G'day all, I've been on here for a few days now and I figure I should probably introduce myself. I joined as my neighbour CaptainKman is on here and
so is Joel, whom I know from SBO! (Which is a brilliant forum if you have a Superbug!).
I'm 22 and live in Queensland, Australia, near Brisbane. I've owned a number of cars, but ever since I was a kid I'd wanted a beetle - you could
say it's always been my dream car - and so about a year and a half ago when I wrote off my Subaru through some rather careless driving I decided it
was now or never, so I took the plunge and bought a bug.
For a bit of background, at this time I was not quite 21 and recently graduated from university with no hint of a decent job insight. So with the very
small budget and vast amount of time for working on cars that comes with only having casual jobs, I bought what I could afford. At this point I knew
nothing about super beetles or that there'd even been two kinds (standard and super), however I pretty quickly found out and found this site (I
don't quite remember how). I didn't have a whole lot of luck with "Phoenix" - so christened because she caught fire 3 days after I bought her,
luckily only a small engine fire the damage from which I could fix - but as many of you will know from my constant questions on here, I learnt a lot
about SBs from Phoenix and having learnt the difference, I'd fallen in love with L bugs. A year later I'd found myself a job as a scientist and had
very little time to work on the car, but could now afford to get her painted.
The painter found a lot of rust and advised me that it would cost at least $10,000 to properly paint Phoenix and advised I sell her and bought
something better, advice I took. I took my $10,000 and bought a fully restored and practically perfect (as yet unnamed) L bug which I now drive 
.
So at 22 and for under $10,000 I've bought my dream car, how many people could say that!
Here's a list of the cars I've owned:
1990 Honda Civic (my first car which I bought in 2008)
1992 Subaru Liberty (I bought this in 2011)
1973 Volkswagen Super Beetle ("Phoenix" bought in 2013)
1987 Nissan Pathfinder (kindly donated to me when Phoenix caught fire - leaked like a sieve and only lasted a week)
1975 Volkswagen Super Beetle (my current L bug/only car bought in 2014 and she's a beauty!)
Welcome Timothy
That Yellow L-Bug looks Cool.
Hope You decide to do up the orange one as well.