How did your Vw find you?

How did your Vw find you? Were you looking for one specifically or did it just happen to turn up?

Found my 62 by chance, night before the clearence sale i found out about it and bought her sight unseen. Lady had it since new and hadn't seen it since 1983, was stored in a shed and was selling the property. No plans to sell, or restore. Just to preserve her as she is totally original 😎



Just interested to see other people's stories 😂

Cheers Bill

advert in the paper jumped out at me

Went down to Sydney to see how to build a buggy and the little beuty winked at me.

sitting on the side of the road waiting for some sucker and along I came

In AVD.

RED62E wrote:sitting on the side of the road waiting for some sucker and along I came

Usually is the case with old Vw's 😂

avd

Was in front of a car yard in Punchbowl, and I was thinking I would love to have that car, but didn't have any money or job and it looked pretty neglected.

Then my mum said I could have a car or computer as a birthday pressy, I said computer, but my parents looked at the car but thought it was run down also. But they got interested in vw's again and suggested I look in the trading post.

Went to another car dealer and that one was pretty bad, then saw a private one which was bright purple (my first lesson in buying cars, ask on phone what colour the car is first).

Ran away from that pretty quick, so then my folk's suggested to have a look at the one from Punchbowl again. As soon as I saw it, I was hooked. It wasn't as bad as the other's I'd seen and it was white! A day later, I got my vw and have been happy ever since.

I decided back in 1996 that I again wanted a beetle
to do up..
and saw the add in the paper
it was located in Gloucester NSW where I used to live..

it turned out to be a 1968 autostick beetle , made in Germany... no visible rust , bumpers dented..
seats were torn.. came from inland Western Australia
where the Owners husband was a VW Mechanic..
mechanically it was great...

It was also the ONLY beetle I looked it... lol

LEE

Had a NOS Type 3 pushbutton light switch and started a 6 year search for a car to fit it.😵‍💫 Found what I was after in Eddy Laing's graveyard at Barnawartha.👍👍 Instant good deal and brought it home.

DH

mine was sitting on a freinds farm and i hounded them for ages to sell it to me and they wouldnt ,,,then all of a sudden they rang and said if i want it i can have it ,,,baja kit and all

this is going back but my first ever beetle was a christmas present from my parents when i was 14
it belonged to a family freind who had owned it since the early 80s and he promised it to me when i was 10
much to mum and dads discust it started breeeding next thing there were 3 in the yard, then 5 then 8 and that was b4 the toyota/suzuki/ford outsiders started coming LOL

of the few i have had over the past 10 years about 20 or so most have come from:
the 'side of the road',
me pestering the owner to clean up their yard 'from unsightly vw hulks looking ugly' 🙂
auto auctions,
word of mouth
and the trading post..
tell him hes dreaming for sure..
thats how i have found mine..

I was looking for a camper and friends told me about their bank managers car...a 74 kombi which they used once a year to drive 100k away and camp for three weeks😂...drove a kinswood the rest of the year❓ 3 days after i bought it he died🙁 heartbroken at his terrible loss obviously🤓 i figure if i don't sell it i wont die👍

And to stay on topic..
I used to do up beetles as a kid.. then bought a splitty camper which i started to do up but then neglected it.. Sold it to a hippy that took it up the Coromandel (NZ) and lived in it for years while he grew dope and flogged beads at the Coro markets (what a life!)
Got to my 40's and got hooked all over again.. Little 72 MicroBus that was sitting on the roadside on my way home.. after 2 weeks I bought it!

I married its owner.

Decided the night before to buy a car...always wanted a bug...was on the train going to work reading the 4 sale car section & noticed the bug advertised....I happened to be going right by the same street as the bug was advertised as being in....lol...rang them while I was on the train to ask if I could come check it out when I got home from work...& bought it that same day....& was the same age as me....it was mean't to be....karma....🙂

first VW ever? a friend gave me a very bad Kombi 1800 auto for free. A month later I gave it to another friend. I had run out of rego. :P

my first real one, a two toned 66 beetle, was owned by a local. He got out of VWs for some reason and I picked it up for $300 bucks. I still think I may have got ripped off, but it was a lot of fun in between mechanical disasters. 🤪

Mine was a straight swap for a 68 mini I was doing up. A mate of mine had a bloke at work trying to sell his bug and had no luck after about 6 months. He was looking for a mini to go with their clubman. I was looking for a beetle but needed to get rid of my mini. He brought the beetle around and checked out the mini. We agreed that they were both worth about the same money so we just did a straight swap. I still reckon I got the better deal.😁

Saw an ad in the local paper and bought my first VW, '69 1500 beetle that was in 1979. It stayed a beetle for quite a few years until I bought a '74 S'Bug then it was turned into a Manx which I still have today. Yes I still own the first car I ever bought.

Hi

One of my 1303s was given to me for nothing by Richard at V Force. Long story shortened, I used to work with the guy who owned my 1303, it was stored from 1985 until 2003 when I got it as a rolling shell virtually rust free.

My other 1303 I bought from Dave Becker after seeing it here.

Steve

Boris was in a front yard of a house around the corner from us. Had a for sale sign on it for ages but looked very sore and sorry. Had always wanted a dub but never got around to it. Timing was all wrong as I was getting married in 2 weeks, but made a ridiculous offer to the guy.
He accepted it and my wife bought it for me as a wedding present. The rest is history and now I could never get rid of him.....dubs are under the skin forever!

boristherat wrote:Boris was in a front yard of a house around the corner from us. Had a for sale sign on it for ages but looked very sore and sorry. Had always wanted a dub but never got around to it. Timing was all wrong as I was getting married in 2 weeks, but made a ridiculous offer to the guy.
He accepted it and my wife bought it for me as a wedding present. The rest is history and now I could never get rid of him.....dubs are under the skin forever!

Thus Boris the Rat was born!!! 😂

we were about to have our first child and needed a second set of wheels
kombibob told me to get a kombi...plenty of room !...he didnt warn me about the
nasty little habit that comes with them....you cant stop at one ! ! !
found mine in a front yard,even with a dropped valve and a slipping snd gear
it was love at first drive !

I even screen potential girlfriends this way...are they kombi potential or not🤓

My first Dub. Bone collector used to live across the road and had a nice example of a dub. I had always been keen on them but had not requirement for a second car, UNTIL i moved to Darwin. 🤪

Anyhow I thought well why not, so I started looking around. Weren't many, however, one day a mate rang and said had I seen this bug. So I rang Bone Collector to see what he knew about it, he had a look on his way home, he rang me and said "you need a thousand dollars at 5pm tonite" Around she came and I bought it. 😎

It was funny because she had only put it outside her work at 8am and by 5pm it was sold.

I think my wife still curses Bone Collector to this day!!!😂

Cheers

Adam

The 73 fastback was bought out of the trading post.

The BAJA was parked outside a house with damage from the local hoons so a friend went and asked what they were doing with the Bug they said take it so we did.

Marc

Inherited mine from my grandfather who stopped driving it in 1986. Put back on the road in 1995 as my first car and still used as a daily driver when I don't ride the bike.😎

mscabrio had wanted a new beetle ever since we saw the concept car at the motorshow... held her off for a few years till she spotted the cabrio.. went and bought one.
That's when the trouble started....
bought our 57 off here from Tas... flew over and looked at the car... brought it home with us.
bought our 74 from the trading post... took ages to find a 74 1300. was only one advertised in the trading post. even in white - preferred colour. brought it home the following weekend.
Then it was only a matter of time that our daily cars became vdubs.
mscabrio wanted a polo GTI as her drive to work car, so we bought one... in white of course.
And now that we have a daughter we needed a family car.
So this year we bought a Jetta TSI... and that's white too.
now all we need is the time to drive them all.

Wolf belonged to my grandpa. I had always wanted to get a beetle, and he announced at my 21st party that he was selling his. I spent the rest of the party scrounging money so I could buy it from him 🙂
Then he went away on holiday for 2 months before I could collect it. Agony!

My first Beetle I got as a trade for some work I did, it was my best friends but had run out of rego, a yellow convertible baja - we called it porky and for a while it had PORKY plates. More than 10 years past before I needed another vw, I payed $350 for a rusting unrego'd 1974 type 3 from Manly and drove it to Wollongong it was to be the car I'd always wanted to rebuild..... BUT THEN, while the $350 bomb was gutted a workmate called me and said his mates dad was clearing out the shed and there was a type 3 I might want as parts, I needed a trailer (it was stuck in 2nd) Without seeing it I decided I'd take it (they only wanted a case of beer), turned out to be a '68, the nice rounded bonnet, very little rust. Soon after I got it I lost my job and spent the next 9 months giving it all the love it needed to get it on the road again.

MY68VW wrote:My first Beetle I got as a trade for some work I did, it was my best friends but had run out of rego, a yellow convertible baja - we called it porky and for a while it had PORKY plates. More than 10 years past before I needed another vw, I payed $350 for a rusting unrego'd 1974 type 3 from Manly and drove it to Wollongong it was to be the car I'd always wanted to rebuild..... BUT THEN, while the $350 bomb was gutted a workmate called me and said his mates dad was clearing out the shed and there was a type 3 I might want as parts, I needed a trailer (it was stuck in 2nd) Without seeing it I decided I'd take it (they only wanted a case of beer), turned out to be a '68, the nice rounded bonnet, very little rust. Soon after I got it I lost my job and spent the next 9 months giving it all the love it needed to get it on the road again.

Fantsatic yarn mate, it's amazing how things just turn up out of the blue eh!

Cheers Will

a mate spotted the very rear of mine in an ebay add for a toyota landcruiser 🙂 he did some calling round and passed it onto me, a week later i had it 🙂

Is it just me or is it lucky that we all found our Vw's! 😀

Was looking at a notch back at the time when my mate had a phone call from a guy who knew of a 21 window Samba for sale. It had just arrived in Town from California and the engine had seized. The guy who was selling it was going through a divorce so couldn't be bothered sorting it out so sold it to me for half price. Mind you it needed some work doin on it. All the rust was hidden with filler so yuo couldn't really see what lay beneath the paint, the sills, inner and outers where completley gone, other work needed to be done too. Its all solid now and almost ready for paint. Has taken me 5 years so far to put it right.

Well mine was interesting. I am living here in Singapore atm.
I was surfing the web and came across this one in Sydney. I talked to the owner on the phone and Hans Klaack looked over it - the rest is history as they say. So essentially I bought it sight unseen from singapore over the net! Just love it! 😉 so now it is sitting covered up and gets used for holidays, quick rip down to Wollongong - via the bendy bits.👍

I was looking at a golf for my wife at a car yard, and my type 3 happened to be sitting up the back behind their workshop and I asked if it was for sale, and next thing you know it's in my driveway...

I found my '56 Oval accidentally .. I was on the way to check the post, a few weeks after the hail storm that hit Sydney Surry Hills - Alexandria 'bout 6 years ago .. At the side of the road was this beaten up knocked about Oval, it had a For Sale sign on it .. I rang up and they were asking $1500 I said I would'nt give you any more than $300 for it .. She said OK. So I went to the teller machine!

I bought my 68 Bug recently from a local council, which had impounded it as it was abandoned. The second one, a 72 Bug, I bought from an AVD member just to use as a parts car for the first, which is to be my daughter's, but it was too good to wreck, so it will be restored. Both need lots of work, but I'll have lots of fun doing it.
Scotty.

Ebay for mine. At least, that's where I first saw her, and then made contact with the seller and bought it privately before the ebay auction ended. Beat another lady to it by about 5 mins - she'd driven down to the Goldy to look at it from Brisbane as well, and was not happy to see me with a stupid grin on my face.

First Kombi we ever looked at too. Happy days. 😀

Found my Beetle in the trading post. I had no idea about VWs or cars then, but learnt a lot from owning it (and from here). Scotty (Mowog) above now owns it. (How's progress Scotty?)

The Golf was also in the trading post - the ad just seemed to stand out, proclaiming that it was 'almost perfect' which it was. It was really love at first sight when I saw the cute front grill/headlights, and it was soo clean (still is). Got lucky I guess. It was the first car I looked at after deciding the Beetle needed a rest, and after more than a year of searching through the classifieds.

AVD

I was looking for a cheap jap-mobile as my first car when my grandfather came to me and my brother and said "for you (me) i have a convertible beetle in british racing green and for you (my brother) i have a cadillac eldorado biarritz..$5,000 for both!"
Best deal out, my brothers working on the cadillac in the hope of selling it for at least $10,000 and im sorting out the bug for a daily driver!

First one was actually my dads' - he bought it the day I was born (he had it ordered, and it turned up the same day as I did - 28-5-57).

He always had beetles while I was a kid, and when I was about 6 months off getting my licence, he came across a '59 that an old lady was selling for $300. I had it for about 18 months before a so-called mate of mine ran it off the road and wrote it off.

I then bought a second hand '69 at our local VW garage. I had it for several years before going to sleep while driving (I was running in a re-built engine, and was travelling at 80km/hr on the highway - how dull).

I wanted another '69 or similar, so helped a mate of mine work on his house in Newcastle for a few days, and looked around, but couldn't find what I wanted. I got a plane from Williamtown to sydney, and a cab to the start of Parramatta Rd, just with the clothes on my back and a blank cheque from my dad. I walked along Parramatta Rd. and after a few kms, there was a gold '69 that i just loved. I drove it for several years untill I dropped a valve at 140km/hr (before 100km/hr limits) and stuffed the engine. I wanted to do a complete body off the pan re-build as a baja. My girlfriend helped me dismantle it, but then wouldn't let me spend money on it. Well, then we got engaged, then married, then had kids, then grandkids, and, if i out-live her, i hope to continue the re-build. lol.

When our local VW club started, she got interested in VWs, and thought a bug would be OK, as long as it was a late model one. After quite a bit of searching, we had to fight 2 other people to buy the '75L bug that we have now (we got it because the bloke selling it wanted it to go to a good home, and as we were VW people and in the VW club, we got it). She loved it for a number of years, but later upgraded to a VR6 Mk3 golf, and i got the '75.

She has now sold the golf and has a 2005 V5 bora - damn nice car, but boring compared to the bug I reckon.

i got given a 71 super by a lady at the end of my street when i was 16, started to get interested in it, thought about doing a german look but it was too rusty to bother, then i was looking for a notchback when i saw an ad in the trading post for a baja, the guy didnt know much about the car at all, he thought it was a 68, engine was way out of tune, wiring a complete mess body was really dinged up, but he had receipts for a recent engine build and the car was pretty much rust free, gave him a deposit and bought it the next day, owes me a lot of money now but ill never sell it so im not concerned.

back in the uk i knew about my 54' oval for two years before i bought it in 1988,an old guy had it sitting on his driveway forever rotting away,he would not sell it.

i just pestered him for forever about it,especially after he told me the back ground of the car, it had been campaigned through the 60's & 70's as a rally car,so it had had a tough life.
turns out the old guy was one of the mechanics for the rally cross team,when they had done with the car around late 78' he bought it & re -road registered & drove it for a few years,the car had stayed static on the old guys drive from 1981 on....
it was a strange mix of all years panels & lights..🤪

note the 'tits' on the engine lid, these were to give the porsche super 90 carbs linkage clearance,note the very large air intakes welded on behind the rear quater windows..
as for rust?..this was the uk,both pans were shot,heater channels,basically the whole bottom 6 inches of the car all round
plus the block was seized tight.


persistance & hard work pays...a ten year resto (when funds allowed followed)all done by myself apart from the box which was built in california.
the car was imported into australia in early 2006....
the rest is as as they say ....history...😎


the journey to oz....
http://forums.aussieveedubbers.com/viewtopic.php?tid=34195&page=1#pid293827

Wow, what a transformation! and a great story 🙂

my old car broke down so I walked to the nearest repair shop and it happened to be a old vw repair shop

I'd owned dubs since I was 17, my sister would have been 7 at the time. I customised it so everyone knew whose car it was (you really didn't see many customised dubs at the time) and ued to pick her up from school. So anyway she always knew I loved my VWs and so did she. When she grew up she became a model and eventually went to live in California and she always said she wanted to get me a proper convertible. When she saw it she had to have it and owned it for about 5 years over there before shipping it to Oz where I now lived. She needed a 4 door car when she had a baby so my dad bought her a little Toyota and the cab came to me. Whenever she comes to my house she always says hello to the car before she does to me🤪

got my first square by asking around dub shops and club vee dub if anyone knew any type3's for sale. eventually found one. came with a 2nd donor that had enoyugh parts to build a 3rd car.

66 fasty came via the same way. picked it up from Newcastle.

My 72 notch and current ride, 76 golf Mk1 both came off AVD and not having the will power to say 'No, i don't need another car'...

bought my super bug on ebay was damaged .car had hit gutter and sway bar broke .in process of rebuilding .

I have just got my 2nd beetle. My first car as a teenager was a 1971 1500 beetle which I loved but when on a budget and needing to do big kays (and inexperienced with maintenance myself) I sold it and got a more modern verhicle. Years later I bought a 1975 Kombi camper which I loved but again had to sell as work was taking me on the road upwards of 1000kms a week and the poor old kombi was just not up to it. Now I don't need a work vehicle and have some disposable income so I just purchased a 1973 1303 Bug. Stoked. My wife originally was going to buy it for me as a surprise, I believe she found it on Ebay, but to be sure it was what I wanted she let me in on the secret. We travelled over to Victoria (from NW coast tasmania) on Good friday having only talked on phone to the owner, arrived in Tatura, looked, fell in love and drove it down to the boat Easter Saturday! Now the fun begins!

Bought a written off damaged 1970 Standard 1300 Beetle for $175. It got towed into the panel shop I was working in at the time. Spent $400 on it and 12 months reg, and for about a grand we had an ok little runabout. I got hooked on the little thing.