Ok, somewhere on this forum there was a post about ridiculous loads carried in VWs. I think The_Bronze may have started it. I've just wallowed through 44 PAGES of General Chat looking for it, but must have overlooked it. Can't find it anywhere. 🙁
With the kombi being off the road at the moment, and the weather getting colder, I had to find a new method of transporting firewood home..... I now have what basically equates to a petrol-powered wheelbarrow! 😀
Kruizin Kol
That must be the new steam powered beetle I have been hearing about!
Boxer Power
Member of DMLRK.....Die Mittler Lebuns Resto Komeradschaft
HE HE HE HE 😀😀
MIKE.
VW'S DON'T LEAK OIL, THEY JUST LEAVE THEIR MARK !!!
What with the bushfires & the photos of how much firewood you fit in the Kombi & now this ! just how far do you have to drive to find a tree:o:o? I will put this photo on again Cause at 3 years old I regarded it as ridiculous - for 3 days away
- Mum Dad, twins a few months old, my red pedal car (essential) thing behind it is pink potty chair - god only knows what else was in there - but you couldn't move,
I suppose my most riduculous load from a lateral thinking piont of view was in 1977 towing a car trailer with a dead Mini Cooper S for a friend to restore , out to his farm at Molong - somewhere west of Orange I passed a guy going east towards Sydney towing toeing a trailer with a dead Mini Cooper S . The look we gave each other in that split second of passing could never be put into words
[Edited on 17-4-2003 by kombikim]
Hey Col,
I think you either need to get a jumper or move to Queensland to save all the fire wood collecting!!! 😀😀
I remember at the Easter motor cycle raceing at Bathurst one year seen a number of large logs beeing dragged up the hill behind a bike for fire wood!!
Now if you were a REAL hippy you could stick that lot back together and make a tree :P
( Can't beliave heather let you do that )
" Captain Picard, why are there no Indians on the Enterprise ? Don't you need IT Support ? "
Look at all the steel in that photo!
Steel car, steel toy, even a steel thermos.
I had one of those pedal cars, don't know that they came in any colour but red.
This is how us "OLD" blokes amused ourselves before nintendo.........😎
As for silly loads, 5 kids is as silly as I ever want to get..........😀
Well my friends are gone & my hair is grey, I ache in the places where I used to play.
I had a red peddle car and a red scooter with an awesome foot brake. Hmmmm my parents were not into keeping things🙁
Love the old photo😎 Reminded me of The-Bronze's pics of their move to Dubbo
Bahaha i just moved house with my bug! Roof racks piled meters high in the air.
I was caining past people with their jaws on the floor on the freeway with things like chests of drawers on the roof.
😀
I tried to have a look for that post Col but can't find it either. Not sure if I'm the one that started it though. Yes I will look back on these with fond memories for sure.
With three perished tranny rubbers it was an interesting ride for 4 hours, max speed was 80k's and the hills were 2nd gear.
Bronze.
Rathmines, Lake Macquarie, NSW.
Yep - House moving has never been so much fun. I have some other pics to add soon. They are in the conventional camera so I have to develop them and scan them. Passneger seat on the roof rack and 400kg's of timber to become a double bed stacked from the passenger foot well to the back windows. Newcastle to Dubbo and it never even hit 90 degrees. Took some of the bounce out though.
Bronze.
Rathmines, Lake Macquarie, NSW.
Talking about people and VW's and moving big/different loads........have a read of this,
Around 1994/5 a guy in brisbane got himself a 23 window delux splittie restored by Volksrestore in Brisbane. The owner of the splittie had a daughter who was into horses. The time cam for the horse to be moved from one side of town to the other..........so our friend removed the seats from the splittie, opened the sun roof and had the horse stand in the Vehicle with the reins put through the passanger and drivers windows.......apparently the horse had no problems with the ride, had a slick hair do afterwards and was seen by one and all in the CBD of brissie..............
I have it on good advice that the above is true.........would have loved a camera to catch the moment!
Cheers
Mick
worst I've done is layer of bricks on the floor of the Kombi.
Wasnt really that overloaded but the brakes felt poorer.
Regards,Glenn>
