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Greetings from Italy
Geo68 - April 27th, 2006 at 01:16 AM

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Hi to all,
I'm Luca from Italy. I've discovered this site through a French Magazine (Super VW Magazine). I'm the owner of a 1982 Mexico coloured in dark blue that is also my dayly driver.
I hope to make some friends here in spite of the big distance.
Greetings
Luca

Oasis - April 27th, 2006 at 02:03 AM

Hi Luca. Welcome to Australia (sort of).. I was just in Italy. Where are you close to?

Bill

Geo68 - April 27th, 2006 at 03:12 AM

I'm close to Milan... I hope yo've liked Italy

Yogie - April 27th, 2006 at 02:22 PM

Welcome Luca. I stayed in Milan overnight last year (January) Lovely city. Also stayed in Venice and Florence and Rome on the same trip. Didn't do any driving though as I wasn't brave enough. I only saw one bug on the road in the whole time I was there (in Florence) so yours must be pretty rare. Do you have many people to get together with and enjoy your classic VWs?

Yogie

Geo68 - April 27th, 2006 at 06:57 PM

Overall thanks for your welcome.
In Italy there is a good movement for classic VW. I've joined the Maggiolino Kafer Club of Milan that is the biggest VW club in Italy with about 4,500 members. In my town that counts a population of about 37,000 there are about 15 Beetles that are all daily drivers. In Florence, Rome, Turin there are others VW clubs a little bit smaller than the Maggiolino Kafer Club. I forgot to say that my club organize every two years the meeting at the Monza racetrack (yes the Formula 1 racetrack)... and with about 40 AU$ fee you can make all the laps in the racetrack you want! And this is the year of the Monza meeting.

[ Edited on 27-4-2006 by Geo68 ]

CAFFINEPUSHERMAN - April 27th, 2006 at 07:22 PM

bonasera , luca welcome to the forum mio nonna e nonno sono italiani unfortunately my italian is terrible can understand better than speak but i would love to live in italy i have a great passion for italian wine ,food and coffee i restore old coffee machines that i import from torino and i fix up old vws too buono fortuno christoforo

Geo68 - April 27th, 2006 at 07:42 PM

Buonasera Christoforo,
your Italian is not much terrible than my English :cry
thank you for your welcome. I wish that you know that I live in a town where is produced wines like Barbera and Grignolino (red wines). So if you want make a journey by my neighbours... :D

Oasis - April 27th, 2006 at 08:01 PM

Hi Luca, I went to Milano and all over Italy by car. I wish I could go back to Monza. Sounds like FUN in a VW. All the best,

Bill

Geo68 - April 28th, 2006 at 05:40 PM

Monza sounds like MUCH FUN in a VW for a driver... much less fun for the passenger with my drive! :puke

oval TOFU - April 28th, 2006 at 06:14 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Yogie
Welcome Luca. I stayed in Milan overnight last year (January) Lovely city.
Yogie


Ciao Luca

I stayed in Milan one night as well - IN THE TRAIN STAZIONE.... in winter, sleeping on a marble slap.. not fun. Otherwise, Firenze, Roma, Sienn and Monte Rosso were gorgeous. I wanna go back.

Post some photos of your bug if you can! It'll probably make me homesick seeing the background scenery - sick of home that is!!

Geo68 - April 28th, 2006 at 07:37 PM

Here one pic of my Beetle with background of the Monferrato hills (Norther Italy). Lovely, isn't it?

Oasis - April 28th, 2006 at 07:57 PM

Beautiful.:starhit:

oval TOFU - April 30th, 2006 at 02:40 PM

certainly is...

CAFFINEPUSHERMAN - May 1st, 2006 at 06:44 PM

barbera is one of my favourite italian wine styles :thumb

ren - May 1st, 2006 at 07:18 PM

hey chris, doesn't that 'thumb up' have a slightly different meaning over in Europe? Careful what you wish for......he he.

Geo68 - May 2nd, 2006 at 05:55 PM

Don't worry ren, in Italy "thumb up" means "ok" or "great"... So :thumb with barbera is ok!
Who wants to live in Italy? We can make a change... I give you my parents and a life in Italy and I come to live in Australia!!!

empi - May 2nd, 2006 at 06:03 PM

G'day Mate ,

Welcome to Avd.

Sound like a great swap .

Do you have any more pictures of your Bug??

Adam

Geo68 - May 2nd, 2006 at 06:08 PM

Hi Adam,
I've posted pics of my Beetle on the forum "Members rides". I forget to say that together with my parents you must take my dad's car, a 1983 Peugeot 104 GL with 120,000 kms on the clock.

empi - May 2nd, 2006 at 06:23 PM

May be not :no:

would i get to drive the beetle if we swaped??

Italy had many Italian unique accessories for Vws ever seen any??

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[ Edited on 2-5-2006 by empi ]

Geo68 - May 2nd, 2006 at 06:51 PM

You could drive your Beetle... I'll take my Beetle in Austalia! However be careful if you drive in Italy beacuse our cars are left hand drive...
The accessories in Italy are those for all the world. You could find accessories for old VWs (until 1965) made in Germany at swap meets, but they are much expensive.

empi - May 2nd, 2006 at 07:11 PM

There were some Itilian only spec stuff
Especially for type 3s eg: diamonte studded door sill trim.
Clear raparound indicators for early type 3 .
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[ Edited on 2-5-2006 by empi ]

Geo68 - May 2nd, 2006 at 07:36 PM

In Italy there are not many Type 3 so it's very difficult to find something. You coul try on the site of Enrico Cantone in Livorno ( http://www.ecantone.com ) or Dei KaferService ( http://www.deikaferservice.com ) that are 2 of the biggest spare parts sellers in Italy. There are also many forums like this for old VWs, but they are bound together to a club