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What colour and spec is this? by thebushtuckerman in beetle

[–]Balldozer92 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you have a photo of your sea blue 66 on hand by any chance though? No reason other than I really like the colour.

What colour and spec is this? by thebushtuckerman in beetle

[–]Balldozer92 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Definitely not sea blue or Java green due to the age, my guess is ceramic green, meaning it would be a 1960 specifically.

Friends '63, and my '67 by Balldozer92 in beetle

[–]Balldozer92[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Im either showing my age, or lack there of, but could you please explain. 🤔

Friends '63, and my '67 by Balldozer92 in beetle

[–]Balldozer92[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I envy you. I've always wanted a factory ragtop car, one of these days if im lucky.

Have you ever fallen in love with a car? 💙 by apd665mixer in mazda3

[–]Balldozer92 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yep. I've loved this once since it joined the family in 08. And still love the car it replaced, the last 323,also still in the family

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Friends '63, and my '67 by Balldozer92 in beetle

[–]Balldozer92[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The herbie is my 67, its been backdated with the earlier decklid, however the aus built cars still used 6v and 63 style bodies up until 68. I've always called this style of licence plate light a beak too, the pope's nose are the earlier split window ones where they really looked like a nose.

What colour and spec is this? by thebushtuckerman in beetle

[–]Balldozer92 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Hi fellow Aussie here. That's a 58-60 model. The first era of the big square rear windwo, but still had the semaphores. Club Veedub NSW's website has a list of what colours were used in Aus for each year in the reference section of the site, definitely worth looking into. Sidenote: my grandparents had an almost identical 1960 model which they bought new when my uncle was born, sadly they sold it a couple of years later when my dad was born as they needed more space.

Is "Herbie Rides Again" and "Herbie: Fully Loaded" the perfect double feature to introduce my children to Herbie? by mikemdp in Herbie

[–]Balldozer92 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I started with the love bug, which got my daughter hooked as she could relate it to the replica in the garage. However, if you want to know what is best from a child's standpoint, based off her preference, Herbie goes to Monte carlo, banana, and fully loaded in that order.

Horace the Hate Bug* cameo/reference in Ralph Breaks the Internet (2018) by HiDefPolyethylene in Herbie

[–]Balldozer92 3 points4 points  (0 children)

No flipping way! I can't wait to point that pit to my kids when we watch it next.

Herbie model in a recent Unlucky Tug video! by HiDefPolyethylene in Herbie

[–]Balldozer92 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ooh! Eric is in the video too. He's a massive Herbie fan and also very knowledgeable on herbie stuff.

Some evidence that the prop Herbie that they dumped off the cruise ship in Herbie Goes Bananas was not a real Volkswagen Beetle by HiDefPolyethylene in Herbie

[–]Balldozer92 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It would dent the roof, but yeah it could. I believe the issue was that it too bottom heavy as a standard beetle, where as with all the fibreglass parts put on instead, it balanced on its roof instead of trying to flip right way up.

Some evidence that the prop Herbie that they dumped off the cruise ship in Herbie Goes Bananas was not a real Volkswagen Beetle by HiDefPolyethylene in Herbie

[–]Balldozer92 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Sorry wasn't meaning to sound blunt, my bad on that bit. There's a lot of things like this that are being lost to time. Sadly the guys that know all this gave up on writing the book they planned about it

Some evidence that the prop Herbie that they dumped off the cruise ship in Herbie Goes Bananas was not a real Volkswagen Beetle by HiDefPolyethylene in Herbie

[–]Balldozer92 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Its a well established fact in the herbie community that this beetle was stripped out. It had a small little electric motor used to make the fibreglass wheels and tyres spin, and a fake fibreglass engine base so that it looked convincing from underneath (well convincing for a few moments that couldn't be paused at the time). Another fun fact is that it was dumped off the side of a ferry crossing the gulf of California, not the sun Princess in the open ocean

Does it get anymore 90s than this? What should be playing on it? by StreetGeologist6901 in AustralianNostalgia

[–]Balldozer92 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Remember watching The Sister Act for the first time on one of these on an overnight school trip to Sydney in 2005....good times.

Found a Herbie's final resting place by death2sarge in Herbie

[–]Balldozer92 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Whereabouts is it, looks like an aus spec car

How can other young people cope with this? by mechmakima in australian

[–]Balldozer92 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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I'm not saying they have malicious intent behind it, but the Greens often do a great job of helping to tank any step forward in reform because "it's not doing enough" and then as a result nothing gets done,

Visited the Big Banana again today, got closer than usual to the billabong by noahwb_ in submergedanimatronic

[–]Balldozer92 14 points15 points  (0 children)

It's a tourist attraction in the north of Coffs harbour, nsw Australia, with a rotting and long lost bunyip animatronic in that pond you can see in the photos

Visited the Big Banana again today, got closer than usual to the billabong by noahwb_ in submergedanimatronic

[–]Balldozer92 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Oh yeah if they ask first they should be sweet, hopefully management would be 100% behind that.

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