Who influenced your VW/car love?

[shano63]

My parent's. I grew up with Dad's 71 super. When it finally spit number three spark plug out of the block, he parked it on the hill and it was game on for me. I learned how to drive stick driving it up and down the driveway.

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63 T1 Ragtop Gulf Blue
08 Civic 5spd
22 Wrangler 6spd
78 F250 4x4 4spd

Chris

Take it as it comes-- Morrison

[Trev Type 3]

my father had a 66 notch back in the day.
i had no clue what it was so i looked it up on the internet and fell in love ha went out and picked up a 69 type 3 sback

[Trev Type 3]

[1*4*3*2]

when i was a little kid my neighbor had a green camper, i thought it was the coolest thing ever, because well it looked awesome. And their was this VW repair shop around our house and every time we would drive by i would stair as long as i could at all of the cool VW's.So Im glad everyone here enjoys these vehicles as much as i do. for life

[jpinut]

because of my dad. I still own the 1968 vw bug that my aunt and uncle bought brand new in the summer of 67. Its been in the family since that time, passed on from sibling to grandparent to granchildren etc... Because of this love i wanted to be a mechanic and just work on these great cars. Well when i went to start I didn't have tools, so I took a job selling cars for the summer. That was in February 1999, I'm a sales manager for a car dealership in Utah. Along with my love of cars, I have owned over 20 different cars, all ranging from honda, audi, porsche, bmw, jeep. In my driveway now, porsche cayenne, and a cadillac escalade, but nothing brings me more happiness and excitement than to get home and start up my 68 Bug and go for a drive.

[vincesco]

I'll Start off by saying I really do enjoy the older refined things in life. Sven, the person who began vw's over the skyway 14 years ago (then called buses over the sky way), mentioned at a show that I had an old soul. I'm 21 years old and here is my story.

My last year at Palm Beach Atlantic University I was looking for a nice daily ride for after college. At first I thought I wanted a car within a couple years of the current year and a friend suggested an AWD A4. I looked into them and long story short I bought a B6 1.8T Quatro. I loved it and still do, However My motorcycle which had been my toy fore so long was being sold so I needed a new toy, and as fate should so have it the person that bought it turned out to be a vw bug owner. The first time I saw his 74 my jaw dropped at the thought that something so old could look so clean.

Little by little my intrest in anything german made got more specific to anything Audi/VW. A little time around him and soon I was in.

My dad is 84 years old he just went through a couple heart attacks and a major heart surgery. We are at peace with everything that is in store for us, we are happy, and we live each day with big smiles on our faces. I brought up the idea of getting in to our first father son project. He bit. we would both have to put up half of the money in parts and I would do the work, following his instructions as this would be his 7th vw. Now we needed a car. We decided on a bus and started looking for one here on thesamba.com after about 20 minutes we found one that was located about ten minutes away. I took a short drive to see it and fell in love. we bought it for a litlle over 2K and have been ever so happy working since.
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74 Bay w/ 1641 DP

[Greezy Joe]

Back in 1956, Iwas 7 years old my Dad had a Texaco gas station and I would fool around there in the afternoons. My Great uncle went to Germany with his whole family and bought 2 1954 Bugs and traveled Europe and Africa in them. He shipped them back to Alabama and showed up at the gas station in 1 of them. I had to go for a ride and look the car over. I was hooked at 7 years of age. After getting a 58 Triump and blew it up in 65, I bought a 58 Ghia (36HP), man I was Mario Andretti in that sporty little thing . I since have owned a bunch of VW's and worked on them as Mechanic in various shops to include my own. Gotta Love 'Em...
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Current:74 Ghia Coupe w/ 2276
71 Ghia Vert w/ 1835
07 GMC Truck
12 Jeep Wrangler
73 Harley FLH 93 cid
89 Harley 883 Sportster (1200)


Owned before: 58, 69 Ghia Coupes, 64 Canvas Sunroof, 68, 72, 73, & 74 Bugs, 63 Single Cab, 65 Bus, 66 & 70 Camper
" Duct tape can't fix stupid, but it'll muffle the sound".

[mos]

my parents had a 1961 11window bus, it is long gone now but thats what started it, also the simplicity of vw's

[A2J3M]

To us, it was Pompon who influenced us. We meet him during summer holidays 2007 with his very beautiful green 72 baywindow.

When we came back from holidays, we put on sale a car to buy a T4 Eurovan (called California Coach in france) and we bought it in january 2008 !

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The Love Bus
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[bmweuro]

My old man work for VW in 1964 and continued for 18 years. It's in my blood.
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Slow & Low

[zozo]

I can smell it now....it's 1959 and I'm in the cubby hole in my uncle's bug. It's night time and the street lights are going by. The fweem and the vibration play a melody and relax me to near sleep.

My parents had borrowed my uncle's 58 or 59 bug to drive while there car was in the shop. I was about 3 years old. Every time I'm in a VW that has that original smell, I can close my eyes and relive the experience.

To put an effed up ending to the story, my uncle that had the VW lives in Ohio, as did we when I was 3. We of course lost touch over the decades so he had no way of knowing of my passion for VWs. That same beetle has been in his garage for all of these years, until about a year and half ago when he sold it to "some kid down the street". If only I'd known.

[Van-go108]

My story comes from my own personal love of VWs. My Dad and I disagree greatly about them. He says they are a great car to leave on the road after they break and never turn around. Just keep walking. He was an engineer for McDonnell Douglas in Long Beach and had been involved in the custom car craze in SoCal as long as I can remember. As a kid, I’ve been to all the drag races, car shows, drag boats and even air racing in Reno. He used to take me to custom shops and silk screening shops and he knew everyone seemed like. Which is probably why I’m an artist? But, I love all things mechanical and VWs, to me are interesting engineering. The big ass 50’s cars were too expensive to fix and operate and I started to see that parts were not that easy to get a hold of. My Dad has dumped thousands of bucks into his cars. I brag on how little I put into mine and I rub it in GOOD. Ha! Suck it, Dad. (Although, I do have dibs on one or two of his cars. Inheritance? )
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[tone007]

My mom had a yellow fastback when I was born, it got wrecked when I wasn't quite 10 yet, but I remember the trips to and from the beach with as many people as the car could hold and overheating in traffic, and the texture of the black vinyl interior.

Our next door neighbor during the same time period had a blue Super Beetle, so I guess I just got used to seeing them.

[66ratrod]

I can blame nobody but myself.
I became a vw "fanatic" myself, then spread the virus to my brother and Dad.
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1966 Standard Bus (No longer a ratrod)

"ACWVs are like having a sick dog that has a 100 year life span and needs constant medical attention... that you ride to work daily."
-Brian

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[my65rhd]

My brother Jeff got me into VW's many years ago. I am so glad he did. It's made a huge difference in my life....Kyle

[nextorskater]

My stepfather, he´s a VW mechanic and has a workshop near here... he convinced me to buy a VW as my first car, I friend that was my teacher at this time also helped inviting me to my first vw meeting a few days before I got the money to buy this car...

My real father Used to work in the VW Venezuelan Fabric when I was born, but he died when I was 11, maybe he also would influence me...
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sorry about my bad english!!!
**1964 beetle daily driver (og anthracite)...
**1967 usa spec beetle**
**1970 fastback (og pastel white)

[far rider]

I guess it was the great ads (Doyle, Dane etc.) back in the 60s that persuaded me a vw was the car to own. Also, this was in the late 60s when there were already a fair amount of vws on the road and their status was becoming legendary. My father was not into cars, his car was a 62 falcon and he actually tried to talk me into something other than the vw. My friends were all into detroit muscle and somehow I was attracted to a little vw. I remember one snowny day and a big chrysler couldn't make it up a hill in my neighborhood. I went right around it in my vw and was sure I had made the right decision.
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67 zenith blue sunroof

Contentment; when what you have is what you want.

[6Kabrio7]

My parents.. My old man had a 60 panel and worked for Allred Volkswagen in Glendale Calif in the 60's. They also had a 63 beetle, two 67s and a 70. My fathers friend who also worked for Allred Volkswagen as a mechanic had a Savannah Beige 68 baja bug and since I was a teenager I had always wanted one. I never bought a baja bug though I prefer stock beetles nowadays.
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67 Convertible July 67 Yukon Yellow
67 Sedan May 67 Zenith blue

[A-Step-Towards]

I am 21 now, but when i was 5 or so aroun the mid 90's I found a box of old got VW mags. At 5 i pretty much learned how to read outta those things , I looked at them over and over again for years. I had one that i looked at daily tell i was like 12, i was always looking at VW's for sale trying to get my dad to buy me one, saved up my money for years from b days ,but ended up with a truck . Finally at 20 I got my first vw, then 2 weeks later another and now 4 months later about to get a third. Its been a life long affair.

[Dasberger]

I will admit that this is my first post in the forum but have been a lurker for a while now. I always had a love for old VW's ever since I was a kid and had a physics teacher who had an old oval that I always loved but in my early teenage years was convinced that I needed a muscle car to pick up females. Turned out that I ended up buying a little Pontiac Sunfire GT as my first car. Had to sell that after graduation and picked up an SUV for college, well, one day late in the summer I was looking on Craigslist for a vehicle for my little sister to buy and came upon a 78' VW walkthrough for $500! This of course brought back all of my memories from being a kid and wanting one and the next day I went to go look at it, full rock and roll bed with cedar interior and a fresh engine and tranny.. Bought it on the spot in cash.. Unfortunately being in my first year of college has kept me from putting all the work that I am wanting to put into it but she's mine and I am hooked!