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| posted on January 4th, 2009 at 10:47 PM |
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Old Lithgow VW dealer
On the same trip in my 40-bhp in 1982, I also stopped in Lithgow and found the VW dealer there then, which was Eric Young's Motors, 327 Main St,
Lithgow. They had became the local VW dealer in 1976, but as you can see, Fiats were more his thing then. He stopped being a VW dealer sometime in the
mid-1980s, not long after I got this photo.
Again, that's my '64 in the photo.
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| posted on January 4th, 2009 at 10:50 PM |
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loving the old pics mate..
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Phil74Camper
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| posted on January 4th, 2009 at 10:51 PM |
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You can easily find this place on Google Earth. The building is still original, and iit's now a motor mower shop - painted bright yellow.
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pete wood
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| posted on January 5th, 2009 at 07:31 AM |
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still sticking the aircooled stuff then eh? 
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| posted on January 5th, 2009 at 08:18 AM |
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Not quite Pete - Eric Young only came on in 1976, after VW's air-cooled era (except for the odd Kombi maybe). I bet he only sold a handful of Golfs
and Passats before he went out of business, if any. He was a Fiat dealer who took on VW/Audi as a sideline. I can also see, from his signage, that he
also sold Daihatsus, Subarus and Johnson outboard motors. Just as well, as no one could have made money from selling VWs only in Australia after 1976
(when the local factory was lost).
Some of those big ride-on lawnmowers have probably got as much power as the early Beetles though!
Lithgow's VW dealer during the air-cooled era was located on the 'Great Western Highway'; no number given. This has been much redeveloped since the
'60s and it's a multi-lane highway now. I imagine any original buildings would have been demolished by now.
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