I got some pretty positive interest and feedback at the Gold Coast show last weekend, so I thought I'd make a thread for my new bug as I hadn't put any info up about it yet.
I've had several air cooled Beetles over the years, and am in the middle of restoring a 74 L bug at the moment. I got to the point where I needed a second car, so that I could take the old bug off the road for a week or so to complete bigger jobs without worrying about how I was going to get to work. So I looked around and test drove a few cars, and finally settled on the current version of The Beetle.
I see this turning into me now having two cars to work on, as a list of things to do has already populated itself for the new one... whoops...
As the waiting list for manual was... well... let's just say a really long time. I opted for a base model without any add-on packs. There was a black one waiting to go to a home, so it became mine.
Here are a couple of pictures for you all.
And here are a couple with my 74
This is one of two other Beetles that I've seen on the road in Brisbane so far. I have seen a plain white one in traffic, and there is one done up like Herbie that someone sent me a picture of, but it may be a dealer registered car and not actually owned by anyone as I know the custom plate on it belongs to the dealer.
All I need now is a "New Beetle" (2000s era) to complete the set 🙂
Any questions that you may want answered, please feel free to ask.
Isola Officially Full-On Dubber
217 posts · joined Oct 2011 ·
