have spent several days searching to no avail, but have spent years deciding on my first vw purchase and i have my heart set on a caddy/rabbit pickup. I have spoken to a few people in the scene and the general consensus is there out there, just hard to find. So who can help me out? point me in the right direction? Willing to take one on the road or off im not really fussed. Cheers
Mitch
Good luck, I hope you're ready for a long and difficult search. These were never sold here in Australia, so they are extremely rare here, I doubt that there are more than a handful in the whole country. I've certainly never seen one. If you are determined to own one then you may very well have to import it yourself from overseas.
If you're willing to accept a similar vehicle as a substitute, then I would recommend the Subaru Brumby. They're very good little utes, they've got a flat-four rumble to them so they have something in common with VWs (at a stretch) and they will be a thousand times easier to find than a Caddy. Failing that, if you must have a watercooled VW then you'll probably be looking at an early Golf, or perhaps a Passat. In fact, if all you want is a VW ute then there are quite a few Beetles cut down into utes, and a couple of Type 3 wagons cut down into utes as well. These home-made conversions are more common than Caddys and will probably be a lot cheaper than importing your own!
I have seen a VW Caddy pickup in Canberra, from memory one of the VW shop owner's has one --- but I think it was heavily modified. But at least that could be a start to find out as to importing etc.
Check with the ACT Dubbers, they may know who I am rambling on about.
'Ah, whatever................'
get one from the UK, they were usually abused but they were quite resiliant to rusting
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Yeah I'll have one too if you find one
Been looking for years nothing good
as a matter of fact i have one located in england, any idea on the shipping prices or whats involved in registering it over here?
Yeah thats a doddle finding them in Europe
Figure somewhere between 5-8,000 getting it landed and then try n get it on the road
Not certain but
i think the guy at the VW centre here in perth has one or at least had one
maybe he would sell??
cheers
steffen
more details mat54? contact or anything?
We have had a few cars from England come through our work, shipped, and then engineered, complianced and registered here. Look at around $7000 cost.
I saw one here in Brisbane a few days ago driving on the Western Freeway, a light blue one I think from memory,.. first one I've ever seen here in OZ. It looked great. Good luck with the search,.. hope you find one.
helbus wrote:We have had a few cars from England come through our work, shipped, and then engineered, complianced and registered here. Look at around $7000 cost.
can you please forward me your company's details, regards
Mitchell Codey
There was one for sale on Carsales a few months ago, it was orange and was 2K, it was a project that was started and not finished...
May '55 Oval
Andrew Dodd, is based at North Rocks in Western Sydney and had one some time back.
02 9683 2184
Cheers,
David
the orange one was a red one and its immac, my friend from newtown picked it up, beautiful car!
the details are
veedub centre perth
yeah i know its funny but thats what his shop is called
his name is john
be prepared to part with some cash if it is for sale
cheers
steffen
Rng Peter at VW Country in Riverstone NSW. he is apparently retiring and everythign is for sale. He drives one daily. he may sell it to you. Good luck.
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mat54 wrote:the details are
veedub centre perth
yeah i know its funny but thats what his shop is called
his name is john
be prepared to part with some cash if it is for sale
cheers
steffen
Yeah be prepared to be ripped off, the guy has a reputation now especially for trying to rip off women. Funny how one thing can have 2
totally different prices?
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MISS VDUB wrote:mat54 wrote:the details are
veedub centre perth
yeah i know its funny but thats what his shop is called
his name is john
be prepared to part with some cash if it is for sale
cheers
steffen
Yeah be prepared to be ripped off, the guy has a reputation now especially for trying to rip off women. Funny how one thing can have 2
totally different prices?
that sounds like an interesting story......
The Canberra one is owned by peter Shelly, Canberra VW Centre - 02 62531481 I think that is the number. He has owned it for years but doubt he wouldever sell it. He put a 1.8 20v turbo motor in it and does the odd track day in it too. Nice car though. and good luck in your search.
A good friend will come and bail you out of jail.....
But a true friend will be sitting next to you saying "Damm that was fun!!!"
There are a couple haunting Hobart too.
'76 Swallowtail - Kaninchen Weiß
'70 Notchback - Mrs E. Cramp
Contact Camden GTI Performance (Matt @ 0423051737), he has one and he was trying to sell a while ago
Check this out =>
http://www.vwwatercooled.org.au/f13/caddytastic-10773.html
