Club Veedub. Aus Liebe zum Automobilklub. Lots of T1 Kombis at VW Nationals 2010. June 2010 IN THIS ISSUE: VW Nationals winners VW Supersprint results Robertson Car Show Blast From The Past Rose’ Pit Stop Cruise Shorrock supercharger Golf vs US compacts Plus lots more... Club Veedub Sydney. www.clubvw.org.au A member of the NSW Council of Motor Clubs. Now affiliated with CAMS. ZEITSCHRIFT - June 2010 - Page 1 Club Veedub Sydney. Der Autoklub. Club Veedub Sydney Club Veedub membership. Membership of Club Veedub Sydney is open to all Committee 2009-10. Volkswagen owners. The cost is $45 for 12 months. President: David Birchall (02) 9534 4825 [email protected] Monthly meetings. Monthly Club Veedub Sydney meetings are held at the Vice President: Jeff Dunn (02) 9771 1543 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. Club Veedub Sydney or Club Veedub (Secretary) Assist. Secretary: Heather Pascoe (02) 9773 1637 PO Box 1135 14 Willoughby Cct [email protected] Parramatta NSW 2124 Grassmere NSW 2570 [email protected] Treasurer: Martin Fox 0411 331 121 [email protected] Our magazine. Zeitschrift (German for ‘magazine’) is published monthly Editor: Phil Matthews (02) 9773 3970 by Club Veedub Sydney Inc. We welcome all letters and [email protected] contributions of general VW interest. These may be edited for reasons of space, clarity, spelling or grammar. Deadline for all Webmaster: Steve Carter 0439 133 354 contributions is the first Thursday of each month. Views expressed in Zeitschrift are those of the writers, and [email protected] do not necessarily represent those of Club Veedub Sydney. Club Veedub Sydney, and its members and contributors, cannot be held Book and DVD Danny McFadden (02) 9792 2586 liable for any consequences arising from any information printed in the magazine. Back issues are available from the Secretary, or in Librarian: [email protected] PDF format from the Editor at the monthly meeting - please bring your own USB stick. Tool Librarian: Bob Hickman (02) 4655 5566 Articles may be reproduced with an acknowledgment to Zeitschrift, Club Veedub Sydney. Please note that all coming events listed in the Zeitschrift Merchandising: Raymond Rosch (02) 9601 5657 Club Calendar, and on the Club Veedub Sydney web page, are [email protected] sanctioned by the Club and its Committee. Raffle Officer: Christine Eaton (02) 9520 4914 We thank our VW Nationals sponsors: Vintage Registr: Leigh Harris 0419 685 738 23 years. [email protected] Volkswagen Group Australia Klaack Motors Andrew Dodd Automotive Stan Pobjoy Race Engineering 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 Chris Pascoe (02) 9773 1637 H&M Ferman Matthew White 0423 051 737 20 years and over. Motorsport Cameron Hart 0407 003 359 Shannons Car Insurance Wolfsburg Motors St Peters Captain: [email protected] 15 years and over. VW Motorsport Committee: Aust VW Performance Ctre Korsche VW Performance Herb Gutmann Rudy Frank Dr Mosha the VW King Mick Motors Indian Automotive North Rocky & Import Parts Brian Walker Norm Robertson (JP) John Ladomatos 10 years and over. Alpha Dot Net Reliable Automotive Services General Committee: Cupid Wedding Cars Stokers Siding Garage Ron Kirby Laurie & Gwen Murray Harding Performance Unicap Pty Ltd Ken Davis Grace Rosch Mobile Model Cars Wurth Fasteners Australia Ray Pleydon Shirley Pleydon NRMA Insurance Mike Said Wayne Murray David Carter Kay Hart 5 years and over. All Metal Bumpers Defender Safety Artemi’s T-Shirts Kombi Rescue Canberra Committee. Black Needle Motor Trimming Les Barlin VW Automotive Chairman: Mark Palmer 0416 033 581 Bug-A-Bug Nulon Products Australia Vice Chair: Bruce Walker 0400 119 220 Canberra VW Centre Volkommen Art Classic Vee Dub Wolfsburg Automotive (VIC) Secretary: Megan Wadey 0415 567 541 Registrar: Ian Schafferius 0434 717 093 ZEITSCHRIFT - June 2010 - Page 2 Club Veedub. Aus Liebe zum Automobilklub. Bettinas a-MAZE-ing Berrimacruise SundayJune27,2010 Leave9amfromUncleLeos,CrossRoads. OurfirststopwillbeattheMittagong Informationcentre.At11amwewillweave ourwaythroughtheMittagong hinterlandandcruisetoHarpers Mansion,Berrima. Asmallfeeof$4willbe chargedfortheguidedtourof theMansionandaccesstothe walkingMaze. CallRaymondon0408207228formore information. ZEITSCHRIFT - June 2010 - Page 3 Club Veedub Sydney. Der Autoklub. ZEITSCHRIFT - June 2010 - Page 4 Club Veedub. Aus Liebe zum Automobilklub. ZEITSCHRIFT - June 2010 - Page 5 Club Veedub Sydney. Der Autoklub. for your car, go along and see them. Thanks to all our Von dem Herrn sponsors on the day, without whom there would be no show. Once again Volkswagen Group Australia supported our Präsident. show. We had several band-new loan vehicles, such as a Golf YOUR CLUB NEEDS YOU! Next month’s July Wagon and a Passat CC for the show day display. Ken Barry meeting brings us to our 26th AGM, where all committee from VGA helped us with the presentation of the trophies for positions will become vacant. Hopefully we might get some the car show. new faces on the front page. Please don’t be shy, come along Précis of Committee and General meetings:- VW and stand for a position. Please make sure you have renewed Nationals wrap-up and suggestions – Supersprint and Show your membership for the meeting. This month’s meeting, day; Bettina’s VW cruise; June, will be a VW Nationals ‘post mortem’, so we are Hubertus dinner and movie looking for ideas and suggestions to make next year’s show night; Valla Park; Shannons’ even better. Come along and let us know what you think. at Eastern Creek; VW Wakefield Park – what a blast. If you entered a car and Motorkhana at Nirimba; had a drive, you’ll know what a great experience it is. Well German Auto Fest in done to all our officials, flaggies and scrutineers on the day. Canberra. It’s a thankless job but I am sure they enjoyed themselves KeeponKruzin watching the proceedings and racing. I only managed 4 runs this year, as we have several groups with only 2 or 3 cars -David Birchall running, but this will be adjusted and improved for next year’s event. I did improve my fastest time by 7 seconds and had a ball on the track. We hope to see more VWs next year, and especially more newer VWs like Golfs. Kanberra Kapitelreport. Our twenty third Volkswagen Nationals show went off Chilly greetings from the nation’s capital as we chip the relatively smoothly, on Sunday 23rd May. This was now our ice off the windscreen. Winter is here but we’re still getting third year of moving away from the traditional Easter the cars out into the public. Firstly congratulations to the weekend, and by the increased number of entries we had, it organisers of the Nationals, the event was great, you should was the best decision we could have made. It’s only growing all be very proud of your efforts. We had a number of stronger. I know of many interstate visitors and traders who Canberrans visit the Nationals and all had a great time. With attended on the day. only one minor hitch we had around 9 cars visiting the Sprints Once again I stayed on the front entry gate until and 7 at the Sunday show - thanks to those who came along! 11.30am. Together with a few helps we managed to allow in We advised last month of an event for June being the people who were supposed to be inside. We definitely Collector run, we’ve postponed that to July as we join up with required this extra room to allow the 243-odd entries into the the Sydneysiders for the Berrima run. Come along in convoy, show area parking – the biggest number we’ve ever had. meet new people, find your way through a walking maze, and Thanks to our Judges for a great effort. The multi-media check out a mansion in a historic town - what more could you winner display proved a success, but even the 50" TV we used want! Sunday 27 June, leaving at 8.15 sharp! Let us know if was too small. Next year we will be using a 3-metre screen you are coming, it’ll be a great day! You’ll find a flyer in this and projector to display each winning vehicle. magazine for our Canberra contingent. The ‘Traders’ Alley’ proved a success with both We’re heading off for Collector now on 25 July, whack vendors and enthusiasts. Our set up appeared to work out well that on the calendar - details will be on the website and forum, with supplies turning up and moving to their assigned and in the magazine next month. We need numbers for this positions with the help of a few volunteers on the day. I one - lunch at the local pub, always a big event for our noticed it was crowded most of the day. Several suppliers members, are you coming? even made the trek all the way from Melbourne and Brisbane. The club AGM is in Sydney on Thursday July 15th. Thanks to the club members who turned up on We are in the process of arranging a contingent there and look Saturday night to help set; worked tirelessly throughout the forward to catching up. If anyone wants to come along and see day, and followed up by cleaning up and leaving late on how the club runs, we’d love to have you for the trip. Sunday afternoon. They are the backbone of the club and the The Canberrans are also priming up for Autofest 2010, committee really appreciated the effort that it took to have the being held 18 / 19 September, another date for the calendar.