Howdy volks, i'm new.

VEEWayne Learner Dubber

2 posts · joined May 2011 · 2 Jun 2011, 8:15 pm

#844260

Just got the welcome pm and couldn't reply and felt a little rude if I don't introduce myself. I bought my first VW about 30 years ago, when I was 15 (guess that makes me ancient). It was a 58 bug with original paint and 36k miles on it. Sad to admit that it ended up a baja by the time it was sold. Also has a 64 split Kombi a manx, 2 other beetles and 1 other baja and a type 3 wagon (beach machine) and a tube buggy with a 12a. Unfortunately don't own a VW atm but my son just picked up a 61 bug with a 1600 D.P so the bug has bitten again. Cheers Wayne.

grinderman Officially Full-On Dubber

378 posts · joined Apr 2011 · 2 Jun 2011, 8:43 pm

#844280

Welcome Wayne,
Good to hear your getting back into the 'madness' that is veedub ownership, wouldn't be anywhere else! Curious about the type 3 beach machine, any old photo's? I had a squareback over 20 years ago that was driven across the simpson desert by the previous owner. The original SUV I reckon.👍

VEEWayne Learner Dubber

2 posts · joined May 2011 · 2 Jun 2011, 8:56 pm

#844289

I have old school photos of the type 3 on Fraser in about 92. Maybe I could scan them or take digital pics of them. It was a 71 or so model and the IRS gearbox had too tall a diff ratio for sand. She went okay if you kept the speed up but needed taller tyres (they were about 29"diameter roughly) and IRS Kombi box. I took the Kombi up the beach in the eighties (it was only worth $700 then) and with 165/15 radials and 1835 DP it was a lot better even with 7 people in her.

grinderman Officially Full-On Dubber

378 posts · joined Apr 2011 · 2 Jun 2011, 9:23 pm

#844297

Sounds like you have a big VW history, especially off-road. I love the looks on 4wd owners faces when you meet them along tracks that are supposed to be'4wd only' in your humble kombi. Some people even get a bit shitty.........dont know why......maybe they spent a fortune on their cruiser to go bush or beach and your their in the same area with your 2wd.😀

Camo Custom Title Time!

1,936 posts · joined Oct 2007 · 2 Jun 2011, 10:00 pm

#844306

G'day Wayne and I guess from your description I am ancient also 🙁

Don't you wish you had some of those vehicles now, they would be worth heaps.

Anyway, I am also doing up a 61 Beetle and am probably bias but I think these are the best year model 😂

Kev

I thought rebuilding a VW would be cheap - Shit I was wrong, just don't let the wife know !!!!

Click here for my (slowy) modded 1961 Beetle build.

68AutoBug Beetle Restorer - Experience over 138\% - YIKES --

11,654 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 2 Jun 2011, 10:56 pm

#844315

VEEWayne wrote:Just got the welcome pm and couldn't reply and felt a little rude if I don't introduce myself. I bought my first VW about 30 years ago, when I was 15 (guess that makes me ancient). It was a 58 bug with original paint and 36k miles on it. Sad to admit that it ended up a baja by the time it was sold. Also has a 64 split Kombi a manx, 2 other beetles and 1 other baja and a type 3 wagon (beach machine) and a tube buggy with a 12a. Unfortunately don't own a VW atm but my son just picked up a 61 bug with a 1600 D.P so the bug has bitten again. Cheers Wayne.

WELCOME WAYNE

and 45 isn't ancient... lol

the 61 beetle was a great model but I have always liked the "new""latest""updated" beetle that was the 1968 model in Australia...
12v 1500cc proper headlamps etc... lol IMHO

KEVIN has probably got the best looking 61 beetle in Australia
lol... one of the most expensive ... lol eh Kev..

welcome to the VW World in Australia

Lee in Scone NSW

- Helping keep Air Cooled VWs on the road - location: SCONE in the Upper Hunter Valley - Northern NSW 320 kms NNW of SYDNEY---