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Slim - April 28th, 2003 at 04:36 PM

Does anyone know how many type 2 vans were built in Australia?? or where I could find this info?

Cheers
Slim

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KruizinKombi - April 28th, 2003 at 06:23 PM

Ummm..... lots? ;)

Hopefully somebody more helpful will come along soon. :)

Slim - May 1st, 2003 at 08:39 PM

OK, does anyone have ball park figures for type 2's, especially 1973???

I'm trying to take my kombi back home to the UK and the tax man wants to charge me more in tax than the van cost!!:cry

If I can find out the production figures there is a chance it'll get in as a collectors item. :party

PLEASE HELP!!

Cheers,

Slim

Yogibear - May 1st, 2003 at 09:20 PM

I am not sure Slim.....you might want to email Volkswagen Australia. They might be able to give you some details!!! Just a thought......

Cheers

Adam:bounce

Slim - May 1st, 2003 at 11:21 PM

Like it Yogi, although it makes me feel a bit stupid for not thinking of that! :(

I've dropped them a mail... if I get any info I'll post it here.


Cheers
Slim

Phil74Camper - May 2nd, 2003 at 12:32 AM

Volkswagen Australia would not have a clue. They have only had the Australian franchise for 18 months and have no historical material whatever (I know because i get occasional emails from their PR department)

The only figure for Kombis I have is that, from 1954 to 1979, 77,000 Kombis were sold in Australia. In the early '60s, when the Australian plant was manufacturing VWs, 5,000 or more Kombis were sold each year, most of them going to government and corporate buyers. In the early '70s, 50% of the 1-tonne commercials on Australian roads were VWs - so says my 1973 Kombi brochure.

Slim - May 2nd, 2003 at 07:12 PM

Thanks Phil.

Can you tell me the source of this gem?

Quote:

77,000 Kombis were sold in Australia. In the early '60s, when the Australian plant was manufacturing VWs, 5,000 or more Kombis were sold each year



Great Stuff, :D

One further question, does anbody have an idea how many 73 kombis remain on the road in Australia (ball park figures)?

Cheers

Slim

58camper - May 3rd, 2003 at 08:10 AM

Here are some early sales numbers taken from a Sept 1963 VW Bulletin I have in my possession

SEDANS COMMERCIALS
1954 1746 299
1955 5805 546
1956 9230 2989
1957 10384 3072
1958 13759 2895
1959 17747 3255
1960 24652 3944
1961 15254 2549
1962 21370 3234

In 1960 the sedan represented 12.4% of total market and Commercials were 6.0% of the market. 1960 was the best years from the numbers I have.
In 1960 sales of VWs represented 9.2% of all Australian sales.

Hope this illunimates,
Bill. :o

helbus - May 3rd, 2003 at 08:58 AM

This may sound like a bit of work, but it could save you a lot of tax.
I have heard that if you take the drivetrain and wheels off a vehicle it is classed as parts only. If you send the vehicle less engine/trans assy and wheels it is classed as a shell.
Then you may be able to place the stuff inside as 'parts'
See what the authorites have to say about that one!:P

Phil74Camper - May 6th, 2003 at 01:17 AM

Hi Slim,

Sure, the 77,000 figure has been mentioned a number of times in Australian magazines like Wheels. Specifically, I'm thinking of an issue from 1982, when they tested the new T3 Transporter. If you buy the Brooklands Books collection for the 1980-1991 Kombi, it has a reprint of that article in it. Ask your local motoring bookshop.

Hey Bill, thanks for those figures, I looked for old copies of VW Australia's Bulletin a few years ago but only found a few. Those are interesting. Notice how VW's Australian sales plummeted in 1961, and even in 1962 they weren't as good as 1960. They would have been in the middle of the major changeover to full local production then, and their return on assets would have been atrocious!