56 ovl on gold coast

spotted a blue 56 oval on the gold coast this evening near australia fair ,damn it lwas sweet ,i like the atlas white walls on it too, very nice restoration, if this is anyone on here, let me know i'll be keen to have a good look at it 😀

Yeah I saw the Oval too outside Australia Fair and round near spotrys wearhouse just after 5pm.

It is one very nice bug..............

If only mine looked anything like It........

tell me about it i was jealous too ... lol can't wait till mine look like that.

Were you driving your oval ?
Tried to park the Kombi near by but alas no parking spaces !!!!

I carn't wait to see it in full day light and have a good look.........

was coming back from work and stopped at the shop on the way.... should get together some time, all the gold coast guys....what you reckon?

Yeah sounds like a good plan.........

Sound good to me too
sunday arvo cruises etc perhaps

hi herbie,
still waiting for you to drop in... sunday arvo cruise sounds like a plan as long as it is before i start work at 3.00 pm 🙁 ..... let me know of anything happening ...
cheers
D🙂

:sandrine
Hi Guys,
Let me know too, would love to come along....
Judy (o\|/o)

How about 10 am this sunday the 20th
we could meet on the top floor of pacific fair car park out front of the cinemas in a clear space. Thats fairly central and easy to find.
All those keen say EYE
we could go for a drive or lunch etc maybe out to spring brook or numinbah valley or something else.
Cheers Tony

I will pencil it in at this stage, but the Kombi wont be able to get to the top level of the car park! I could park at the bottom some where and get a lift to the top.
Rob......

:sandrine
It might be easier for me to come to your place before 10am.
Or I meet you around the Tweed area
& all go from there.
Ring me or u2u me.
Judy (o\|/o)

Anyone else?
I'll be easy to spot in the carpark.

:sandrine
I'm asking around...may have more coming
See you on Sunday,
Looking forward to meeting you.
Judy (o\|/o)

Depending on how people feel, I thought a drive out to numinbah valley to the Cafe out there, nice drive and and a good place to chat when we stop.
nice and relaxed.
I set my phone to remind me.😎

am gonna have to miss this sunday due to work and familly commitments 🙁 hopefully next time i will be able to ....

:sandrine
ok sorry to hear you can't make it Sleeper.
Was looking forward to meeting you. =(
So we have coming...
Herbie, Robbo, myself (I am bringing friend who owns beetle), bug boy matt, Paul (friend of Robbo & myself),
anyone else?
Judy (o\|/o) 🙂

Hi Herbie
definately comming along, cant wait to see Herbie, and have a yarn about DU DU.
Rob.....

If i can get the other one and a half cylinders to fire properly i'll be there ! Spent most of the day getting the heap opps i mean bug ready for action !!!
Trying to get all sorted for tomorrow / valla................

I'll be pissed if i not get to meet up with ya all...............
Oh well better get back to it if wanna make tomorrow...................
🙁

Cool sounds like it may be a good day out.
See yas there.
my mobile number is 0411 637 286
if you need to contact me, like you have gotten there but cant find anyone or you are running late but want us to wait or something like that.
10 am sunday out front of pacific fair cinemas on the top level.
Cheers Tony

How did u guys get on today ?
Sorry I didn't make it was looking fwd to it. But alas Dougal is still playing up !
I think i got some plugs breaking down on me.
So time for another new set of plugs. dizzy cap and rotor. And a general clean up to boot !

So how went, and where ya all go ?

I hate it when someone moves the h and the w around on this keyboard !!!!!!

:o

:sandrine
You will be sorry to hear you missed a great day.
Yes we all met, Herbie-Beetle, Robbo-Kombi, myself-61 Beetle, Paul & Jane- Kombi, Maya-New Beetle, went for a cruise to Numumbah Valley, had great chat & meal,
also met another fellow V dubber in new black Beetle. He also joined us in a photo shoot....soon to be posted on forum.
Sorry you missed it, would have been great to meet you.
And yes there will be a "next" cruise.
we will keep you posted...
Judy (o\|/o)

Yes, It was a fun day,
A nice, relaxing day out, meeting new friends, also afflictied with this crazy VW dementia we all have.
This is the only photo I have managed to rip off my camera before I screwed the softare up into a knot.
It seems very low res, so I must have stuffed it up taking it off the Cam but the photos should all be good.
we can do a similar sort of thing in a few weeks when your bug is going better.
Cheers Tony

PS I will sort out these pics in the next few days I hope.😎

Glad ya all had fun. I was pished i missed it. Got the shytes with my bug !!
Still there will be a next time so when me going again i'll be there.......................:bounce

I'll keep my eyes peeled for more pics..........

Hi Herbie
when we got home my daughter couldn't wait to tell mom she saw Herbie!
It was amazing to see the look on the faces of 30-40 year old kids when they saw something from their childhood passing by, you shore made a lot of them smile! including me!
:thumb:thumb:thumb Rob.....

Yeah its a lot of fun, and its great to see the smiles on peoples faces, I think too many people get wrapped up in being an adult and forget how much fun it was to be a kid and that short glimpse of something from their childhood gives them a quick rush and the smile shows it.
I am happy to take someone with me, but I have no back seatbelts so its one at a time.
But dont have a problem if anyone wants to take the spare seat.

This reminds me.... Am I supposed to have back seatbelts? I never got any with the car and didnt see anywhere where they would go.

If it didnt have belts when it was first registered Im pretty shure it dosent need them (NSW) My old EH holden never had them and it had to go over the pits after I finished restoring it and at the time they passed it with no rear belts.
Im not sure about QLD reg's
Rob......

:sandrine
Mine has got no seatbelts at all (f or B)
last model to not come out with any.
I was rego'd in Qld & didn't have to put any in if it did'nt come out with any.
My insurers were cool with it as they labeled it a "classic" vehicle, over 30 yrs old & cheap insurance.
In December rego'd in N.S.W. & still didn't have no problem with no seatbelts.
But the new insurance company & had to really pay high insurance.
Judy (o\|/o)

Its funny that I ride a big bike capable of doing 290 klm/hour with no seatbelts,
But I feel somehow like its sooooo dangerous to have people without seatbelts in the back.
I guess I just feel responsible for the passengers safety.
I guess it just depends on the passengers.
I might just put some lap sashes in to ease my concience.

:sandrine
yes I agree there H,
I don't like putting children in my backseat,
my friends probably think I am rude sometimes but I don't really like doing it
just in case.
Judy (o\|/o)

This is an email that fish sent me that mentions this stuff

----- This is incredible... and so true!

According to today's regulators and bureaucrats, those
of us who were kids in the 30's, 40's, 50's, 60's,
70's probably shouldn't have survived. . .

I Can't Believe We Made It!

* Our baby cribs were covered with bright coloured
lead-based paint.
* We had no childproof lids or locks on medicine
bottles, doors, or cabinets, and when we rode our
bikes, we had no helmets.
* Not to mention the risks we took hitchhiking .


* As children, we would ride in cars with no seat
belts or air bags.



* Riding in the back of a pickup truck on a warm day
was always a special treat.
* We drank water from the garden hose and not from a
bottle. Horrors!
* We ate cupcakes, bread and butter, and drank soda
pop with sugar in it, but we were never overweight
because we were always outside playing.
* We shared one soft drink with four friends , from
one bottle, and no one actually died from this.
* We would spend hours building our go-carts out of
scraps and then rode down the hill, only to find out
we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a
few times, we learned to solve the problem.
* We would leave home in the morning and play all day
, as long as we were back when the street lights came
on. No one was able to reach us all day. No mobile
phones. Unthinkable!
* We did not have video games at all, cable TV (or any
TV at all), videos, surround sound, personal cell
phones, personal computers, or Internet chat rooms.
* We had friends! We went outside and found them.
* We played dodge ball, and sometimes, the ball would
really hurt.
* We fell out of trees, got cut and broke bones and
teeth, and there were no lawsuits from these accidents
. They were accidents. No one was to blame but us.
Remember accidents?
* We had fights and punched each other and got black
and blue and learned to get over it.
* We rode bikes or walked to a friend's home and
knocked on the door, or rang the bell or just walked
in . . .
* Football teams had tryouts and not everyone made the
team . Those who didn't had to learn to deal with
disappointment.
* Some students weren't as smart as others, so they
failed a grade and were held back to repeat the same
grade. Horrors!
* Tests were not adjusted for any reason.
* Our actions were our own. Consequences were
expected.
* The idea of parents bailing us out if we got in
trouble in school or broke a law was unheard of. They
actually sided with the school or the law. Imagine
that!
* Experiencing the above produced some of the best
risk-takers, problem solvers, and inventors.>* We had freedom, failure,
success, and responsibility
-- and we learned how to deal with it.
* And you're one of them!
* Congratulations.

Funny you should put that bit of nostalgia there. I'm not that old (35) but I bought my beetle because it doesn't have a computer, I can fix it myself if I wanted to, and I can't even hear my mobile phone ring. I feel like I'm free again...

I need to do something about the noise in herbie, I have ringing ears after a couple of hours behind the wheel
I have to be careful hes just too loud with the roof back, as the wind buffets and the exhaust roars and I go deaf.
Might get some ear plugs or another muffler.

Have you got opening rear 1/4's fitted yet ?
That should take some of te buffeting away when the roof is back !!!
Mind you i not got a rag roof and i'm going deaf from mine when it's runnig of course !!!!!!!!!

Hi herbie
all those things you mentioned have been on my mind for years, I have three kids the oldest 12, the youngest 4, most of their free time is either spent in front of the TV playing sony games or watching soaps or BIG BROTHER, I can remember my parents having to threaten me with a hiding to get me inside before sun down, and I knew every owner of every house in my street, no Villas or town houses in those days, and two blocks of units, in a 2 Mile street.
Next door to my house was a war veterens home, we used to have big cricket & footy test matches in the paddock out the back, the old diggers used to love to watch, and if there was a bit of biffo from a dissagreeance, they loved to watch that too, at least until the matron came out and told us to rack off anyway!
Parents didnt have to worry about their kids as much then because if you got into trouble or if someone was hanging around, you could duck into so and so's place and they would call your mom, to come and get you, I even knew some of the local cops, they actually walked around and stopped to say hellow or to give you a boot in the bum and send you off home, dont bother tring to talk to them now. They wonder why their public relation is no good!
Some times we would have commando raids on mrs collins chook shed, or the orange trees, if she saw us she was out the door running after us with the straw broom, more than once she caught us, and the laggers got a wacking, not to mention a phone call to the parents house, and another wacking of your dad!
Sometimes I drag my kids out to do some of the things I did when I was a kid, they protest and complain, but when it is all over, the look on their faces and the When can we do it again crys make it worth while, even if the enthusiasim only lasts until we get home in front of the TV.
It wasen't so important to have a HSC in those days either, if you left school at fifteen and became an apprentice, or got a government job (remember them) then you were set for life, now days even a uni degree dosent gaurantee an affluent life, the days of paying off a mortgage on a single income are all but over, I can see the old class system returning (if it ever went away) and more and more people dropping out of society as we know it now, going back to the old self sufficent life style, on a block of land in the bush.
I think I will be one of them.
Rob.....

Your last sentence hits the nail on the head. I also agree with this statment.
A nice big area of land in the bush and be self sufficent would suit mrs and me......

:sandrine
Yes I agree with all there.
Living down here I am fortune enough to met all different people from all walks of life.
From the tourist who flock down here to self sufficient people living in a humpy
on as block of land....(& they love it.)
I know if I say the word "hippies" everyone will cringe but this area founded the first commune around this way.
And many people still live like that....
In a tent, caravan, humpie, etc or actually made there homes out of mud bricks etc.
and eat organic self grown food.
And after all these years very happy living like that.
Like they say....if they need technology
they come into town & its there.
maybe its not so bad after all when you
think about it....Life is more simple
Judy (o\|/o)

:sandrine
was thinking of another cruise & try to find more fellow V dubbers to be in it.
I am pretty busy now in August...
Valla, Herbie festival, son turns 18, etc.
Is the last weekend in August (Sun the 31st) good for everyone?
I realize its a long way off...but people can get organized for it better......
That can be our monthy Klub cruise as well.
Let me know if this suits most of you.🙂
Judy (o\|/o)

hi all ....
words well spoken....
as for the cruise at the end of august i'll be in as long as i get 2 weeks notice, how about we sart a thread in the general discussion so everyone will see it as prob. not everyone look in the spotters section for organised cruise... ?
lets get it started by choosing a date .... the last sunday of august will be the 31st if all agrees lets get that thread started
🙂

I have posted the pics on the new thread,
Gold Coast Gathering of the Faithful
I posted it in General chit chat.
So lets continue from there, as like sleeper said we are now under the wrong heading.