My name is Brandon 28 yrs old from the states.

I talked to some guys on thesamba and they said check it out.

Have a rough time navigating this site.

Have had many VWs. Have 3 right now. A 63', 64', and 65' all beetles.

Would anyone care to post a link to for sale ads with RHD pedals for a 65' beetle?

Thank you all hope I can figure this site out. Like what I've read so far.

Here is a link to my build thread on thesamba. I hope it is ok to post it in here.

http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=491039 

If not I'll remove it. Still tryin to learn this site. Sorry

welcome to here!
chillax and enjoy the view
have a play around on here it's not too hard to find what you seek
cheers pauly

G'day and welcome mate

Gidday mate, welcome Downunder. Cool fab work on your type 1 truck

Welcome Brandon.

Try starting with 'Topic Activity'......it shows what's going on NOW.

Cheers,

Greg

Thanks Greg

That's about all I've figured out.

Thanks for all the welcomes. That's why I love the VW scene always good people.

Quick question. What is more common in Australia?

LHD or RHD VWs?

Anyone have pics of there RHD Ghia?

Hi mate, almost all of our VWs are RHD. There was a VW factory here building Type 1, Type 2 and Type 3 from 1953 through to 1976. From 1960 until 1968 they were even pressing the panels locally for the Beetle. VW Australia even developed and manufactured their own unique model, the Country Buggy, which has it's own sub-forum on here.

Let's see were to begin.

I'm gonna try to post a few pics of what I done this evening. Hope it works.


Started out with a dash clip from a Jeep CJ5, sorry no before pics I got excited.


Cut out the section I wanted and cut 2 5/8" out of the center.


Here I just set it back in the piece I cut it from. Shrunk a tad.


Did a test fit to see how much needed to go. You can also see 2 welds on the left side. I made 2 cuts total of about 3/8" to give it the same contour as the dash.

Mock up to make sure I'd have room for tge oval ash tray and grill.


Front side all welded and cleaned up.


Pic of the back side. Just to show it looks like a glove box all around.


To get a better feel of it all. The center section "radio area" is getting a complete redesign in the next few weeks. When parts arrive.


Didn't need as much after all. Lol. It took a lot of trimming.

It's not a exact oval dash, to hard to find a RHD oval clip. But it'll all flow nicely together I think. Now on to makin a door this week. Tryin to get a lot of little things done before I set it back on the pan to finish lower 6"-8" of the back of the cab.

Little progress is better than none. Oh yeah steering wheel was a freebie along with jeep dash.

Check out the rest of my build, the link is attached in my signature.

I figured out how to post pics on here!!

Woohoo

So now I will bring my build thread up to date on here as well.

Quick question.

What does QLD mean?

Thank you.

Is there any other terms I should be aware of?

Lol you all are nuts.

Bottler!

Yes I'm a union distiller. Make all the spirits in bourbon country.

strewth mate it looks as if you have nutted out this thingamajig site
sounds tops that u doin home brew bourbo's.. many a night had the wobbly boot on from that poison
see ya round like a rissole
yeah yeah I've had enuff gingoisms

What did he say?

Lol

Ha ha don't worry about that drongo he was just taking the piss.

What.....????? h taking the piss.....??????? Strewth.......NEVER....he's a dinkum fella, always on the level..but if he's been bending the elbow you better hide ya sheila's....

I recon he's probably a bonzer bloke. Let's see if we can find him a set of RHD pedals......at least he knows which side of the car the driver is supposed to sit.

You guys lost this American!!!!!

Lol

Bonzer bloke. Translation please!

Strike me pink, there's no way anyone will get ME to say "cool dude",OK!