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 posted on December 21st, 2002 at 09:58 AM |
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Why aren't these kombis?
Just found this company in TNT backpackers mag.
Wish Uncle George could pay me one day, I'd love to see some old VW's being rented out here on the mainland. Good on Rent-A-Bug in Tassie
for setting up:thumb
David in Albury, a 59 kombi would be excellent for transporting backpackers around up there if you wanted to get into that side of things:bounce
http://www.wickedcampers.com.au/index.htm
Well there's some good artwork here and bad, but hey what fun!! |
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| posted on December 22nd, 2002 at 07:29 AM |
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Not bad, but let's face it,anything you do to a shitsubishi is an improvement.
Best accessory for one though is 10 litres of unleaded & a box of matches.
[Edited on 21-12-2002 by Spook]
Well my friends are gone & my hair is grey, I ache in the places where I used to play.
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| posted on December 22nd, 2002 at 08:29 AM |
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looked at this site before and gotta agree with spook!!!!
cheers
rhys
it aint just cool its aircool'd
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| posted on December 22nd, 2002 at 10:34 AM |
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Agreed, the Mitsubishi vans are pretty ordinary. No were near the character of a kombi.
I like the idea behind it though. Kombi's would be great. Better art work needed though
Hey, bought a ticket and hope Uncle George pays me this week (me and 20million others I guess) |
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| posted on December 22nd, 2002 at 12:07 PM |
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hey
i am contemplating wheater to paint my panel van like this i have a friend who is really good with the airbrush and coulkd do it for next to
nothing!!!!!!!! i was gonna do a graffiti design. but not sure anyone have any suggestions!
cheers
rhys
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| posted on December 22nd, 2002 at 04:28 PM |
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The hippy era is dead young'n, & best left that way.
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| posted on December 22nd, 2002 at 06:00 PM |
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paint job
its only paint so get creative and who says the hippy era is dead and jenz my 60 splitty is going to be my courtesy bus around may - june next year
,you guys that are coming to albury should come and do one of my canoe tours on the murray river
dave:o:o:tree
[Edited on 22-12-2002 by david]
[Edited on 22-12-2002 by david]
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| posted on December 22nd, 2002 at 06:22 PM |
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Canoe tours sound good but not sure if we have time on this trip
I'm so glad your using a '60 splitty as a courtesy bus, sweet!!:thumb
Really, art work or not someone should be supplying a market here with kombi's for rent. The number of people that come into YHA wanting to rent
a vehicle or after small group tours. Hey I'd love to see it happen. They don't need to be classics but '60 - '70's
kombi's and beetles. Guess setting up and insurance are the killers here. |
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| posted on December 22nd, 2002 at 08:53 PM |
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damn right. they DEFINITELY need some Kombis. the other vans just look soo unnatural in funky paint. Kombis were born in it
Reimagined/Recycled/Upcycled Cool
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 posted on December 22nd, 2002 at 09:07 PM |
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Well first of all, I haven't looked at the pics, but I do like Mitsubishis and I did have an L300 8 seater with a 2 litre engine and a Starion
Diff..... and I had it for many years and when I sold it, it still looked good... the only thing that stopped it going faster was the flat front.
Now if it had a split window front..... I would probably be still paying the fines...
and if I had a spare 10 litres of unleaded and a box of matches- I'd pour it over spook and light it...
I don't think He would be missed... as He only talks shit anyway....
- [size=4]Helping keep Air Cooled VWs on the road - location: SCONE in the Upper Hunter Valley - Northern NSW 320 kms NNW of SYDNEY--- [/size]
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| posted on December 23rd, 2002 at 02:53 AM |
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Always did like the way people are 10 feet tall when they aren't standing within arms reach.......
Well my friends are gone & my hair is grey, I ache in the places where I used to play.
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| posted on December 23rd, 2002 at 07:57 PM |
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The unfortunate thing is that if they were Kombis and the drivers lugged them up hills, thrashed them in first, didn't change the oil, or adjust
the valves every 5000 km, they would become unreliable and the spares would not be as easily available in the outback.
I say let them kill a few Mitsu vans out there.
The L300 has one very good feature though. A lot of Hotrodders use the Front ends in their 350 Chev powered Rods. Small beam, rack steering and disc
brakes all in one. Plenty of dead L300's to get them from.
Peter
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