When you've been a VW enthusiast for many years, you start to notice that the famous VW symbol starts to crop up in all sorts of other places. They look like the VW sign, but actually have nothing to do with Volkswagen.
This one is at Whitworth Aviation at Bankstown airport.
This is the old diving board structure at Auburn swimming pool in Sydney. I used to leap off the 10m platform when I was a kid. Today it's fenced off with concrete cancer, but heritage protected so it can't be knocked down.
This is the Riverwood Plaza shopping centre. You notice the sign and the pseudo VW sign as you go down the ramp towards the car park underneath.
Here's another shop at Riverwood with the same kind of VW sign in its lettering.
If you go down to Campbelltown to the Macarthur shopping centre, you might notice the VW sign in the logo.
Even the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney likes to include the VW symbol in its sign.
While in Melbourne, the Crown casino does the same thing.
So if you look closely, South have the Crown casino logo on their jumpers, which include a tiny VW sign for no extra charge.
Anyone spot any more of these 'unintended' VW signs?
in the background right side. blurry vw
I always see the numbers 911, 930, 914, 944, 356 all the time.
its weird, most of the time I check the time, its one of those numbers, nearly always!
I also see 311 all the time at work, 90% of the parts at work are a 311 part number and some of the knifes are called type 3 and type 1 🤪😂 And there is type 2 as well 🥷
lol I just noticed the riverwood IT store.
Athlon XP ! wow that was like half my life ago when those were current CPUs. That brings back memories of the geeky days of build computers.
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If you look very closely, you can see something that resembles a VW logo. You can look at Greg Inglis Phil, I'll look at something else. 😎
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Here's one I found at the Tangalooma Wrecks at Moreton Island
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This is the entrance to Silverwater Industrial Park, on Faroila St just off Silverwater Road.
This is in the entry foyer to Officeworks at West Ryde, which has lift down to a carpark underneath.
I was in a safety induction this week for site access to the Wheatstone project and during one part where they were holding up cards with figures/numbers etc to get peoples perceptions about the first thing that pops into ones mind. The instructor held up the card 911... everyone wrote down their responses, when going around the class asking each person what they wrote, responses were emergency, twin towers, police etc. In a class of 35 people I was the only one who thought Porsche 😀
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GottaSplit wrote:I was in a safety induction this week for site access to the Wheatstone project and during one part where they were holding up cards with figures/numbers etc to get peoples perceptions about the first thing that pops into ones mind. The instructor held up the card 911... everyone wrote down their responses, when going around the class asking each person what they wrote, responses were emergency, twin towers, police etc. In a class of 35 people I was the only one who thought Porsche 😀
That would also be me.
I remember people used to get offended when I started talking about 911s. Took me years to figure out that it was because of some twin tower thing that happen years before lol.
that 911 twin tower crap never made any sense in relation of the number 911. it had nothing to do with Porsche or the American police.
and it happen 11/9 so its should be 119
😂 stupid Americans and their backwards crap.
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Too much American TV - our emergency number is 000. Porsche originally wanted to call their new model the 901 but couldn't as Peugeot owned the rights to models ending in '01'. So they used 911 instead, although many of the 911's part numbers started with '901' for years after. This is the same reason VW couldn't call the German Superbug the 1301 (as an extension of the existing 1300 model). So they went to 1302 instead. Americans and their Super Beetles need not worry about it.
I sometimes see other examples of the VW sign out and about, but don't usually have a camera or phone on me.
The VW logo is gone in Canberra outside the old Cusack dealership 🙁
new building "renewed" the footpath, sadly the above can't account for some actual VW history being lost
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That metal VW sign in the footpath was a real gem. The site had a series of auto workshops in the old dealership buildings after Greg Cusack retired in the late 1980s and sold it, but the VW sign remained, concreted in. I hadn't been to Canberra for about 4 years and was surprised and saddened to see the site demolished and redeveloped when I was there last month.
But you can still see the old VW dealer buildings (last used by a Bosch Dyno Tuner) and the old VW sign in the footpath, on Google Street View. On Google Earth the site is already a bulldozed lot, so they must have knocked the old buildings down a year or so ago.
I hope to have an article on Cusacks in the next issue of Zeitschrift.
Slightly off topic, and it is probably my imagination, but in some light the VW symbol in the large sign atop the Clayton factory seems to be reappearing!
Please get a photo if you can - maybe at sunset if that brings out the contrast better.
Yes this thread was supposed to be for signs that aren't the VW symbol but still look like it. But hey, whatever! All VW signs are good.
Found another one today. This is the sign for the Wetherill Park Industrial Real estate office.
Spotted this one in Aldi
Been looking at it for ages but can't seem to see the VW symbol anywhere🤪
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Sorry Phil all you would see is a quadruple map of Tasmania !
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How about on the back of a cutlery set???
Funny thing is, it did say made in Germany on it 😂
