Hi fellow aussieveedubbers,
just like to find out the amount of pre 79 volkswagens killed by forum members.
After you have posted, please make a reply to the year, colour, model and what happened to the car below.
This should be good poll hopefully if this works.
Cheers Will.
Ps. i am doing this so hopefuly people can maybe try to save some more volkswagens than whats happening at the moment.
[ Edited on 30-1-2006 by 1963 Empi Radar ]
[ Edited on 30-1-2006 by 1963 Empi Radar ]
MR930 ·
Guess I'd be over 100.
barls ·
i think i balance out as i saved one and destroyed 1
shaihulud ·
One, a 68 semi auto to get the ball joint front with the big disc brakes and the IRS rear with the big drum brakes to get a pan to shorten for my Manx SR.
Two, a 73 beetle to get the gearbox and other parts that were missing from the first one.
I don't feel guilty because both were either stripped or wrecks and I am rebirthing them as a rare classic car.
wrecker67 ·
heaps..................:beer
Desert Moose ·
To Many...... but it was for the greater good "honest" :P :thumb
amazeer ·
So statistics tell us... if you bust up 3 dubs.... you're hooked and will bust up a dozen or more.
david777 ·
Just one.
I found that if you chop up your beetle into small enough pieces, you can fit it inside a kombi to take to SIMS metal!
HotRodMatt ·
hehehehehe...
cut cut cut!
lohoon ·
I have artistically sculptured about 12 into buggies. And sacrificed a few to the gods. I still have 5 Beetles; 1 Baja, 1 with tree damage,1 oval Rat,1 resto cal oval and my Parents restored 68 auto.
I have buired 2 (64,68) burnt 1(63) ,seen 1 (superbug)be hailed to death, seen (anothersuper) tipped over by a drunk party,Another Super was rolled over by a P plater,saw 3 (type 3s) rust away to nothing cause the dude was going to "fix em up one day".And know of 10 buggies made from Beetles.These are "bush Buggies" an I have seen heaps of them lying in paddocks an farmers sheds.So i think the years have definetly taken the beetle numbers down.
Some buggies Ive come across still have the cast generator stand on them!36-40 horse motors!
I know of 1 such buggie that still runs!These "buggies also have been the demise of a lot of split kombis being robbed of thier motors and reduction hubs.
baybuscamperkid ·
2, but one of those 2 has been saved and is being restored by someone else, so i soppose that one doesnt really count does it?
jnr356 ·
3 chopped up beetles in the back yard at the moment
but have" saved" many more than that
jeremy ·
burn baby burn
jeremy ·
burn
hipichic ·
this thread makes me :cry
bajachris88 ·
phh call that burning? 🙅
😂
Schmoburger ·
Jeremy... how could you!!????
That is painful to my eyes!!!!🙁😢:cry:puke
handycam ·
ive cut up a few 2 save others the cars are at that age were this has 2 happen now wich is sad but life must go on🤪
PrettyBlueBug ·
Zero! And I don't plan to either.
Midlife crisis ·
5 with 3 last weekend..................2 beetles and 3 type 3's..........The type 3 parts are all under the house (stacked neatly and ready for use) and used parts to build our (now daughters) car. The beetles are making kind donations to rebuiding a country buggy and excess bits are also under the house.........................anyone need late Type 3 or early and late beetle bits?
Kathy
ratty 63 ·
2 - 1 white Baja that was so rusty that I didn't have to remove the bolts from the floor/sills to remove the body (it was being held together by bog and chicken wire!) :duh
1 Blue '63 Splitty panelvan (with home made camper conversion). It had been hit in the side by a bus in the mid '80's then parked under a tree and allowed to fill up with leaves and water for the next 15 - 20 years - it was cut up for parts as almost everything was bent or rusted. The gearbox is still doing service in a splitty somewhere out there!
R 🙂
Mad Manx ·
Well I,ve seen the death of two volkswagens,
1. My first car was a '63 beetle, an old guy that shouldn't be driving didn't give way to me and I T-boned him with my beetle (must say his car came off worst) my poor 'ol beetle ended up a foot shorter than it was.
2. the second was my kombi, I fell asleep at the wheel coming home after a 15hr night shift, I left the highway doing 100kph, hit two trees and rolled down a 3 metre drain finally coming to a stop against a third tree upside down.
Needless to say I still can't part with either of these vechicles, they both are still in my back yard, the interior of the kombi is being transferred to another, and the beetle still holds a strong place in my heart, so it won't be parted out.
1500S ·
Only one but sadly, after seeing "Kombikim's" 54 oval, I wish that I hadn't done that deed back in 1968!
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Rural Baja ·
My dad has cut up a 69 and a 58 which had the roof cut off. Both against my own opion.
I spose if one can save a rare old dak, dak, It could be a good cause❓❓❓
Both were beyond repair.
Keep putting in your votes peoples.
My good green one has been built from about 6 beetles.
Various parts such as seats, bumpers, mudguards etc.
The last two wrecks are seen here.
My sister made up this dodgy banner thing around it so ignore that.
Looking at my green bug at the bottom, do you think it was worth it???
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Rural Baja ·
handycam wrote:ive cut up a few 2 save others the cars are at that age were this has 2 happen now wich is sad but life must go on🤪
What were they Cam??
Rural Baja ·
jeremy wrote:burn baby burn
You sound like a very destructive person Jeremy:P:P:thumb:thumb:beer
Rural Baja ·
HotRodMatt wrote:hehehehehe...
cut cut cut!
So do you Hott Rod Matt:P:P:P:thumb:thumb:thumb:beer:beer:rudolf
Rural Baja ·
So far 144 Vw have been cut up by people on aussieveedubbers.com So FAR.
Keep Voting Peoples🙅
:blush
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Spook ·
Lots.
It's not so much how many I've cut up that upsets people, but what they were.
A 58 kombi, a 59 double door kombi, a 56 beetle, 3 x 59 beetles, 2 x 60 beetles.
Then the sundries, probably a half dozen later beetles, 2 bay kombis, a bay single cab & an early type 3 wagon.
Rural Baja ·
Hell.
Does anyone have anypics of them before and after they were crashed?
amazeer ·
mine wasnt crashed, it was just evil. it deserved to die. I did the world a favour.
VolksFolks ·
i have done many bays but only one splitty!
but just to keep others ALIVE
Schmoburger ·
Argghh!.. what is it people have against bays??!!!... "Oh... I've cut up THIS MANY bay's." :duh
Why do people disreguard them so???:cussing
Bejaisus... chop up a split and you are satan... chop up a bay and your a sportsman!!!
Grrr.. thou shalt all regret when yon bay becometh valuable in 2 score years, and thee shalt be kicking thyselves, when thee think back to yon yellow bay they hacked to pieces with thy blowtorch!!! :ninja
amazeer ·
I've cut up a kombi as well. But it was only a matter of time before it turned into a flinstone car as the floor rusted through and dropped out.
1. The kombi will only become valuable when there are few left.
2. We're enhancing the gene pool, getting rid of the junkers that give us a bad name.
3. In 20 years, the cost of converting to hydrogen power will be just too damn great to make kombis a viable option.
Schmoburger ·
2. We're enhancing the gene pool, getting rid of the junkers that give us a bad name.
That's what Hitler said.. to an effect.:jesus
Midlife crisis ·
Well number 6 started today the engine is out, over the next few weeks it will be striped.
The pan or should I say what pan lots of rust, the body there is more rust and bog than metal body
I think this one has been stored at one time with the windows open very sad , at least it parts may help other type 3's live longer.
B.O.T
( Bureau of Toxicity )
Schmoburger ·
hmmm.. yeah... bodgy bog people suck.... a little bit of bog is tolerable... but when over half a car is made of bog, it mkes me want to get the lazy sod and jam bog right up there... [insert most humourous orifice here... each to his own you know..]
A '72 Bay I looked at buying before I found Buttercup (same day actually) didnt have any visible rust, however it was full of bog along almost the full length of the body, starting at the bttom of the sills and going up as far as the level of the top of the rear arches!... rather sickening. good engine and chassis, but crappy body and even crappier interior. 🙁:cussing and he was wantin 2000ish for it, unregoed, unblueslipped. :jesus
It had more or les had bucketloads of brown stuff chopped out and filled with bog, then had obviously been shoddily repainted all over with some really bad paint... nice color, and pretty tidy looking... but in the end... just another turd-polishing attempt. 🙁
whatnow ·
i can think of 7 but i think i'm missimg one or two. all beetles so far.
56 had been sitting on its side for about 20 years. striped of anything good then given to me.
58 oval parts donor. in hindsight brobably shouldn't have cut it.... oh well.
59 donated it's front clip to my 56 after i pranged it. prob shouldn't have cut this one either but all i could think of was my baby.
60 rusty to the point that with the doors open you could see through the sills from top to bottom, came with lots of nice bits though.
67 wish i hadn't cut this one.... some rust but not that much... i was young and foolish
67 i bought it for it's bumpers... terminal rust.
68 semi auto. had had a roll top cut into it :puke then had lived one block from the ocean for a number of years. nasty.
next time you cut a car up try a mattock (sp) it's lots of fun. a sledgehammer is also satisfying...