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 58camper
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 posted on April 18th, 2003 at 10:48 AM |
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OZ VW'S TO GERMANY
These two unique Australian VW's left Sydney in a container on Tuesday this week bound for Hamburg,Germany. They will undertake a five week
promotional tour in Europe including two major international VW events, the Karmann factory and museum, Wolfsburg factory,museum and Autostadt.
The 1963 Beetle is an authentic replica of Antarctica One and the other was one of the last Country Buggies produced here in Oz in 1968.
They are the cars featured in the Syndey Morning Herald Drive section two weeks ago.
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| posted on April 18th, 2003 at 12:21 PM |
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I saw these car's, they were restored by Muller and Muller at Lakemba Sydney and the work done was a high quality but then again as they are
going to meet thier maker they would want to be good
Keeping it real !
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| posted on April 18th, 2003 at 02:41 PM |
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*drools* man they are swwwwwwweeeeeeeeeeetttttttttttttttttttt
it aint just cool its aircool'd
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| posted on April 18th, 2003 at 08:33 PM |
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Good to see the Germans are going to get a taste of Aussie VW heritage!
Rob......
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Spook
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| posted on April 19th, 2003 at 05:31 AM |
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So Volkswagen are finally going to acknowledge the Country buggy's existance.
They've been denying it for a lot of years, or at the very least......Ignoring it.....
[Edited on 18-4-2003 by Spook]
Well my friends are gone & my hair is grey, I ache in the places where I used to play.
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| posted on April 19th, 2003 at 08:42 AM |
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I am actually one of the drivers for the 3 week event - should be fun, big vintage shows, Camberg, Boodle, The Wolfsburg Museum, Karmann, Pon's
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German beer - mmmmmm :beer |
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| posted on April 20th, 2003 at 04:21 AM |
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ya ! ist gut. Beertrinken gut also, zwie pils danke.:thumb:thumb |
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| posted on April 20th, 2003 at 07:40 PM |
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hey guy if u bust an arm or leg i suppose i can cover for you !
ok 
cheers
:bounce
u lucky bugger you !
i bet you know it !
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58camper
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| posted on April 20th, 2003 at 08:14 PM |
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oz vws to germany
Spook,
You are right about acknowlement of the Country Buggy. With less than 1000 units produced its little wonder why VW fail to really acknowledge their
existence. They would produce more cars than 1000 now before morning tea time.
I believe the real issue was that the Oz VW guys proceeded with the Buggy without having approval from Wolfsburg. When VWA were finally
"forced" to fly two prototypes to Wolfsburg for evaluation one of the first things done to the VWA executive was to take him aside to show
him a secret project vehicle being evaluated for the German Army. It was a 181. This was early 1967.
It would be nice to get something more than a small 2 foot by 2 foot painting on a partition into the Museum ( and even that is a painting of a
prototype not a production vehicle.
Now the fun starts.
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| posted on April 21st, 2003 at 06:21 AM |
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So that's the other half of the story.
Not only was the buggy a market failure, but the Aussies had beaten their "masters" to the punch.
No wonder they got the sh!ts.......
Well my friends are gone & my hair is grey, I ache in the places where I used to play.
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