Beetle's being unloaded in Tasmania

desh Wolfsburg Wizard

463 posts · joined Jan 2009 · 4 Sep 2009, 7:20 pm

#733458

Unsure of the date of this photo,

Brand new Beetle's being unloaded,
note lack of bumpers and hubcaps as common practice in shipping cars,

Hard to tell what models, you can see the car over to the right has a small back window? maybe an oval? There is no indicators on the front guards

I wonder if they have come from the Cayton VW factory or from overseas?

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Des

reub VWRX is gone...

2,054 posts · joined Sep 2002 · 4 Sep 2009, 11:10 pm

#733493

Awesome pic... I saw the post and thought I'd moved there without realising it - we can dream 😢

Reub

Scarab Wolfsburg Wizard

646 posts · joined Jul 2009 · 5 Sep 2009, 10:23 am

#733538

Cool pic!

vwcamper76 Learner Dubber

11 posts · joined Dec 2009 · 8 Dec 2009, 12:29 pm

#751249

Sweet pic ahhhh i mis home.
Hobart Tas.

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11,654 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 8 Dec 2009, 3:47 pm

#751292

desh wrote:Unsure of the date of this photo,

Brand new Beetle's being unloaded,
note lack of bumpers and hubcaps as common practice in shipping cars,
Hard to tell what models, you can see the car over to the right has a small back window? maybe an oval? There is no indicators on the front guards
I wonder if they have come from the Clayton VW factory or from overseas?

they are early models, small windscreen [oval] and the old truck is a FODEN ...

I thought it odd to remove the bumpers as all the pics I've seen from the VW factories in Germany and Australia all had the bumpers on.. I believe they were removed so more beetles would fit into the cargo hold...
better to have to replace a bumper than the nose of a beetle

Where did they come from???
Germany?? fully imported.. I believe so...

this is long before the Clayton VW Australasia plant...

LEE

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