kombizombi

This is Muriel... she's named after my Grandma and is our beautiful new addition. She's been getting restored for over a year now and is almost ready for her debut.

Real Name: Justin
Owned Current Kombi: 1 Year
Previous Kombi's: Nah... no previous kombis
Favourite Driving Music: The Rolling Stones, AIR, Dandy Warhols, The Velvet Underground, Groove Armada, Hot Chip, Herb Albert, et al...

Bombjedd

75 microbus deluxe

Real Name: Paul
Owned Current Kombi: 3 Years
Previous Kombi's: 1970 Lowlight Camper
Favourite Driving Music: Pete Murray

The Poet

Joy wanted a Kombi and I went a along for the ride. I took a backseat for a while only to find we have no backseat, it is a bed. We find it better that way. We stumbled across The Tardis and it all just happened. We fell in love and ever since Joy has had trouble getting me out of the driver's seat. Who knew live could be so much fun (well we did but the experience and the adventure has lived up to all promises so far). We look forward to crossing paths. For those who like the detail, she is a '73 camper witht afew minor changes, and she will get a respray next year. She looks great but we can all do with a respray from time to time. The colour will remain of course, that is who she is. Nothing compares (don't tell Joy I said that)

Real Name: Bernie and Joy
Owned Current Kombi: Less Than 6 Months
Previous Kombi's: Too loong ago to remember, although time may not have been the issue
Favourite Driving Music: Bruce Springsteen, or Joy's chit chat

our kombi

Real Name: rob and bec
Owned Current Kombi: 6 Months - 1 Year
Previous Kombi's: none
Favourite Driving Music: any thing that is good driving music

KombiCam

Have a look at www.KombiCam.com.au

Real Name: Nige
Owned Current Kombi: Less Than 6 Months
Previous Kombi's: None
Favourite Driving Music: Listening to a lot of Muse lately.

Smiley

Smiley is my first Kombi and can't wait to many a good time camping out my husband and i are so excited .

Real Name: Trish
Owned Current Kombi: Less Than 6 Months
Previous Kombi's:
Favourite Driving Music: my Favourite driving music would be the Seventies and Eighties

Bumble

This is my first Kombi. I have an old MGB raodster done up to the nines as well as an every day drier 2007 Golf GT (1.4 litre twin turbo). Bumble is a '76 Bay which I am slowly fixing up. All the mechanicals and most of the interior are now done. Paintwork and the roof are my next projects. I may even actually get away for a holiday sometime in this current lifetime.... But wait ther's more! Just bought another 76 Kombi camper which I have named "Bruce" in honour of Bruce! THis one has a few dints adn dings and is currently getting a few mechanicals sorted before a respray adn redo of interiror. THen Bruce will be on teh market as I can only drive one at a time.

Real Name: John
Owned Current Kombi: 2 Years
Previous Kombi's: sadly none.
Favourite Driving Music: Neil Young, Eagles but who knows what it will be next week.

Big Bird

Big Bird is flying the roost, on the market in for sale section

Real Name: KatYaYani JoyStar
Owned Current Kombi: 5 Years
Previous Kombi's: my first child
Favourite Driving Music: kooky kombi tunes playlist

another Harvey

Real Name: Sime
Owned Current Kombi: 1 Year
Previous Kombi's: No Kombis. Prev.owned a super friendly '65 beetle
Favourite Driving Music:

Great Dane's Kombi

My first kombi, My first car!

Real Name: Great Dane
Owned Current Kombi: Less Than 6 Months
Previous Kombi's: None
Favourite Driving Music: Big Band Jazz

Resol

Found a 71 lowlight Deluxe & a 65 11window split Hi all, i think ive been bitten by the bug again... It laided dorment for 20yrs or so but its popped its beautiful head up and looked me sr8t in the face then bit me... Looking to do a resto on my new baby "Chubby" as soon as funds are available Ratso will be a RAT for now as all I wont todo is drive him!

Real Name: Grant
Owned Current Kombi: 5 Years
Previous Kombi's: The parents had a couple of lowlights that we drove around the Central Coast in
Favourite Driving Music: Inxs, Jack Johnson, John Bulter with a twist of Linkin Park.

Rocky Kombi

Hi, my hubby and I are the proud new owners of this gorgeous 1975 model called Rocky. We have had so much fun already going for drives and plan for Rocky to have a bit of a make over when funds permit. Growing up, my grandfather, dad and uncle had kombi's both for work and pleasure so I have fond memories of riding along in the back on the bench seats as as a family we drove to picnic places in the early 70's. I have a collection of model kombi's which our kids had bought me over the years for birthdays, cos they knew we would never be silly enough to buy one! Proud to say now that we do OWN one. Best wishes to all you kombi lovers out there.

Real Name: Jen
Owned Current Kombi: Less Than 6 Months
Previous Kombi's:
Favourite Driving Music: Anything!

Kip-Dur

Picked up this van 2 years ago ironically it was identical to my brother's 65. It's gulf blue over white and I'm not in it enough.

Real Name: Nathan
Owned Current Kombi: 2 Years
Previous Kombi's: 1962 Split Panel, 71 Panel
Favourite Driving Music: Xavier Rudd, Ipod Shuffle

Miss Rose

A lifelong dream!!!!! :) She's a 75 Microbus, was originally going to be an Austin Powers Variety Bash car but is now a sexy little street machine ;)

Real Name: Dani
Owned Current Kombi: 6 Months - 1 Year
Previous Kombi's: None, a 71 n 74 Beetle tho
Favourite Driving Music: Hmm.... Anything from World Music - Blues n Roots - Good Aussie Hip Hop

Yellow Submarine

I have had my Kombi since 1975 and it is now in desperate need of a make over, especially inside. Still great for moving furniture and taking rubbish to the tip though. Have travelled all over Australia in it, but decided to stop long trips when I broke down between Cobar and Willcannia a while ago. Now just use it for driving around the Northern Beaches. One of my sons is a keen surfer and he often borrows in on weekends.

Real Name: Alan
Owned Current Kombi: More Than 10 Years
Previous Kombi's: VW Beetles drove round Australia in one
Favourite Driving Music: Anything classical

Rich's 74 Dormobile

I bought this bus 1973 Bay with full Dormobile Kitout in good condition in 1997 for $2700 on the road. In 2004 I became superstitious about a receding valve or two in the 1800 and fitted a 1982 CV series 2l aircooled donk that I picked up. She has been called various things but most typically Baby, for her baby blue paint, I guess. Since buying the bus, the original Dulux 'Dolphin Blue' paint has worn through in places; the Dormobile fit out is chip board and that would flake away more with each vibration. The camper beds in the popup roof were HEAVY as HELL - I removed them so I could go around corners safely. In the end I found the Dormobile setup was made with different priorities to a 20 something Aussie rockclimber. The sink, stove and fridge were inside the bus, there was nowhere to store any luggage, not even one backpack. Everything was very flimsy , impractical, vulnerable to moisture and the chipboard carcass construction by inspired 70's British cabinetmakers.... offended me deeply (I apprenticed in carpentry in Japan). So I took it all out and gave it away. (pregnant pause). I then rebuilt so the back is now a massive bed with storage underneath, and I've traveled in it to Uluru and back amongst other things. But then time constraints andnonavailability of trim parts for bays put the old girl on the backburner. Having found the Bus Stop and then the Kombi club, she is back in the front of my priorities! She now has an '82 2L aircooled boxer, Merc rims, new windcreen and ... a muffler (drove without one for all of 2008!! The heat exchangers were the only exhaust and it sounded two Harley's). After much thinking, in 2007 I installed pertronix in 2007 and it has run perfectly since. I haven't looked at the inside of the distributor since 2007. That is crazy now I think of it. The distributor is the original CV engine dizzy with no alterations to centrifugal or vacuum advance. Setting dwell on points was all very zen but it's nice to have one less thing to do in these busy times. The valves on CV series (type IV) engines are hydraulic and so I have a little more time between services than before! I de-rusted the cabin floor and underbody - repainted. On Monday, she will be converted to run exclusively on LPG by Geoff Scott in Maryborough, with upper cylinder lubricant drip fed of course. I'll then get electronic ignition to increase initial advance with decreased advance curve (to suit LPG). She will use gas and air only (apart from oil, brake fluid and hypoid oil)! I have just bought elephant ear front quarter windows from Roy at the Bus Stop and as I fit them each section of the body will be resprayed in original Flipper blue (I am considering adding pearl, would this work...?). Then the pop top will get an overhaul, inside trim a going over and that's it.... isn't it? Roy has also just gifted me with an original front seat which I hope to restore and replace the aftermarket seats with. Ta Roy Update: Geoff Scott converted Baby to mixed vapour lpg in March 2009 and the fuel system, ignition and valve timing have had basically no maintenance and haven't skipped a beat since. My oil temp gauge indicates lower temperatures under load than with my beaten up Solex carbs. (The bus runs exclusively on LPG as the old fuel system was simply too worn to safe. The distributor has been turned for earlier advance that lpg likes but the springs and so forth have not been changed. I am fully aware that the advance curve for petrol and lpg are very different and so I stay below 4500 rpm with this compromise advance curve and have bought all the parts for a Megajolt Ford EDIS system. Only problem is this: fitting a timing wheel and sensor on a type IV engine hasn't been pioneered in any real sense yet (help)! So the Pertronix chugs on and on and on, commuting up to 200km return to Brisbane each day, quite amazing really. My circa 1973 regulator faded in 2009 and the alternator hacked out its bearings but as long as there was 12v, the electronic ignition started the bus and took me home, up to 90km with the battery light on one time when the regulator finally died. If the Pertronix accelerated the regulators death, my condolences must go to the Regulator of Regulators however I don't care too much as the new reg is going strong and the pay off in low maintenance and fuel economy is well worth it. I imagine similar systems to Pertronix do just as well. The battery tray is a joke. The battery now sits at about 35 degrees to horizontal. Any advice there welcome! She needs paint!! RIch

Real Name: Rich
Owned Current Kombi: More Than 10 Years
Previous Kombi's: Only in my dreams as a grommet
Favourite Driving Music: I love so much music but dig driving to anything singable!

green4go

Hi, bought this fabulous bus 2years ago , thought i would share its features here, it has been lowered with a worked Pobjoy engine with dual carbs ,cam, dual spark plugs ,extractors & cruises at 120klm/hr easy, new interior with recaro seats drives & handles beautifully, only trouble was the rust needed 5k to remove it ALL , see you at the meets !

Real Name: tony
Owned Current Kombi: 2 Years
Previous Kombi's: 1976 camper , 1974 bus,1972 panel
Favourite Driving Music: surf music , pulp fiction soundtrack , queen

Kalahari '76

After wanting a kombi for as long as I can remember I finally found the perfect one in my hometown, Wodonga, last Christmas. Kalahari Orange by colour, Kalahari by name. I had never even set foot in a kombi but she felt like home as we hit the Hume Hwy and drove 1600km back to Sunshine Beach in Queensland (Noosa area) where I live. We've been to Byron many times, Splendour in the Grass 2010 at Woodford, lots of great days out in the Noosa hinterland and Sunday trips to country markets. Maintained by Nick at the Kombi Shop, Kalahari and I are raring to go for a road trip or two in 2011!

Real Name: Lou
Owned Current Kombi: 1 Year
Previous Kombi's: None
Favourite Driving Music: Fleetwood Mac, Eagles, Florence & the Machine, Angus & Julia Stone and a lot more!

Gazdog's Ride

ENVY is a fully restored 1979 Van now with a full black headlining, red and off white trim and custom surfboard table I made to add to the novalty factor. I love surfing and playing around with VW's so I have started a restoration chop shop called V-Dubsters

Real Name: Garry
Owned Current Kombi: 1 Year
Previous Kombi's: 1977 Camper named Bella
Favourite Driving Music: any 80's stuff

TopDeadCentre

i bought this kombi as an apprentice, full of enthusiasm & with huge plans for her...nearly twenty years later & im finally biting the bullet & starting the massive resurrection.

Real Name: Dean
Owned Current Kombi: More Than 10 Years
Previous Kombi's: 64 panelvan
Favourite Driving Music: the sounds of an air cooled flat four