OK i'll start.
I was at the servo filling up the 63 bug when a guy next to me says,WOW an electric car,i said no mate its the amp for the stereo.Oh ye he says the engines in the back of those things aint it🙅
Craig Torrens ·
not about my car, but the title to this thread is dumb.....or is that bumb 😂😂
helbus ·
"When you drive off,the VW on the hubcap will look like a Swastika"
Special Air Service ·
"My old boss had a really old one of these that was a diesel"
No Dunes ·
I have a Meyers Manx , I stopped at a set of lights and the bloke beside me yelled out ( sweet ride I really love those old Mokes )
bugmaniaar ·
Hey 44 degress and night shift..gimee a break🥲
Andy ·
I have been amazed driving around in the 411 how many people have stopped and said "oh ones of those, (me or my mate, parents, inlaws etc) had one of those years ago"
A couple have been geniune, but most when questioned had no idea what it was.
vlad01 ·
I never had anyone say anything yet. But I get a greasy look from a lot of people for some reason when I drive the type 3 around?
the thing that comes to mind. "They see me rollin, they're hating" 😂
oh and the title of the thread. Yeah I get my d and b mixed up all the time. My hands don't know the difference since they are mirrored, I get that with all the other mirrored letters too. 🤓
karmann141 ·
A long time ago in my father's Beetle - "would you like me to check your oil and water?" when they were still Service Stations.
Isola ·
I am so sick of the real clever*, original* people that think we've never heard "Shit! Someone stole your engine!" When we go to put groceries in the boot 😬
*note the absolute sarcasm
DieHard1963Fan ·
The best I've heard was two people having a full on argument about the front towel rail on my 67, it went like this:
"I wonder how you get to the engine?"
"Aren't they in the back?"
"No, who would put an engine in the back of a car!"
"Well it can't be in the front, there's that metal bar in the way"
"what a stupid car"
I swear I could hear banjos as they walked away.
HappyDaze ·
You'd better mind your Ps and Qs, young fella.👍😁........[too old for most people on here?]
68BUS ·
I got the "Are you worried about. Birds flying in?"
When pulled up with the safari windows open.
I asked bow many birds had hit their windscreen in the past and they blankly looked at me for a bit.
AA003 ·
helbus wrote:"When you drive off,the VW on the hubcap will look like a Swastika"
Quite a few years back they would fill the tank, check the oil, pump up the tyres, etc at the service station. A very enthusiastic attendant one day asked me to open the bonnet......so he could "check the radiator". 👍
1303Steve ·
When people work out I have Subaru motor in my car they ask if I put it in the front or did I fit the AWD as well.
donn ·
68BUS wrote:I got the "Are you worried about. Birds flying in?"
When pulled up with the safari windows open.
I asked bow many birds had hit their windscreen in the past and they blankly looked at me for a bit.
Hmm. on a recent trip to Adelaide we had three birds end their life on the windscreen of the Forester (not all at the same time😂), when I did the WA trip in the buggy at least 5 ended the same way, so aren't you worried about the birds coming in ? 🤪
I had a fella ask if I had a V8 in the buggy, when I looked at him with a puzzled look on my face he pointed to the two exhaust pipes and said "well it's got two pipe things" (it's running two hot dogs to get a bit more ground clearance)
HappyDaze ·
Someone looking at the VW jack, next to the spare wheel asked - "Is that a water tap?"🙄
68BUS ·
Donn,
You must have a very bird friendly face.
Or the birds in Adelaide are so depressed they throw themselves at cars a lot.
Not sure about the WA Birds.
Joel ·
A few months back some guy in his mid life crisis BMW cabrio was playing with me on the pacific highway.
When we got stopped at the traffic lights in Ballina he leaned over and ask me you got a Porsche motor in that thing?
The other one was filling up at a servo a bloke was walking around doing the usual nice bug thing and asked is this one of the new ones?
He was only 20 something so I didnt betch slap him for not knowing better.
nils ·
Dumbest thing I have said personally,
" I'll keep it reasonably standard" 😂
ancientbugger ·
The one that I can't even be bothered to answer now is "You've done a good job removing the roof!" (The car's a cabrio 😵💫)
Phil74Camper ·
Some common Kombi questions by passers-by:
"Have you been around Australia?"
"Where do you buy these?"
"Where's the engine?"
"Where's the bed?"
On telling people I also drive a Bora:
"What's that?"
vduboy ·
helbus wrote:"When you drive off,the VW on the hubcap will look like a Swastika"
The amount of times i've heard that one... but only does it at 40kph..
AA003 ·
Joel wrote:A few months back some guy in his mid life crisis BMW cabrio was playing with me on the pacific highway.
Were you driving at the time?😂
Joel ·
😂
Ah well played Phil,
I walked into that one.
LOWBUG ·
Hey mate your boot lid is falling off? (deck lid stood off)
Has that got a Porsche engine in it?
nsuwift ·
Talking about negative camber "is your back wheel falling off"
vlad01 ·
nice KG you have there (said to a type 3 owner)
I have not has this personally but I know is a common one.
grinderman ·
I used to like hitting 4wd tracks and cruiser/patrol drivers would say "you cant take that thing up here" as I continue on my way in my near stock 1600 bay dual cab. My $2000 kombi going where their $50,000 trucks go sure puts a smile on my face.
vw54 ·
i had one this morning at 6am when i was at the paper shop the bus driver comes over and says
"" Those things still going the engines were really relaible "
I responded yeah just rebuilt the reliable engine
I really ARK up when i get the "Got a Porsche engine in it " I respond why would i want to go slower
t_tuffnut ·
This is more naieve than dumb
I make it a thing to give my friends kids toy VWs - to get them to the air cooled side early - and I gave some beetle models to my mate's boys at christmas.
His 4 year old opened up a white beetle and I said "Look - it's just like mine" and I showed him photos of my bug on my phone.
He looked at them and then asked - "Did your one come in a packet like this one?"
Kids - they are like really drunk adults at times.
Smiley ·
I'm sure everyone has gotten the "You know that Hitler designed your car" more than once.
I've also been told that Hitler actually built my car. Which is a nice personal touch, I didn't know he was at the Australian factory in the 1960s.
In the baja I constantly get "Is that thing 4WD" etc etc.
And I also get the "You should put a Porsche engine in it" or "I used to have one of these with a Porsche engine in it, It'd do 100mph in third gear blah bla blah"
Smiley 🙂
vwo60 ·
I have been asked twice if my silver Karmann Ghia is a James Bond car
MISS VDUB ·
68BUS wrote:I got the "Are you worried about. Birds flying in?"
When pulled up with the safari windows open.
I asked bow many birds had hit their windscreen in the past and they blankly looked at me for a bit.
Ummmm, not a dumb question, it's happened before!
Joel ·
No experience with birds coming in but Bees in the chest and crotch are no fun.
bajachris88 ·
Joel wrote:No experience with birds coming in but Bees in the crotch are no fun.
Birds and the Bee's in kombi's 😎
I rekon that sounds like alot of fun 😂
Dak-A-Tak ·
Hate it , when they look at my drag car and SAY , How Cute !! . Geee , guess what I think after that ?
vassy66T1 ·
Dak-A-Tak wrote:Hate it , when they look at my drag car and SAY , How Cute !! . Geee , guess what I think after that ?
LOL Pete
I was there with you when the announcer called it a pretty little beetle ... (you said something along the lines of, "I'll give you &^%$# pretty!)
Trendy ·
Totally the opposite. My son, named Dubba, age nearly 3 has grown up thinking most cars have the engine in the back like his Dads beetle. When he comes across an older aged gentleman with a Holden HD ute. My son says to me, hey Dad..... Look.... an old car. I ask my some where's the engine? He looks under rear side of the ute. He asks the owner and says Where's the engine?
vlad01 ·
Trendy wrote:Totally the opposite. My son, named Dubba, age nearly 3 has grown up thinking most cars have the engine in the back like his Dads beetle. When he comes across an older aged gentleman with a Holden HD ute. My son says to me, hey Dad..... Look.... an old car. I ask my some where's the engine? He looks under rear side of the ute. He asks the owner and says Where's the engine?
I had the same logic when I was a kid. But I grew up with not one car rear engined but i couldn't understand why they would have it in the front when the rear wheels drove?
It all made sense latter though. Both front and rear are good as long as its rwd.
fwd is the ones that dont make any sense at all.
kathawkephotos ·
I'm a girl who drives a restored LHD squareback, some of the common ones are:
"Does your boyfriend/ dad know you took their car?"
"I think you lost your steering wheel love!"
"(Looking at the steering wheel) I think your car's broken sweetheart hahaha!"
(Filling up @ the servo) "WAIT! You're putting petrol in the oil reservoir!!!"
I also get funny looks when I say "no thanks, i know what im doing" to a guy offering "I'll sort it out for you dear" as I pop the engine lid, have my head and hands in the engine bay, covered in grease & wearing a flowery dress.
My favourite is when people look at my opening the front up (filled with pillows/ camping crap) and say "where's the engine???". Without fail, everytime I respond straightfaced with "oh... There's no engine...." And simply smile and wait for the look of bewilderment. Never gets old!
rickp ·
@ kat 😂😂
i have had the whole,
"nice porsche"
"Are you James Bond?"
"I hope you have aircon in that"
"Whats a ghia? 'cos my ford is a ghia"
"you know Porsche motors fit right in"
and it has only been on the road for a little over a year
kathawkephotos ·
Hahaha Rick I feel you with the aircon comments! I just point at the quarters and smile 😉
68BUS ·
If I am stopped I can't do that. I feel the heat to much. Just sit there sweating so I can't say it isn't hot. But with safaris within 30seconda I am cooled off again so it is all worth it.
HS618 ·
Mine's more Drag Racing orientated, when the (V8) Super Street competitors eventually come over and look around and then inside the Beetle, one of the usual comments on seeing the gear lever is "s**t, it's a stick!!"
dragsters for life ·
vlad01 wrote:nice KG you have there (said to a type 3 owner)
I have not has this personally but I know is a common one.
i copped that one at my kids school the other day
hey what year is your kg
i drive a notchback
Lucky Phil ·
When people look down there nose at my Lbug and say, oh, it's only a late model.
WTF? It's only 40 years old!
And the bits that aren't sh!t plastic are sh!t metal!
You try keeping one on the road!
binner ·
.most of the time on my dual cab it goes like this.......nice kombi, did you cut the back off it,then I say no factory and the next question is , did it come with the timber tray? 😂
modulus ·
binner wrote:.......nice kombi, did you cut the back off it...
I've had that a few times; I now say "It's not a Kombi" and leave them in the bewilderness.
hth
MY68VW ·
When I ran a stock 1600; after arriving late to daughters dance class, in the carpark another dad, who just arrived, asked if he could look at the engine (must have been following me, as I buzzed through traffic). Once open, he looks in "nice!" he says "what work have had you done to it?" - "it's stock", "oh, a stock wrx engine?" - "no VW!".
Now I have the Type4 engine I just tell everyone it's porsche powered, no one ever questions it. (sorry to all other vw owners - I empower the myth).
After living in a quiet mountain village for a year (type4 exhaust note was heard throughout the valley). One day outside the general store, one of the locals asks sarcastically while nudging his mate "how much was your exhaust system". -reply; "it came with the $8000 engine".
The guy was owned! - he was a mechanic. 🤪
Some others already mentioned:
Hitler built.
Where's your engine/someone stole your motor etc..
I used to own/had a mate/our family car.
When I'm in W'Gongs northern district I especially love; "used to ride in my mates" because it is actually the same car they rode in 20/30years ago.
I've been updated with some good stories surrounding it - When the wheel fell off and when it was rear ended and dad straightened the chassis with a crowbar.
Funny thing is I bought it in Ryde (but they bought it from Austinmer).
My all time favorite: What kind of beetle is that?
vlad01 ·
MY68VW wrote:When I ran a stock 1600; after arriving late to daughters dance class, in the carpark another dad, who just arrived, asked if he could look at the engine (must have been following me, as I buzzed through traffic). Once open, he looks in "nice!" he says "what work have had you done to it?" - "it's stock", "oh, a stock wrx engine?" - "no VW!".
Now I have the Type4 engine I just tell everyone it's porsche powered, no one ever questions it. (sorry to all other vw owners - I empower the myth).
After living in a quiet mountain village for a year (type4 exhaust note was heard throughout the valley). One day outside the general store, one of the locals asks sarcastically while nudging his mate "how much was your exhaust system". -reply; "it came with the $8000 engine".
The guy was owned! - he was a mechanic. 🤪
Some others already mentioned:
Hitler built.
Where's your engine/someone stole your motor etc..
I used to own/had a mate/our family car.
When I'm in W'Gongs northern district I especially love; "used to ride in my mates" because it is actually the same car they rode in 20/30years ago.
I've been updated with some good stories surrounding it - When the wheel fell off and when it was rear ended and dad straightened the chassis with a crowbar.
Funny thing is I bought it in Ryde (but they bought it from Austinmer).
My all time favorite: What kind of beetle is that?
just say its a Porsche 912E engine. 😂
its pretty much true though.
or own a 912E and say its got a VW bus engine in it haha 😂
MY68VW ·
Don't forget the 914.
I think the only real difference between Porsche and VW for that engine are the heads.
I'm sure my engine is putting out more power than the porsche unit.
vlad01 ·
MY68VW wrote:Don't forget the 914.
I think the only real difference between Porsche and VW for that engine are the heads.
I'm sure my engine is putting out more power than the porsche unit.
yes of course the 914. But the 912E is more recognizable as a Porsche.
Most wouldn't know a 914 if it hit them in the face.
pfillery ·
An old lady came up to me in a carpark after I got out of my beetle and proceeded to tell me that she used to have "one of these (pointing to my beetle) 'shaggin wagons' as we used to call them when we were kids".
Too much information.
BRUTUS ·
When we were kids a "Shaggin Wagon" was a Holden Sandman , or similar, panel van. Actually the noisiest, rockin-est ones I saw were smaller Gemini-type wagons parked near the beach, with Suzi Q at full blast... wonder what they were doing in there?
vlad01 ·
haha yeah i forgot about "shaggin wagon"
when I used to have my SB when I was a teen, people did call it that.
MY68VW ·
Shaggin Wagon HAHA
Not even station wagons should be referred to as that - MUST BE A PANEL FAN. (unless your a yank)
donn ·
MY68VW wrote:Shaggin Wagon HAHA
Not even station wagons should be referred to as that - MUST BE A PANEL FAN. (unless your a yank)
Ha Ha, let me tell you about my first car, a Morris 1000 2 door.............no, maybe not 😂🙅
vlad01 ·
Or my mate's VR sedan.
Its not even a wagon lol, but sure had the shaggin part though. 😂😂
MY68VW ·
😂
As a teen I had a LC torana sedan with that usefulness. hehehe
But I wouldn't have called it a shaggin wagon.
A true shaggin wagon will result in teenage girls blushing and childrens eyes being covered when you pass a church on sunday morning.
Surfboard bolted to roof optional.
berserkerbus ·
A nice lady at the Motor registry in Townsville asked me to pop the front bonnet to check the engine. I asked her if she would like to move to the rear and I would show her the engine there, she started to shout at me, saying she knew more about cars than I did and made me pop the front bonnet and if I didn't, she wasn't going to register my Super Beetle. She went bright red when she saw there was no engine in the front and scurried off with embarrassment after checking the engine in the rear. Quickest engine inspection it ever had!!
oldskoolguy ·
berserkerbus wrote:A nice lady at the Motor registry in Townsville asked me to pop the front bonnet to check the engine. I asked her if she would like to move to the rear and I would show her the engine there, she started to shout at me, saying she knew more about cars than I did and made me pop the front bonnet and if I didn't, she wasn't going to register my Super Beetle. She went bright red when she saw there was no engine in the front and scurried off with embarrassment after checking the engine in the rear. Quickest engine inspection it ever had!!
Serious!?
berserkerbus ·
Deadly serious. It made me question the credentials of the people working there.
MY68VW ·
😂😂
vlad01 ·
berserkerbus wrote:Deadly serious. It made me question the credentials of the people working there.
They have no idea these days.
Ampdub ·
berserkerbus wrote:A nice lady at the Motor registry in Townsville asked me to pop the front bonnet to check the engine. I asked her if she would like to move to the rear and I would show her the engine there, she started to shout at me, saying she knew more about cars than I did and made me pop the front bonnet and if I didn't, she wasn't going to register my Super Beetle. She went bright red when she saw there was no engine in the front and scurried off with embarrassment after checking the engine in the rear. Quickest engine inspection it ever had!!
That's golden, then you could reply with "would you like to discuss your apparent superior vehicular knowledge." love to see one of the old Renault jobs go in there
57 Cal look ·
Back in Adelaide i had my old T34 at work one day. Customer came into the bottle shop with his girl friend wanting a pen so he could leave his name and number on this really cool vintage "BMW" that was out in the car park.
I asked was it the grey car with the black roof ? he said "yeah, do you know who ownes it?".
To which i replied "me".
He then went on to say he had to buy it from me as he had wanted a "BMW" like that for years. I smiled and said it's not a BMW it's a VW, he then tried to correct me and say " no its a BMW" and he looked at me like i was a dickhead because i thought my T34 was a VW and not a BMW.
He persisted for the next couple of minutes trying to make me think that he was right and i was wrong, in the end i told him it wasn't for sale, and if it was he couldn't afford it. to which he replied "mate, trust me i can afford it" to which i replied, afford it, you dont even know what it is : )
he then left with his girlfriend, they went out to the car and she pointed out the VW badge on the car, and i saw her laugh at him.
he did not look very happy ... Oh yeah, then they both got in a shitty looking commodore and left.
Isola ·
^ Hahahahahaha so perfectly accurate for a Commodore driver!
vlad01 ·
Isola wrote:^ Hahahahahaha so perfectly accurate for a Commodore driver!
nah mate, they're chev drivers.
They all pretty much insist they are chevs lol.
bugmaniaar ·
Darren..its a VW ..Shut up Sharon 😂
Gringo_54_oval ·
i get people driving along side beepin at me sayin "Hey mate your boot is open" stand offs
MY68VW ·
I'll tell people my square doesn't have an engine - open the front then open the rear.
Kids have the best questions "what makes it go then?"
I tell them it's powered by love - they don't believe me.