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Eastern Creek Classic 22 August 2010 - Dial up warning - low VW content

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Craig S Wolfsburg Wizard

635 posts · joined May 2008 ·

#797933
Evening all,

Rolled along to the Eastern Creek Classic today and saw a huge number of cars, a few of which I'll share with you

Let's start with the Alfas:





And the Montreal yum

(read more about it hear: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfa_Romeo_Montreal )



Note how the gear shift is sitting up on a little box:



Now for an Austin 7



There were quite a number of these and you forget how tiny they are. One limped back in following a genteel parade lap weeing coolant all over the place.
1969 Beetle - June
1974 L Bug - Gwendolyn
2002 Bora V6 4Motion - Anita

Craig S Wolfsburg Wizard

635 posts · joined May 2008 ·

#797936
Then came the Cadillacs. My knowledge of which is imperfect:









More to come
1969 Beetle - June
1974 L Bug - Gwendolyn
2002 Bora V6 4Motion - Anita

Craig S Wolfsburg Wizard

635 posts · joined May 2008 ·

#797938
Then we'll chuck in a few other yank tanks:













more to come
1969 Beetle - June
1974 L Bug - Gwendolyn
2002 Bora V6 4Motion - Anita

Craig S Wolfsburg Wizard

635 posts · joined May 2008 ·

#797939
Then onto Fiats:





When I was a kid I remember getting a matchbox model of one of these and wanting the full size one desperately. Now... not so much





Given this is Australia I'd feel guilty if I didn't include a photo of one of these:

1969 Beetle - June
1974 L Bug - Gwendolyn
2002 Bora V6 4Motion - Anita

Craig S Wolfsburg Wizard

635 posts · joined May 2008 ·

#797940
So next up some Fords. See if you can guess which type is from England and which ones are from America....









more to come
1969 Beetle - June
1974 L Bug - Gwendolyn
2002 Bora V6 4Motion - Anita

Craig S Wolfsburg Wizard

635 posts · joined May 2008 ·

#797941
While we're talking Fords we'll have fun, fun, fun in the T-birds:







Still more to follow
1969 Beetle - June
1974 L Bug - Gwendolyn
2002 Bora V6 4Motion - Anita

Craig S Wolfsburg Wizard

635 posts · joined May 2008 ·

#797942
Lincolns are Fords aren't they??

Anyway, here is a car far longer than it really needs to be:

According to the web, this sucker is 5.92 metres long

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_Continental







1969 Beetle - June
1974 L Bug - Gwendolyn
2002 Bora V6 4Motion - Anita

Craig S Wolfsburg Wizard

635 posts · joined May 2008 ·

#797943
Now we've got the big ugly cars out of the way, we'll look at some more:

This is a 1904 Innes. So far google hasn't helped explain anything about this one:



Then the Jowett Jupiter.

More info here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jowett_Jupiter



1969 Beetle - June
1974 L Bug - Gwendolyn
2002 Bora V6 4Motion - Anita

Craig S Wolfsburg Wizard

635 posts · joined May 2008 ·

#797944
Messerschmitt time

More info here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messerschmitt_KR200

I actually remember walking to school in the late 80s/early 90s and someone around Baulkham Hills used to drive one of these quite regularly.





1969 Beetle - June
1974 L Bug - Gwendolyn
2002 Bora V6 4Motion - Anita

Craig S Wolfsburg Wizard

635 posts · joined May 2008 ·

#797945
When you get caught up in the minor differences between the different year model Beetles and Kombis and so on, you forget that some other cars also changed a lot. Seeing these two stuck together reminded me of that:



I'm also not sure what was going on with the back of this one and whether it was a factory job or not:



A rear engined cousion that we try not to talk about (although I think it looks quite good):

More info here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renault_Dauphine



1969 Beetle - June
1974 L Bug - Gwendolyn
2002 Bora V6 4Motion - Anita

Pollywaffle .:Ben:.

385 posts · joined Aug 2009 ·

#797949

I saw these two minis today when I was driving home from Palm Beach. They looked great.

Craig S Wolfsburg Wizard

635 posts · joined May 2008 ·

#797950
Our aircooled cousins:



The white one here is for sale $65,000 I think, I have a photo of the phone number if anyone is interested:





The best one was in the car park:





1969 Beetle - June
1974 L Bug - Gwendolyn
2002 Bora V6 4Motion - Anita

Craig S Wolfsburg Wizard

635 posts · joined May 2008 ·

#797952
And finally the VWs



I didn't spend much time looking at them, but I did dwell over this kg







I think that's it, I hope you enjoy them.
1969 Beetle - June
1974 L Bug - Gwendolyn
2002 Bora V6 4Motion - Anita

Phil74Camper Head in the Clouds

2,703 posts · joined Aug 2002 ·

#797994
Gwendolyns Master wrote:I didn't spend much time looking at them
Why not?

t1 time Slammed & Awesome Dubber

83 posts · joined Oct 2009 ·

#798060
Phil74Camper wrote:
Gwendolyns Master wrote:I didn't spend much time looking at them
Why not?
With so many motoring delights to inspect why waste time on the Volkswagens that we see all the time, smart thinking Gwendolyn.