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68AutoBug Beetle Restorer - Experience over 138\% - YIKES --

11,654 posts · joined Aug 2002 ·

#284200
Yes the March edition of VW TRENDS will be the Last...

The publishers are looking into doing something else...
Maybe someone else will start another Magazine up as happened in the UK when Total VW disappeared and
ULTRA VW started up...

Lee
- Helping keep Air Cooled VWs on the road - location: SCONE in the Upper Hunter Valley - Northern NSW 320 kms NNW of SYDNEY---

Robo Compulsive Aussie Vee Dubber

4,491 posts · joined Feb 2003 ·

#284233
We can only live in hope!
Rob...😎
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theverybigtallman Wolfsburg Wizard

405 posts · joined Aug 2004 ·

#284269
i was not aware of vw trends ie i never saw it at the newsagent. popularity or just a small time mag?
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11CAB If ya got it....Baja it

4,674 posts · joined Aug 2002 ·

#284271
I think VW Trends started up in the late 80's, I used to collect it but as with all the US mags at least 50 percent is taken up with Ads......
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phantom Wolfsburg Wizard

598 posts · joined Mar 2004 ·

#284313
My earliest issue that I can find here is Feb 86, which is listed as Vol 5 No 2, that makes (by my bad maths) 1982 the start of VW Trends.

Great edition this one, on the cover is a modified bug that now stands 8 ft tall!

In the Club pages in the back, there are only 4 Aussie clubs listed......Flat 4 (Canley Heights NSW), VW Club of Victoria (Melbourne), VW Custom Club of Victoria (Melbourne), and VW Drivers Club of QLD (Valley, Brisbane). There ya go!
www.canberravw.com

Yogie Moderator Custom Title Time!

1,608 posts · joined Jun 2003 ·

#284464
11CAB wrote:I think VW Trends started up in the late 80's, I used to collect it but as with all the US mags at least 50 percent is taken up with Ads......
I actually bought it for the ads. The articles were good as well but the ads let me know what was around to buy. Sad to see it go.:cry

robnjo Veteran Volks Folk

2,082 posts · joined Sep 2003 ·

#284513
Yes this is a very sad day, I too bought it for the Ads :cry

62deluxe Custom Title Time!

1,718 posts · joined Nov 2002 ·

#284605
:cry

pete wood 23 Windows of Awesome

6,828 posts · joined Jan 2004 ·

#284802
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I can understand why. Total VW was good, but not enough radical cars. Ultra Vw is another altogether. Finally a VW mag with a full colour format and more than a handful of feature cars per edition. VW trends just would be able to compete.

I am hoping Hot VWs might get the hint and change, but I am not holding my breath :o

[Edited on 27-12-2004 by pete wood]
"stoopid is stronger than axles"
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pete wood 23 Windows of Awesome

6,828 posts · joined Jan 2004 ·

#285056
ph billet, you should send some pics and stuff to ultra VW, I think they might well be interested, if not you can be sure they would put it in the reader's rides section.
😉.
"stoopid is stronger than axles"
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