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Club VeeDub Sydney. www.clubvw.org.au VW Taigun concept vehicles. January 2013 IN THIS ISSUE: Canberra Xmas Lights Northshore VW opening The Toy Department Lily’s Artarmon story 2012 Car Awards Find-a-Word answers The VW Rometsch Plus lots more... Club VeeDub Sydney. www.clubvw.org.au A member of the NSW Council of Motor Clubs. Now affiliated with CAMS. ZEITSCHRIFT - January 2013 - 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 2012-13. Volkswagen owners. The cost is $45 for 12 months. President: Steve Carter 0439 133 354 [email protected] Monthly meetings. Monthly Club VeeDub meetings are held at the Vice President: David Birchall (02) 9534 4825 Greyhound Social Club Ltd., 140 Rookwood Rd, Yagoona, on [email protected] the third Thursday of each month, from 7:30 pm. All our members, friends and visitors are most welcome. Secretary and: Bob Hickman (02) 4655 5566 Membership: [email protected] Correspondence. Assist. Secretary: Wayne Murray 0414 253 797 Club VeeDub Sydney or Club VeeDub (Secretary) [email protected] PO Box 1135 14 Willoughby Cct Parramatta NSW 2124 Grassmere NSW 2570 Treasurer: Martin Fox 0411 331 121 (02) 9534 4825 [email protected] Our magazine. Editor: Phil Matthews (02) 9773 3970 Zeitschrift (German for ‘magazine’) is published monthly [email protected] by Club VeeDub Sydney Inc. Members with email details receive Assistant Editor: Lily Matthews Zeitschrift as a full-colour PDF from our website. Printed black and white copies are available in limited numbers at the meetings. We welcome all letters and contributions of general VW Webmaster: Aaron Hawker 0413 003 998 interest. These may be edited for reasons of space, clarity, spelling [email protected] or grammar. Deadline for all contributions is the first Thursday of each month; late submissions will be held over. Book and DVD Joe Buttigieg 0449 291 642 Opinions expressed in Zeitschrift are those of the writers, and do not necessarily represent those of Club VeeDub Sydney. Librarian: [email protected] Club VeeDub Sydney, and its members and contributors, cannot be held liable for any consequences arising from any information Tool Librarian: Bob Hickman (02) 4655 5566 printed in the magazine. [email protected] Back issues are available as full-colour PDFs from the Editor at the monthly meeting - please bring your own USB stick. Old issues (2006-on) are also available at www.clubvw.org.au Merchandising: Raymond Rosch (02) 9601 5657 Articles may be reproduced with an acknowledgment to [email protected] Zeitschrift, Club VeeDub Sydney. Assistant Merch: Kira Rosch Raffle Officer: Christine Eaton (02) 9520 4914 We thank our VW Nationals sponsors: Vintage Registr: John Ladomatos 0449 236 076 25 years. [email protected] Volkswagen Group Australia H&M Ferman Andrew Dodd Automotive Klaack Motors VW Nationals David Birchall (02) 9534 4825 Blacktown Mechanical Repairs Vintage VeeDub Supplies Committee: Bob Hickman (02) 4655 5566 C & S Automotive Volksbahn Autos Pty Ltd Aaron Hawker 0413 003 998 20 years and over. Motorsport Rudi Frank 0418 442 953 Aust VW Performance Ctre Shannons Car Insurance Captain: [email protected] Dr Mosha The VW King Stan Pobjoy Racing Engineering North Rocky & Import Parts Wolfsburg Motors Sydney VW Motorsport Committee: Brian Walker Aaron Hawker John Ladomatos 15 years and over. Amanda Stevens Norm Robertson (JP) Indian Automotive Reliable Automotive Services Mick Motors Wayne Penrose VW Enginring General Committee: 10 years and over. Laurie & Gwen Murray Ray & Shirley Pleydon All Metal Bumpers Mobile Model Cars Leigh Harris Grace Rosch BWA Auto NRMA Insurance Mark Stevens Quentin Robbins Cupid Wedding Cars Stokers Siding Garage Defender Safety Unicap Pty Ltd Harding Performance Wurth Fasteners Australia Canberra Committee. 5 years and over. Chairman: Bruce Walker 0400 119 220 Antique Tyres Les Barlin VW Automotive Secretary: Renee Richards 0438 113 126 Artemi’s T-Shirts Red Van Tyre Colouring Treasurer Bruce Walker 0400 119 220 Black Needle Motor Trimming Rod Penrose Racing Autofest/Events Simon Mead 0411 270 260 Camden GTI Performance VA Spares Registrar: Iven Laufer (02) 6254 1142 Canberra VW Centre Volkspower Classic Vee-Dub VW Classic Kirrawee Please have respect for the committee members and their families Custom Vee Dub VW Magazine Australia by only phoning at reasonable hours. Euro Automotive Westside Mufflers Gold Coast Vee Dub Wolfsburg Auto Melbourne ZEITSCHRIFT - January 2013 - Page 2 Club VeeDub Sydney. www.clubvw.org.au ZEITSCHRIFT - January 2013 - Page 3 Club VeeDub Sydney. www.clubvw.org.au ZEITSCHRIFT - January 2013 - Page 4 Club VeeDub Sydney. www.clubvw.org.au ZEITSCHRIFT - January 2013 - Page 5 Club VeeDub Sydney. www.clubvw.org.au ZEITSCHRIFT - January 2013 - Page 6 Club VeeDub Sydney. www.clubvw.org.au ZEITSCHRIFT - January 2013 - Page 7 Club VeeDub Sydney. www.clubvw.org.au ZEITSCHRIFT - January 2013 - Page 8 Club VeeDub Sydney. www.clubvw.org.au Von dem Herrn Why the new Präsident. heading?!? Hi all, well, there are two great events to start the new Some people might be wondering about why we have a year off. Firstly the VW Water-cooled Summer Cruise on new heading style on the cover. Well the reason is that my Sunday 20 Jan 2013; see the calendar and flyer inside this Dad and I spoke with VW Australia boss Anke Koekler at the issue for more information. Never mind the name; air-cooled recent opening of Northshore Volkswagen at Artarmon cars are most welcome too. Phone Aaron on 0413 003998. (which I have also written about). She is a lovely lady! She The second event is the Pizza and Pasta Restaurant said she loved our club website and our magazine, but asked Night at the excellent Monte Carlo Pizzeria at Riverwood, on could we please change the heading? She said that the old Saturday 2 February. Starts at 7pm. You must ring Dave heading (in olde-English font), that we have used since 2006, Birchall on 9534-4834 to book – name and number of people reminded some German people about the old Germany, – as places are limited. Don’t forget to wear your Hawaiian which brought back some unpleasant memories. Could we shirt or dress! use a more modern heading, as a special favour to her? Some great news. While we were at the annual club Sure! So, my Dad spent about an hour and a half Christmas party on Thursday 20 December, we heard that designing a new heading (with a little bit of help from me!!), Belinda and Leigh Harris welcomed a baby boy, Dylan, to and eventually we had found one that we both liked. It is the their family. His vital statistics are 3.28 kg and 49 cm long. I famous ‘VAG’ font that VW used in their brochures and ads might be mistaken but I think young Dylan is the first baby to in Germany in the 1980s, although they don’t use it any more. be born whose parents met at a Club VW event and then were We have kept the yellow, red and black, which are the colours later married. They actually met at a Herbie film night at on the German flag. I think it looks really nice! Smithfield Scout Hall in May 1999. Anke also said that Dad Dylan was born at 8:25pm on 20 December. Here’s and I could visit her soon at the something interesting – if he had been born just thirteen Volkswagen head office at minutes earlier, at 8:12pm, then he would have been born at Chullora, and a have a special 20:12 on 20/12 2012 !! tour of the site. I am really We were wondering what Belinda and Leigh were looking forward to that! going to name their baby. Leigh said he was NOT going to be named ‘David’! Due to their VW enthusiasm, some of us By Lily (assistant thought that ‘Herbie’ might have been a great choice – Herbie Editor!!) ☺ Harris. Another suggestion was that they name him after Vintage Veedub’s Boris Orazem – Boris Harris. No, actually Belinda and Leigh have made a much better choice. Congratulations from everyone at Club Veedub. Kanberra Kapitel Coming up in February is the Sydney VW Drag Racing at WSID on the 23 February 2013. This is a great event that report. brings together lots VW enthusiasts. I’m working on my bug Happy 2013 to you all, I hope that everyone had a safe to have it ready for the event and young Dylan’s dad has been and restful holiday season. With any luck we are revitalised doing the same to his turbo bug. Go to www.vwma.net.au for and raring to go for another dubbing year? entry forms and all info. In December, the local members set off on our annual There are more great events coming up in February and Christmas Lights Cruise, there is an article elsewhere on our March, so stay tuned. The VW Nationals will be here again trek. It worked very well and it was great to see the club before we know it! Planning is well under way. We will need members out there to enjoy the trip. some help setting up, packing up and during the long day. If At time of writing, 2013 Summernats is about to you can lend a hand at either the Supersprint or on show day commence, and the club will have some cars in the Club it would be much appreciated. Please let us know. Display on the Sunday. Hopefully we’ll have a story in next Speaking of the Supersprint, our club is very short on months magazine on this one.