Everyone has a different story, and a different life. Like all members here, we all have some form of passion for vee dubbs. But what i ask is this.
"How did U 1st get hocked on the vee dubb?"
Tell us your story, the 1st time u desired the wonderous car, or how your heart melted at 1st glance, or even your 1st craving or obsession for a VW.:thumb
[Edited on 30/4/2005 by mynameischris88]
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69' baja: kombi box, thing spindles, irs, disc front, type 3 rear drums, 2 inch lift kit, 31x10 rears. 👍
New engine in process: 94mm p&bs, 74mm C/w chomol Crank, 35.5x39 SP heads, turbo. Wierd combo, hopeful torque monsta!
never been hocked on vw's... always paid cash for all mine. 😉
but i was hooked by my little lady who has always liked beetles... but ive sinced converted her to splits wiht safari's!🙂
Simply Cruzin'...
my wife too, she spotted this silly looking car called a vw notchback, well she bought it and i came to enjoy its company i suppose, i now have 14 + and have a business wrecking, selling parts/cars, mechanical work etc, all worked out for the better rearly
Andy
They laugh because You are different, You laugh because They are all the same.
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a friend gave me a kombi ,was too rusty so bought a beetle ,now have a caravelle as my daily all this started a year and a half ago :thumb
just follow the pics in my avatar it sort of tells the story 🙂
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https://www.facebook.com/FlatFourNice. Its interesting how thats 2 in a row that got hooked due to the mrs. hmmm.
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69' baja: kombi box, thing spindles, irs, disc front, type 3 rear drums, 2 inch lift kit, 31x10 rears. 👍
New engine in process: 94mm p&bs, 74mm C/w chomol Crank, 35.5x39 SP heads, turbo. Wierd combo, hopeful torque monsta!
All these are pretty cool.
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69' baja: kombi box, thing spindles, irs, disc front, type 3 rear drums, 2 inch lift kit, 31x10 rears. 👍
New engine in process: 94mm p&bs, 74mm C/w chomol Crank, 35.5x39 SP heads, turbo. Wierd combo, hopeful torque monsta!
My auntie and uncle had a kombi when I was young, that was my first memory of the kombi.
How I came to love them - would probably stem from travelling alot when I was younger in my parents campervan. (not a kombi) I also hated my job and would often say to anyone who would listen that I was going to quit and take off around Australia in a kombi.
How I got my kombi - b/f and I just happened to be looking in the trading post one weekend, saw one for $900, came up with $900 between us, went and had a look and talked the owner down to $700. Unfortunately the engine was buggared so it sat in our backyard for 12 months until we could afford a new one.
Have travelled over 10,000km in it so far and have never looked back! I'd sell my soul before I'd sell my kombi! YAY KOMBI:thumb:thumb
GO MANLY!!
All the way rice-girl
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69' baja: kombi box, thing spindles, irs, disc front, type 3 rear drums, 2 inch lift kit, 31x10 rears. 👍
New engine in process: 94mm p&bs, 74mm C/w chomol Crank, 35.5x39 SP heads, turbo. Wierd combo, hopeful torque monsta!
Another Girlfriend story.
My G/f always wanted an old beetle. I said no cause i didnt want her buying old cars from prevoius experience so she bought a new one. Then i figured i would buy and old one too do up.
And now she regrets liking them cause i make her sit out there and sand and paint strip with me. Hahaha!!
I liked bugs cause they were a little different and of course, who didn't fall in love with Herbie ???????
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lol
Well, as u know, Herbie is the luv bug. Yeah, the girlfriend's tend to play a big part. But us guys too.
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69' baja: kombi box, thing spindles, irs, disc front, type 3 rear drums, 2 inch lift kit, 31x10 rears. 👍
New engine in process: 94mm p&bs, 74mm C/w chomol Crank, 35.5x39 SP heads, turbo. Wierd combo, hopeful torque monsta!
I got hooked in 1964 when I used to ride past the VW dealers in Bendigo (Vic) while on my Paper Round (delivering papers at 6.ooam), I bought my first Beetle in 1965 for $15 (no motor) when I was 15 and there hasn't been a time since that I haven't owned a heap of VWs.
My wife and I both had Beetles before we got married and 18 months ago all of our 5 kids were also driving aircooled VWs.
40 years on I'm still hooked!!! Currently drive the '65 Desert Splitty and the wife has a '70 Beetle in the shed down home (Bendigo).
Cheers, Ian.
Excentric (wife says) VW nut, having owned 250+ VWs in 40 years.
Nice work Ian. Honestly, vw has made really great cars. I wish my parents would buy me one.
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69' baja: kombi box, thing spindles, irs, disc front, type 3 rear drums, 2 inch lift kit, 31x10 rears. 👍
New engine in process: 94mm p&bs, 74mm C/w chomol Crank, 35.5x39 SP heads, turbo. Wierd combo, hopeful torque monsta!
Spotted a baja and wanted one from then one that was back in 1987 on my paper round !! Didn't get a baja ! Instead restored a 69 first go !!! Kept it till 2003. Bought the 68 in 2002, The mrs fancied a kombi in 2003. Had never really had an intreset in them till we got one. They are great. It prolly gets used more than the bug now 🙂 The 56 picked up along the way. Needs total reno tho !! maybe one day i'll get started !!!
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I got my first beetle cause its all I could afford and that when the affair started.
Yeah, beetles are great 1st cars.
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69' baja: kombi box, thing spindles, irs, disc front, type 3 rear drums, 2 inch lift kit, 31x10 rears. 👍
New engine in process: 94mm p&bs, 74mm C/w chomol Crank, 35.5x39 SP heads, turbo. Wierd combo, hopeful torque monsta!
My dad always had 'em and I hated them but after he practically forced me to have a 2 year old Marathon beetle I was hooked and have always had aircooled VWs since.
Think I've got oil in the blood 🙂 Granpa started it with his beetles (he now owns a '75) then my dad has always had a vw around (had a red passat then an 80s golf then a '96 passat) so they were always around me 🙂
I'd wanted a different looking car for my 1st car (was looking at beetles and minis) then I remember seeing Jays_1965 (my cousins) beautiful Wolf and I knew it had to be a vw and it had to be a beetle 😀 and so the obsession began..lol..
[Edited on 1-5-2005 by Jay_1965vw]
Heidi - 1960 White Beetle
'65 Kiwi Ghia
My Mum had a white beetle when I was little and all of us kids used to play in it when it was off the road and pretend it was herbie.
my grandpa had 3 beetles... my dad had a super...
i knew it was my turn when i was 14 and driving back from hervey bay, there was a sky blue cabrio bug, with 2 gorgeous hippies and one cute mini foxie, top down and crusin...
i had to have one!
in the beginning, the universe was created.
this made alot of people very angry and is widely regarded as a bad move.
Its interesting. The majority of diagnoses of "BUG ADDICTION" seem to have been caused or even 'passed down' from the reli's.
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69' baja: kombi box, thing spindles, irs, disc front, type 3 rear drums, 2 inch lift kit, 31x10 rears. 👍
New engine in process: 94mm p&bs, 74mm C/w chomol Crank, 35.5x39 SP heads, turbo. Wierd combo, hopeful torque monsta!
...hmmm, I'm another one who had the 'VW bug' passed down from my parents.
My parents owned a '65 Beetle (factory Black with red interior), a '68 411L 2-door, and what is now my brothers '65 Westfalia Camper Kombi. I learnt to drive in the 411 and there was no way I was ever going to own anything but a VW. Years later I have 5 and would have more if my wife would let me! 😀
R 🙂
40hp, 6V and ...er... slowly making improvements
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It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice!
Founding member of the Gold Coast Dub Club Inc. 🙂My parents bought a brand new deep red VW in 1969 together and I hae always loved looking at pics going oooh and ahhh :P
Then when I got my license I begged my dad to buy me one! He said no and bought me one a few months later as a suprise! I owned that for a year, bought a brand new car with all the luxouries but missed my bug so much I had to sell it and by another one 🙂
i got my frist vw about 40 years ago it was a oval made a bush buggy out of it could not kill it sold the holden had vw every since
I was encoraged to buy a beetle by Rhett (phat_bug), who happens to be Dessert bugs son, and i thought no harm in lookin. so i ended up with one. A sweet 66. Its off the road at the minute as its getting rebuilt. I bought a 96' Statesman as a daily until its rebuilt and its caused me nothing but trouble....... AGHHHH!
Gimme my beetle back anyday.
1958 Beetle, 1966 VW Beetle, 1996 Holden Statesman!
Its an obsesion for engines and fuel.... 😏
mynameischris88 wrote:Nice. Its interesting how thats 2 in a row that got hooked due to the mrs. hmmm.
Well add another to the "Lady loved em and got me Hooked"
My Ex wanted a Manx for her first car and after a lot of looking she got quite a pretty one and then got me to Work/Show her how to work on it... Gearbox swap, bearings and a few other small repairs later with no previous VW experence I found it quite easy..
Well I found them so well engineered and easy to work on, not to mention fun to drive I decided to get my own as I had become bored of my Austin Healy Sprite that I had fixed up and wanted something to get out in the ruff with...
So now I have a Manx with a Subaru EA81 and she Rocks...
Well my girllfriend ( now wife) had one and her parents had one so it came from them.
Marc
If you can't laugh at yourself you can't laugh at anyone else! Because life is to short not to LAUGH
i fell in love with the beetle as a teenager and vowed that no matter what i would have one as my first car. now i do and i love every minute i drive her. most awesome feeling ever and to have my dream car as my first car is fantastic. Beetles have always turned my head and still do, even though i have mine i can't help watching as others pass by my work or on the road.
my g/f at the time had a 67 beetle and a 60 beetle she was resto'ing..
i sorta got hooked big time when she started to teach me how to fix/tune them etc.. she was a mechanic see, a handy thing guys ( but as she taught me to fix em then it was my job to always fix em ) :duh
then we scored a 75 camper as a trade in where she worked, pretty cheap at that..
from a couple in their 70's sayin that there camping days were over.. so we nicked it from the dealership :thumb
and never looked back..
always good to hear a story where someone got it over a sales yard.. 😀
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