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 JETTABOY
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| posted on October 14th, 2002 at 02:47 PM |
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Aussie beetles at birth
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JETTABOY
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JETTABOY
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| posted on October 14th, 2002 at 02:53 PM |
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 vw54
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| posted on October 15th, 2002 at 07:57 AM |
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Great pics... whats the FB Holdens doing in the second shot ??
I see the Datos in the first pic must be around 69 or 70 according to the VW shells.
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jenz58
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| posted on October 15th, 2002 at 10:37 AM |
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Excellent pics :thumb
Love black and white shots |
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KruizinKombi
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| posted on October 19th, 2002 at 01:52 PM |
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Dave, I was thinking the same thing... How did Holdens and Datsuns come to be in the same factory as VWs?:o
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vwrallycar
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| posted on November 6th, 2002 at 09:12 PM |
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i believe that the datsuns also used the same vw colours
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jenz58
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| posted on November 6th, 2002 at 09:23 PM |
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Had a Datsun 1600, it was an amazing little car, a real work horse. It did several trips into central and Nth Queensland towing a heavily laden
trailer, long camping trips. Had a big roo take out our front lights going into Carnarvon Gorge at night. The family just grew too big for it 
But then they just didn't have the character of a VW
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| posted on November 6th, 2002 at 10:36 PM |
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In the late 60's early 70's before VW Aust. went belly up the factory was used to assemble a number of different cars Dato's being one
of them. They also went back to CKD kits from germany, only minimal Aust. content. I can't remember the relationship, wether VW assembled cars
for other makes, or they leased out building space they no longer needed?
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| posted on November 7th, 2002 at 06:59 AM |
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Those pics were on Ebay a few weeks ago, i bid but was not successful.:cry
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jenz58
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| posted on November 7th, 2002 at 01:31 PM |
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Oh no! Was there the last minute bidding frenzy?
They would have been nice pics to have. Well someone must be happy. |
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The_Bronze.
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| posted on November 14th, 2002 at 11:33 PM |
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Jen I didn't know you had been up in Queensland. I used to live just over an hour From Carnarvon and visited it frequently during school
holidays. I was nearly cleaned up many a time by wallibies while on my KLR250 and later KLR600 going in and out of there. I was stuck in there for
three days one time from an overnight storm which swelled the creek for days afterwards.
I love Black and White shots too. Sal takes some Magic B&W prints and develops them herself. Can't get her to take shots of the Baja though.
Mutters somthing about time wasting.
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| posted on December 7th, 2002 at 12:50 PM |
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A little known fact..this very factory is now used to assemble HSV Commodores!
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Jay_1965vw
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| posted on January 9th, 2003 at 08:00 AM |
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ehh?
I thought the factory was now the head offices of LINFOX or something like that?
Used to drive past it fairly often when Wolf was being restored in Clayton.
Jay
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| posted on January 9th, 2003 at 03:47 PM |
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I work in the grounds of this factory at my client (which Jay so kindly pointed out). It's a very large block, and I know that Linfox
doesn't use all of it. Linfox use the bit to the side of Kombi Ave.
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| posted on January 9th, 2003 at 07:52 PM |
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:o Theres a Kombi Ave. Umm jaaaay. You let me drive past kombi ave without taking a picture????
Chris.... kombi pilot, oval dreamer... finisher #26971 2005 city to surf
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Jay_1965vw
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| posted on January 10th, 2003 at 10:34 AM |
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doh. Sorry Chris. We may not have actually driven past it...
Next time you are down we will go have a look
Jay
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JETTABOY
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| posted on February 5th, 2003 at 02:35 PM |
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More factory shots
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amazer
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| posted on February 5th, 2003 at 03:13 PM |
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posted by Jay_1965vw
doh. Sorry Chris. We may not have actually driven past it...
Next time you are down we will go have a look
Jay
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but next time I am down I wont have a kombi to take a picture of. (dont know that I ever want to drive again after the hell trip last time) Will jusr
have to steal the sign n bring it home with me. I'm sure its been done before. Council probably has a few spares made up already.
Chris.... kombi pilot, oval dreamer... finisher #26971 2005 city to surf
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