Just thought I'd stick my head in and say hi, 😀 Never realised Australia had such a happening VW scene til I read the article in this months Volksworld (UK edition) about the Sydney VW Nationals, some pretty nice cars there!
Anyway, as you can tell from my signature I'm not a local! (I've got an Aunt who lives on Pacific Highway in Sydney so I don't feel totally alien!) I live in a small town called Lurgan about 25 miles from Belfast and drive a 1970 1500 Beetle as a daily get about. I've also got a 1956 Swedish Oval project that's needing a load of TLC (and heater channels and interior and paint..) but that's another story. The local club is the Northern Beetle Owners Club (see link in signature) and it's the only one, there are around 120 members although there are a lot more dub owners around.
Well that's it, just thought I'd be polite and introduce myself! good luck guys, keep up the good work building those dubs :thumb
Pete
www.nboc.org.uk
Northern Ireland's only air cooled club
Welcome. Most of us aren't from this planet, so don't feel left out. Anyway, have fun buggin'.
VeeDubbers do it better!:bounce
Hey, i'm a pom but NEVER will return, so wheres the crack, welcome, i used to live near the highway in sydney, any pics of you cars..
Andy
They laugh because You are different, You laugh because They are all the same.
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Cool and welcome!!
Yeah - there are a few drop ins from your way and a few USofA'ians as well. Cant think of too many Europeans though.
Yep - dubs are alive and kicking over here.
Stock, blown, warm and chopped!
We got em all.
Will check out your link now.
Hang round - we ar mainly friendly and sociable here!
TTFN
Barry
Futue te ipsum!!!
Welcome to Australia's largest gathering of Volkswagen fanatics....
We never hear anything about BUgs from Northern Ireland..
usually Bombs.... not the ones You drive either...
although I haven't heard much lately....
I hope things are quietning down over there.... maybe they have already...
I love the two UK VW Magazines.... much better than the US ones... actually the magazine I liked the most..... died....
I just drool over the "for sales" over that way.... although when rust is mentioned in the UK... it can get scarey.... same as parts of the US.... Sometimes there is 1/4 of the car gone missin' including things like shock towers... I've been into VWs since 1964 in Australia and I've never seen a shock tower that has disappeared into thin air... My Son is 'making' an oval beetle at the moment - the body had been sitting ON the ground under a tree for years so there was some rust in the bottom of the heater channels... but the rest of the body was OK... You MUST have a full time job just stopping the rust.... anyway... welcome to Down Under...
Lee -- SCONE -- NSW --
http://community.webshots.com/user/vw68autobug- Helping keep Air Cooled VWs on the road - location: SCONE in the Upper Hunter Valley - Northern NSW 320 kms NNW of SYDNEY---
Hey guys, thanks for the welcome! Yep things aren't too bad round here on the bombs and bullets front and rust is a big problem! One minute you're poking at a tiny rust bubble next minute you're replacing half the side of the car! this was one of last winters running repairs..
Here's my oval as it stands, it's pretty solid although the bit where the heater channels meet the rear wheel arch is just fresh air! that will be rectified when I get round to it, the new heater channels are in the garage already.
this is my daily driver 1970 Mars red 1500 with earlier lights and stuff
www.nboc.org.uk
Northern Ireland's only air cooled club
Hey Pete, i remember now after seeing your pics how the cancer (rust) takes hold in the uk/ireland, arh the aussie weather. LOl i am in tasmania and its just like Ireland, but, no salt on the roads makes a huge difference, cracking job there pete,
have you ever been to aussie bud.
Andy
They laugh because You are different, You laugh because They are all the same.
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No never been mate, wouldn't mind someday, but two kids and a third due in a few weeks tend to put a damper on the travelling!😀
www.nboc.org.uk
Northern Ireland's only air cooled club
yer man i recon, good on ya mate what age are they, i know one is 0, lol
[Edited on 30-8-2004 by VolksFolks]
They laugh because You are different, You laugh because They are all the same.
check out
www.lowlight.com.au for low lights only..
Hey Pete, top a the mornin to ya!! Welcome to the land of Aussie dubbin mate!!
Salt on da roads very nasty!! :jesus
120 members with a website...that's impressive..
How come we have to be registered to look at pics/gallery and miscellaneous pics on the website 🙁
Looks like there are some very nice VW's over there from pics I could see...
Gooday there Irish
Just spent all afternoon sorting out my rusty piles of good parts from my rusty piles of crap :thumb, yep, rust everywhere! still it's mostly sorted now, finding bits of cars I never even owned in the bottom of boxes, beats me! The kids are a great help (!) running off with stuff and hiding it etc.. One of my mates is convinced I'll find a split screen camper in my garden if I look hard enough!
Yeah the kids are 4 & 5 and a half, one of each, the boy being the eldest, they're good fun most of the time and they love the Beetle (mainly because they can bounce around in the back with no belts on) hopefully I'll have the Oval done before he's old enough to drive...
I think basically the registration thing is to deter would be thieves forming a shopping list, there's been a spate of 'steal to order' thefts in the UK over the past couple of years, it would be easy for anyone to spot a decent motor and figure out where it was or turn up at a run and try something (last year on the mainland a very nice black Oval was stolen overnight from beside the owners tent after picking up a 1st place in a major concours event, it was never found. I think it's out the frighteners on most people so I think the guy who runs the website has done that just to try and safeguard peoples cars in some small way. sorry for the hassle, I wasn't aware of it (he probably told me and I've forgotton!)
www.nboc.org.uk
Northern Ireland's only air cooled club
VolksFolks wrote:
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Meant to say, that is very nice, not really into 'modern' colours on ovals, but that really looks the business, yours I take it?
www.nboc.org.uk
Northern Ireland's only air cooled club
OMG...that's terrible about the oval getting stolen....🙁
There was similar talk around here after an event recently...well about people targeting events who obviously know what they are nicking off peoples rides....
It was the first time I'd heard a discusion about it, so it is relatively new here....no talk of a complete ride going... :jesus
Welcome from me as well Irish. Unfortunately we haven't got a Guinness thing so this will have to do!:beer
As far as welcoming foriegners, well I don't know what the percentage is but there is a HUGE amount of Australians (including me) who claim Irish heritage I personally hope mine is the convict ancestry as well. Although the furthest I can go back is to the gold rush in Victoria. (mid 19th century) I think not too successful in that game though.
You may well be our first Irish member. We may need to add to the title of our forum so as not to appear Xenophobic eh?
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Welcome to the Aussie VW Scene.
yeah welcome to AVDs dude, nice bugs too
Nice Bay Dubnut! something I wouldn't mind getting myself someday if I could find the space! hmmm, yellow Guinness, why does that not seem so appealing?😀
It would be great if I was the first Irishman on here, something to be proud of I reckon! looks like I've dragged an Englishman with me though if you check the newbies forum, I put a post about this place on Volkszone.com which is the biggest UK VW forum and he's followed the link, I dare day there'll be more.. expect a UK Irish invasion any day now!😀
www.nboc.org.uk
Northern Ireland's only air cooled club
Welcome mate.. I actually was previously part of a UK forum before starting this one.. The scene is huge over there, but we are catching up.. 😉
Again, welcome and enjoy. Just don't go importing our cars!! :P
THE LOWEST WITH THE MOSTEST BLING BLING WINS!!
Pete McC wrote:Nice Bay Dubnut! something I wouldn't mind getting myself someday if I could find the space! hmmm, yellow Guinness, why does that not seem so appealing?😀
It would be great if I was the first Irishman on here, something to be proud of I reckon! looks like I've dragged an Englishman with me though if you check the newbies forum, I put a post about this place on Volkszone.com which is the biggest UK VW forum and he's followed the link, I dare day there'll be more.. expect a UK Irish invasion any day now!😀
Join the Que
😉 I bein here since April 03 but for some reason i only have 1 post even thought i posted up loads stuff before.Hows it goin bud?You'l love it in here,nice dubs,nice people
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Turlough only 1 post since April..
....looks like maybe you've been going into the 'buy swap and sell' sections where they get rid of old/out of date threads and you loose posts.... I stay out of these areas as much as possible or make sure I have enough brownie points that a couple lost isn't noticed 😀
Well I do a lot of chit chatting....:blah:blah:blah
Pete must admit I did notice a new UK member shortly after you arrived here....
Hey Turlough, I've got a good mate here by the name of Danny McGill, from Ballycastle. You must know his family??? Everyone knows everyone so I'm told. He's visiting there in November this year. And pete, welcome virtually to cyber Australia. how are you enjoying the outback?
http://www.sievers.nl/visitaustralia/"Tell him 'We've already got one'"
LOL! Mighta known Turlough would have been here in front of me, that bloody man gets everywhere in front of me, especially when people are selling semaphores...😉:P😀 ah well, second irish man isn't bad I suppose!😀
www.nboc.org.uk
Northern Ireland's only air cooled club
Hey Oasis,just mention my name to Danny next time your talkin to him and see what he says!We were buddies at school!!!!I havn't seen him in years!Wheres he livin?
Yeah one post since April 2003!😀
Ahh Pete i get around m8 you know that😉
Turlough wrote:D
Join the Que
😉 I bein here since April 03 but for some reason i only have 1 post even thought i posted up loads stuff before.Hows it goin bud?You'l love it in here,nice dubs,nice people
[Edited on 31-8-2004 by Turlough] [/quote]
DOH, well stagger me! another person from the land 497 shades of green. Sorry if I missed you...
and it wasn't a yellow guiness, it was a carlton draught i reckon..or more likely on this forum a glass of crown lager...which is the drink of choice here...in fact "crownies" get so many mentions around here they ought to be sponsors...
so here's to Both of our Irish mates help ya selves to a cyber drink in the cyberbar...
By the time we get through this lot the white can at the bottom will probably taste OK!
David
maybe someone can update the emotithingos to include a black beer...."I like to watch"
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It's alright mate, the english have already drag'd them selfs over here, myself i ran from the uk a few years back and been smiling ever since. The best thing about the dub scene over here is the fact they mainly have little to no rust WOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOO no more replacing the bottom 6 inch's and all the floors and sills etc for me. I was a member of the WolfsburgWeedHuggers on the southcoast of england when i was there and still have a lot of contact with the SussexVolkswagenOwnersClub. .. keep on dubbing
steff..........................................
Life with out a v-dub is no life at all!!!!!
Pete McC wrote:VolksFolks wrote:
[Edited on 30-8-2004 by VolksFolks]
Meant to say, that is very nice, not really into 'modern' colours on ovals, but that really looks the business, yours I take it?
Yer is mine,but i am a type tree hugger rearly
Is for sale if anybody interested, has issues,,
Andy
They laugh because You are different, You laugh because They are all the same.
check out
www.lowlight.com.au for low lights only..
I'll stick my hand up and say im a POM too. I ran away too, with a luverly lady, hehehehe.
