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posted on October 9th, 2013 at 12:54 PM
Photos of early Bug-Ins?
Does anyone have photos taken at the first 'Bug-Ins' in the 1970s?
The Australian Bug-Ins were (are) not like today's VW shows like the Nationals, Valla Park, Day of the VW, Dubs by the Pub etc. They were an
interstate club getogether built around a one-day dirt motorkhana. There were usually BBQs, tourist trips to local sights and a trophy presentation
dinner.
Below is the ad for the first one, held at Albury in NSW in 1970, including a day of motorsport at the now defunct Hume Weir. It's from the former VW
Club of NSW's magazine, although the VW Club of SA was the driving force behind the event. For the next few years the name 'Bug-In' wasn't always
used, or used intermittently; sometimes it was just called the Easter Interstate Motorkhana.
There were attempts at rotating the hosting of the event each year, but not with any consistency. The locations, up to 1978 (all the issues I have
read so far) were:
Does anyone have any old colour slides or prints of these events? I'd like to reproduce the old articles as they make interesting historical reading,
but 1970s VW club magazines don't have any photos in them.
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posted on October 9th, 2013 at 01:08 PM
Sorry mate, my first Bug-In that I have some pics of is the Sunshine Coast one in '81
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posted on October 9th, 2013 at 02:54 PM
The first Bug-in I went to was Adelaide, also, rather strangely in 1981.
Plenty of photos, from that one on.
They were held in anticlockwise rotation from 1976: Perth, A, M, S, P again in '80 etc. until Sunshine Coast or Dirvers Club joined in, must have
been 1984 I think.
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posted on October 9th, 2013 at 06:20 PM
Well I had to blow the dust off, the old trophy for peoples choice was actually 1982 Bug-In...sorry for the confusion
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posted on October 10th, 2013 at 06:42 AM
Yes that's one reason why I would like to preserve the old articles for posterity, so the VW history (what there is) isn't lost.
I will keep reading and scanning the old NSW Club magazines, but at this stage I'm only up to 1978. The first one I went to was the Sydney one at
Plumpton in 1983 (or 1984? Can't remember) when I was a timekeeper. I remember that in the field of 20+ cars, only two VWs were competing (Terry
Marsh and John Weitenberg), so it reallly wasn't a 'Volkswagen' event any more. The rest were Minis and Mokes, Datsun 1600s, Mazda Capellas and
Corollas etc - even an Alfasud.
Later on we did try running it together with the VW Nationals (at Richmond and Parklea) a couple of times in the early 1990s when it returned to NSW,
but it didn't really work. More people were intested in going on rides in the VW T3 Syncro around the paddock. Since then it's more or less died
out, in NSW at least, and the old NSW VW Club folded five or six years ago.
