hey guys and girls,

Im Pete from Cardiff, UK and just moved to sunny Melbourne with my girlfriend where we intend to stay for a long long time..

im currently looking at shipping over my oval project from the uk and its tasking my mind some what as its not a running car and by no means road legal as yet.

hopefully I can find some guidance on the forum in the coming weeks so i can plan a way to get the car over to me and enjoy it in the sunshine and hopefully get to a few drag days if they happen over here also.

my car is a 1956 california oval, its been converted to RHD and gone through a full body off restoration including narrowed beam, spindles, lots of cleaning and a refurbed interior, rollcage and plastic windows to name a few of the mods, its a show winner and been featured in a few magazines with little one page articles..

its taken me over 10 years to build and keeps going in and out of project form to up the anti, the next step is fibreglass wings and bonnet and an EJ20 turbo engine on a subaru gearbox so it has 5 speeds this will be the final stage of the modifications and itll just be adding more power to get the 1/4 mile times down at the same time as keeping it road legal so i can enjoy the 100k cruises around melbourne

heres some pics

Welcome to Oz. Your oval look great. I like the red gaurd beading with the satin black paint.

Welcome down under

You will find the winter weather in Melbourne much like Wales

ahhh i can only hope the last 2 months of 30+ degrees has been brutal, hopefully can get my car over to us in the near future so I can have a little hobby and get it back on the road

thanks for the comments folks

g'day and welcome

Like your bug
You should be able to get lots of answers from the forum on requirements of shipping and registering your oval

cheers guys, had a few enquireys come back and it looks as though its going to cost in the region of $5k for shipping, which is pretty brutal at the moment as my new visa is going to cost $4k

while im here, heres a photo from the best show ive ever been too, EBI3 a 700 mile journey in a car that was almost on the floor was great fun



and a picture of my old daily which got sold before flying over

Hi SatinOval,

We came out here from North Wales (close enough!). Several years ago now, and we sold all our VWs back then because we were told that modified ones couldn't get through the red tape. Gutted. Now I've heard that that's not the case. Arghhh! My wife's never forgiven me for selling her Beetle, and I do miss my Squareback. If you ever get cold in Melbourne in the winter, take a drive up to Queensland to warm up a bit.

Paul

yeah heard some horror stories about modifications, big shame is that this has a 4" narrowed beam and has been modified to go very low and victoria has a 100mm ground clearance rule so will have to change wheel and tyre options so it can roll legally, thinking 17" fuchs or Brms would work really well

Hey mate,

thought I would introduce myself...again.... you may know me as haveacamper from Cardiff Aircooled forum. I can beat Paul Cave....i'm from cardiff too More specific, Adventurers Quay in Cardiff Bay. i'm out here for 2yrs with my fiancee on a visa too We live in Port Melbourne and have been in aus for 2months now. If you want to meet up anytime soon. like you I was looking at bringing the camper over, but the cost of it has seriously put me off....especially as we only intend to be here for 2 yrs, so it would be the cost of shipping it back too, lol. does the $5k include doing all the registration over here too? like your oval, my bus is modified so not sure how this would work.

would a container share be an option

If you want to meet up for a drink mate, feel free to let me know

NaFe

Hi Pete
Used to live in Cardiff a long time ago been here over 20years now - hope you didn't move to Melbourne for the weather
Love your bug good luck bringing it over - cant beat cruising in the summer sunshine

nice car and welcome to melbourne

if you guys are interested we do a monthly coffee run

volkswagen club of victoria and the type3contingent
1st sat every month
theres is one this sat 1st june
salford lads club, corner of fennel and bridge street port melb
we meet from 10am and are normaly there till after lunch
come down and meet some local dubbers

I'll be there...i hope the weather doesnt stop the Vws being there

managed to get my password reset after a long time, and have been staying away from the VWs whilst settling, but the bug is back, the visa is paid for and just waiting for immigration to grant me residency and once all thats done we will be looking to ship the oval over later this year.

hoping to get to a fair few shows over the coming months and meet some friendly people with any luck

Welcome aboard!
cool looking ride
enjoy your long stay here in Australia

already fully enjoying it, will post up my story in the readers rides some day soon