Bug In pictures - more up!

It was wet, so there was plenty of sideways action on the track!

great pics and a great day even with the rain

The first two shots are great action shots. Jak and Paul weren't afraid of the wet!

I like the kombi beach display at the show and shine.

Thanks for posting the pics.

CT

Well the weather doesn't help, but it was good getting out there all the same. Maybe 50 cars on show, with a few debutants in there which is good. The location was a bit of a jaunt, and it seemed a bit disjointed. The food from the shop was shite and expensive, and as the only really food joint, had a monopoly on shite food. I'm not sure what was planned for kids, however this was non-existant. As a family day, you like to try and make it that. However, good to catch up with people and chin wag as always.

Good job though in putting on the show, especially over such a number of days, with people giving up their Easter. It's always a thankless job - so...thankyou!

Here's some of the cars I enjoyed...







Al Hobson's debutant out in the rain. Nice job by Shane and CBB.


Dean's pizza runner again. Keep a look out for a Pizza cruise to Dean's shop in the near future.


Nice front end treatment here.










Darren's split. Always loved this van. Swap ya dude!


Even got a seat out of the rain.


Damo's truck.


Wet Fink.


Garry's sweet ride.










Speed Bump Hit Squad cruising home.

Great shots guys

great to see some new blood out there

Nice pics David and Paul,thanks for sharing.
A big thank you to the organizers of the BUG IN It was a great day catching up with other VeeDub nuts.
A little bit of a shame about the weather.But still a good day..Thank you

cheers Dean...

yeah thanx for the pics guys.

Daimo

here are a few of mine...

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and this...

now the presentation and the workmanship on this car are great, but leading arm front suspension and friction front shock absorbers? Sorry, but I can't see how either of the latter are a good thing. I wasn't surprised to see it wasn't wearing rego plates. 🤪

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btw, the olive green ragtop with fuchs was one of my faves.

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last one...

BTW, if people want the original full size pics of their cars PM me and I'll email them to you.

Sorry to Hijack your post;
I want to know what club allows that so called "hotrod" on vintage plates. The vintage registar must not know the rules to allow this to be on the road as an historical vehicle. Makes a mockary of the privalage. I am sure the CMC who you are affiliated with would not be ammused.

Thanks for pictures.A sucessful event even if the weather and food weren't kind to us!

want to know what club allows that so called "hotrod" on vintage plates. The vintage registar must not know the rules to allow this to be on the road as an historical vehicle. Makes a mockary of the privalage. I am sure the CMC who you are affiliated with would not be ammused.

yes very interresting comment

Not unusual , there are lots of plated cars out there with dodgy mods, several have engineering papers as well , makes u wonder ,
like how do register a bug with a huge oversize engine ??
beats me how the cops don't Police it.

Where are the pics of the Type 3's?

GTMac wrote:Where are the pics of the Type 3's?

Cos there weren't any there worth a photo.

what a bummer i missed it would of been great to catch up, well somone has to save the idiots from killing them selves.
we will catch up soon squiz
ron

Pete what's that supercharger type set-up? Have any more pic or details?

message Greedy53 as its his rod

see
http://forums.aussieveedubbers.com/viewtopic.php?tid=65678

squizy wrote:

GTMac wrote:Where are the pics of the Type 3's?

Cos there weren't any there worth a photo.

Well I better make amends next year then 🙂

mate, there was one blue fasty there in totally unmolested form, you would have loved to get your mits on.......no rust either!

shame you didn't make the lap dash too.........

There is absolutely nothing hotrod about the flamed fugly above. That is the most fowlest anything i have ever seen. What is the white stuff on the panel above the engine, snow?? Cool, i also like the accessory blue steel rod. PEWK.

Brian wrote:Not unusual , there are lots of plated cars out there with dodgy mods, several have engineering papers as well , makes u wonder ,
like how do register a bug with a huge oversize engine ??
beats me how the cops don't Police it.

yeah............and how do some people have Historic Rego plates on beetles with aftermarket fuel injection ?

squizy wrote:

GTMac wrote:Where are the pics of the Type 3's?

Cos there weren't any there worth a photo.

Though the notch is nice, it doesn't float my personal boat. And the fasty at a $10k sale price made me walk straight away.

yeah 10k was a bit rich,might as well have paid 6.5k for the pile of rust😂

squizy wrote:Well the weather doesn't help, but it was good getting out there all the same. Maybe 50 cars on show, with a few debutants in there which is good. The location was a bit of a jaunt, and it seemed a bit disjointed. The food from the shop was shite and expensive, and as the only really food joint, had a monopoly on shite food. I'm not sure what was planned for kids, however this was non-existant. As a family day, you like to try and make it that. However, good to catch up with people and chin wag as always.

Good job though in putting on the show, especially over such a number of days, with people giving up their Easter. It's always a thankless job - so...thankyou!

Here's some of the cars I enjoyed...

Yeah unfortunate about the weather, considering the days leading up were so good..
About the food... We had organised for 4 different food vendors for the day (including a T4 'cafe2U' & kombi ice cream van) + a sausage sizzle by the local community. There was also going to be a jumping castle for the kids & the trike guys were coming out to take people for rides. UNTIL... Oran Park decided to open their food shop & told us no one else was allowed. They also didnt want rides or the castle for 'insurance problems'. Even better was they told us 3 days before the event 😬
So it was kinda out of our control, but anyway, glad you all came out & supported the event!

This is my sons car, glad you enjoyed it 😂

the tell it how it is guy wrote:There is absolutely nothing hotrod about the flamed fugly above. That is the most fowlest anything i have ever seen. What is the white stuff on the panel above the engine, snow?? Cool, i also like the accessory blue steel rod. PEWK.

What a piece of S..T!!!! I dare him to drive that to a hot rod show, what a bloody joke, its an insult to all hotrod clubs and owners, and what idiot from the rta let this get through

Thanks for the photos guys

Lee

split09 wrote:

the tell it how it is guy wrote:There is absolutely nothing hotrod about the flamed fugly above. That is the most fowlest anything i have ever seen. What is the white stuff on the panel above the engine, snow?? Cool, i also like the accessory blue steel rod. PEWK.

What a piece of S..T!!!! I dare him to drive that to a hot rod show, what a bloody joke, its an insult to all hotrod clubs and owners, and what idiot from the rta let this get through

do I detect the smell of jealousy? I think so.

Look, I don't know how its done but it is kosher. Personally, not my taste either, but then there are a whole host of what some you guys might call real hotrods that make me want to puke. Totally boring production line rods with boring samo mods and boring samo V8s. At least greedy is ready to try something different. I'm actually looking forward to what it looks like in a few years time. Sure it's rough now, but greedy usually ends up with something really cool, if a little left of center. For your info, period mods are ok on historic cars providing they are tasteful and are oked by the inspector of the car club.

BTW, if you want to get upset about people doing mods on cars, get upset about dangerous mods. Like for instance narrow beams without shocks. 👎

well said pete👍 go back to the true roots of hot rodding and it wasnt all 70k plus cars that someone has bankrolled for a shop to build for them

Here some of my pics, starting at Maccas at Thornliegh, the drive down to Oran Park, some of the lap dash action & a couple of the cars I fancied then camera ran out of batteries. Was good to catch up with a few a you guys that already knew as well as make a couple of new aquaintances. Got a couple of smaller parts at the swap meet & ate some of the Oran Park food (that hasnt changed since the early 90's when the Nationals drag day used to be there).
Thanks to all that were involved in putting it together.
Cheers
Brendan

Both very nice. ^^

pete wood wrote:

split09 wrote:

the tell it how it is guy wrote:There is absolutely nothing hotrod about the flamed fugly above. That is the most fowlest anything i have ever seen. What is the white stuff on the panel above the engine, snow?? Cool, i also like the accessory blue steel rod. PEWK.

What a piece of S..T!!!! I dare him to drive that to a hot rod show, what a bloody joke, its an insult to all hotrod clubs and owners, and what idiot from the rta let this get through

do I detect the smell of jealousy? I think so.

Look, I don't know how its done but it is kosher. Personally, not my taste either, but then there are a whole host of what some you guys might call real hotrods that make me want to puke. Totally boring production line rods with boring samo mods and boring samo V8s. At least greedy is ready to try something different. I'm actually looking forward to what it looks like in a few years time. Sure it's rough now, but greedy usually ends up with something really cool, if a little left of center. For your info, period mods are ok on historic cars providing they are tasteful and are oked by the inspector of the car club.

BTW, if you want to get upset about people doing mods on cars, get upset about dangerous mods. Like for instance narrow beams without shocks. 👎

oh iam soooo jealous, i just want one right now! Gee i wonder who the inspector of the club is? mmm let me think....... Who said im upset, im just giving my opinion, isnt what this forum is about. I believe that there a lot of people who agree with me but just dont like giving their view as it would be wasting their time!!!

Great piccys!Thanx for sharing.

thanx for the pics Brendan............nice to meet you,wanted to speak some more, but got segragated at the gates tho hey!

[/quote]oh iam soooo jealous, i just want one right now! Gee i wonder who the inspector of the club is? mmm let me think....... Who said im upset, im just giving my opinion, isnt what this forum is about. I believe that there a lot of people who agree with me but just dont like giving their view as it would be wasting their time!!! [/quote]

This man speaks the truth❗

what is under the bootlid of that purple 60's beetle?

Is That Red & Black thing a De -Sodo ??

johny rotten wrote:Is That Red & Black thing a De -Sodo ??

You mean De Soto... and no.
It's a FORD!

johny rotten wrote:Is That Red & Black thing a De -Sodo ??

Nah it's a Ford Fairlane. Has anyone got any pics of it, especially if it went around the circuit?

squizy wrote:

johny rotten wrote:Is That Red & Black thing a De -Sodo ??

Nah it's a Ford Fairlane. Has anyone got any pics of it, especially if it went around the circuit?

Yeah will post some tonight

pete wood wrote:more..

btw, the olive green ragtop with fuchs was one of my faves.

Anyone know who owns the green ragtop (is it a golde?)??

I heard from a friend in the vintage car movement that the CMC are trying to hunt down the "Hotrod" (used very losely) on club plates. If they catch up with this vehicle and owner it will cause issues for ALL CLUBS on the Historic vehicle plate scheme. It won't matter if they are VW clubs or not it will affect everyone.
Clubs & Club registrars should be more careful with what they allow to be on the historic plate scheme.

boulder wrote:I heard from a friend in the vintage car movement that the CMC are trying to hunt down the "Hotrod" (used very losely) on club plates.

surely not that hard to do since it must be registered to someone, and they have an address etc...

From what i saw the guy in the fairlane was the only one giving it some throught the lap dash! Sure he was sideways most of the time, but at least he went for it.

In saying this, i'd probably be going easy in my 58 once its finished. Good fun to watch though. Tops on ya to the 3tonn fairlane driver!!!

boulder wrote:I heard from a friend in the vintage car movement that the CMC are trying to hunt down the "Hotrod" (used very losely) on club plates. If they catch up with this vehicle and owner it will cause issues for ALL CLUBS on the Historic vehicle plate scheme. It won't matter if they are VW clubs or not it will affect everyone.
Clubs & Club registrars should be more careful with what they allow to be on the historic plate scheme.

You sound like a fire fighter who just 'happens' to be bushwalking where a fire has broken out...?

Mick058 wrote:In saying this, i'd probably be going easy in my 58 once its finished. Good fun to watch though.

^ big girls blouse! 👍

Yeah it was great to see someone driving an old classic near it's limit. Still that's what real racing is about. I only heard it as it did that neat piroiette [spelling?], but it sounded awesome. 🤘

Shame i missed you Pete, did you hit the dirt?

I piked out, had to help my brother get his XW onto a car trailer in the rain 🙄 It was pissing fuel all over the intake manifold so we had to push the mother 😬 Ah well, at least I got me carport free now.

Looks like a neat run. Won't be long till Oran Park is houses anyway, so Im guessing they dont really care about 'repeat business' 🙁 Good on ya to the guys who put the run together, wouldve been sweet without the rain.

Whats the go with the lap dashes? Was it just open to the general public?

Mick058 wrote:From what i saw the guy in the fairlane was the only one giving it some throught the lap dash! Sure he was sideways most of the time, but at least he went for it.

In saying this, i'd probably be going easy in my 58 once its finished. Good fun to watch though. Tops on ya to the 3tonn fairlane driver!!!

yeah, thats why three beetles placed in the top five times🤪

.......and for me i couldn't get any more vicious than opposite lock on the stops with the motor on the limiter🤘

ha, i think what i meant was pushing what you got! He was pushing that thing to the max, fun to watch, good for a laugh

empikg wrote:

pete wood wrote:more..

btw, the olive green ragtop with fuchs was one of my faves.

Anyone know who owns the green ragtop (is it a golde?)??

Hi

It belongs to John Vellis, he owns a really nice Ghia and recently sold his Oval on here, it was on a late pan with Tele dials.

Steve

Mick058 wrote:ha, i think what i meant was pushing what you got! He was pushing that thing to the max, fun to watch, good for a laugh

o yeah, "run what you brung".........no sense complaining about the back being too low or tyres not quite right 🙄........for sure it was a very relaxed meet and i'm stoked i made the trip to run the only thing i had ready, had a ball!.....the fairlane guy was a nice bloke as well, we were all having fun...............you should have heard the lecture the starter gave him when he rolled that monster into the line up.....WHAaaa!

Nice pics. Looks like Sydney turned on the glorious weather for everyone again.

boulder wrote:I heard from a friend in the vintage car movement that the CMC are trying to hunt down the "Hotrod" (used very losely) on club plates. If they catch up with this vehicle and owner it will cause issues for ALL CLUBS on the Historic vehicle plate scheme. It won't matter if they are VW clubs or not it will affect everyone.
Clubs & Club registrars should be more careful with what they allow to be on the historic plate scheme.

A lot of people 'heard' a lot of things from all sorts of people, but if the CMC (whoever they are) were really serious and had any useful power the car in question would have been dealt with years ago coz they all know where Greedy comes from. Greedy fought hard to allow the car to have it's rego based on historical rodding precedent and the NSW RTA (a fussy bunch) were happy with his argument. Same goes for lots of other rods and customs that I personally might not be happy about having street rego.

I think it's just better to say, "That car is not my style" and move on.

Hey I started this rego debate, Its not about like or dislike its about sticking to the rules regarding the Historical Rego Scheme, it was not setup to cover this sort of thing. It is about keeping standard or slightly modified vehicles, for safety reasons( brakes,seatbelts etc) on the road to be used at club events & shows etc. If you want to get technical regarding plate usage all events that a vehicle attends must be on the CMC (Council of Motor Clubs) calendar otherwise the vehicle is not classed as being registered.
Each club with Historic rego entitlement should have a Vintage Registar that knows what can & can't be allowed.
If this thing is classed a s a hotrod put it hotrod rego dont try and flaunt the system that will in the end stuff it for every one.

as I understand it it's classed as a historic rod. Greedy posted all the info up re it's rego ages back.

Whats historic about it.
Classed by who the registar or the RTA?

pete wood wrote:as I understand it it's classed as a historic rod.

Hot Rod/Street Rod has a legal definition in Australia (Commonwealth Legislation):
A Street Rod/Hot Rod is: "a vehicle that has a body and frame that were built before 1949, that has been modified for safe road use, or a replica of a vehicle the body and frame of which were built before 1949."

Then it would have SR plates. For which there is only one inspector for NSW. I know he hasn't seen it.
As it's not of pre-49 heritage, does not have an original pre-49 chassis, nor a replica chassis resembling a pre-49 chassis, nor it's engine in the right place to be a replica pre-49 it is not registered as a hot rod in any way shape or form.

A hot rod on anything other than SR plates has an original chassis and comes under Modified Production or has a fabricated replica chassis and will come under ICV rules - in both cases will have normal number plates.

It has H plates. However Greedy managed to get them on it is a whole different matter than anything to do with hot rods. If he got them legitimately, good on him for pulling the wool over someones eyes, one signature is all takes.

Matt ,
I wasn't seriously meaning it really shoud be classed as a rod either, In my opinion it should not be on either forms of rego.
Would it pass a blue slip inspection i wonder.

Hi Matt

So if Greedy fitted a pre 1949 chassis under his car, would it pass as a street rod or is it another can of worms?

Steve

well isnt a beetle pan originally pre 1949🤘

Whats wrong with that ( ie having a 'hotrod' on vintage plates?) The car ( while not my cup of tea) is someones' love, pride and joy - and is apparently road worthy. Just how many ways are there to register a hobby vehicle outside the normal regular registration process? (Serious question as I do not know!) While that car may not float my boat ( or your boat obviously) , I say good luck to the owner - a good thing that our cars are different in many ways - it helped make the day more interesting. Some people dont like "Rats" either.. Some dont like keeping their rides "original" - others go for "The German Look", or The Californian Look.. gosh how many "looks" are there? Its different strokes for different folks..It would be a boring show if all the VeeDubs were the same. They are such great, versatile cars - probably why this forum is as big and strong as it is!

As for the food and its cost? Strewth.. when was the last time you went to the footy!? I had a meat pie and it was fantastic.. They even had waxed drinking staws!! Something my wife and I had not seen in many years!

Looking forward to Bugin 2009...By then my daughters bug should be sitting on show as well.

HotRodMatt wrote:

pete wood wrote:as I understand it it's classed as a historic rod.

Hot Rod/Street Rod has a legal definition in Australia (Commonwealth Legislation):
A Street Rod/Hot Rod is: "a vehicle that has a body and frame that were built before 1949, that has been modified for safe road use, or a replica of a vehicle the body and frame of which were built before 1949."

Then it would have SR plates. For which there is only one inspector for NSW. I know he hasn't seen it.
As it's not of pre-49 heritage, does not have an original pre-49 chassis, nor a replica chassis resembling a pre-49 chassis, nor it's engine in the right place to be a replica pre-49 it is not registered as a hot rod in any way shape or form.

A hot rod on anything other than SR plates has an original chassis and comes under Modified Production or has a fabricated replica chassis and will come under ICV rules - in both cases will have normal number plates.

It has H plates. However Greedy managed to get them on it is a whole different matter than anything to do with hot rods. If he got them legitimately, good on him for pulling the wool over someones eyes, one signature is all takes.

Ever heard of the drug smuggler single cab splitty built by KCW in the states? It was built to be the lowest non bages splitty on earth. Its now in Australia, and on SR plates. Its no pre 49. It can be done quite easily, if it looks the part. Its not about age so much anymore, as long as it has a hotrod feel about it, and the work is safe. Im thinking of putting my zwitter project on SR plates, cause its easier than club historic when its on bags with a trans raise etc etc.

pod wrote:well isnt a beetle pan originally pre 1949🤘

not if it was made in 74😊

Hertz wrote:Ever heard of the drug smuggler single cab splitty built by KCW in the states? It was built to be the lowest non bages splitty on earth. Its now in Australia, and on SR plates. Its no pre 49.

Only in Victoria. Con has different rules to play with. Hence why Victoria isn't keen to be part of the NatTAC and adopt the national Guidelines. This car is in NSW.

Victoria also has an early Commonbore on SR plates. Completely different system.

Hertz wrote:

pod wrote:well isnt a beetle pan originally pre 1949🤘

not if it was made in 74😊

Design wise,the beetle pan is pre 1949

pod wrote:

Hertz wrote:

pod wrote:well isnt a beetle pan originally pre 1949🤘

not if it was made in 74😊

Design wise,the beetle pan is pre 1949

Not if its a 74. A 49 pan is very different to a 74