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posted on November 12th, 2009 at 01:24 PM
Southern Sydney Club
Is there a Southern Sydney VW club? Like say for the Sutherland Shire, Rockdale Bankstown, Hurstville, Canterbury and Kogarah council areas.
If there isnt one is there any interest in starting one?
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posted on November 13th, 2009 at 08:00 AM
Yes there is - Club Veedub Sydney. We also cover central Sydney, northern Sydney, western Sydney, and eastern Sydney.
Meets at Greyhound Social Club, 140 Rookwood Rd Yagoona, on the THIRD THURSDAY of each month. This month's meeting is next week, the 19th Nov, at
8:00pm. We will be showing a film of the latest Golf GTI ad from Germany, and Scott from Denlo will be giving a short talk on the upcoming updated T5
Transporter range. Come along, you will be most welcome.
Membership is $45 per year. You get a club membership card (discounts on VW parts and service at recommended outlets); 12 issues of our magazine
Zeitschrift (40 pages each month); access to the club's free book, workshop manual, DVD and special tool libraries; at least one club run or event
every month, and you can also get a CAMS licence for VW motorsport (extra fees apply). Historic registration is also available once you are an
established member, should you want it (show vehicles 30+ years old), as we are affiliated with CMC NSW.
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posted on November 13th, 2009 at 08:56 PM
I would love to come but the only problem is that I work night shift and it is really hard for me to get a night off. So is there anyway I would be
able to get a membership without coming to the meetings?
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posted on November 16th, 2009 at 03:43 AM
Also is there a specialized club for these areas
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posted on November 16th, 2009 at 07:11 AM
No you don't have to come along to meetings if you don't want to. Many of our members are shift workers, and some of them we only see at the
Nationals each year. We probably only see 10-15% of our members at each monthly meeting.
You are not obliged to participate at all if you so choose - you can just accept the benefits we have to offer with no obligation. However Club Veedub
puts on many VW activities for the VW enthusiast, and the more things you come along to, the more you will get out of you club membership. There are
three ways to join if you can't make it to meetings:
1. Go to http://www.clubvw.org.au/join%20club_veedub.htm and
download the 'online payments' form. Fill it out with yiour details and email it to sales@clubvw.org.au. You will be sent a Paypal invoice so you
can pay by credit card or bank transfer. There is a small surcharge for this method.
2. OR - Download the normal membership form (PDF) from the same page. Print it off, fill it out and post it to the club's PO box with a cheque or
money order for $45.
3. OR - Download some back issues of our magazine from http://vwwatercooled.com/mag/mag/history.html. Each issue has a membership form in it - print it, fill it in and send it
in with a cheque for $45.
I'm not sure what you mean by a 'specialised club' for your local area. Tiny 'one suburb' VW clubs like that are not viable - they can't have
the resources to put on events and shows, publish magazines and webpages, affiliate with CAMS and run motorsport events, buy equipment and library
materiel, public liability insurance, etc etc etc that a large club like ours does. Sure half a dozen VW guys can get together to have an informal
cruise, for example, but that's not a 'club' in the proper sense. And what happens if something goes wrong and there's an accident - if the police
find out you're on a 'run' you are in big trouble without public liability insurance.
Another factor is that the air-cooled VW 'scene' is shrinking each year as the number of cars gradually decreases - the last air-cooled Beetle was
sold here in 1976, 33 years ago. There will be a trend for small regional clubs to either join together to survive, or fold.
