Hello folks
here, you can share with everyone why you have chosen your VW.
or maybe a short story of your first VW

Well firstly I bought a VW because my very first car was a 67 VW and now i'm having a mid life crisis i wanted another lol.

The reason i bought my 69 (only last week) was for the following reasons.

1. It has front wheel discs and type 3 drums on rear
2. Stock paint work
3. Was mechanically sound
4. Needs new interior and wheels so I get to add my own style to the car

Very clean looking and i intend keeping that way other than lowering slightly

my dream car was and is a Porsche 356b. so i figured until my dream comes true I'll get something rear wheel drive
I looked on trading post and saw a 72 superbug going for $500.
It has rusts in usual spots and dead gearbox and i thought if i fix it up I'll still stand out in the crowd
anyway
I learned to appreciate my air cooled more after I help fix my mates commodore, corolla, magna, lancer so on
in a way i feel the air cooled motor is like a lawnmower in terms of simplicity

I went out looking for an early VW in a good condition that I could ease into a minor resto project... without shelling out too many $$

I looked at a few, one in particular was gorgeous, but it wasn't meant to be (a green '59 in great original condition) a little while later I spotted an ad for a '62 in the back of the newspaper.. It was in Sydney, I'm in Brissie, so I rang the guy and asked him if I could listen to the engine running over the phone! I reckon it spoke to me as I ended up flying to Sydney and saving it from sitting on the side of an urban street being used as a daily run around and getting bashed by careless plastic bumper "give it a shove" parkers. Thankfully the previous owner did a great job of keeping it tidy and the engine was well serviced - it got me back to Brissie without a hitch.

No regrets, she's sound and as planned is being eased into some resto work...

So maybe we don't choose our VW's, maybe they choose us!?

i was looking around for another dub after i totalled my first

i was all set to buy a 66 deluxe and pulled out at the last minute as my current Lbug popped up in the paper

I'd known it since the early 90s when i was in school
it was 100% original except for an 80s tape deck and a replacement back bumper and best of all it had been a canberra car nearly all its life so was rust free, something you just dont see with Lbugs

it even has the glovebox pouch with the logbook, dealership warranty punchcards and a 1974 australian vw accessories brochure

The colour

It was my first car.After looking everywhere for a while one just popped up in the local area.Went and had a look it had been sitting in a shed.
Very straight,good condition considering.Cheap,it was mine.The colour grew on me after a while.Today that is the car that i have spent several dollars() on to make it reliable yet still original.I saw a good deal at Repco the other day Amp and a Woofer for $160,CMON im young i goto have my music.

my first car is a 1972 superbug im 17and i have always wanted a bug for my first car i love cars love goin to the drags when i was younger i watched the herbie movies all the time. Last year in september i started to look fro a car saw a convertable bug but had heaps of to do then one night bout 11 my dad saw my car i watched it down to the last 30sec the next day i won it for $800 i asked my auntys partner because he lives in sydeny and came up to work a few times a week so i payed him $50 for petrol and he brang it up since then i have payed out about $100 on repairs. i had to replace the fuel tank then got it dropped it in acid to make sure there was no rust now its getting ready to be painted. when its done it will be awesome im 17 n love my car to death i will have it till the day i die. it will be in the day at the bay in june or july and maybe the morpeth cruise..

My missus had to have a Kombi. We got one, I got up to my elbows in oil keeping it running and it was part of what hooked me. I was part of the lifeblood of the machine. I had to respect the original engineering. I found that the true original concept of the Volkswagen was beautiful, mesmerising and besotting. The practicality and hotrodding breed in me put a Subaru motor in the Kombi. However I have my old skool air cooled fix with my Beetle and it is original down to the last thread.

Born an breed vw's all my life,owned afew over the years from beetles to type 3's,passat's and now a 1969 model beetle that will get the old cal look from the 1980's one day cya the bear.

Sort of born into it.

My dad had a motorbike, then got a sidecar for mum when he got married. He ordered a beetle ('57 - gray with a maroon flash) when I was to be born - it arrived the same day as me - the rego used to come up on my birthday. Dad always had beetles after that.

My first beetle was a ,59 (a white one) that a 'mate' of mine ran off the road after only 12 months. Then I got a '69 (another white one) which I did up with custom flames ect, before running off the road in the early hours of the morning running in a re-built engine. I imediately bought another '69 (a bronze - gold colour) which I still have - although not on the road.
I dropped a valve (about 1979), and decided to do a full body off the pan rebuild as a baja. My girlfriend helped take it apart, but when I wanted to buy parts, I wasn't allowed to spend money. Then we got engaged, then married, then had kids, and now have grandkids. If I out live her, I will finish it I reckon.
My wife relented a bit in 1986, and we bought a '75 L bug (Martini Olive), which we still have, although the rego changed to me in about 2003 when she bought a '94 VR6 golf (white). She now has an '05 V5 Bora (silver).
I had one brother who had a baja for quite a few years before getting a landrover. He recently got a deisel Jetta as well when they first came out, and loves it. Another brother had a kombi camper for many years, and my sister went with a bloke with a kombi for a while.
My eldest daughter had a '74 L bug (yellow) as her first car, and now has an '02 1.8T New Beetle (black), and her husband, who had a couple of beetles before they met, had a '94 GL Golf (white) when they met, and now as a V6 4motion Passatt (dark grey).

because it was cheap!!!!!!



matt
aka choco

it was love at first sight when i saw her in a coles carpark...followed the guy and offer him some money to buy my fasty

I've always liked VW's. I love the shape and their style. When I saw my notch for sale, I knew I had to buy it. I just wish it were an earlier model :P Next on the list is an oval!

Actually what won me over was my dad smiling and constantly playing with the door and closing it... he thought it was the best thing since sliced white bread! It just 'clicked' in so smooth.

Granny spec bug complete with everything but motor, stickshift auto, with only rust in drivers a pillar and heater channel (passenger side), disc brake front end and IRS rear, $250. :P couldn't refuse And wasn't going to make me too guilty feeling in chopping it up for a baja compared to the 58' for $700 i inspected that was in a sorry state.

I chose a Beetle because of the simplicity of the design - everything that was needed, and nothing unnecessary.

It was a 1960, Gunyah Grey, red/grey interior, semaphores, 36hp, synchromesh on 2nd, 3rd,4th, etc. There were no miles on the odometer, and it had that 'new car smell'. That's because it was a new car - I bought it in January, 1960. Cost - 971 pounds ( $1942 ).

My 1st VW: Well I bought an early 60's 1200 model for $50 locally, and it had no guards/bumpers or interior. I drove it in peak hour traffic for about 5km to the place that I was going to store it.................all this was done with NO brakes (only handbrake),and a milk crate for a drivers seat.......oh and I was only 13 years old !!!!.. Gotta love what you could get away with in the 80's !!!