Aircooled VW South Africa

Welcome Marcel & Karma!

Welcome Marcel & Karma!

Hope you guys will enjoy it here.

Welcome to all the newbies!!!!

Hello, my name is Jaap Steenkamp and I stay in Namibia on a farm near Helmeringhausen, which is about 250km south-east of Luderitz. We farm mainly with sheep, which is quite adapted to this area. I do not have a aircooled VW at the moment, but I want to buy a beach buggie I know about. I had a Beatel when I studied at Stellebosch in the early 90s, which gave me many pleasure, but it was written off one night by a very bad man called Oom Tas..

I have a 2.5 Microbus that works very well on the bad roads. I don't have internet on the farm, but we are visiting family here in Groblershoop near Upington, and I was playing around on the Internet and saw this site, I really like it a lot. Hope to make a lot new friends, and you are welcome to come and visit us on the farm if you like.

Welcome Jaap! I have never been to Namibia myself, but I would love to go there one day. Hope you have a lot of fun here!!

I've been through Helmeringhausen twice. Both times on school trips. I remember a particularly annoyed German lady at the petrol pumps... I think we wanted petrol at an inconvenient time
Microbusses rule Namibia!

Welcome Jaap,

I'm planning to tour Namibia in the not too distant future. Luderitz will obviously be on the itenary. Will take you up on your offer.

welcome, Jaap.

Thats probably one of the nicest countries out there man. I'll go back for a visit anytime. Enjoy!!

Howzit everyone,

My name is Marco, I hail from a little town called Secunda. I am originally an opel fan, successfully modifying many with my old man (still drive a superboss turbo). About a year ago I was stuck without a car, and I had a 10k budget to get me some wheels. A friend of mine suggested I pick up a beetle, so one junkmail later and a weekend in jo'burg, I picked up a sh!tfly/puke green '74 1500. I paid 5k for it; I spent R254 to fix up the little things (vacuum advance, wheel bearings, various rubber seals, and break shoes front and rear). I subsequently put 6k km's on that car whilst in my possession, and all I can say is WOW! The consumption was good, it wasn't fast, but it was solid and reliable. I sold it to a friend of a friend and it’s still running to this day without a problem.

So now, after much consideration I’ve decided to get my greasy hands on another one. First logical step is to join a forum, mingle with you guys/gals, and once I have a bug, share the restoration project with you folk.

Hope to have some good times

Cheers,
Marco

Welcome Marco,
Glad you joined and thanks for the intro. There is always a lot of ideas and banter flying around the forum and I'm sure you'll fit in.

Eben

Welcome Marco!You will most definitely have lots of fun here

At least you have manners and introduced yourself in the proper manner, unlike some of the other newbies . . .

Howzit Marco!

Aan julle almal baie geluk en welkom

thanks all.

@ eben - yeah, i'm expecting quite a lot of "banter" being an opel driver, but its good, i enjoy it

@ blitzkreig - well some folks dont know much about "netiquette", its a shame

You mean you drive a slopel

Seriously though, those Superbosses are crazy cars. Not for me thanks