Aircooled VW South Africa

howzit Colin and all - where abouts are you - update your avatars/user profiles to include your location guys, it really can help later ...........

Hey guys I'm Vlakhaas. I am in the process of building my first Sand rail and I need some advice.
My intent is to eventualy sell Properly built Sand rails with Beetle 1600 powerplants, front suspension and modified indepentant
rear suspension but I am far off and do not know a whole lot about beetles or what can be done to them.

Hi. Ek is Gerrie en ek is 'n VW man, ek ry my 1.3 kewer nou al 37 jaar. Ek het die1978 Kewer splinternuut, by my pa as trougeskenk gekry. Ek ry nie veel met hom nie net so nou en dan werk toe, en ek gee maar van tyd tot tyd bietjie aandag aan hom soos dit nodig is, alhoewel dit nog in puik toestand is. Ek wil nog by 'n Kewer club aansluit eendag as ek meer tyd het.
Groete

Welkom Gerrie.

Se vir ons in watter dorp jy bly.

Dan kan ons miskien help.

Hi guys. Im a brand new van owner. 1969 deluxe edition if i am not mistaken. It has a reconditioned engine in, im a young owner but it feels like i was born to be a classic vw driver. As a newbie i have loads to learn and cant wait to grow in my vw knowledge.

welcome to the new okes, start new threads with more info and pics of your "rides" - update your locations in your user profiles so that we know where you are,

natasham - pics asap of your '69 delux bus dude - did you perhaps buy it from a chap called Errol ? (Cape Town?)

Cheers

Hi All, name is Eben and starting a restoration next month a my little bug, bought it from a close friend who used it as his student car years ago and hoping to regain its previous glory...

Hoping to get some info here soon and some good tips and tricks

Hi just joined yesterday ,but always used to read about beetles on the forums . recently did a disk brake conversion on my bug .just the front for now and fitted a dual brake master cylinder on it .looking to do the rear later on .thanks to all ..

Welcome Newbies! Hope you all enjoy the forum.

Hi! Just a quick hello from Geelong Australia, My name is Andrew and i have a 1972 South African beetle, Hope you guys can help with info ? Will post photos soon

steff66 wrote:Hi! Just a quick hello from Geelong Australia, My name is Andrew and i have a 1971 South African beetle, Hope you guys can help with info ? Will post photos soon

hi Andrew welcome here with us

hi there aircooled fans! new member to the family i own a 1957 oval window for almost 19 years now. busy with a resto on it currently... it was my 1st car. in the family for close to 25 years!

Hi almal,my naam is Willie, ek is van Potchefstroom.Ek het seker al 15 vw voertuie in my lewe gehad -meestal golfs 1234 en jettas.Maar nou dat ek n bitjie ouer raak(40) waardeer ek die ouer modelle baie meer.Ek is mal oor ou beetles( pre 68) en sal n arm gee vir n mooi Karmann ghia.Ek sluip al n beruime tyd hier op die forum rond en is verstom oor die lede se kennis en passie vir hul voertuie.Ek is nou amptelik in die mark vir n ou Beetle of KG.Het n kg wat te koop was in Krugersdorp misgeloop met 3 ure omrede ek in Ballito met vakansie is! So ja,ek kyk gumtree,junkmail en olx ten minste 5 keer per dag op soek na my eerste "aircooled"

Williepotch wrote:Hi almal,my naam is Willie, ek is van Potchefstroom.Ek het seker al 15 vw voertuie in my lewe gehad -meestal golfs 1234 en jettas.Maar nou dat ek n bitjie ouer raak(40) waardeer ek die ouer modelle baie meer.Ek is mal oor ou beetles( pre 68) en sal n arm gee vir n mooi Karmann ghia.Ek sluip al n beruime tyd hier op die forum rond en is verstom oor die lede se kennis en passie vir hul voertuie.Ek is nou amptelik in die mark vir n ou Beetle of KG.Het n kg wat te koop was in Krugersdorp misgeloop met 3 ure omrede ek in Ballito met vakansie is! So ja,ek kyk gumtree,junkmail en olx ten minste 5 keer per dag op soek na my eerste "aircooled"

Welkom Willie (and welcome to all the other newbies too), bly om te hoor jy wil deel in die aircooled kultuur wat ons hier het, sterkte met die soek van jou droom kar, vra maar as jy help nodig het ons sal help net waar ons kan..

Hi there My name is Mauritz and i have been a vw bus lover the last 22 years ive owned several splitty s and a couple of bay s i currently have a 69 single cab that im not sure what to do with. whether to finish it or sell it on as unfinished project. i really like the bay window auto-villas and would love to take my young family camping as often as possible but im financially committed to the singlecab. Its a69 with relatively little rust. it has an awesome 1776cc motor built by Brian from Volkspares germiston it has oetinger cams flattop pistons and plenty other specialty performance parts the motor set me back 16K almost 5 years ago and ive not even put 2000km on it in that time frame ive also imported all the lenses rubbers bolts nuts cables ect to rebuild it everything still sealed in boxes The spares were imported from CIP1.com (a reall great prts site)at a cost of 14K in 2009 . as it sits in my garage it owes me close to R50000 in parts alone. il post some pics soon im looking for advice on whether i should sell it and get a villa or build my dream drop-side