Just thought I'd throw this out. I know if you are driving down the road in a Kombi and you pass another Kombi then you will (usually, not all the time) wave to each other.
My question is, why doesn't anyone else wave?? or do I just drive around in the wrong area?? I have been giving a little wave to all the VW's I pass but they don't wave back. Meh??
Do a very big wave to wake them up!!:bounce:thumb🙂
Maybe they are not true Vee Dubbers, or only borrowing the kombi🙁
oh other Kombi's will often wave back (provided I am in the Kombi)
Why doesn't anyone wave to Bugs or any other type of VW though? and why don't Kombi's wave to me when I'm in the Bug??
Try owning a type 3
Most of tehm dont know what the hell it is!
🙁🙁🙁🙁🙁🙁
1962 Type3 Squareback
1967 Type3 Fastback "Kermit"
The truth is important. It will set you free
I wave from my Type 3 anyway. Make them feel bad:thumb
Maybe some people just like the whole kombi thing and don't connect it to the bigger picture of all Vee Dubbs. They need to be educated:sandrine
i love waving at all VW's and other kool looking cars :P but i always wave at the VW's no matter even if it means dropping my macdonalds ( just as long as its not on the carpet :bounce )
I wave to any VW when I'm in the Kombi, some times I get a mystyfied look, sometimes I get a wave, there are a couple of Beetle drivers who see me regularly, and we always acknowlage each other now!
Rob.....
Boxer Power
Member of DMLRK.....Die Mittler Lebuns Resto Komeradschaft
I wave to all VW's when I'm in the Oval. Lots wave back but many later model beetle drivers look at you like you are from outta space.
Oh well, they just dont get it I spose
Hey, isn't it cool when you keep crossing each other paths and you sort of get to know them in a distant sort of way🙂
I have 4 regulate VW in my car park at the station. Only ever see the driver of the golf, and he caught to same early train as me on Tuesday. Spooky but way cool😎
I love waving to other VW drivers. Any type will do. Been going to the Gym in the mornings to strengthen my wave and get the whole "How ya doin?" technique right before Nambucca. I sorted the "So ya gonna pass me" wave on my way along the freeway to the Nats over the Easter Hols.
You know there a fanatic hey Taz when you see them waving to Type 3's.
The Bronzes Observations-
General rule is Kombi's wave to Kombis, Beetles wave to beetles. Drivers closer to the 30-40 age bracket tend to wave the most regardless of gender. Young VW drivers are too cool to wave, especially the boys - older drivers are to tired and generally only respond to a wave and hardly ever instigate the wave. A shame really. I've never been in NB so don't know the protocol - Help us out Andrew. Found the Kombi drivers are more fanatical wavers than Beetle drivers. Beetle drivers do the cool one finder rise wave - kombi drivers carry teams of cheer squads laced with alcohol in the back ready to pounce on the horn, light and windscrrn on approach of anything VW. The more pissed they get the more selective they become. Found this out on the way back from Festivals and Carnivals a Kombi owning friend and I used to go to.
Strangely enough few VW drivers wave to Baja's. I don't know if its indifference, disgust or jealiousness. I get more waves from 4WD owners than fellow VW drivers. Especially when there bogged! 😉
Bronze.
Rathmines, Lake Macquarie, NSW.
I always wave to veedubs but only a few wave back !!!
Not like in the UK everybody waves and acknoledges you...... All volksies wave to others no matter what type !!!!
Da Time For The Aircooled Revolution Is Upon US.
Brothers & Sisters Lets Hit The Streets, Roll As One. And Feel The Power Of The Aircooled Storm.
I'm not cool, do the crazy fanatical waves sometimes but then maybe I do the cool raise the finger wave in a very laid back sort a way a lot of the time too. Just fickled:sandrine
It depends on the audience as to what sort of wave I give
Sorry to fair dinkum NVW owners who really care but you almost give up on most, they don't even blink in your direction:jesus
I actually had a wave from a kombi today, i got so exited i had to race home and post it. There seems to be a snobbery factor from kombi drivers.
I remember as far back as the 70's kombi drivers waved at kombi drivers. thought it was real strange as a young lad.
if you want everyone to wave at you go for a drive way out west.
New beetles are just that, new and catering to a different market, its jus ta trendy car to most of them.
Plenty of Kombi waves about in Sydney 🙂
I always wave to other beetles, and if im near them i'll probably honk my horn as well 🙂 whenever i wave to kombis they seem not to wave back, which is a shame because they are usually full of people who look interesting 🙁 and i dont bother with new beetle drivers unless they wave first... which they seldom ever do. I also wave to type 3 drivers (whenever i see them, but there isnt that many)
i think more people should wave. just shows you are keeping your eyes on the road... even if it is on the other side to the one you should be looking at!!
[Edited on 12-6-2003 by Starbuggy]
I'm an avid waver with good response I usualy get a wave back, but I do stand out in the crowd.
I wave to anycar the same as Im driving whether it be Mazda, Toyota whatever, as long as its the same model and colour as me, as its ofen a real laugh all vws get the wave when in Herbie Unless I'm distracted or concerntrating etc.
But I have given up doing it in my white Ford Econovan, its pointless and tiring.
Sometimes I even get a message on here that says "saw you today"
I think waving is good eticet and brings cheer to the road, as motoring today has become very boring with cars today being far removed from the spirit of traditional motoring with the wind in your hair and the adventure underway.
Cheers Tony
62 Ragtop Herbie with a little extra oomph.
I was going to post above but forgot amongst my ramble - I'd like to get those 70's hands on a spring. You know the ones with a suction cap that sticks for two tears at a time until the kids get to it and stuff it. One of those would be cool stuck on the back window but I've never seen them sale for the longest time.
.. and no I'm not getting the pnumatic 'Brown Eye' guy or the dog or cat with the bobbing head!
Bronze.
Rathmines, Lake Macquarie, NSW.
I wave to any VW.... if I see it. Unfortunately the late model VWs just don't seem to stand out in the crowd like the older ones do.
I also get quite disheartened by the VW owners who just bought 'a car', rather than 'a VW'. These people just look at me like I'm crazy. It tends to be the younger drivers and the owners of later model VWs. Kombi owners nearly always wave back though, unless I'm driving the bug.
Kruizin Kol
I must be getting jaded....
I always wave to other kombi drivers, and used to try all vw's without much response
but a beetle caused my first experience of road rage!!!
Driver looked at me as though I was some crazy woman.
Well....after that you just have to give them the noisest , cheeriest wave possible!!!
BTW does anyone know who own's the very sexy metallic green panel van on waterworks rd?
I'll tend to wave to all air-cooled VW's [no disrespect to NB and Golf owners - not all of them are enthusiasts], however I get lots of funny looks when I forget what car I'm driving, and realise that I'm not in the VW!
Squiz......
here is a big wave for all you veedubbers!
😀😀😀
:sandrine
I wave to all VW's, I try & be socialable.
Down here we have more Kombi's than
Bugs but I wave to all.
Some wave some don't - I don't care I still wave.
Always when passing schools you can hear "Punch Buggy" yelled & then kids
punching each other up....Where did that come from?
Then you get people just staring at your Bug as you drive by....I just smile & I always get a nice smile back.
Thats the best feeling....
Judy (o\|/o)
Byron Bug
59 Microbus Kombi (MERCY)
64 Microbus Kombi (CHANNON)
Too many bug people (not the ones here) only have one coz "its cute" (NOT THE ONES HERE) and so many later model kombies just drive it coz itsa cheap...I once even couldnt get a splity to wave, iwas flashing and honking (a klaxon) arm out the window...Nuttn...it has happened twice with the same van...they live in Sth melb..you know who u are...I was going to turn around i tell ya...
I think it is the like waves to like...but vw lovers woul be the deciding factor....I have wavwed when in a SECA and get funny looks....Oh and there was a 66' splity I pulled upto at the lights next to in Fitzroy, and she seemed she could give a shit that a same yr splity was next to her...I fained an invite to drag and she looked all, "I dont think so"at me...perhaps it should be in the ownership contract that you must wave....lol:thumb
i am very big on the wave, usually get them back when i am in my bug, except from the old lady who i pass occasionally who i think has owned her bug since new.
some people are like slinky's
they have no useful purpose
but they are fun to watch
when you push them down the stairs
I got a dog with a nodding head sitting on the dash.....😎
I wave to other kombis, no exception. A beetle must wave first to get a response.
Well my friends are gone & my hair is grey, I ache in the places where I used to play.
Bugged Again wrote:There seems to be a snobbery factor from kombi drivers.
Of course there is !
😀Chris.... kombi pilot, oval dreamer... finisher #26971 2005 city to surf
Dont get me started!
:bounce
Spook wrote:I got a dog with a nodding head sitting on the dash.....😎
My wife Lea has a duck collection in her kombi INCLUDING a duck with a bobbing head!
The best on is a kombi down the road that has a "naked" Ken and Barbie.
The neighbours and kids take interest in what the daily position is for them!!
Futue te ipsum!!!
i will stick the hand out the front window to all aircooled vw. will most times get a wave back. remember once we were travelling down the highway back to sydney and another split was heading north. every one waved at every one else with both hands we were that excited. almost ran off the road. you dont pass alot of splits so you tend to get a little over excited. i find old people in beetles generally dont way back. wierd...
Simply Cruzin'...
On the subject of waving, well moreso the "punch buggy"...
I was on my way to the aquarium to pick up some fish bits and passed two cyclists, the one up the back yelled "punch buggy" to the one up the front, who then started laughing when he saw what he got yelled at for!! I just had to slow down and give them a thumbs up! :thumb😀😀😀
