stavel59 Learner Dubber
10 posts · joined Aug 2009 ·
Hi folks, I'm fairly new to Aussieveedubbers but I've had a few beetles and a bus over the years. I'd like to share some pics of my '59 that was a proverbial "barn find". Back in 1998 (ish) an elderly local bloke saw my '72 superbug and told me he had an old Vw in his shed. It belonged to his brother who had died and had sat in the shed under some tarps for over 18 years. I went round to have a look, lifted a tarp, saw it had semaphore indicators and handed over the $400 required make it mine. The first pic is the day it arrived home. The '59 was in excellent condition and didn't take much to get going. I tinkered with it for a couple of years then regrettably lost interest in all things VW and sold it to a bloke called Jack. Jack did all the hard work in restoring the '59 (see pic of shiny beetle with accessories) then sold it on. Two owners later and the '59 belonged to Johnny. Johnny preferred the cal look (see cal-look pic). He moved interstate recently and the '59 was back on the market. Enter Eddie (Local VW guru) who gave me the heads up and after 8 years the '59 is mine again. I've since been undoing the cal mods with the intention of restoring it to original (with period accessories). I'll post new pics soon.
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73 L Bug (history)
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59 Type 1 (current)
72 S Bug (history)
71 S Bug (history)
74 2L Kombi (history)
59 Type 1 (current)
