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decked dubby - September 4th, 2002 at 02:59 PM

Hey all.

Use this link http://www.pictureaustralia.org/  and type in VW, or Volkswagen in the search for some really cool old VW Australian factory and advertising photo's.

Tazzielittle - September 4th, 2002 at 03:48 PM

Whats with the datsun in the front????
Didn't know VW made them?
:P;)

decked dubby - September 4th, 2002 at 03:50 PM

They were assembled in the Nissan factory in Vic.:o

SKEWtYpe3 - September 5th, 2002 at 12:32 AM

that place is odd, of the doubles of pictures that show only every second pictures can be clicked and seen in full size
(hope that makes sense) :D

haugmichael - September 5th, 2002 at 03:57 PM

Wonder how many VWs are left in the Antarctic ???

jenz58 - September 7th, 2002 at 11:55 PM

About to ask a similar question.

I'd never imagined a beetle could cope in the Antartic.

Wonder if it did?

humpty - September 8th, 2002 at 05:49 PM

VW's kicked ass in Antartic...

They a couple down there...And a few buggies to I believe!!

Find this book......

"Knowing Australian Volkswagens" written by Dave Long & Phil Mathews.....I can highly recommend this book...It's great read!

Grey 57 - September 8th, 2002 at 09:09 PM

Are there any still down there or did they bring them all back?

jenz58 - September 10th, 2002 at 10:30 AM

Humpty, followed you lead. Here's an article from "Knowing Australian Volkswagens"

http://www.rallybugs.com/antartica1.htm

jenz58 - September 10th, 2002 at 11:07 AM

Hey the article is really interesting :)

I wonder if they did keep shipping them back?

It would be interesting to email Mawson to see if we can get some current info

OK, call me crazy but I've emailed Mawson's Station and Field Support giving them a link to the post and to the article and asking nicely for information. Hmmm, I wonder if I'll hear back. I'll let you know :o

I'm so curious :)

jenz58 - September 10th, 2002 at 02:25 PM

Hi Jen

Unfortunately we do not have a lot of information available on the volkswagons that were used at mawson. The article that you already have provides most of the information. As far as I can ascertain, just the two VWs were used in Antarctica, this wasn't a regular occurence on the stations.

It would seem that this was a good publicity stunt for VW, however. We had a copy of the VWA review (June 1963) which features Antarctica 1 - I have scanned this and attached the individual pages.

Hope this helps

Laura Cunningham
Information Services
Australian Antarctic Division

Laura has attached 8 jpg's which I will post later if your interested. Or I can forward on the email and attachments to anyone who wants to copy them

humpty - September 10th, 2002 at 06:57 PM

I'll sign up.....Yes please!
Can you email them to me...Nice to know what the crew @ Mawson thought of the "stunt".

Later

jenz58 - September 11th, 2002 at 11:30 AM

Go to 'VW Pic of the week' if you want to read the info sent on the Vee Dubbs in Mawson

Well I guess they ARE pics :)