VW Kombi.com

I don’t normally re-publish emails that I receive, but I kinda liked this
one – a very similar story to our own. This is what owning a van is all about,
folks:

Whilst looking for some information on VW Kombis today I stumbled across
your website (thanks to google). I can only say that the story of your
van has struck a big chord with me.

My girlfriend and I spent almost a year travelling around Australia during
2000/2001 in our 1976 VW Kombi. It was a 2.0i hard top that we purchased
just outside of Freo for a little under $3000 and despite the fact she didn’t
have a pop-top (and much alike your Kombi had a custom made (wooden) interior)
she came with everything you could need to be on the road for a good few months.
A good friend of mine who I met at a hostel in Freo not long after I landed
suggested that the best thing I could do was buy a van and see the real Australia
at my own pace….. The deal was finally sealed when we found a VW Kombi
called Molly… With my name being Max and my girlfriends being Holly
we took it as fate that this was the van for us….

Having been living in Subiaco in Perth for almost three months we relished
the chance of getting on the road and having clocked up over 16,000 kms and
had many, many adventures we finally ended up in Cairns. To cut a long story
short we ended up penniless (having suffered some major mechanical problems
caused by a dodgy mechanic in Darwin we spent most of our money just getting
to the east coast…) and after a great deal of soul searching and a lot
of tears we had to wave good-bye to Molly. During the seven months we owned
her she bought us great amounts of happiness and every now and then the odd
moment of despair…. I had often given thought to what it would take
to get her home to the U.K and we spent many, many hours discussing what it
would take to get it done. Ultimately it never got the chance to happen but
I often wonder if we really would have got round to doing it… Anyway
all I can hope that she is still out there, her wheels are still turning and
she is giving as much pleasure to other would be hippies/backpapckers as she
did us….

Having now been back in the UK for over five years I am finally giving in
to temptation and having recently started a job with a company car I have
a little more spare cash and a space on my driveway… Tonight we’re
off to look at Kombi again…