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| posted on December 3rd, 2011 at 10:47 PM |
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Where is 'The Orchard'?
So as I get the occassional Volksworld magazine I read an article of a Pom who knows this Oz guy who used to have an orchard full of VW, over 500
vehicles. Due to shipping to pom land there's meant to be only half of that left.
Anyway, I am intrigued if anyone knows where this mystical place may be so I can go see what is left?
In the photos it looked quite dry but that really only rules out Tas, southern Vic and north QLD.
Can anyone help a dubber go take a look at the VW grail?
Ta,
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| posted on December 4th, 2011 at 07:03 AM |
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I don't read Volksworld, but it's prolly the dude near Canberra/Cooma. Been threads on here before, may need to search a bit.
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| posted on December 4th, 2011 at 08:26 AM |
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Yeah drove past that place last week - quite a few dubs sitting out in the back paddock, along with 1000's of other cars. From memory its on the road
halfway between the Snowy Mountain airport, and Cooma township, on the left as you're driving toward cooma from the airport.
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| posted on December 4th, 2011 at 08:32 AM |
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Thats Flynns he is just out side Cooma cool place but not much left there to interest any one.
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| posted on December 4th, 2011 at 08:36 AM |
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Or,.. Is he meaning nicks property near canberra???
Was it called volks parts or something like that???
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| posted on December 4th, 2011 at 09:30 AM |
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Oh, there was a mention in the mag of the Oz guy being called Nick.
I also remember seeing a large field of cars from this lookout point just outside of Cooma some years back whilst travelling the area. Brother didn't
want to 'waste' time investigating 
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| posted on December 4th, 2011 at 10:20 AM |
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The wreckers just out of Cooma is " FLYNN's ",
a family owned business, now owned & run by Wayne Flynn,
a great place to look through, many interesting old cars in there, not much left in the way of vw
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| posted on December 4th, 2011 at 02:07 PM |
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On here the AVD topic talking about nicks place is called
VW Graveyard Thread Id: 84161 under Vagrant VW's.
(I don't know how to make a link to it. It's on the second page under Vagrant Vw's
Here is the link to Nicks Site.
His photo's are out of date,.. I didn't recognise alot of the cars from the photo's.
Nothing too early there the earliest was a few very sad looking 'elephant ear' bugs.
http://www.volkspartsaustralia.com/
My advice would be to call him. It's by appointment only.
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| posted on December 4th, 2011 at 03:29 PM |
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Nick has quite a few VW's but as said above, not much early stuff. He's a nice fella and also works on cars too, he's located outside of Canberra.
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| posted on December 4th, 2011 at 11:39 PM |
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Excellent. Cheers guys. When I get the chance to head to Canberra I'll give Nick a bell 
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| posted on December 5th, 2011 at 12:02 PM |
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crushers there at the moment , cool to watch all the superbugs getting crushed ha haaaa
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| posted on December 5th, 2011 at 11:46 PM |
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Nooooooooooooooooooooo.......... No crusher!!!!!! I wanted to see what was there b4 that happened  Don't say it's true?
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| posted on December 6th, 2011 at 12:44 PM |
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Is he crushing everything?
Sounds like my bug that came from there is one lucky bugger!
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| posted on December 6th, 2011 at 08:56 PM |
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just useless half cut up stuff n superbugs
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| posted on December 6th, 2011 at 09:11 PM |
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Nick has been there a while and eventually cars need to be scrapped, either they are too rusty or have been cut to pieces for parts and there is
nothing usable left. He still has plenty of cars there if you are after a project.
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| posted on December 7th, 2011 at 07:55 AM |
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So he still has whole beetle there? a) be cool to look around and b) whilst looking I may find bit's I want/need
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