Lets play a game!
Herbie and I are going for a drive to look at some split Kombies.

Everyone will recognise me driving Herbie,
I will be going down through lismore, casino,armidale, Dubbo , Broken Hill and Port Augusta. and who knows where on the way back.
I think it would be cool to post a message here if you spot me.
My number is 0411637286 if you see me and want to say hello etc.
I am leaving now,
Hope to log on from a remote location during my trip, See yaz all next week.
Cheers Tony.

Yey!

Good luck Tony
Hope Herbie has a good trip too! See you when you get back!
Rob.....

Haye Good call..........
I drove down to Raby just outside campbelltown yesterday !!!
Bloody roads two rough !!! Caused stress craks at the head of my exhaust manifold !! almost lost the thing. Still bodged it up and carried on !!! 12 hours after leaving hit my rellies place not too bad. But exhaust cost me 1.5 hours i reackon. mainly just time spent stopping and making sure it still there !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So now got to spend next day off work looking for new one !!!
SA !!! huh i guess there's something of intrest to ya huh !!
Good luck dude............

There is some kombies on a farm between Hawker and Craddock. Port agutta-quorn-hawker-craddock.

Take a video camera and film the trip. Then send it to Disney. They are about due for another Herbie film hahahaha.:P

Good luck on your adventure, Hope you find something you like.:thumb

take heaps of pics of herbie everywhere
have a great adventure even if you dont end up with a splitty the trip will be worth it
marcel

:cry Im so jealous!! thats almost the same trip i took last year in the volvo (to the eclipse) and it was the best time of my life! *ahhhh memories....*

i hope they have had some rain out there, still the most beautiful scenery when its dry though! Have heaps of fun, dont hit any roos and dont forget the barrossa valley on the way back

Im looking forward to seeing pics!!

take it easy and have a good time shopping?
:jesus

Has anyone seen him ??????

:sandrine
Got a text message late last night
Both Tony & Herbie made it to Port Augusta.
Both are fine except Herbie lost a hubcap or two...
Stay tuned for next update....
Judy

Who ever sells Tony hub caps, would have to invite him to their Xmas dinner, because he has been helping them support the family! Poor Herbie, musen't like wearing socks!
Rob.....

hope he found some caps for herbie has he left yet for the rest of the trip
hope it keeps going well

:alien

Poor herbie! i hope he is going alright capless.

probably a roo!

:sandrine
UPDATE: Herbie texted again last night...
Everything is fine, Herbie is now in Coober Pedy...still looking for some infamous split Kombi's....
A long the way Herbie's (Tony's) mum has bought herself a kombi (camper) that she has been wanting & looking to buy.
Stay tuned....
Judy

Got a bit further after that, and then returned, Well I am In Adelaide now, will be leaving on Sunday for Melbourne via the great ocean road,
My Mum came with me and we found her a 76 sanders campervan Kombie,{and now have to get it home,}{anyone fancy driving a kombie to the gold coast}
Didnt find too much that was worth the trouble, unless you live in Adelaide, because of the cost of transporting to Queensland.
I have all the phone numbers etc for the 11 Kombies I have found.
2 of them will be crushed this week, but they are beyond help and no parts except transaxles.
I videoed and took photos of nearly all of them,I will post the photos when I get home, 4 of them were 50s models 1 of the 50s ones was swiss cheese not far from adelaide and 1 of them could be reserected but only if you were very very keen, not much rust but full of rubish and red dirt, those were both panels and I found 2 with windows but will be checking them out on the way home...
one very smashed 60s 11window, hit by a truck I think.
My number is 0411 637 286 if anyone wants to say hello when I am in Melbourne or Sydney, we can make a bit of a photo story of the Journey,
I have posted this post in 2 seperate threads but you get that.
Cheers Tony

Well, heading off todayish from Adelaide.
We must be mad, we are sending the kombie camper home on a truck and then driving Herbie and sleeping in him too,
I went out to the National motor museum in Birdwood yesterday, thats got some nice cars in there.

and this is another photo in the same spot

Those are the remaining Hubcaps, taken from under the hood and put on for the photo.

Pleased to hear all going well
have a safe trip home

Marc & Kath

1 small bug, 1 big journey

He he he...love it!:thumb That's one cooool little bug!

if you're lucky u might find the hubcaps on the way back...now wouldn't that be a good story :O:O

[Edited on 13-10-2003 by zac_smits]

:sandrine
Hopefully Herbie will be home by Friday or Saturday...
Looking forward to the slide night at your place!!!
Judy (o\|/o)

GO THE HERBIE,take the other herbies advice make a move,herbie saves the splits,have to be better than that banana movie one anyway,good work on a big mission,hope your having a fantastic time,:thumb

well what a trip
6899.2 klms in total.
No dramas, really,
Had a battery give up the ghost and a tyre chuff away to wire and a distributor that kept moving as we travelled, even though the bolts are very tight something is askew but no matter found a real sweet spot for it and had Herbie doing real good,
Hes a stock 40 horse and we were happy on the freeway at 70-80 miles/hour and although he is pulling good, big hills will pull him down to 40 mph
Going back on Sunday to Adelaide by plane and then driving the Kombie home.

Hi Tony
Great shots of Herbie out the front of Birdwood, lucky you got away, did they ask if they could borrow him for a few days to display?
Rob.....

I am surprised that no one spotted me on the outback trip, I went to Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney and waved and got the wave from heaps of VWs and all sorts but no one it appears, saw me.
:cry

You drive a herbie, of course people will wave at ya bro !

its a big country but a small world we live on !
:bounce