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Towing with a Variant

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Went through a few old pics tonight and found these of 'Tjokkie' - my old brown '73 412 Variant... what a work horse she was!

Towed an Escort for a friend from Bethlehem to Bloem

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Moved the white Variant to a storage facility

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Bought a Jetta 1 in Lady Grey, and towed it to Bloem - barely missed the biggest hail storm in a hundred years in Bloem that day!

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The day I bought my first Fasty (which is now Blitz's Fasty)

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Went to go and fetch my first Bay with the Variant as well

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Re: Towing with a Variant

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Cool pictures! I used that picture of the Variant towing the fasty as a desktop wallpaper for quite a few months way back in 2007. Pine do you still have the video that you made of it for IMPI?
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Pine love the pictures and the wheels....

Do you still have the car? Looks like you had her for a long time!
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Blitzkrieg wrote:Pine do you still have the video that you made of it for IMPI?
Yes, I do - on VHS, found it again a few weeks ago.
Dutch_Diver wrote:Pine love the pictures and the wheels....

Do you still have the car? Looks like you had her for a long time!
I had that car for about six years and went with it everywhere, including the VW Tour to Uitenhage in 2001 (Tony Z and Bugger was also there)

I eventually sold it when I restored HW1 - last I heard it was on some small Freestate Town. The wheels was sold to a guy who was restoring a 944 Turbo.

The brown Variant was a nice learning school for me - I did all kinds of things to it, like fitted electric windows, a 2.1 EFI system, and a warning buzzer for when you forgot the park lights on and opened the door. It even had a personalised number plate (412VW OFS) Unfortunately, Being the Club Secretary, I got a lot of flack from the other members of the Beetle & Karmann Ghia Club about it (want dit is dan nie 'n Beetle nie!), and I lost interest. In those pre-Internet and pre-ACVWSA days I thought they would never be liked by anyone else but me!

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Eastern Cape

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SandStone, Eastern Free State

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Kaaimans River, Wilderness

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Meiringspoort, Klein Karoo

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Cool, I'd very much like to see that video...
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Blitz, I don't know if I ever told you, but I have used the brake fluid bottle of that Fasty on HW1 after the colour change from blue to orange. I had a look at the pictures of the wreck tonight again, and to my amazement saw that it actually survived the accident! :shock:

(I only saw the wreck once after the accident, and only had a minute to take pics)

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The corpse of HW1 was given to Buggyfan, perhaps he still has the bottle - and perhaps you can make a deal? :wink:
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Re: Towing with a Variant

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Didn't know that you cannablised the bottle from the fasty! :P

I'll let Buggyfan keep his bottle - I'll be converting to the late model setup, with the bottle in the actual boot itself, on the side :)
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Pine I love you variant, both actually. Or make that 3. :hangloose:
Would mind one myself. I've always had a thing for 411 and 412s.

Blitz what happened to my 2 door?
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Re: Towing with a Variant

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No idea. I din't follow it up again.

Ask IMPI, he might still have the guy's new number :wink:
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