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 kombikim
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| posted on October 20th, 2007 at 11:46 AM |
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Early VW rally/trials success, Sth Africa
bored out of my brain with little to do because of my broken leg, I was wading through my fathers scrap book that he compiled in 1954-1956, consisting
of evry possible VW article you could think of.out of newspapers & magazines etc - the Australian reliabilty trials success in the 50's & VW
domination has benn done to death, almost to the point of being boring, howver I found some mention of an absolutley astounding result in South
Africa, The 1954 South African Coronation Safari Reliabilty Road Test.. 51 cars entered, only 14 finished, 6 Volkswagen beetles entered, all
finished, they came 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th & 6th, that is just incredible , but I can not find any more details, must be something somewhere on the
internet
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Wild1
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| posted on October 20th, 2007 at 05:58 PM |
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http://www.rallybugs.com/safari.htm
I managed to dig this up, a very interesting read. It sounds like the VW's were very dominant in most years of the rally.
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Dero
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| posted on October 21st, 2007 at 07:48 AM |
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Stuff the Saffas.... :P nah just dark they gonna be so over the top for the next couple of weeks due the World Cup thats all.... Im just stuck in the
wrong coutry 
Anyways....
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pete wood
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| posted on October 23rd, 2007 at 05:47 PM |
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^ or could it be the 'right' country.  typical pommy whinger! 
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kombikim
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| posted on October 23rd, 2007 at 05:58 PM |
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Interesting as I knew of the EAST African safari, how easy it is to forget just how ridiculous the adverts & promotional material was pre consumer
affairs etc I have 2 newspaper articles (obviously written from VW promo material) & one advert stating SOUTH African Coronation rally blah blah,
& the other info I gave above, but it was not exactly true....
my favourite VW advert which I cant bring to hand at the moment was one widely used in the mid fifties in Australian motoring magazines which amongst
other things stated that the aircooled motor in the car was built at much more expense than watercooled motors & of course that it could not
overheat
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Andy
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| posted on October 24th, 2007 at 12:06 AM |
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Glad to see boredom has overtaken the pain 
Can't you mow the lawn or something?
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