Melburg Luft

So now that Tiff has her bug back im looking at getting a daily VW for myself, im thinking early notch would be nice.
ratty or shiny but as little rust as possible must be running good and easy enough to get on the road with a little fiddling, interior doesnt bother me, probably pushing to get one on my budget of $3000 - $3500 MAX. happy to travel for the right one.

Colin Purvis
Yapeen VIC
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also consider a fasty

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Maybe Bullrunner still has his early notch??

what another one how bout fixen wat u got first.

JYE_91 wrote:what another one how bout fixen wat u got first.

not trying to get on your case here col, but you've seriously done most of the hard work on the beetles already, might as well finish them.

if it's an easy, road ready driver that you're looking for, then good luck finding a good, early example for your price. maybe you'll have more luck finding a piglet, but even then, type 3's are sooooo different to beetles and need more specialised parts.

spend 2 g's on fixing up one of your beetles, leave 1 g for on roads and enjoy it dude.

Nafe wrote:if it's an easy, road ready driver that you're looking for, then good luck finding a good, early example for your price. maybe you'll have more luck finding a piglet, but even then, type 3's are sooooo different to beetles and need more specialised parts.

spend 2 g's on fixing up one of your beetles, leave 1 g for on roads and enjoy it dude.

Sorry I have to agree with Nafe as type3 parts don't really come cheap or easy like beetles.

Just food for thought.

Good luck in your quest though.

i have the next 50 years to work on the ones i have though

Not havin a go at any one, just tryin to enlighten people a little.

Most of our cars are mine, and they consist mostly of Fatty's. We all have our favorite VW that we one day wish to own, Col's just happens to be a Notch, mine is a Splitty. I know if I had the chance to be the proud owner of a Splitty I wouldnt pass the chance up just because I have other cars that I could work on. Would you?

Sorry if I'm sounding rude, I can see where you fellas are comming from but yeah thats my say

which reminds we should call in to ya mates house and collect what belongs to you...


I'm up for a trip to castlemaine if ya need a hand... or a shadow in the background...

Cheers, I've been thinking about it non stop since talkin to you and baxy bout it. I'll go up tomorrow and get some pics and find out exactly what I need. I'll be in touch....

Here Ben, I got some photos of it today, mite be a bit tricky with that front axel missing. Ive got drums and wheels to put on but dunno how id go about getting a wheel on somehow on the passenger side. The door has recently fallen off, may have been from us opening and closing it the other week. Makes me cry everytime I go up there .

Sorry brotherin just hijackin ya thread for a min

Uploading pics now...

Roads are pretty rough n tough



Few parts laying beside it



And there she is!!



Ding in the front, caused by Marks duel cab lowlight when the fella dumped them up there.



Bit of rust in lower sill



Bumper has been cut and rear apron is missing



ID Plate (Havnt got photoshop on this computer, so I cant make out all the info)



Some dents in roof, easy to pop out



Floor and chassis is solid





Awsome sign writing









Theres a bonus beetle bonnet in the cabin, I have the door that goes with it.



This is a bit of a bugger, repairable.



Drivers side, easy.



Passenger side, not so easy.



And thats it, I'm in love with it.

the main thing is to get it home... worry about the rest later...

make sure your car trailer has a winch take a few big logs/bits of timber to slider her up on and lets get her the feck home....




looks damn cool by the way...!

Agreed, just had to share it

Itd be to hard to trailer it out with out making to much noise, I was thinking get it rolling and roll it out the property, tow it up the track a bit then winch her on, if possible

make as much noise as you want...

its yours - you paid for it...

and I'm farking massive....

unless he has a shot gun.... then I'll shit myself...

This is true

Haha I like your style, and I'm pretty sure he has no guns

i got some T1 beam bits about if they fit, you can scam 'em to go and get it, even temp, just to roll it on....
MB brethren, when you going? could be a good saturday excursion as part of/opposed to Rancho, sorry Ben, but this looks like a whole bunch of fun.... I'll be T3D's getaway driver if you want some help, have fair bit of lifting gear and stuff, but no crane anymore

sing out if you need more big guys who are prepared to run if a 12" anything comes out..... Go get it. AWESOME!

type 1 beam won't fit.



edit: just saw the spindle-less side....

wouldn't a spindle/knuckle be able to be pinned into place, even without the carrier housing, just so there is something to bang a drum, a wheel and 2 wheel nuts onto???

wouldn't drive good, but just to get it rolling? or dragging without grief?