You get a bit of time to daydream while stopped in Sydney's morning traffic on the way to work.
VW Group Australia is really doing well nowadays and are on track to set an all-time sales record this year. It seems to me that, given their
strength, it would be a good time for them to take ownership of Australia's VW history and set up their own Australian Volkswagen Museum.
I was wondering about this in the traffic this week. If you were given the job of establishing a proper Australian Volkswagen museum, what would you
try to include in it, assuming money no object?
How about :
* The 1945 Beetle imported by the Army, found derelict in 1990 then owned by Graham Lees
* The Haenel's 1946 Beetle, now in the York Motor Museum in WA
* A Redex Trial Beetle, preferably Laurie Whitehead's 1955 winner, or Eddie Perkins' 2nd-placed car, if they exist
* Other Beetles from the Ampol and Mobilgas Trials 1956-58, if they exist
* Barry Ferguson's 1963 Bathurst Standard Beetle, if it exists. His 1967 Factory Rally Beetle, which does exist
* An Antarctica 1 or 2 replica
* Some old and new Formula Vees
* The SeaBug
* The Bathurst Chris Heyer Golf GTI
* Standard examples of a Country Buggy, 1962 1/2 Beetle, Aussie Standard Beetle, Australian Type 2, Australian 1500 Twin S, Australian Custom
Beetle
* The last Australian Beetle, the ex-Cusacks Martini Olive '76 with less than 150 km on the clock
What else can you think of?
And where would you build the official Australian Volkswagen Museum? Surely Clayton in Melbourne would be a good spot.
My Container Van!
That wire-frame Beetle used in the early Sydney motor show.
elvis presleys manx buggy , a raaf splitty , and last but not least a poraga with torana rear lights 
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Oh, and it should be in brissy and a close drive to me! 
in between the 2 most populous cities, Sydney and Melbourne. ie Wollongong. We already have Australia's oldest registered bus! 
definitely the ferguson/ford class A bathurst winner as it was used later used by barry lloyd/stan hopwood/ron maloney to cross sturt's stony desert
and the birdsville track (when it was still wild).
george reynolds race beetle if it exists.
yes i would like to have a go at redoing the stony desert trip on the 50th anniversary in 2013.
melbourne would be the logical spot, but if not how about somewhere 1/2 way between sydney and brisbane with low humidity sort of like armidale
edit, also prob an australian 61, plus something blinged up with all the australian accessories. a section on australian tuning stuff would also be
good.
+ an ascot.
It would be nice to use the old VW factory which is slowly being demolished and renovated. It's now about 50% of what it used to be. I drive past
it everyday on the way to work and Westall Rd is pretty much running through the middle of the paddock where completed cars were parked upon
completion. If I win the lotto, what's left of the factory will be my new garage and I will embark on a mega spending spree for classic cars &
bikes to make Lindsay Fox & J Leno look like ameturs. Pigs will fly and the world will also have peace for all of mankind.
- Adam
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ok then a line up of the commercial range 68-71 type 2
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the first beetle imported into Australia
A Rod Penrose drag beetle woul be nice
And Sams VWFOOLS taxi as I recon its to blame for all the rats out there. I was amazed when I first saw it at the nationals It was the first and only
at he time and it amused by the mix of reactions from the "" old school fraternity"" and others , now days the palce is filling up with rats I
recon Sams Taxi is breeding them Mitchell
*The Trakka syncro that competed the Aussie Safari.
*ARC Golf that was driven by Sue and Simon Evans
*RSI Beetle & R32 that competed the Procar series
*The Bora V6 4Motion & RSI Beetle that competed the Targa Tasmania
*Vintage Aussie based campers Trakka, Sopru etc
* PMG, Police, Ambulance etc based VWs
*The Kombis with the high roof (vents through the roof)
* An early German Kombi with Oil painted on the side and dust sticking to it to show the reasons for the higher air vents
*The Golf from 'Stories from the Golf'
*The Wiggles 'Big Red Car'
RSI Beetle that burnt to the ground at bathurst
What about the the beetle from the movie "the cars that ate paris"
classic low buget aussie cinema!
Melbourne for the museum.
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Stan Pobjoy's VW powered drag bike.
The looney toons cars from Movie World
one of the buses used by the aust army in vietnam (if any still exist)
a snowcat
i think that there were some homegrown vw powered aircraft. if so one of them.
a selection of vw industrial motors attached to various compressers, generators, etc.
* Milestone models produced at the factory, with examples of the changes that occurred at the Australian factory.
* The last Transporter and Beetle produced in Australia
* The Australian master Volkswagen gauge that was used for panel fit and part inspection.
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a choptop sunbug
No museum would be complete without the best ever looking VW ever made. The 23 window (or is it 25?) micro Bus. The chrome finish on those classic splitty's IMO puts them in a class of there own.
1959 Ascort TSV
Tempo Matador
my '54 beetle n '76 bay panel.. but they couldn't afford those gems