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| posted on May 23rd, 2014 at 02:16 PM |
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You see the VW symbol everywhere
When you've been a VW enthusiast for many years, you start to notice that the famous VW symbol starts to crop up in all sorts of other places. They
look like the VW sign, but actually have nothing to do with Volkswagen.
This one is at Whitworth Aviation at Bankstown airport.
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| posted on May 23rd, 2014 at 02:18 PM |
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This is the old diving board structure at Auburn swimming pool in Sydney. I used to leap off the 10m platform when I was a kid. Today it's fenced off
with concrete cancer, but heritage protected so it can't be knocked down.
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| posted on May 23rd, 2014 at 02:20 PM |
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This is the Riverwood Plaza shopping centre. You notice the sign and the pseudo VW sign as you go down the ramp towards the car park underneath.
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| posted on May 23rd, 2014 at 02:21 PM |
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Here's another shop at Riverwood with the same kind of VW sign in its lettering.
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| posted on May 23rd, 2014 at 02:23 PM |
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If you go down to Campbelltown to the Macarthur shopping centre, you might notice the VW sign in the logo.
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| posted on May 23rd, 2014 at 02:24 PM |
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Even the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney likes to include the VW symbol in its sign.
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| posted on May 23rd, 2014 at 02:25 PM |
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While in Melbourne, the Crown casino does the same thing.
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| posted on May 23rd, 2014 at 02:27 PM |
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So if you look closely, South have the Crown casino logo on their jumpers, which include a tiny VW sign for no extra charge.
Anyone spot any more of these 'unintended' VW signs?
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| posted on May 23rd, 2014 at 03:25 PM |
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in the background right side. blurry vw
I always see the numbers 911, 930, 914, 944, 356 all the time.
its weird, most of the time I check the time, its one of those numbers, nearly always!
I also see 311 all the time at work, 90% of the parts at work are a 311 part number and some of the knifes are called type 3 and type 1   And there is type 2 as well 
lol I just noticed the riverwood IT store.
Athlon XP ! wow that was like half my life ago when those were current CPUs. That brings back memories of the geeky days of build computers.
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| posted on May 23rd, 2014 at 03:53 PM |
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I'd rather wear a Beetle out by racing it than by polishing it!
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| posted on May 24th, 2014 at 02:15 AM |
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If you look very closely, you can see something that resembles a VW logo. You can look at Greg Inglis Phil, I'll look at something else. 
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[size=4]If it ain't broke, fix it till it is![/size]
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| posted on May 24th, 2014 at 07:23 AM |
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Here's one I found at the Tangalooma Wrecks at Moreton Island
65 Meyers Manx
68 Country Buggy (KO 367)
68 Country Buggy (KO 669)
68 Country Buggy (KO 789)
68 Country Buggy (KO 815)
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| posted on May 24th, 2014 at 08:59 AM |
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On the flag behind the mummakil jockey in Lord of the Rings.
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| posted on May 24th, 2014 at 10:08 AM |
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haha that's hilarious!!    
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| posted on May 24th, 2014 at 10:53 AM |
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Futue te ipsum!!!
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| posted on May 29th, 2014 at 10:40 AM |
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This is the entrance to Silverwater Industrial Park, on Faroila St just off Silverwater Road.
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| posted on May 29th, 2014 at 10:41 AM |
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This is in the entry foyer to Officeworks at West Ryde, which has lift down to a carpark underneath.
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| posted on May 29th, 2014 at 11:33 AM |
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I was in a safety induction this week for site access to the Wheatstone project and during one part where they were holding up cards with
figures/numbers etc to get peoples perceptions about the first thing that pops into ones mind. The instructor held up the card 911... everyone wrote
down their responses, when going around the class asking each person what they wrote, responses were emergency, twin towers, police etc. In a class of
35 people I was the only one who thought Porsche 
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| posted on May 29th, 2014 at 11:51 AM |
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| Quote: | Originally
posted by GottaSplit
I was in a safety induction this week for site access to the Wheatstone project and during one part where they were holding up cards with
figures/numbers etc to get peoples perceptions about the first thing that pops into ones mind. The instructor held up the card 911... everyone wrote
down their responses, when going around the class asking each person what they wrote, responses were emergency, twin towers, police etc. In a class of
35 people I was the only one who thought Porsche
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That would also be me.
I remember people used to get offended when I started talking about 911s. Took me years to figure out that it was because of some twin tower thing
that happen years before lol.
that 911 twin tower crap never made any sense in relation of the number 911. it had nothing to do with Porsche or the American police.
and it happen 11/9 so its should be 119 stupid Americans and their
backwards crap.
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| posted on May 29th, 2014 at 12:14 PM |
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Too much American TV - our emergency number is 000. Porsche originally wanted to call their new model the 901 but couldn't as Peugeot owned the
rights to models ending in '01'. So they used 911 instead, although many of the 911's part numbers started with '901' for years after. This is
the same reason VW couldn't call the German Superbug the 1301 (as an extension of the existing 1300 model). So they went to 1302 instead. Americans
and their Super Beetles need not worry about it.
I sometimes see other examples of the VW sign out and about, but don't usually have a camera or phone on me.
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| posted on May 29th, 2014 at 01:30 PM |
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The VW logo is gone in Canberra outside the old Cusack dealership 
new building "renewed" the footpath, sadly the above can't account for some actual VW history being lost
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| posted on May 29th, 2014 at 03:12 PM |
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That metal VW sign in the footpath was a real gem. The site had a series of auto workshops in the old dealership buildings after Greg Cusack retired
in the late 1980s and sold it, but the VW sign remained, concreted in. I hadn't been to Canberra for about 4 years and was surprised and saddened to
see the site demolished and redeveloped when I was there last month.
But you can still see the old VW dealer buildings (last used by a Bosch Dyno Tuner) and the old VW sign in the footpath, on Google Street View. On
Google Earth the site is already a bulldozed lot, so they must have knocked the old buildings down a year or so ago.
I hope to have an article on Cusacks in the next issue of Zeitschrift.
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| posted on May 29th, 2014 at 04:16 PM |
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Slightly off topic, and it is probably my imagination, but in some light the VW symbol in the large sign atop the Clayton factory seems to be
reappearing!
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| posted on May 30th, 2014 at 10:10 AM |
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Please get a photo if you can - maybe at sunset if that brings out the contrast better.
Yes this thread was supposed to be for signs that aren't the VW symbol but still look like it. But hey, whatever! All VW signs are good.
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| posted on August 16th, 2015 at 09:49 PM |
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Found another one today. This is the sign for the Wetherill Park Industrial Real estate office.
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| posted on August 21st, 2015 at 08:12 AM |
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Spotted this one in Aldi
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| posted on September 2nd, 2015 at 05:09 PM |
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Been looking at it for ages but can't seem to see the VW symbol anywhere
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| posted on September 3rd, 2015 at 07:30 AM |
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Maybe they need to turn around...
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| posted on September 3rd, 2015 at 11:33 AM |
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Sorry Phil all you would see is a quadruple map of Tasmania !
Regards Paul
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| posted on October 29th, 2015 at 08:30 PM |
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How about on the back of a cutlery set???
Funny thing is, it did say made in Germany on it
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