Spotted in Dubbo - split beetle on trailer

Got sent this pic. What a sight!

jeez!

I wonder how long ago it was crashed???

looks like a long time ago....

cross ply tyres...

what a shame...

that door may be hard to replace...

LEE

shows to go yar there still out there

looks like its in a service station dont recall that building in the back ground Dubbo ??

Damo, it'll be back on the road in time for Glenmore Park if you get your hands on it !

That will buff up nicely... 🙂 good score

newghia wrote:Damo, it'll be back on the road in time for Glenmore Park if you get your hands on it !

Ha ha! I just got a 54 on monday, see how i go hey.😉

Damo any idea who has it

Hi

The plates on the trailer look like South Australian plates.

Steve

obviously someone just imported it from somewhere?

1303Steve wrote:Hi

The plates on the trailer look like South Australian plates.

Steve

Nah, look NSW to me, judging by the colour & the configuration of numbers/letters.

http://www.vicsbahn.com/beetles.htm

looked similar to this one???

Wow, good spotting.

Ok so its going interstate then if the cars at Dubbo ???

11/1945 Type 51. Incomplete, as is AU$22,900 thought it looked early

youd think someone would bolt that overider on the right way wouldnt you?

lots of time needed to fix that one🤪

As soon as I saw that pic I thought Graham Lees who used to own Beetle wreckers in Brookvale who was rumoured to have a Beetle from each year from the 40's till the 80's. I think this car was one of 2 sent to Australia for Assessment before official importation in 1954, and it was found on King island or a similar island parked under a tree looking out to sea!

I saw it at the Penrith Beelte Birthday celebration in 1998 I think.

Maybe he is moving to SA and taking it with him??? Or a new owner

I think there was a dream to have a Museum with one of each model Beelte on display. There were some great stories as to how he accumulated cars over the years, one vehilce was seen in the background in a story in the UK on 60 Minutes and Graham tracked the story and location down and bought the car back to Australia.

Cheers,

David

I thought the one that was at Vics and Ex Lees was LHD.

The one on the trailer is certainly RHD.
I cannot get to Vic's website- says its been suspended.

Maybe ,just maybe, another one has surfaced. Would take the number of split Beetles to 30 that are now known in OZ.

countrybuggybill

If it was on King Island, i would of known about it and it would of been complety stuffed. Cars only last 10 years there.....

1963 Empi Radar wrote:If it was on King Island, i would of known about it and it would of been complety stuffed. Cars only last 10 years there.....

Considering most of the 100 odd cars that Vic had in storage were last registered around the year 1986, I would be guessing that this thing landed in the brookvale collection about that time too.
So i would say you wouldn't know about this car Will because you probably weren't even being thought about at that time young willy.

ang3lsholocaust wrote:

1963 Empi Radar wrote:If it was on King Island, i would of known about it and it would of been complety stuffed. Cars only last 10 years there.....

Considering most of the 100 odd cars that Vic had in storage were last registered around the year 1986, I would be guessing that this thing landed in the brookvale collection about that time too.
So i would say you wouldn't know about this car Will because you probably weren't even being thought about at that time young willy.

Still would of known. Family used to live there from 1966-1992. Still might of slipped through the cracks but you never know.