Aircooled VW South Africa

Hi all, Im Trystan from cape town ,i have 1969 beetle 1500,its fairly standard.....and almost in daily driver condition

Hello
My name is Barry and I live in Hillcrest Durban. As youngster I drove a 1600 Grey panel van with one yellow wheel and had countless trips all over Natal and Transkei . I went places in that bus where 4x4's would struggle, it was simply amazing. Then had a few fast cars and bought a powder blue 2l PV bus which I tricked out with bubble windows and a sun roof, grand piano bed and of course cool tunes. back is the day shaggy carpet was it hey. Again I did incredible bush travelling because I was fully into hang gliding. We drove up mountains that no vehicle had tried before, how we survived I don't know, but the bus certainly did. Anyway business got in the way of a lot of things but by chance I recently found a 1971 powder blue Beetle, one trip around the block and I was young again. My new business is Jetstream Teardrop Trailers and the Beetle is going to be used as a show tow vehicle. please have a look at our site http://www.jetstreamtrailers.co.za and you will see why the Beetle will look so cool towing a teardrop.
Many Thanks and travel light..
Barry Olivier
0825533355

Hello, my name is Wynand. I have 2 pick-ups and can't decide which one restore first...........
1969 Double Cab
1970 Single Cab
Choices choises

Hi Everyone.
My name is Martin and I live in Rustenburg. I do repairs on cars from home. I have a 1600S that I bought in 1978 as a demonstration model with 3000 km on the clock. The car now has 300000 plus km's on the clock. I love my car, still drive it daily and have been all over the country with it. I only got stuck once with no fuel (my fault!) and once the carburetor caught fire but lucky for me I noticed something was wrong and was in time to kill the fire with sand. There was only minor damage so I was very lucky. I/We had a Beetle Club here in Rustenburg called the Platinum Beetle Club, but it, unfortunately the club died a sudden death as there were not sufficient people joining to make it viable so I, as the President decided to call it a day.

Welcome all!

Hi Everyone

My name is Andre and live in Cape Town.

I'm the proud owner of a 1974 1303 cabriolet.

Had the bug since 1998.

I'm in the process of restoring the vehicle so at the moment it is in a thousand pieces.

Will post pics at a leter stage with the progress of the restoration process.

Welcome guys

Wow, another 1303. Nice!!

2bugU wrote:Hi Everyone

My name is Andre and live in Cape Town.

I'm the proud owner of a 1974 1303 cabriolet.

Had the bug since 1998.

I'm in the process of restoring the vehicle so at the moment it is in a thousand pieces.

Will post pics at a leter stage with the progress of the restoration process.

Awesome!!! Welcome here, hope you enjoy your stay, looking forward to those pics..

hi guys . from the east rand i own a 66 beetle and a 71 baywindow lhd my 1303s just got stolen on the 3/21/15
thank you
sollyd

sollyd wrote:hi guys . from the east rand i own a 66 beetle and a 71 baywindow lhd my 1303s just got stolen on the 3/21/15
thank you
sollyd

Dude that sucks ASS, hope the butt monkey that took it gets his ass handed to him!
Put some pics up of the car, maybe we can help with keeping an eye out for it..
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Oh and by the way, Welcome boet!

Hi,guys I am a new member and am on a farm in Somerset West, got involved with vw beetles and kombi's about 4 years ago and now I am hooked.Currently have a 69 bug (just completed renovation) also working on a 71 bug and just started on a 1973 kombi high top bus (lots of rust, but good floor) so will be looking for a few items for the bus.Good to be part of you lot.

welcome!!!
We want pictures and stories!!

Good morning all, this is my first post on this forum - I'm getting started on a '59 m/bus, any advice and access to parts will be appreciated.

Hi all,
I am a keen vw bus enthusiast. I owned a 1982 air cooled bus, but converted it with a 1800 golf watercooled engine.
I later sold it. I also had a similar bus with a ford v6 engine with which I worked with for years. Excellent suspension.

Mydream bus is a '72 ish bay window.

At the moment I own a Transporter crew bus. Should I say I own it and my wife took it from me! She loves it.
I like the power the twin turbo 2l engine has. The inside panels is carpeted on the sides and the roof, which dampens the road noise quite a lot.

Panelvan

Hi All, my name is Gian... complete newbie. Looking at getting a Westfalia sorted for a road trip