Hi guys and gals,
Here's some general chit chat from me... I haven't met most of you but I feel that I know some of you from visiting the forum on a daily basis for about 2 years and taking interest in the posts especially in tech talk.
I reckon most VW owners are really great people, apart from those that don't know they are driving one!
I have been restoring my '68 Notch for about 4 years now and probably won't finish anytime soon. I've also owned a '72 ragtop, a '76 convertible and a '68 beetle 1500. Fortunately I enjoy working on my cars!
I recently bought my new camper from Cairns and drove it back to Sydney and we saw about 25 kombi's on the road during the trip. Maybe 23 people waved and some looked really excited to see another van - me and the missus were too!
Owning a dakdak is really an experience in my opinion. Here's to everyone that loves their VW!
:beer
Regards,
Toby
[Edited on 14-3-2005 by type3lover]
kara&herkombi ·
Did you happen to pass through the Sunshine Coast about a month or so ago?..
i remember waving to a kombi that looks like yours and the couple inside seemed to be very excited to see me which was lovely!!
type3lover ·
Yeah it was about a month ago. Probably was us!
Hello again to ya!
ClassicVW(pacific) ·
it goes without saying, its a soulful experience alright !!!
I always wave at other VW's (I miss a few if I am concentrating on the road or half asleep) and its mostly kombis that wave back.
57kombi ·
Here we go.
I wave at every aircooled but I only get waves back from other kombis?????
Cheers
Dave
type3lover ·
Let me broaden that then..."VW aircooled owners" :party
ClassicVW(pacific) ·
57kombi wrote:Here we go.
I wave at every aircooled but I only get waves back from other kombis?????
Cheers
Dave
Thats because you're always slagging beetles off !!!
57kombi ·
Yeah but they dont know that.
Cheers
Mr Angry
mattie ·
most vw owners in sa are ignorent or they just think were stupid! for waving at them! dad got a big kiss blown at him from an italian bloke once when he told me i thought a few things!
57kombi ·
So Mattie
You want me to blow kissses at you then????
Cheers
CECIL
ClassicVW(pacific) ·
Toby
You have to be careful what you say when Dave is signed on, hes got to watch his blood pressure, you should know by now this is one of the many subjects that gets him going !!!
kombibob ·
there is a short cut i take to get on the hwy from work its a little dirt track that not many people use,today when i turned into it there was a kombi comming the other way we made eye contact i waved and he drove on past
i thought how rude
it was only after a few k,s down the road i realised i was in the work ute not the kombi:duh
57kombi ·
Watch it Roy or I'll start posting pictures.
Het did you sell 58split the safaris.
Looks good.
Cheers
Dave
mattie ·
no thanks cess ill leave you and gra to it!:P
type3lover ·
Roy I was told to contact you for parts:
My kombi accelerator pedal linkage is fubar and one of the hinge eyelets on the floor has also broken. have u got a kit or something that will cure the prob? Probably should have started a new post for this...Cheers mate.
ClassicVW(pacific) ·
Bob I always feel like waving when I'm a passenger in my sons Subbie.
Yes Dave we did sell the safaris to 58 split, they look bloody lovely
pod ·
when going to the dyno day the other weekend ,was an older guy just getting into his beetle in a servo and he stopped to wave to us all as we went by,thats what i call vw friendly,and kombibob i know what you mean by forgetting you are in a different car as sometimes wave at dubs whilst in my 4wd:o
57kombi ·
Just kampers do a full kit.
Cheers
Dave
type3lover ·
Aren't they UK based? I'd prefer to buy from a local if I can.
Shipping costs seem a bit ridiculous from what I've seen from other overseas distributors!
72TWINCAB ·
Just gotta to love the kombi wave. You can never get sick of waving to a fellow Kombi driver.
ClassicVW(pacific) ·
type3lover wrote:Roy I was told to contact you for parts:
My kombi accelerator pedal linkage is fubar and one of the hinge eyelets on the floor has also broken. have u got a kit or something that will cure the prob? Probably should have started a new post for this...Cheers mate.
Thanks
Yes we have a kit let me look into it for you. Best thing to do is probably just drop us an e-mail if you dont mind
type3lover ·
Will do Roy. Thanks mate.
And a big huge WAVE to all!!!
mscabrio ·
type3lover wrote:Let me broaden that then..."VW aircooled owners" :party
Guess that you won't be waving to me then hey ??????
72TWINCAB ·
mscabrio wrote:
type3lover wrote:Let me broaden that then..."VW aircooled owners" :party
Guess that you won't be waving to me then hey ??????
I'll wave to you mscabrio.
Here we go
"72TWINCAB is waving as hard as he can"
There we go. How was that?
[Edited on 14/3/2005 by 72TWINCAB]
mscabrio ·
wait hang on ...... will put my glasses on .....
Thats better can see you wave all the way from QLD !!!!
Waving back ..... ooops boss thinks that I am now officially crackers !
JOE751 ·
There is a really nice dark blue splitty that lives, or at leastr used to in Sth melb...
They wouldn't bloody wave,,,flashing my lights, honk the horn ....nothing...
My first day of owning my splitty though I got several waves, ...how happy was I..
When my wife and I started going out, she thought it was wanky, now she waves and spots kombis too.
I pulled up to the lights right next to the same modle as mine a 66' aussie split, I could have been in an econovan for all she cared.. I reved in a mock "wanna drag" type way and she just rolled her eyes...not nearly the same modle mind the EXACT same.... :cussing
saw an delux bug on plenty rd bundoora... it was quite funny as we both looked up to seee each other checking out the others car, that got a toot even...well an aoooooga from me..
lot more wonderfull VW waves to in the story bank...
an I too forget when im in another car and wave
mscabrio ·
I used to wave all the time, but now I get the "damn watercooled yuppie" bizzo so I do my little secret under the dashboard wave
72TWINCAB ·
But do other new beetle owners give you the wave?
mscabrio ·
72TWINCAB wrote:But do other new beetle owners give you the wave?
Generally no, the bunch of snobs ! Doesn't do the new beetle reputation any good !!!!
I waved to a woman in a yellow new beetle one day, now she always waves to me when she sees me. I often see a young man in a blue new beetle cabrio like mine and he aways waves.
Fossil ·
Kombi's Rock On - as for the wave as long it's not that stupid hippie peace sign they used in the KFC ad with the 2 slpitties. Ok so I was in a way part of the hippie/peace action but we never used a peace sign to wave from the Kombi - a full wave or the ever so KOOL single finger lift of the steering wheel
Fossil ·
My missus also reckopns it's great whan you pass another Kombi and the wave happens -reckons it's just 😎 so 😎
JOE751 ·
Generally don’t bother to wave to young people in bug esp girls coz I figure they got one coz its cute and cheap…but perhaps I should so the BECOME VW people.
Have had people pull over and I too if I see a splity and have a talk to the owner. This one guy had a bay, and pulled in to see my splity while I was aerating the tires. He had his nephew with him and was going oh nephew look at this oh and that etc I think hi s nephew could have given a shit…lol
CoopGirl ·
I wave at lots of VW's and hardly anyone waves back at me 🙁
Only true VW people wave at me cause I guess the others don't recognise a type3 as a VW. Most people only know of bugs and kombis.
Lams ·
i notice too that kombi usually wave more
i've had this old man follow me all the way to work in his original 63 bug that he bought back in... 1963!
but i've also waved to this guy in a slammed early bug and he looked at me very weird
was out in the golf the other night and this other elderly lady in another silver golf gave me a wave
both water and air VW owners are cooL!
[Edited on 16-3-2005 by Lams]
type3lover ·
Yeah I feel bad for ruling out the watercooled VW owners. My mistake. You guys rock as well!
I saw an old guy driving a sweet looking bay bus today and I waved like an idiot at him but no response. I'm sure he had no idea how cool he looked behing the wheel of such a nice ride. Methinks his sh@t doesn't stink either! Too cool for school perhaps...
Fossil ·
Had an old bloke corner me to go over my Kombi the other week - he was wrapped in it and it is amazing how many people do stop and talk to Kombi owners:bounce:bounce:bounce
57kombi ·
Well it has been said that,
" You meet a better class of people driving a Kombi"
Cheers
Dave
mscabrio ·
type3lover wrote:Yeah I feel bad for ruling out the watercooled VW owners. My mistake. You guys rock as well!
I saw an old guy driving a sweet looking bay bus today and I waved like an idiot at him but no response. I'm sure he had no idea how cool he looked behing the wheel of such a nice ride. Methinks his sh@t doesn't stink either! Too cool for school perhaps...
YOU SHOULD FEEL BAD !!!! hehehehehehehehe
As for the old guy, maybe he was blind ?
country dubber ·
I get heaps of waves in the Country Buggy although most people dont know what it is but a guy in a Kombi waved the other day. Funy when I first got it on the road my wife and daughter did want to be seen dead in it! Now my daugher (11) can't wait for me to take it out on the weekends and she waves at every body, now I'm embarresed.
As for Kombis, I just got one last week (need a new project) and started noticing how many there are around here. Just today I counted 16, and thats only in a couple of hours of driving around the coast!
type3lover ·
Blind as a bat! I reckon there are Kombi owners(cool people), and then there are people who just happen to own a Kombi (no idea).
mscabrio ·
Yeah I agree with you there !
BTW. Why do you call yourself Type3lover when you have a clear addiction to Kombis ? or are you like me and can't really decide ?
I drool over Karmann Ghia's but own a new beetle (which I may add I adore and wouldn't trade her for a second)
[Edited on 17/3/2005 by mscabrio]
type3lover ·
Sure I love the kombi, but the true love of my life is my '68 Notchy. Won't be finished anyday soon (especially since I got the van) but it's a work in progress!
I'll finish it one day...
slowbay70 ·
waving is the best, love getting waves from kids in the back of cars and at bus stops, it really makes my day to get a wave...
puurri ·
Dear All,
try driving a country buggy. most kombi owners and other dubheads don't notice it as a dakka, much less wave.
(but I've got broad shoulders)
jenz58 ·
....hey I know they are a dubb n wave .... but then you don't see many on the roads ....pity.... 🙁
I'd luv one......and a kombi ......mmmmm and a ghia :thumb
Yes agreed not all kombi drivers acknowledge you with a wave back.....if you're in a beetle....we need to educate them
Can never get a wave from the drivers on new transporters....they've just bought themselves a van and it happens to be a VW....there needs to be a section in their VW handbook on road etiquette....Rule 1. BIG wave to fellow VW owners.....especially if they wave to YOU :sandrine
jenz58 ·
....wow we got a post of a nice CB spotted the other day...the spotter was so wrapt he took a pic not bigger compliment I don't think ..... if the driver was in it I'm sure they would have had a wave :thumb
BTW mscabrio....are you starting to notice the difference in people reactions to you now you have yourself an 'old' aircooled....just because it looks hot doesn't count though OK 🙅
amazer ·
jenz58 wrote:Yes agreed not all kombi drivers acknowledge you with a wave back.....if you're in a beetle....we need to educate them
its cos you beetle drivers arent worthy 😉 Us kombi drivers invented the wave, you lot are just ugly wannabes :thumb:P
ghia = italian for rust.
field ·
Nice notch! My wife broke down about 3weeks ago on the bribie turn off and she told me that a green offroad kombie drove straight pass her she said the driver even had a good look
Happens alot more now days sometimes not even a wave.
p.s. yes she was driving our orange kombi
mop021 ·
my favourite is the delayed wave...... i do this all the time but its funny when you see someone else do it!
You've already passed, but you see the arm go out the window in the rear vision mirrow
hehe
CB Hotdog ·
Just tonight driving home, we were at some lights and a splitty was sitting on the other side of the lights (facing us) - we were in our beetle so we flashed our lights and waved - but he just drove straight past.
I don't particulary care - I think the whole waving thing is great - but everyone is different. Just made this comment to show that beetles do wave to kombis - but kombis don't always wave to beetles.:kiss
gummy132 ·
Hey all,
I've had my kombi for a couple months now and always give the wave to the other kombi owners around the Barossa Valley (where I live).
I remember the first time I took it out for a drive, I pulled up at the petrol station next to another early bay (same model as my bus), and gave the wave. They then left, both people watching my kombi as they drove off, the driver even had his head out the window looking back at my van as he drove away!
mr_kombi1976 ·
Hello all 🙂 I haven't been to this site for a while and thought I'd pop in and say hello.
Every time we take our kombi out someone will come up to us and want to talk about it. I'm a stall holder at the markets and on weekends 'K-2' is the 'market-mobile'. So many times I'll be packing up the stall at the end of the day and be thinking "Where is that husband of mine? Why isn't he helping me? "...and of course, I'll find him at the kombi with some stranger who's bailed him up to look and talk about K-2 LOL
Yes...we love the wave. There's even a pic of me waving to all you fellow kombi owners on our little kombi website 🙂
kara&herkombi ·
Well now that i have a beetle i feel abit left out cause i dont get as many waves as i did in the kombi!!
9 out of 10 times kombi people would wave to me.. with a big smile and nod... and now in the beetle probably about half of the beetle people wave to me (but hardly see any beetle as i did kombis).. and its always just a little hand off the steering wheel wave... abit dissappointing but im gunna keep waving until they wave back!!!