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Club Veedub Sydney. September 2019 NQ629.2220994/5 Club VeeDub Sydney. www.clubvw.org.au Vale Ferdinand Piëch (1937-2019) September 2019 IN THIS ISSUE: Shannons Eastern Creek Canberra Fish n Chips Split-window Kombi Cruise War Memorial Kübel Ferdinand Piëch More Ash Articles 1977 Bathurst 1000 Plus lots more... Club VeeDub Sydney. www.clubvw.org.au A member of the NSW Council of Motor Clubs. Also affiliated with CAMS. ZEITSCHRIFT - September 2019 - Page 1 Club VeeDub Sydney. www.clubvw.org.au Club VeeDub Sydney Club VeeDub membership. Membership of Club VeeDub Sydney is open to all Committee 2019-20. Volkswagen owners. The cost is $45 for 12 months. President: Steve Carter 0490 020 338 [email protected] Monthly meetings. Monthly Club VeeDub meetings are held at the Arena Vice President: David Birchall (02) 9534 4825 Sports Club Ltd (Greyhound Club), 140 Rookwood Rd, [email protected] Yagoona, on the third Thursday of each month, from 7:30 pm. All our members, friends and visitors are most welcome. Secretary and: Norm Elias 0421 303 544 Membership: [email protected] Correspondence. Treasurer: Martha Adams 0404 226 920 Club VeeDub Sydney [email protected] PO Box 324 Mortdale NSW 2223 Editor: Phil Matthews 0412 786 339 [email protected] Our magazine. Webmasters: Aaron Hawker 0413 003 998 Zeitschrift (German for ‘magazine’) is published monthly [email protected] by Club VeeDub Sydney Inc. We welcome all letters and contributions of general VW interest. These may be edited for reasons of space, clarity, spelling or grammar. Deadline for all Social Media: Lee Woods 0414 952 509 contributions is the first Thursday of each month. [email protected] Opinions expressed in Zeitschrift are those of the writers, and do not necessarily represent those of Club VeeDub Sydney. Book and DVD Carl Moll 0417 471 137 Club VeeDub Sydney, and its members and contributors, cannot Librarian: [email protected] be held liable for any consequences arising from any information printed in the magazine. Back issues (2007-on) are available at www.clubvw.org.au Tool Librarian: Bob Hickman (02) 4655 5566 under the Media - Zeitschrift tag. [email protected] Articles may be reproduced with an acknowledgment to Zeitschrift, Club VeeDub Sydney. Merchandising: Raymond Rosch (02) 9601 5657 [email protected] Assistant Merch: Kira and Bettina Rosch We thank our VW Nationals sponsors: Raffle Officer: Christine Eaton (02) 9520 4914 32 years. Vintage Registr: John Ladomatos 0449 236 076 Andrew Dodd Automotive Vintage Vee Dub Supplies [email protected] H&M Ferman Volksbahn Autos Pty Ltd Stan Pobjoy Racing Engineering VW Nationals David Birchall (02) 9534 4825 Committee: Zelko Jurkovic, Eddie Fleita, Joe Buttigieg 25 years and over. Trophy Engineer: Shirley Pleydon Aust VW Performance Ctre North Rocky & Import Parts Mick Motors Shannons Car Insurance Motorsport Rudi Frank 0418 442 953 Indian Automotive Wolfsburg Motors St Peters Captain: [email protected] 20 years and over. VW Motorsport Committee: Harding Performance Cars Wayne Penrose Automotive Craig Adams Martha Adams Indian Automotive Eddie Fleita Joe Buttigieg 15 years and over. All Metal Bumpers Evolution Car Hire General Committee: Black Needle Motor Trimming Barry Parks Charlie Attard Sam Nadile Joe Buttigieg 10 years and over. Sandy Benic Zelko Jurkovic Antique Tyres VW Classic Kirrawee Artemi’s T-Shirts VW Magazine Australia BWA Auto Volkscare Canberra Committee. Custom T Shirts Warby’s Stickers Euro Automotive Wolfsburg Auto Melbourne President: Willie Nelson [email protected] Rod Penrose Racing Secretary: Dot Bryan [email protected] Treasurer: Dave Cook [email protected] 5 years and over. Registrar: Willie Nelson [email protected] Das Resto Parts Motexion Council/Events: David Cook [email protected] Exotic Car Service Mountain Mechanics Social Media: Dorothy Bryan [email protected] Forty Horse Quik Strip Merchandise: Jacqui Stenhouse [email protected] JustKampers Volkshome Automotive Kombi Shop Volkswerke Please have respect for the committee members and their families MacKellar Service Centre by only phoning at reasonable hours. ZEITSCHRIFT - September 2019 - Page 2 Club VeeDub Sydney. www.clubvw.org.au ZEITSCHRIFT - September 2019 - Page 3 Club VeeDub Sydney. www.clubvw.org.au ZEITSCHRIFT - September 2019 - Page 4 Club VeeDub Sydney. www.clubvw.org.au ZEITSCHRIFT - September 2019 - Page 5 Club VeeDub Sydney. www.clubvw.org.au ZEITSCHRIFT - September 2019 - Page 6 Club VeeDub Sydney. www.clubvw.org.au ZEITSCHRIFT - September 2019 - Page 7 Club VeeDub Sydney. www.clubvw.org.au ZEITSCHRIFT - September 2019 - Page 8 Club VeeDub Sydney. www.clubvw.org.au ZEITSCHRIFT - September 2019 - Page 9 Club VeeDub Sydney. www.clubvw.org.au ZEITSCHRIFT - September 2019 - Page 10 Club VeeDub Sydney. www.clubvw.org.au Von dem Herrn Kanberra Kapitel Präsident. report. Hi all, Hi all, well our Club had a car display at Greetings from Canberra, Shannon’s Classic at Sydney Motorsport Park last month. I With the weather slowly starting to warm up, local car couldn’t make it as I had to work that day. Also in August was enthusiasts are emerging and many shows and events are on the Split Window Cruise to Mt Wilson. Reports and photos the horizon. Spring brings on a number of car events here in in this issue. Coming up is the Herbie Drive In movie night, Canberra, with the most important one happening on Sunday, which will be great fun, and the ACT German Auto day later 22nd September – the ACT German Auto Day. in the month hosted by our Canberra Chapter. Dot has continued to feverishly work hard in On the October long weekend is the annual Drag organising year’s German Auto Day (GAD) on Sunday 22nd Racing at VW Warwick, and on the 24th November is Boris’ September at the Canberra Greyhound Racing Club, Picnic Day. There are also lots of other car shows and events Symonston. The final pieces are falling into place thanks to we’ve been invited to, so check the calendar and write them in her great planning and coordinating of all the clubs attending. your diary. Real estate wars with the other clubs keeps us amused; Our Librarian Carl would like to remind us that the however statistics of previous events clearly demonstrate that library is open for members’ perusal and borrowings at each VW have the largest turn-out and therefore will be granted he monthly meeting. The library now has over 200 VW books. largest amount of room for the show. Members are invited to borrow a book from the library – see Please consider attending this year’s event, as Club Carl at the meeting – and then return the book next month VeeDub (Canberra Chapter) are the lead organisers and we’d promptly so that others can borrow them. If you have any old love to get as many VeeDubs there and once again be the VW books at home that you no longer want or need, we will largest contingent of all the German marques. We hope many be grateful if you would consider donating them to Carl, and of you can join us for our biggest event of the year, where we we can add them to the library for other members to borrow. will have plenty of food, beverages, activities for the kids and Most our members now receive our magazine most importantly, great German machinery to admire. Zeitschrift in full-colour digital format, which comes out We are also hosting the GAD dinner on Saturday 21st much faster than the printed version and can be read on any September at the German Harmonie Club. Bookings are digital device. As for the printed version that some non- closing very soon, so please get in contact to book tickets for computer members and sponsors receive, it’s now been five this great night with German inspired food and entertainment years since we changed our printer and went to a full-colour ([email protected]). Please see the flyers in this format. Bruce at Minuteman Press at Peakhurst does a great issue for more information, dates and timings. For those job and I’m very pleased with the results. The old black n travelling from interstate, we have also included an option for white printed magazines from 2014 and earlier look so old accommodation close to both the dinner and car show venues. fashioned now! Recently the Canberra Chapter travelled to Batemans Even though we couldn’t afford colour printing back Bay for the annual Cookies Fish and Chip Run on Sunday 18 then, you can still download full-colour PDF versions of all Aug. Once again, organised and sponsored by Cookies our older mags, right back to 2006, from our website. There Cycles, this event proved to be popular with both Canberra are many hours of reading pleasure there for newer members and South Coast enthusiasts, with a number of other local car who might not have seen these older issues. And also for older clubs attending. Please see the article on this event elsewhere members who might have thrown out their old printed copies! in this edition of the magazine. Go to www.clubvw.org.au/zeitschrift and click on the year As usual, please keep an eye on the Facebook page for you are interested in. news and upcoming events. We also post feedback and pics There’s also a page tab underneath the Zeitschrift page, from recent activities on the Facebook page and invite called ‘Old Articles’. This contains hundreds of articles from members to also post VW related info. The Facebook page is our pre-digital era, way back to 1985. This was when we also a great way to get in contact with the committee with any produced the magazine on old Gestetners and photocopiers.
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