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Welcome back, Air Cooled Fans!

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The original South African forum, AircooledVWSA, is officially back online! After a bit of downtime, the community is revving its engines once again.

It’s incredible to think this platform has been around for over 21 years—it actually predates social media as we know it today. If you haven’t signed up yet, head over to www.aircooledvwsa.co.za to join the family. Let’s work together to keep the air-cooled VW scene in South Africa thriving for another two decades!

Does anyone perhaps have any contact with the original founder of this Forum, Eben van Ellewee?
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Post by retrovan »

Good to hear the old forum is back.
Been a long time since I posted here.
lets hope it comes back to its former glory
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Was a bit lost without it,....missed the "friendly" bantering and some good advice

whoever got the spark & timing right !! thanks
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Nice one (even though since the site has been down I've moved with my beetle to switzerland) :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Pine wrote: Fri Mar 27, 2026 8:22 pm The original South African forum, AircooledVWSA, is officially back online! After a bit of downtime, the community is revving its engines once again.

It’s incredible to think this platform has been around for over 21 years—it actually predates social media as we know it today. If you haven’t signed up yet, head over to www.aircooledvwsa.co.za to join the family. Let’s work together to keep the air-cooled VW scene in South Africa thriving for another two decades!

Does anyone perhaps have any contact with the original founder of this Forum, Eben van Ellewee?
Its still me. I just disappeared off the face of the earth for some time... :rat:
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I’m so glad the forum is back online. 21 years of knowledge being shared build an encyclopedia that I would often refer back to.
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Post by Tony Z »

Nice one guys.
I'm still here, just not as often as before as life is extremely busy and I'm also getting tired of being behind a PC.
At some point I need to do a projects update. For now though, as some of you know, I've left CPT and am now in CAW land...
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eben wrote: Sat Apr 04, 2026 8:04 pm
Pine wrote: Fri Mar 27, 2026 8:22 pm The original South African forum, AircooledVWSA, is officially back online! After a bit of downtime, the community is revving its engines once again.

It’s incredible to think this platform has been around for over 21 years—it actually predates social media as we know it today. If you haven’t signed up yet, head over to www.aircooledvwsa.co.za to join the family. Let’s work together to keep the air-cooled VW scene in South Africa thriving for another two decades!

Does anyone perhaps have any contact with the original founder of this Forum, Eben van Ellewee?
Its still me. I just disappeared off the face of the earth for some time... :rat:
Welcome back, Eben - drop me a PM some time, I'm struggling with the ACP
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Post by didi »

Hi Everyone, good to see some old names. I'm still driving my 1970 Westy and based in Pretoria
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