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 satinoval
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| posted on April 3rd, 2013 at 09:08 AM |
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new from melbourne/ wales uk
hey guys and girls,
Im Pete from Cardiff, UK and just moved to sunny Melbourne with my girlfriend where we intend to stay for a long long time..
im currently looking at shipping over my oval project from the uk and its tasking my mind some what as its not a running car and by no means road
legal as yet.
hopefully I can find some guidance on the forum in the coming weeks so i can plan a way to get the car over to me and enjoy it in the sunshine and
hopefully get to a few drag days if they happen over here also.
my car is a 1956 california oval, its been converted to RHD and gone through a full body off restoration including narrowed beam, spindles, lots of
cleaning and a refurbed interior, rollcage and plastic windows to name a few of the mods, its a show winner and been featured in a few magazines with
little one page articles..
its taken me over 10 years to build and keeps going in and out of project form to up the anti, the next step is fibreglass wings and bonnet and an
EJ20 turbo engine on a subaru gearbox so it has 5 speeds this will be the final stage of the modifications and itll just be adding more power to get
the 1/4 mile times down at the same time as keeping it road legal so i can enjoy the 100k cruises around melbourne 
heres some pics
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| posted on April 3rd, 2013 at 04:40 PM |
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Welcome to Oz. Your oval look great. I like the red gaurd beading with the satin black paint.
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| posted on April 3rd, 2013 at 05:45 PM |
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Welcome down under
You will find the winter weather in Melbourne much like Wales 
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satinoval
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| posted on April 3rd, 2013 at 07:28 PM |
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ahhh i can only hope the last 2 months of 30+ degrees has been brutal, hopefully can get my car over to us in the near future so I can have a little
hobby and get it back on the road
thanks for the comments folks
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| posted on April 3rd, 2013 at 08:55 PM |
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g'day and welcome
Like your bug
You should be able to get lots of answers from the forum on requirements of shipping and registering your oval
Futue te ipsum!!!
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satinoval
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| posted on April 5th, 2013 at 09:58 AM |
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cheers guys, had a few enquireys come back and it looks as though its going to cost in the region of $5k for shipping, which is pretty brutal at the
moment as my new visa is going to cost $4k
while im here, heres a photo from the best show ive ever been too, EBI3 a 700 mile journey in a car that was almost on the floor was great fun
and a picture of my old daily which got sold before flying over 
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| posted on April 5th, 2013 at 11:11 AM |
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Hi SatinOval,
We came out here from North Wales (close enough!). Several years ago now, and we sold all our VWs back then because we were told that modified ones
couldn't get through the red tape. Gutted. Now I've heard that that's not the case. Arghhh! My wife's never forgiven me for selling her Beetle,
and I do miss my Squareback. If you ever get cold in Melbourne in the winter, take a drive up to Queensland to warm up a bit. 
Paul
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satinoval
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| posted on April 5th, 2013 at 07:21 PM |
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yeah heard some horror stories about modifications, big shame is that this has a 4" narrowed beam and has been modified to go very low and victoria
has a 100mm ground clearance rule so will have to change wheel and tyre options so it can roll legally, thinking 17" fuchs or Brms would work really
well
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| posted on May 29th, 2013 at 12:21 PM |
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Hey mate,
thought I would introduce myself...again.... you may know me as haveacamper from Cardiff Aircooled forum. I can beat Paul Cave....i'm from cardiff
too More specific, Adventurers Quay in Cardiff Bay. i'm out here for
2yrs with my fiancee on a visa too We live in Port Melbourne and have
been in aus for 2months now. If you want to meet up anytime soon. like you I was looking at bringing the camper over, but the cost of it has
seriously put me off....especially as we only intend to be here for 2 yrs, so it would be the cost of shipping it back too, lol. does the $5k include
doing all the registration over here too? like your oval, my bus is modified so not sure how this would work.
would a container share be an option 
If you want to meet up for a drink mate, feel free to let me know
NaFe
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| posted on May 30th, 2013 at 03:10 AM |
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Hi Pete
Used to live in Cardiff a long time ago been here over 20years now - hope you didn't move to Melbourne for the weather 
Love your bug good luck bringing it over - cant beat cruising in the summer sunshine
1967 Rat Beetle
1974 Kombi
1967 Aussie Deluxe Project
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| posted on May 30th, 2013 at 07:51 AM |
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nice car and welcome to melbourne
if you guys are interested we do a monthly coffee run
volkswagen club of victoria and the type3contingent
1st sat every month
theres is one this sat 1st june
salford lads club, corner of fennel and bridge street port melb
we meet from 10am and are normaly there till after lunch
come down and meet some local dubbers
volkaholics.net come check us out
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| posted on May 30th, 2013 at 12:20 PM |
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I'll be there...i hope the weather doesnt stop the Vws being there
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satinoval
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| posted on February 9th, 2014 at 04:13 PM |
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managed to get my password reset after a long time, and have been staying away from the VWs whilst settling, but the bug is back, the visa is paid for
and just waiting for immigration to grant me residency and once all thats done we will be looking to ship the oval over later this year.
hoping to get to a fair few shows over the coming months and meet some friendly people with any luck
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| posted on February 9th, 2014 at 05:23 PM |
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Welcome aboard!
cool looking ride
enjoy your long stay here in Australia 
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satinoval
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| posted on February 12th, 2014 at 08:25 PM |
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already fully enjoying it, will post up my story in the readers rides some day soon
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