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Title: First Vw You Ever Owned
Post by: steveo_32 on December 07, 2004, 09:28:01 PM
Lets hear it!  My first beetle was a 65 baja when i was 11 it had wood floors and a 1641!
When i was 16 i bought a 68 that had so much heat you had to put your left leg as far away from the heater as you could becasue it would burn you! I wish i never sold that one! :wacko:  
Title: First Vw You Ever Owned
Post by: Russ on December 07, 2004, 09:52:52 PM
65 beetle,bought it in bellingham towed it home and she fired right up.
i loved the car but i did some really bad things to it in the 80's that i though were cool (i piece windows and i painted the engine tin pink and seafoam ughh)
funny thing is the car was sold locally in 94 and i see it every year at the great canadian (now resides in cambell river)
Title: First Vw You Ever Owned
Post by: KOOL-AID MAN on December 07, 2004, 09:54:37 PM
my first car was a 73 super beetle, i bought it purple and sprayed it with green crappy tire paint, 19 cans of it

the car lasted a year, floors were rotted, and the motor blew going up 200st at 4500 rpm,   cool car tho :P  
Title: First Vw You Ever Owned
Post by: Mowser on December 07, 2004, 10:15:19 PM
1967 Beetle.  The following link has the picture and story

First Car (http://www.mosbackyard.com/volkswagen.htm)
Title: First Vw You Ever Owned
Post by: jim martin on December 07, 2004, 10:19:12 PM
still have my first beetle ,owned it now for 24 years. alot of cars have come and gone but not that 68 .that poor car hasn't had it easy , i hope its as happy with me as i am with it.
Title: First Vw You Ever Owned
Post by: silas on December 07, 2004, 10:34:35 PM
first car and first vw was a 71 super beetle.

it was bone stock + a set of studded snow tires on the back. it saw more off road than on. i grew up on denman island and the 4x4 trails there were plentifull. that car could go anywhere that 4x4 could go. it also got me to & from high school for my senior year. and provided me with many fond memories and good rides.

it was christened  \"lil drop o' honey\" and my friends and i started our car club, the road pirates.

dayum, i put that car through the ringer and beat the living piss out of it daily. we all know how we were when we were 16-19. ;)

someday i will build a badass baja and call it \"lil drop o' honey II\" in her memory.
Title: First Vw You Ever Owned
Post by: Shane on December 07, 2004, 10:39:55 PM
Mine was a  74 standard... pounded her and slapped on 19 cans of Crappy Tire Aqua paint... and euro mirrors... Yeah baby ,oh yeah and a wink mirror.... she was the shiat!!!!! inside was OG Yellow....Bought my self a sparkomatic cassette player for it. :rockon:

 
Title: First Vw You Ever Owned
Post by: hotvw1 on December 07, 2004, 10:52:24 PM
Mine was a 74 super I bought in Whitehorse. Had to drain the water from the fuel tank and drove it all summer and drove back to alberta. Still had the vw canada tires on it. Then drove it back up the next summer and back again. Good car. Abused the heck out of it but it kept going.
Title: First Vw You Ever Owned
Post by: Matt on December 07, 2004, 10:55:48 PM
My first was a 72 squareback, crappy automatic that barely went. But it looked good when it was waxed.
Title: First Vw You Ever Owned
Post by: James Buchan on December 08, 2004, 06:00:07 AM
75 standard, the chick I bought it from was hot so that's how I got into vw's.......Wonder where she is now.....  
Title: First Vw You Ever Owned
Post by: Bubba on December 08, 2004, 06:39:13 AM
Mine was a 1967 blue deluxe.  It had flared fenders, 13 mickey thompsons on the back, and a holley bug spray!
Title: First Vw You Ever Owned
Post by: slammedbus on December 08, 2004, 07:58:11 AM
67 square. Started pulling it apart right away. New floors, IRS rear clip, tacked in the heater channels, slammed it, then the barn fell over :(  
Title: First Vw You Ever Owned
Post by: dannyboy on December 08, 2004, 09:02:00 AM
74 std yellow slammed, with a bone freaking stock motor. ass slow, absolutely NO suspension, awful to drive, but was cool to look at.... then my bro got a hold of it and did some \"body modifications\"
then i got the 63 that i  have now!-  
Title: First Vw You Ever Owned
Post by: Chris on December 08, 2004, 09:09:50 AM
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74 std yellow slammed, with a bone freaking stock motor. ass slow, absolutely NO suspension, awful to drive, but was cool to look at.... then my bro got a hold of it and did some "body modifications"
then i got the 63 that i  have now!-
body modifications, is that kinda like silas' travelling butt pirates club.
Title: First Vw You Ever Owned
Post by: James Buchan on December 08, 2004, 09:12:18 AM
Must run in the family as Dannyboy uses loose tires to do his body mods...
Title: First Vw You Ever Owned
Post by: red snapper on December 08, 2004, 09:17:53 AM
My first car was a 72 beetle. It was lowered with special baja edition wheels and pinstriping on the side. I also painted it bright yellow with brown interior. AHHHHHH the 80s were a fun time.
Title: First Vw You Ever Owned
Post by: silas on December 08, 2004, 02:09:46 PM
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body modifications, is that kinda like silas' travelling butt pirates club.
somehow i'm not surprised that you would come up with something like that. :rolleyes: we all know how much you dig the brown.

so how come you havent mentioned your first vw?



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just remember what your toofless momma said.

\"it's not the size of the trailer we live in that matters, it's the........dammit boy, quit touchin the dog there.\"
 
Title: First Vw You Ever Owned
Post by: Stephan Schmidt on December 08, 2004, 03:18:04 PM
the post does say \"post the first VW you ever owned\"

so mine would be:

1983 jetta

first aircooled ever owned:

1967 beetle

Stephan
Title: First Vw You Ever Owned
Post by: Shane on December 08, 2004, 03:34:21 PM
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somehow i'm not surprised that you would come up with something like that. :rolleyes: we all know how much you dig the brown.

so how come you havent mentioned your first vw?



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just remember what your toofless momma said.

"it's not the size of the trailer we live in that matters, it's the........dammit boy, quit touchin the dog there."
 :lol:  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:
OK Silas that was classic... :lol:  
Title: First Vw You Ever Owned
Post by: Hoosier Daddy on December 08, 2004, 04:00:31 PM
That motorhome bug would go perfect with SquareCamino :rockon:  
Title: First Vw You Ever Owned
Post by: Shane on December 08, 2004, 04:04:31 PM
squarecharo,  :huh: keep focused
Title: First Vw You Ever Owned
Post by: Chris on December 08, 2004, 04:19:00 PM
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somehow i'm not surprised that you would come up with something like that. :rolleyes: we all know how much you dig the brown.

so how come you havent mentioned your first vw?



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just remember what your toofless momma said.

"it's not the size of the trailer we live in that matters, it's the........dammit boy, quit touchin the dog there."
73 super death trap beetle

drove the hell out of it.

rusted away and traded it for some work on another car, the guy who took it from spent $4500 at a body shop getting all the rust cut out and replaced with fresh metal.


 
Title: First Vw You Ever Owned
Post by: vdubn4x4chik on December 08, 2004, 04:55:44 PM
First VW i ever owned is my 1984 Rabbit GTI.  First Vehicle is my Blazer.

First VW i remember being in is my dads old vw van .. ahhh going to the drive in A&W in mission :D

Good times  :rockon:  
Title: First Vw You Ever Owned
Post by: OUTKAST on December 08, 2004, 06:04:24 PM
Come  on now Brian the 80,s rocked big hair and neon pink .My first car was abone stock standerd 67 red  :)
When I Sold it to buy my first 66 type 2  B)
It was lowered, dual kadrons ,matcing red rims ,stereo  :rockon:
Oh yah wouldn,t stay in second anymore  :(
It was a great first car And I meet hans /snapper /shawn /cameron/ grocott/
and a bunch of other people through the thunderbugs .
The car went to someone in Vancouver never to be seen again

The first VW that made me want a bug was Lawrence mings lowered ovel,corvette yellow and spun discs , it was always parked at the petrocan on 88th and scottroad  
Title: First Vw You Ever Owned
Post by: surgerypending on December 08, 2004, 06:19:33 PM
83 rabbit GTI.....drove it....never actually insured it..an sold it quickly.
First real Vw that i actually used was a 74 std beetle..bought it in Richmond and 2 days later drove it to St.John's with only half the floor in the car! :wacko:  
Title: First Vw You Ever Owned
Post by: btljuce on December 08, 2004, 06:25:07 PM
i bought a cal look 66,when i was 14, shit just got out of hand from there !!!! :P  
Title: First Vw You Ever Owned
Post by: vwshawn on December 08, 2004, 06:35:02 PM
Reading this link makes me feel old.
Marty and Brian, I was talking to Ken Smith the other day!

Shawn

PS. Ever talk to Duane Farmer, tell him to get on the board and e-mail me




 :D  
Title: First Vw You Ever Owned
Post by: Hansk on December 08, 2004, 11:37:10 PM
69 T3 fuel injected automatic Fastback , my Dad draged it out of a field. We rebuilt the motor and it ran awesome. Had it up to 100mph once. I too beat the day lights out of it and all my other VW's .  
Title: First Vw You Ever Owned
Post by: volksbug on December 08, 2004, 11:49:23 PM
My first vw was a 66 got for free from an neighbour, Four of us got bugs, nocked out the windows , put up a drivers door safety net, Seat belt, and a helmet and went blind man's demolishion derby in a corn field.  We were only 15 but what a hoot.   Marcel
Title: First Vw You Ever Owned
Post by: Al Canuck on December 09, 2004, 01:21:10 AM
84 GTI, just like this one:

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Title: First Vw You Ever Owned
Post by: kirin on December 09, 2004, 02:22:16 AM
My first vw is my 62 beetle. Also for a period last year I also had a \"Trail rail\" that I eventually sold after I figured out it was to much of a project...
-Kirin
Title: First Vw You Ever Owned
Post by: slugbug on December 09, 2004, 05:14:58 PM
My first was a $400 '72 Super Beetle.Lots of body work and a  Ford grabber blue paint job...electric antenna in rear tail light...fenders welded on and smoothed over. I didn't know much about VW's back then. Was welding rear fender mount area and smelled something burning  :blink: . Melted the rear wiring harness together :o Patched it up with a few miles of electrical tape. No heat and -40 winters :wacko:  
Title: First Vw You Ever Owned
Post by: Tom H. on December 11, 2004, 08:53:00 AM
'63 1500 N with sunroof (a notchback), my High school car. Don't remember seeing another one in so-cal back then, plus it was almost new.
Title: First Vw You Ever Owned
Post by: Chris on December 11, 2004, 05:06:22 PM
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My first vw was a 66 got for free from an neighbour, Four of us got bugs, nocked out the windows , put up a drivers door safety net, Seat belt, and a helmet and went blind man's demolishion derby in a corn field.  We were only 15 but what a hoot.   Marcel
set a few cars on fire doing that.......

I grew up in Surrey.
Title: First Vw You Ever Owned
Post by: 1969deluxebus on December 13, 2004, 02:32:00 AM
i am driveing the first vw i have ever owned
Title: First Vw You Ever Owned
Post by: el_flechador on December 13, 2004, 08:36:21 AM
I was 17 bought a Mars red 1300 1 piece windows on empi style 8's and dechromed. from a guy who assured me it was cherry, when i lowered it i found out it had been in a big front ender ....i can still smell his rose bushes burning now....it was somewhat slower than my first car which was a rally prepd sunbeam TI.