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Australian VW History - Expanded and Updated

Phil74Camper - January 17th, 2012 at 07:20 PM

The Australian VW History pages on the Club Veedub website have been completely rewritten and expanded.

* Twice as big (and, hopefully, interesting) as before, with much more detail
* Updated to the end of 2011
* Annual year-by-year model totals for every VW sold in Australia
* Lots of Australia-specific photos, most of which you hopefully won't have seen before. Click on the photo thumb to enlarge.

If you want to know about Volkswagen's history in Australia, this is the place.

http://www.clubvw.org.au/history

All feedback and suggestions welcome! Enjoy.

sander288 - January 17th, 2012 at 08:24 PM

Looks great Phil; havn't read through the lot but i've just got to get through my christmas present "Knowing Australian Volkswagens" before I read the site.

The pictures are fantastic!

Any more of a standard 1200 and also 1300 deluxes?

Cheers

Shaun

68AutoBug - January 17th, 2012 at 10:00 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Phil74Camper
The Australian VW History pages on the Club Veedub website have been completely rewritten and expanded.

* Twice as big (and, hopefully, interesting) as before, with much more detail
* Updated to the end of 2011
* Annual year-by-year model totals for every VW sold in Australia
* Lots of Australia-specific photos, most of which you hopefully won't have seen before. Click on the photo thumb to enlarge.

If you want to know about Volkswagen's history in Australia, this is the place.

http://www.clubvw.org.au/history

All feedback and suggestions welcome! Enjoy.

EXCELLENT WORK ... AS USUAL... Phil..

Haven't read it all as yet...

1960-70 so far... interesting 31 karmann ghias sold in 1965
and 5 in 1966... must have been special orders for so low quantities??
plus I didn't know any were sold after 1961...

LEE

Bug_racer - January 18th, 2012 at 10:08 AM

There are some mistakes in regards to some models .
Whats your email , will let you know what they are

AA003 - January 18th, 2012 at 11:03 AM

Andrew Cowan broke a drive shaft on the first night of the Southern Cross Rally. Between Newcastle and Gloucester I think.

The Scirocco at the Sydney Motor show was silver. From memory I think that 5 or 6 were imported.

What's this Mk1, Mk2 Golf shit? They were never called that!

A good reason that they didn't import the GTI in 1977,'78 is because Volkswagen didn't make them in RHD.

Phil74Camper - January 18th, 2012 at 02:46 PM

Just click on my name in the articles it takes you straight to my email address - editor@clubvw.org.au

Be keen to hear if there are any more errors - thanks. That old book was full of them and these pages are the latest 'incarnation' of the story. I guess it will never be perfect but each time it can be less wrong.

Thanks Phill I was remembering that Scirocco photo you took and thought it was blue (still looks slightly bluish!) I've fixed it.

The August 1976 issue of Modern Motor does a test of the Scirocco; it refers to a 'solitary' Scirocco imported for evaluation. As the motor show car is not the same one, I can only say 'at least two' were imported until more info comes to hand.

I suppose Lennox Motors thought they could convert the GTI to RHD if it was landed before '79. But LNC wasn't interested.

AA003 - January 18th, 2012 at 03:37 PM

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Originally posted by Phil74Camper
The August 1976 issue of Modern Motor does a test of the Scirocco; it refers to a 'solitary' Scirocco imported for evaluation.

I wouldn't take any notice of that.

Read this article by Allan Whiting.
Page 8 he goes on about a "non standard" cover for the distributor. They were standard on Australian syncros.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v114/pjlander/78216.jpg

rob53 - January 18th, 2012 at 10:36 PM

Great work Phil, very good read.