How did your Vw find you? Were you looking for one specifically or did it just happen to turn up?
Found my 62 by chance, night before the clearence sale i found out about it and bought her sight unseen. Lady had it since new and hadn't seen it since 1983, was stored in a shed and was selling the property. No plans to sell, or restore. Just to preserve her as she is totally original 😎
Just interested to see other people's stories 😂
Cheers Bill
advert in the paper jumped out at me
Went down to Sydney to see how to build a buggy and the little beuty winked at me.
I dream of a day when a chicken can cross a road without being asked for it's motive!
sitting on the side of the road waiting for some sucker and along I came
In AVD.
RED62E wrote:sitting on the side of the road waiting for some sucker and along I came
Usually is the case with old Vw's
😂avd
Please, I need drivers side window regulator (winder mechanism) for my '54
Was in front of a car yard in Punchbowl, and I was thinking I would love to have that car, but didn't have any money or job and it looked pretty neglected.
Then my mum said I could have a car or computer as a birthday pressy, I said computer, but my parents looked at the car but thought it was run down also. But they got interested in vw's again and suggested I look in the trading post.
Went to another car dealer and that one was pretty bad, then saw a private one which was bright purple (my first lesson in buying cars, ask on phone what colour the car is first).
Ran away from that pretty quick, so then my folk's suggested to have a look at the one from Punchbowl again. As soon as I saw it, I was hooked. It wasn't as bad as the other's I'd seen and it was white! A day later, I got my vw and have been happy ever since.
Thats not rust, it's ah ... orange primer ... yep that's what it is ...
I decided back in 1996 that I again wanted a beetle
to do up..
and saw the add in the paper
it was located in Gloucester NSW where I used to live..
it turned out to be a 1968 autostick beetle , made in Germany... no visible rust , bumpers dented..
seats were torn.. came from inland Western Australia
where the Owners husband was a VW Mechanic..
mechanically it was great...
It was also the ONLY beetle I looked it... lol
LEE
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Had a NOS Type 3 pushbutton light switch and started a 6 year search for a car to fit it.😵💫 Found what I was after in Eddy Laing's graveyard at Barnawartha.👍👍 Instant good deal and brought it home.
DH
mine was sitting on a freinds farm and i hounded them for ages to sell it to me and they wouldnt ,,,then all of a sudden they rang and said if i want it i can have it ,,,baja kit and all
BETTER TO BE THOUGHT A FOOL THAN TO OPEN YOUR MOUTH AND REMOVE ALL DOUBT:puke
this is going back but my first ever beetle was a christmas present from my parents when i was 14
it belonged to a family freind who had owned it since the early 80s and he promised it to me when i was 10
much to mum and dads discust it started breeeding next thing there were 3 in the yard, then 5 then 8 and that was b4 the toyota/suzuki/ford outsiders started coming LOL
of the few i have had over the past 10 years about 20 or so most have come from:
the 'side of the road',
me pestering the owner to clean up their yard 'from unsightly vw hulks looking ugly' 🙂
auto auctions,
word of mouth
and the trading post..
tell him hes dreaming for sure..
thats how i have found mine..
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I was looking for a camper and friends told me about their bank managers car...a 74 kombi which they used once a year to drive 100k away and camp for three weeks😂...drove a kinswood the rest of the year❓ 3 days after i bought it he died🙁 heartbroken at his terrible loss obviously🤓 i figure if i don't sell it i wont die👍
And to stay on topic..
I used to do up beetles as a kid.. then bought a splitty camper which i started to do up but then neglected it.. Sold it to a hippy that took it up the Coromandel (NZ) and lived in it for years while he grew dope and flogged beads at the Coro markets (what a life!)
Got to my 40's and got hooked all over again.. Little 72 MicroBus that was sitting on the roadside on my way home.. after 2 weeks I bought it!
I married its owner.
some people are like slinky's
they have no useful purpose
but they are fun to watch
when you push them down the stairs
Decided the night before to buy a car...always wanted a bug...was on the train going to work reading the 4 sale car section & noticed the bug advertised....I happened to be going right by the same street as the bug was advertised as being in....lol...rang them while I was on the train to ask if I could come check it out when I got home from work...& bought it that same day....& was the same age as me....it was mean't to be....karma....🙂
59 Microbus Kombi (MERCY)
64 Microbus Kombi (CHANNON)
first VW ever? a friend gave me a very bad Kombi 1800 auto for free. A month later I gave it to another friend. I had run out of rego. :P
my first real one, a two toned 66 beetle, was owned by a local. He got out of VWs for some reason and I picked it up for $300 bucks. I still think I may have got ripped off, but it was a lot of fun in between mechanical disasters. 🤪
Mine was a straight swap for a 68 mini I was doing up. A mate of mine had a bloke at work trying to sell his bug and had no luck after about 6 months. He was looking for a mini to go with their clubman. I was looking for a beetle but needed to get rid of my mini. He brought the beetle around and checked out the mini. We agreed that they were both worth about the same money so we just did a straight swap. I still reckon I got the better deal.😁
Spare the Duct tape, spoil the job - Red Green
Saw an ad in the local paper and bought my first VW, '69 1500 beetle that was in 1979. It stayed a beetle for quite a few years until I bought a '74 S'Bug then it was turned into a Manx which I still have today. Yes I still own the first car I ever bought.
Quote of the week
"Do I wish to send them to you again, nope, no interest can't be bothered really, to much hassle for little or no return."
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One of my 1303s was given to me for nothing by Richard at V Force. Long story shortened, I used to work with the guy who owned my 1303, it was stored from 1985 until 2003 when I got it as a rolling shell virtually rust free.
My other 1303 I bought from Dave Becker after seeing it here.
Steve
Boris was in a front yard of a house around the corner from us. Had a for sale sign on it for ages but looked very sore and sorry. Had always wanted a dub but never got around to it. Timing was all wrong as I was getting married in 2 weeks, but made a ridiculous offer to the guy.
He accepted it and my wife bought it for me as a wedding present. The rest is history and now I could never get rid of him.....dubs are under the skin forever!
1959 Mercedes Benz 190
1963 Chevrolet Corvair
1969 BMW 2002 Auto
1973 Mercedes Benz 230.6
boristherat wrote:Boris was in a front yard of a house around the corner from us. Had a for sale sign on it for ages but looked very sore and sorry. Had always wanted a dub but never got around to it. Timing was all wrong as I was getting married in 2 weeks, but made a ridiculous offer to the guy.
He accepted it and my wife bought it for me as a wedding present. The rest is history and now I could never get rid of him.....dubs are under the skin forever!
Thus Boris the Rat was born!!!
😂we were about to have our first child and needed a second set of wheels
kombibob told me to get a kombi...plenty of room !...he didnt warn me about the
nasty little habit that comes with them....you cant stop at one ! ! !
found mine in a front yard,even with a dropped valve and a slipping snd gear
it was love at first drive !
I even screen potential girlfriends this way...are they kombi potential or not🤓
My first Dub. Bone collector used to live across the road and had a nice example of a dub. I had always been keen on them but had not requirement for a second car, UNTIL i moved to Darwin. 🤪
Anyhow I thought well why not, so I started looking around. Weren't many, however, one day a mate rang and said had I seen this bug. So I rang Bone Collector to see what he knew about it, he had a look on his way home, he rang me and said "you need a thousand dollars at 5pm tonite" Around she came and I bought it. 😎
It was funny because she had only put it outside her work at 8am and by 5pm it was sold.
I think my wife still curses Bone Collector to this day!!!😂
Cheers
Adam
'69 VW Beetle.
The 73 fastback was bought out of the trading post.
The BAJA was parked outside a house with damage from the local hoons so a friend went and asked what they were doing with the Bug they said take it so we did.
Marc
If you can't laugh at yourself you can't laugh at anyone else! Because life is to short not to LAUGH
Inherited mine from my grandfather who stopped driving it in 1986. Put back on the road in 1995 as my first car and still used as a daily driver when I don't ride the bike.😎
If you can't fix it with a hammer,
you have an electrical problem....
mscabrio had wanted a new beetle ever since we saw the concept car at the motorshow... held her off for a few years till she spotted the cabrio.. went and bought one.
That's when the trouble started....
bought our 57 off here from Tas... flew over and looked at the car... brought it home with us.
bought our 74 from the trading post... took ages to find a 74 1300. was only one advertised in the trading post. even in white - preferred colour. brought it home the following weekend.
Then it was only a matter of time that our daily cars became vdubs.
mscabrio wanted a polo GTI as her drive to work car, so we bought one... in white of course.
And now that we have a daughter we needed a family car.
So this year we bought a Jetta TSI... and that's white too.
now all we need is the time to drive them all.
see.... air and water do mix 😉
1974 1300
1997 MK3 Golf GL
2003 NB Cabrio
2012 Golf VI GTI
2014 Audi A4 Quattro
Wolf belonged to my grandpa. I had always wanted to get a beetle, and he announced at my 21st party that he was selling his. I spent the rest of the party scrounging money so I could buy it from him 🙂
Then he went away on holiday for 2 months before I could collect it. Agony!
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