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 shokwave2
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| posted on March 1st, 2011 at 07:23 PM |
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Hey from The Gong
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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Paulc1964au
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| posted on March 1st, 2011 at 07:28 PM |
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Welcome to the forum, look forward to seeing pics of your car BTW sent you a pm in relation to wheels
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68AutoBug
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 posted on March 1st, 2011 at 11:14 PM |
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| Quote: | 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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How is the GONG..??? GOING???
and what is a GONG???
Good luck with Your purchase...
Sydney Nationals --
Lee In SCONE UH NSW
- [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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zocstar
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| posted on March 2nd, 2011 at 05:30 AM |
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Welcome mate. Have fun. I'll prob see you driving around , I'm just on the other side of the lake.
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shokwave2
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| posted on March 2nd, 2011 at 06:23 AM |
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Thanks guys.
Not hard to spot a bright yellow bug with T-bars in the 'Gong'. 
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kempos
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| posted on March 9th, 2011 at 09:17 PM |
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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 :-)
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