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shokwave2 - March 1st, 2011 at 07:23 PM

Hi everyone,

Been lurking around here for a while but have only recently become active. A bit of background:

Purchased a 61 beetle with 1600 dual port in January 2010 from the nicest pommy bloke who was moving back to the UK the following week. No rust, new interior, mechanically sound, a lucky find. He had been doing it up for his son before he sold it.

I have slowly been adding and tinkering with it over the last year to become "mine". I'm not really a restorer, more of a customiser (I'll post some pics when i wash it). In the near future i hope to get some nice black 8-spoke rims, tint the windows, maybe add some more horsepower. But just gotta wait for that money tree to grow a bit more in the backyard.

Have yet to go to a VW event as i was busy all last year. I can't wait for the Sydney and Berry VW shows, just to check out everyone else's rides.

Cheers

Paulc1964au - March 1st, 2011 at 07:28 PM

Welcome to the forum, look forward to seeing pics of your car BTW sent you a pm in relation to wheels

68AutoBug - March 1st, 2011 at 11:14 PM

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Originally posted by shokwave2
Hi everyone,

Been lurking around here for a while but have only recently become active. A bit of background:

Purchased a 61 beetle with 1600 dual port in January 2010 from the nicest pommy bloke who was moving back to the UK the following week. No rust, new interior, mechanically sound, a lucky find. He had been doing it up for his son before he sold it.

I have slowly been adding and tinkering with it over the last year to become "mine". I'm not really a restorer, more of a customiser (I'll post some pics when i wash it). In the near future i hope to get some nice black 8-spoke rims, tint the windows, maybe add some more horsepower. But just gotta wait for that money tree to grow a bit more in the backyard.

Have yet to go to a VW event as i was busy all last year. I can't wait for the Sydney and Berry VW shows, just to check out everyone else's rides.

Cheers


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zocstar - March 2nd, 2011 at 05:30 AM

Welcome mate. Have fun. I'll prob see you driving around , I'm just on the other side of the lake.

shokwave2 - March 2nd, 2011 at 06:23 AM

Thanks guys.

Not hard to spot a bright yellow bug with T-bars in the 'Gong'. :lol:

kempos - March 9th, 2011 at 09:17 PM

Yeew, I'm totally new to this as well, and from the 'gong! It'll be good to see more early bugs gettin around. I just picked up my '64 at the end of January. Fortunately for me I have an AWESOME mate in Morgan Smith who knows the game and has 'helped' me (more like done all the work) to get it lookin tidy and LOW :-)

I'll be sure to keep an eye out and hopefully get myself to some shows as well :-)