Been a member for over a year and thought it was about time I introduced myself. In my early 30's, Fitter & Turner by trade, but currently doing 3D CAD design. I work for a large defence company spe******ing in Ballistic and Mine protected vehicles, designing drive systems. I'm a VW guy at heart but have been in the local hot rod scene since my teens, I have a real p***ion for early rods and customs. I've basiacally built a VW a year since I was 17, which has been a great way of getting your hobby to pay for itself and teach yourself the nescessary skills to get it done. Most have been fairly mild builds (stock body/engine, slammed and a set of nice rims). My current ride is is more in line with the kustoms that I love......... Mild suspension drop, 3in roof chop, numerous small body mods too. I bought it earlier this year, the majority of the body work having been done back in the 90's. Although it looked great, mechanically it was a disaster zone, so far I've rebuilt the front and rear suspension, brakes, new gearbox, fuel pump, dizzy, regulator etc etc. And have only recently got it to a point where it's been nice and reliable, so I can now finally get stuck into doing a few more body mods, I've got a heap of ideas for it, drawing inspiration from right here on the HAMB, I started with a tunnelled antenna in the front guard..... So I know it's not really HAMB friendly, but alot of the inspiration behind it comes from here and the great early Rod & Custom scene we have here in Vic, The likes of Ben from Rancho Deluxe, Luke and the crew from Fuel Magazine/DVD and of co**** Ryan, Kyle and all the Eldorado's that bring us our little slice of nirvana every October in "Chopped" thanks for the inspiration boys Rhett.
welcome, I have owned VW's in the past. '55 '63 '67 factory ragtop. know all about 1776,1835,webbers. Gene Berg etc . Like your ride
Thanks boys Would love to see some pics of your old rides Lil32! I'll post some of my previous rides too.
Welcome from the west coast of Florida Cool looking VW It looks good down low to the ground. Real retro look to it. Jimbo
Very cool rides champ!! Love the flat black oval on centerlines! A few of my past rides............. My first registered car......... Then built this outa it...... Then 100kph into a table drain.... And it's replacement..... Then got into rods and it evolved into this..... Then this happened.... and it evolved into this...... '69 Square..... '68 Country Buggy.... '63 bug... '74 micro.... Another '69 Square............. '63 Notch.......... '65 Bug........... And my other current rides and projects........... '76 P***at............ '65 Baja.......... '67 Squareback.... '68 DRB Maruader...... There's a couple of Baywindow Kombi's there too but they'll be big projects
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