Does anyone have the web address for the VW factory NOS shop
Apparently the VW museum have a spare parts outlet attached to it where they have NOS stuff that they have collected back from dealerships over the years.
I just sent them a email to see if they have some of the unobtainium I have been looking for.
68AutoBug ·
that link comes up error 404 every time I try it
LEE
Phil74Camper ·
Lee a lot of stuff from the Australian VW headquarters were thrown out over the years. Remember that unlike Germany, the UK or the USA, Australia's VW operation went through a series of different third-part owners.
When VW Germany gave up local manufacture and disbanded 'Volkswagen Australasia Ltd' in 1968, Sydney's LNC Industries gained the national VW franchise. 30+ truckloads of parts were shipped from Clayton to Sydney (the parts HO was at Lanock Motors St Leonards), but most of the historic stuff - records, signage, files, machinery and lots of parts - were sent to the Dandenong tip. Read the Davies' book 'VW Australia The Forgotten Story' they go into some detail about it.
LNC's new head office at North Ryde became the new parts storage facility in 1971 and Lanocks St Leonards moved all the national parts inentory up there. This was also shared with Audi, and later Subaru, Renault, Lancia and Fiat.
LNC Industries lost the Australian VW franchise in 1987, and again there was a big cleanup and throw out. Boxes and boxes of parts were thrown out - some of them dumped into the harbour off North Head (!) Talk to Steve Muller - he made some valiant efforts at the time to rescue as much as he could, but only got a fraction of what was disposed of. Likewise, many of the old dealers had gone out of business by the mid'80s and were either raided by collectors or cleaned out and sold off. All the former NSW dealers of the '60s, for example, have already been visited. There were plenty of closed VW dealers full of forgotten parts in the late '80s - I went to several myself - but none in 2012.
modulus ·
68AutoBug wrote:that link comes up error 404 every time I try it
LEE
Just type it in rather than clicking on it.
hth
empi ·
LNC Industries lost the Australian VW franchise in 1987, and again there was a big cleanup and throw out. Boxes and boxes of parts were thrown out - some of them dumped into the harbour off North Head (!) Talk to Steve Muller - he made some valiant efforts at the time to rescue as much as he could, but only got a fraction of what was disposed of. Likewise, many of the old dealers had gone out of business by the mid'80s and were either raided by collectors or cleaned out and sold off. All the former NSW dealers of the '60s, for example, have already been visited. There were plenty of closed VW dealers full of forgotten parts in the late '80s - I went to several myself - but none in 2012.
Marine salvage time... who up for a swim?🥷
whatnow ·
i think a dig at Dandenong tip would be far more fruitful. i'd imagine most of the paper based stuff would mostly be too far gone but the metal and plastic stuff... unless of course they burnt the rubbish then it's most likely all f*#ked.
vlad01 ·
modulus wrote:
68AutoBug wrote:that link comes up error 404 every time I try it
LEE
Just type it in rather than clicking on it.
hth
look at the link and fix the errors in the address, they are obvious or you can type it out too 😂
btw they replied to me requests. all the parts I asked for remain as the element 120 unobtainium !
me thinks I should of got a Porsche to restore instead of this lol
Phil74Camper ·
Apparently North Head was a common dumping ground for years, up to the 1980s at least. I have actually dived the site - Pro-Dive at Drummoyne used to take students there for dives as the bottom is only 25-30 m down and there was an amazing array of man-made junk to see. The Army must have used it to dump materiel - I remember swimming up to a silt and weed-covered Jeep sitting on the bottom, and could float into the driver's seat and sit down. The water off North Head only has around 5m visibility most days and tidal currents running both ways. I didn't see any VW parts the day I dived it but it would be fun doing a systematic search. Nothing would be worth retrieving though.
I don't know Melbourne so I don't know where Dandenong tip was/is - can a Melbourne person help?
Bizarre ·
lots of stuff was dumped at North Ryde tip on Wicks Road
I have a friend that regularly "salvaged" stuff after being given a phone call that a load was going there