Spotted in Dubbo - split beetle on trailer
decked dubby - July 15th, 2008 at 09:54 PM
Got sent this pic. What a sight!
VWCOOL - July 15th, 2008 at 10:27 PM
jeez!
68AutoBug - July 15th, 2008 at 11:48 PM
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
vw54 - July 16th, 2008 at 06:16 AM
shows to go yar there still out there
looks like its in a service station dont recall that building in the back ground Dubbo ??
newghia - July 16th, 2008 at 06:54 AM
Damo, it'll be back on the road in time for Glenmore Park if you get your hands on it !
Type3Sicko - July 16th, 2008 at 07:28 AM
That will buff up nicely... 
good score
decked dubby - July 16th, 2008 at 07:41 AM
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Damo, it'll be back on the road in time for Glenmore Park if you get your hands on it !
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Ha ha! I just got a 54 on monday, see how i go hey.
vw54 - July 16th, 2008 at 08:23 AM
Damo any idea who has it
1303Steve - July 16th, 2008 at 09:34 AM
Hi
The plates on the trailer look like South Australian plates.
Steve
vwsteve - July 16th, 2008 at 09:48 AM
obviously someone just imported it from somewhere?
greasykitchen - July 16th, 2008 at 11:45 AM
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Hi
The plates on the trailer look like South Australian plates.
Steve
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Nah, look NSW to me, judging by the colour & the configuration of numbers/letters.
GASBNR - July 16th, 2008 at 11:53 AM
http://www.vicsbahn.com/beetles.htm
looked similar to this one???
decked dubby - July 16th, 2008 at 12:15 PM
Wow, good spotting.
vw54 - July 16th, 2008 at 12:49 PM
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
vwsteve - July 16th, 2008 at 01:57 PM
youd think someone would bolt that overider on the right way wouldnt you?
ian.mezz - July 21st, 2008 at 12:42 PM
lots of time needed to fix that one
Calcool - July 22nd, 2008 at 10:18 PM
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
58camper - July 23rd, 2008 at 09:33 AM
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
Rural Baja - July 23rd, 2008 at 03:20 PM
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.....
ang3lsholocaust - July 31st, 2008 at 05:58 AM
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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.....
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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.
Rural Baja - August 1st, 2008 at 07:30 PM
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posted by 1963 Empi Radar
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.....
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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.
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Still would of known. Family used to live there from 1966-1992. Still might of slipped through the cracks but you never know.