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VWMA Editor Custom Title Time!

1,086 posts · joined Jan 2004 ·

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Hi All,

Issue#40 went on sale today 4th November. A preview of the issue can be found at www.vwma.net.au

Sydney Showdown information is also live and entries are open.

Cheers
Craig

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Camo Custom Title Time!

1,936 posts · joined Oct 2007 ·

#974353
I haven't received my issue in the mail yet, might have to check my subscription through your website 😢

Kev

EDIT: Have now sent message to your site 🙂
I thought rebuilding a VW would be cheap - Shit I was wrong, just don't let the wife know !!!!

Click here for my (slowy) modded 1961 Beetle build.

matberry Moderator Go hard or go home

8,114 posts · joined Mar 2006 ·

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Camo wrote:I haven't received my issue in the mail yet, might have to check my subscription through your website 😢

Kev

EDIT: Have now sent message to your site 🙂
mmm me too, unusual
Matt Berry Motorsports...air cooled advice, repairs and mods Ph 0408 704 662
OFF-ROAD,CIRCUIT,DRAG,STREET,ENDURANCE

68BUS Wolfsburg Wizard

485 posts · joined Jul 2011 ·

#974367
Me three.
Maybe Aust post is on holiday.
1966 Aussie 11 Window

Phil74Camper Head in the Clouds

2,703 posts · joined Aug 2002 ·

#974368
Looks great as usual Craig.

Just a question on the cover car - how can a 1954 model be a split? The split window was replaced by the oval window in March 1953 . Is it a 1954 model wih a split window grafted in, or has the owner got his year model wrong?

Split window Beetles were never sold in Australia. The earliest models, imported in late 1953 and sold new from March 1954, were ovals.

vduboy Insano Dub Head

702 posts · joined Oct 2012 ·

#974369
Me four... but I am a new subscriber..
It will all be OK in the end, if it's not OK it's not the end!

VWMA Editor Custom Title Time!

1,086 posts · joined Jan 2004 ·

#974382
Australia Post is always on holiday. Magazines were lodged last Tuesday and even I haven't received my 'test' copy yet! Apologies, but I did everything correct at my end. I have heard they are trickling in to mailboxes today.

matberry Moderator Go hard or go home

8,114 posts · joined Mar 2006 ·

#974385
Got it, thanks Craig.
Phill, it says clearly, even on the cover "Pseudo Split", and the article is called "Split Personality". I haven't read the article yet, but reckon it may have a grafted rear window and dash....
Matt Berry Motorsports...air cooled advice, repairs and mods Ph 0408 704 662
OFF-ROAD,CIRCUIT,DRAG,STREET,ENDURANCE

68BUS Wolfsburg Wizard

485 posts · joined Jul 2011 ·

#974389
Craig,
You all good mate. It is just hard when you wait with baited breath from the moment you finish the previous mag.👍
1966 Aussie 11 Window

Camo Custom Title Time!

1,936 posts · joined Oct 2007 ·

#974391
matberry wrote:Got it, thanks Craig.

Ditto, I should have waited until the postman came this afternoon 😊

Thanks Craig and for the email 👍

Kev
I thought rebuilding a VW would be cheap - Shit I was wrong, just don't let the wife know !!!!

Click here for my (slowy) modded 1961 Beetle build.

benny_acko Officially Full-On Dubber

253 posts · joined Aug 2011 ·

#974402
Mine was waiting for me when I arrived home and just finished it.Thankyou!
To everyone who had cars featured or photographed- they look great!
1967 VW Beetle Deluxe

DubbyFan Wolfsburg Wizard

518 posts · joined Nov 2010 ·

#974409
I'm pretty impressed sent out yesterday out in the Tasman Sea today, that's great!

Phil74Camper Head in the Clouds

2,703 posts · joined Aug 2002 ·

#974440
matberry wrote:Phill, it says clearly, even on the cover "Pseudo Split", and the article is called "Split Personality". I haven't read the article yet, but reckon it may have a grafted rear window and dash....
You are right Matt, I bought the mag last night and that explains it. However I posed my original question based only on Craig's image of the cover posted above - which doesn't say Pseudo!

On another topic, I found the article on the old Holden salesman's guide to not selling VWs extremely interesting. GMH must have perceived the VW as a significant sales threat in 1960, with the Beetle the 2nd-best selling car in Australia that year. Holden sales were 66,799 and VW sold 24,652 Beetles in 1960.

In 1961 there was an industry slump due to increased sales tax on cars and a mini-recession. Holden sold 58,710, while VW's sales slumped to 15,254. Ford had also introduced the Falcon, and BMC was about to introduce the Mini.

In 1962 Holden boomed to 72,801 sales; Ford sold 35,456 and Morris sold 25,787. VW recovered to 21,370 but had been passed. VW never bettered the 1960 sales figure of 24,652 Beetles - even the companyt's best overall year, 1964 (31,419 vehicles altogether), they only sold 22,293 Beetles that year. The 1960 Beetle figure is still, to this day, VW's highest ever one-model one year sales figure. The Golf sells around 18,000 a year nowadays.

By 1969 Holden was selling over 109,000 cars a year here, and VW had slumped to just 6,400 Beetles. So maybe the Holden brochure worked!

You can get all the manufacturers' figures for those years by downloading the September 2007 issue of Zeitschrift, here: http://www.clubvw.org.au/september-2007

FROSTY Insano Dub Head

744 posts · joined May 2009 ·

#974458
I'm a new subscriber too, I want to win the $200 from RPR (now that would come in handy!!!)

dangerous 23 Windows of Awesome

5,901 posts · joined Jan 2005 ·

#974462
Sweet issue!

😉
westi wrote:That's mad Alan.

lou0060 Wolfsburg Wizard

568 posts · joined Dec 2010 ·

#974494
got mine on Monday. Have stashed it away and only read the editorial as I want to save this one for my flight to the USA next week.....
1971 karmann ghia Cabrio - Cruising 👍
1963 beetle Sunroof - gathering dust 🥲
1968 race beetle - twin turbo Subaru - stress relief 😁
1960 beetle - old school low & slow 😏

1303Steve Scirocco Rare

8,650 posts · joined Aug 2002 ·

#974504
just picked up mine at the local shop