... resto.
[img]http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b366/cSure its a 60? It has semaphores which says earlier to me, maybe a 58?
T54
C'mon kids gather round,
there's a new sensation hitting town,
It's moving straight, low to the ground,
it'll pick you up when your feeling down.
60 was the last year for semaphores
-Joel
that photo taken out near Wellington, nice piccies
very unusual to have white walls then, owner must have had money!
Please, I need drivers side window regulator (winder mechanism) for my '54
It will be at SIMS metal...like most of them are !!:P
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Great photo's, love the tup of tea on the glove box lid.
Did they ever live in Nowra?
[ Edited on 30-8-2006 by Menangler ]
FAHRVERGNUGEN;
Description of a pleasurable sensation,
Experienced when a car and it's driver are in mutual harmony, A unique driving experience, Pleasure, Satisfaction,
A feeling experienced by Volkswagen Drivers.
great shots
A candy coloured clown they called the sandman tip toes through my room every night just to sprinkle stardust on my pillow go to sleep everything will be allright
1967 Type 3 square
1956 double door panel
1968 single cab kombi
Hehehe... yeh Dave, in fact they lived just up the road from you in Seaforth Street, Bomaderry for about 12 years, then Culburra, then Woollamia, and now Tomerong....decided to move them closeby due to ill health. 🙂 I believe they were living in Petersham or Penrith or summin tho when they owned the Bug....
And yeh Kim, pop was relatively well to do back then... the family had a very successful shipwrighting and furniture enterprise happenin at the time... i think the whitewalls were on the car when it was bought tho hehe... 😎
These are some piccies from our family history type albums and such. Mums side of the family probably explains the VW genes in my blood... lol. The granparents had this bug in the early 60's, and pops father, James Day, had I believe a 1958ish splitty, which he purchased as an 11-window? Kombi and built a very nice camper interior for it from scratch (I believe similar to a Devon). I also have photo's of this somewhere, but at the moment the only one i can find is one of him sitting in the drivrs seat 😂 the granddparents can't remember the rego number of the splitty unfortunately, and as yet I havent found any pictures of it showing the plates 🙁
WHen James (my great grandad) passed away in about 1967 grandad ended up with his kombi, but was never able to master driving it, so it ended up being sold. 🙁
Wouldnt mind finding out if these two are still around... but i think the splitty will be near impossible to track down.
[ Edited on 30-8-2006 by Schmoburger ]
1976 Kombi Trakka camper, "Buttercup"... driver.
1976 Beluxe Microbus, "Saphir"... resto.
1974 Kombi panelvan, "George"... shed.
1974 Superbug, "Schmeetle"... resto.
[img]http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b366/cno indicators, batwing wheel.... sure its a 60 - (if i could find the question mark on this french keyboard it would appear here)
nick
I have not had time to look, but age is , the car was definately bought new in either March 1959 (my guess) or march 1960 , see march rego label,
Number plates in those days being slow to go through their sequences, as much lower sales, my 1958 Austin Healey was BLT-502, & my late 1960 Triumph Herald coupe was COA something, from my memory most 1960 cars (like FB Holden) were C something, it is just a matter of digging out my old magazines tonite
Please, I need drivers side window regulator (winder mechanism) for my '54
The steering wheel and sun visor inside, and semaphores are traits of a pre '60 car.
But as has been discussed before, it may have been made in the late 50's
for the early 1960 delivery and registration.
Love the cool photos!
westi wrote:That's mad Alan.
Yeh bondage and dangerous... it could possibly have been a '59 sold in 1960. 😎
And thanks for teh research Kim! 👍
1976 Kombi Trakka camper, "Buttercup"... driver.
1976 Beluxe Microbus, "Saphir"... resto.
1974 Kombi panelvan, "George"... shed.
1974 Superbug, "Schmeetle"... resto.
[img]http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b366/ctwas sold new March 1959 - sorry took so long
Please, I need drivers side window regulator (winder mechanism) for my '54
