Aircooled VW South Africa

Welcome Perrib, nice post!

Howzit,
I'm cape town based, and love beetles.
i've got me a beetle that i would love to know what year it is, and restore the hell out of it. so thats why im here, to meet like minded people and get as much advice as possible.
(...i feel like i have just introduced myself at an AA meeting)

Hey guys/girls! My name is Joseph (aka JOE). I'm from Gordonsbay Capetown, I have been driving my 1967 beetle 1.6 for 5 years. I am currently a final year paramedic student at CPUT. Totally love beetles and VW aircooled vehicles! I named my car bubbles..long story lol! Had a lot of ups n downs with bubbles but she always makes me feel good! I'm trying my best to restore her and keep her in good condition! Reason for joining this club first n for most, was to get connected with people who are as passionate about beetles as i am and secondly for advice! All of the best for 2013! keep it cool

Hi there!

I'm Caylin and I'm a Neewbie!
I have 59 Beetle and I'm from Paarl.

My partner in crime has left me to finish the car by myself. So I need a bit of help regarding wheels...
I had original beetle wheels widened, but now I can't fully turn the front wheels!
Now I need to get spacers made. Could someone tell me what the PCD of my beetle is? I've been getting mixed reviews on other sites.

Caylin59 wrote:Hi there!

I'm Caylin and I'm a Neewbie!
I have 59 Beetle and I'm from Paarl.

My partner in crime has left me to finish the car by myself. So I need a bit of help regarding wheels...
I had original beetle wheels widened, but now I can't fully turn the front wheels!
Now I need to get spacers made. Could someone tell me what the PCD of my beetle is? I've been getting mixed reviews on other sites.

why not run a narrow/wide setup? the pcd is 5 x 205 by the way.. oh and welcome here..

Narrows and wides was the idea, but when I got my wheels back from the engineers, they were staggered.
I took it back and he just adjusted the offsets. Stupid. So rUnning with the staggered wheels now.

Thanks for the help

Hi there, noob on the block here.

I have been a Volksie fan for as long as I can remember, with a specific soft spot (or rather, hard-on) for a splitty.

But I have now made peace with the fact that a splitty is the preserve of the rich and I'm trying really hard to move on from that.

I am beginning to look for a bay. Not really sure what I want to pay and exactly what I want to do with it, but I thought this forum was the place to start. And I'm already drooling over the projects...

Keep up the good work guys!

Hi and welcome here Rehann.

You will find all the information you could possibly need right here - best forum there is !!! People here are really helpful and knowledgeable.

Hi,

I´m Michael from Germany and drive and love my aircooled Volkswagen

I search always international contacts, because this is always a win-win situation..

I work at the moment on my Type34 Pigalle http://www.moesinger.com/index.html and I hope I can drive this year with my car to a fantastic German Meeting...
here a picture from the wedding in original working clothes from the company Karmann



after wedding




Maybe someone hear about the big German event with the beetle from 1938 and and and... http://www.uraltkaefer.de/

Maybe someone need something from Germany, no problem contact me..

Bye Michael

Hello to all newbies.

I would love to attend the German event and even though I'll be in France on those days, I wont be able to get to Germany.

Hello everyone,
My name is Mike McCarthy , I am from North Carolina USA . I have owned , restored and raced VW's for many years . I just retired from racing as of this month but here is a video of me driving my race car last fall, it is the red bug,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJZrEFElU24

I have a new car that I will be building this year using the same engine and transmission that is in the race car. This will be a street car and I plan on driving it to shows and events. I look forward to making new friends here, Mike McCarthy

Hi There all the new members very warm welcome from all of uss here

dragvw that is one nice wheelie with that bug going street car with that setup will dev blow the doors of the competition

Hi

I'm a newbie.

Got a Bay window executive 2.0L kombi a while ago, I've been living in Cape Town for over two years and only used a bicycle, so this kombi is just for surfing trips.

Have had some amazing days already around the Peninsula. On the first day of the kombi it was picked up and used straight away for sundowners with some friends.

We've called the bus Westerley Windina. The name comes from a world champion surfer Peter Drouyan who turned in to Westerley Windina after a surfing accident, and I see they are busy making a film about it! http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/962 ... -an-enigma .

Here is a picture from one of the first trips to kommetjie....



I also have a 1953 356 90 but it is in storage in the north and not really part of the picture, but it is also aircooled!

Very nice Nicling..... I love that portjie ! and your bus ! looks like lekke fun !!

Howzit, Jack's the name...first car was a beetle, middle car was a 73 Westfalia baywindow and current car is a 69 German Split window seems like a good enough reason to join this site? I have 5 x original beetle / Karrmin Ghia great condition hub caps that I want to swop for 4 x dome hub's for my spitty...any takers?