The Official Newsletter of the Volkswagen Club of Victoria Inc.Volume 65 - Number 4 - December 2019

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MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR

Volkswagen Club of ViCtoria

VWCV EVENTS

DECEMBERCoffee Run Rocco & CoeSaturday 14th December 10am - 12noon. 1 Fennell St, Port Melbourne.

JANUARYCoffee Run Rocco & CoeSaturday 18th January 10am - 12noon. 1 Fennell St, Port Melbourne.

Pizza Night at Pirates TavernWilliamstown - TBC Stay tuned on Facebook and email for full event details.

FEBRUARYCoffee Run Rocco & CoeSaturday 15th February 10am - 12noon. 1 Fennell St, Port Melbourne.

VWCV General Meeting Thursday 20th February 6.30pm - 10pm. The Austrian Club 76 - 90 Sheehan Road Heidelberg West.

Kennet River VW Camp Out 29th February - 1st March More details in the new year and advised in the Club Newsletter, website and Facebook.

VWCV GENERAL MEETINGSMelbourne Club meetings are held every third Thursday of every month at 8pm at the Austrian Club, 90 Sheehan Rd, Heidelberg West VIC 3081 unless advised of an alternative venue in the Club Newsletter.

Volkswagen Club of Victoria Committee 2019. Please contact the committee member that best suits your enquiry via email.

All mail correspondence should be sent to - Volkswagen Club of Victoria GPO Box 1215 Melbourne VIC 3001

OfficersPresident - Matthew Collis president@vwclub.com.au Vice President - Jocelyn Edeling vicepresident@vwclub.com.au Secretary - Andrew Mengyel secretary@vwclub.com.au Treasurer - Michael Cronin treasurer@vwclub.com.au

Ordinary Committee MembersEvents Coordinator - Jahnu Russell events@vwclub.com.au Membership Secretary - Willow Kerri Kai memberships@vwclub.com.au Club Permits and Registrations - Andrew Ermel chplates@vwclub.com.au Wagensville News Editor - editor@vwclub.com.au Content Coordinator - Chris Scane Webmaster - Jocelyn Edeling webmaster@vwclub.com.au

Assistants to the CommitteeConstitutional and Association Matters - John Stevens constitution@vwclub.com.au Technical Officer - John Goodison technical@vwclub.com.au Day of the Volkswagen Coordinator - Lloyd Davies dovw@vwclub.com.au Club Historian - Chris Scane historian@vwclub.com.au or 0417 593 573 Merchandise - merchandise@vwclub.com.au CH plates Please note - All CH plates applications, inquiries and questions to be sent to our CH officer - Andrew Ermel chplates@vwclub.com.au All Day of the Volkswagen inquiries please email dovw@vwclub.com.au

VWCV Membership FeesSingle Annual Full membership $60 Single 3 year Full Membership $155 Family Membership additional $20 per member/per year

VWCV membership also available on line: www.vwclub.com.au

VWCV casual monthly coffee run, third Saturday each month unless notified. All VWs welcome.

Saturday 14th December 10am - 12noon 1 Fennell St. Port Melbourne.

Wagensville News (Deluxe Edition) is the monthly newsletter of the Volkswagen Club of Victoria Inc. Correspondence, articles and items of news or items for sale are invited and should be sent to: VWCV Editor: GPO Box 1215 Melbourne, VIC 3001 or editor@vwclub.com.au

Disclaimer: All material in this newsletter represents the opinions of the author(s) and does not carry any endorsement by the Editor and Editor Assistant or Committee unless otherwise stated. Any material advertised for sale does not carry any endorsement by the Club and the onus is on the purchaser to ensure the purchased goods meet their requirements. Each VWCV Member is a volunteer carrying out club duties in their own leisure time. The Club has no paid officials, only enthusiasts dedicated in furthering the interests of the Club and its members. Therefore, please bear this in mind when contacting Club Committee Members.

MONTHLY COFFEE RUNROCCO & COE

Hello Dubbers

Another year over, Christmas time again, by the time you read this the club Christmas party will be over and our one off ‘Day of the Volkswagen’ banner will have been auctioned off (with the proceeds going to charity). For all those that couldn’t make the Christmas party, on behalf of all the committee, I wish you and your families a merry Christmas and a safe and happy new year. I hope to catch up with many of you at our first meeting of the year in January (our annual Pizza night at the Pirates Tavern in Williamstown - date to be confirmed, stay tuned on Facebook and email for full details). The committee and I look forward to organising not only our regular events for the upcoming year but also some one off events and hopefully a few joint events with the other Victorian VW clubs.

PRESIDENT’S REPORTMatthew Collis VWCV President

KENNET RIVER VW CAMP OUT 29th February - 1st March 2020

A wonderful event at the picturesque Kennet River Holiday Park located 164 kms from Melbourne on the magnificent Great Ocean Road.Book your cabin early as there are a limited number available. If camping on a powered or unpowered camping site you can book a site now as the club has arranged for the park to hold a large number of powered sites for this weekend. Book before the busy Christmas/New Year holiday period.

Just a reminder for those who have not yet booked, we have our annual Kennett River weekend (including the Saturday night fund-raising event for the Kennett River Surf Lifesaving Club) coming up from the 29th of February till the 1st of March 2020. Please make sure to book early as this is always a popular weekend (full details can be found in the magazine and on Facebook). For anyone needing to get a club permit done in the new year, the first coffee meet will be on Saturday the 18th of January (please see the club website for permit guidelines).

Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, Keep on Dubbin’

See you in 2020.

A very laid back two days with a great surf beach right across the road.

Kennet River Holiday Park 1300 664 417 “Tell them you are with the Volkswagen Club”.

More details in the new year and advised in the Club Newsletter, website and on Facebook.

As l hit the keyboard again and watch the sun go down on another Day of the Volkswagen, there is a certain feeling of mission complete as one of the many volunteers to deliver the members and visitors to Yarra Glen Racecourse another great VWCV event. The Bay Window Kombi (1968-1979) was a great Volkswagen tribute to an very easily recognised icon of our motoring club.

DAY OF THE VOLKSWAGEN 2019 Chris Scane with Lyn and Lloyd Davies.

Lloyd would like to deeply thank all the volunteers that assisted in any capacity and acknowledge their contribution to the success of the day. We were trying to embrace air-cooled and water-cooled Volkswagens into the show and this year triumphs that success! This year’s event was incredibly successful on many different levels and even no major complaints! Special thanks also goes to Emma from Yarra Glen Racecourse who worked hard to accommodate our special needs and the Penrose gang from the Shoalhaven VW Club who brought down eight vehicles to compliment the local cars. Lyn would like to thank the members of both judging teams, those who assisted in recording the results and marshalling vehicles, and other volunteers who assisted on the day and made the completion of the results (tabled here) possible. This vital task was executed with professionalism and good spirit that hopefully made the experience an enjoyable one for all. We are glad to get some good feedback on a very enjoyable show and look forward to 2020!

As one of the many VWCV warhorses that come back every year and together with the new volunteers, we put together a might good car show because we have had almost 40 years’ experience and that counts for a lot! On a personal note, it was a huge surprise to be told my 1956 Beetle had been given the Ratters award while lining up the other DOTVW winners. This one is a first for me ever and this caps off a great year, after 37 years activity with the Volkswagen Club of Victoria.

This premium Volkswagen event deserves many accolades. We are sure that in Volkswagen terms this event represents great value for money where you could never get a better show in Australia. Until next year, keep enjoying your Volkswagens and hope to see at the 2020 DOTVW!

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WATER COOLED SPONSOR WINNERMk1/Mk2 Golf Volkwerke Lee PAPAIOANNOU Mk3/Mk4 Golf Volkwerke Lloyd DAVIES Mk5 Golf Volkwerke Rob PICONE Mk6 Golf Volkwerke Stelio PIKI Mk7 Golf Volkwerke Durkesh JEEVAN Polo 6N/9N German Technik Chad JOSMAN Polo 6R/6C German Technik Luke SAKAUICIUS Scirocco/Corrado German Technik Bill MLADENOSKI Passat Volkshome Bernadette HULBERT Vento/Bora/Jetta Life Member John Stevens Jad LUCIAN Eos/Cabrio/Beetle/Up! Volkshome Michele BUCHANAN Amarok/Tiguan/Touareg Volkshome Justin TROFY T3/T4 Bill Malkoutsis Mark BAXTER T5/Caddy/Crafter Life Member Michael Cronin Dean SEELEY

AIR COOLED - STANDARD Beetle 6 Volt Standard Paul Hodges Brendan NOVAK Beetle 12 Volt Standard Volkshome Colin KIRSMAN Split Kombi Standard Volkscare Michael VANDELDEN Bay Kombi Standard Life Member Andrew Ermel Peter O’FARRELL Type 3/Type 4 Standard Volkscare Denise BURFOOT Karmann Ghia/Type 34 Standard Life Member Fran Oliver Ghazzal KALAFF Country Buggy/Variants Volkscare George ABRAHAM

AIR COOLED - MODIFIED Beetle 6 Volt Modified VWMA Oliver FULLJAMES Beetle 12 Volt Modified Volkscare Adi ALIC Split Kombi Modified German Technik Rex VANDERBERG Bay Kombi Modified Volkscare Tony MORLEY Type 3/Type 4 Modified Life Member Fran Oliver Dan PLOEGMAREKS Karmann Ghia/Type 34 Modified Volkscare John CAMERON

OTHER - SELF JUDGING Ratters VWCV Chris SCANE Syncros VWCV Mark BOYS

CASTROL CAR OF THE SHOW Castrol Brendan FARRELL - 1969 Type 3

PRESIDENT’S CAR OF THE SHOW VWCV Jim McKENZIE - 1975 Bay Kombi

VWCV CHRISTMAS PARTY 2019Chris Scane and Matty Collis.

Well that was another great year in the history of the Volkswagen Club of Victoria and rounds out a fairly busy decade of local VW activities. This was the second time we have held the club Christmas party at Lloyd’s Man Cave 2 in Mirra Court and it is proving to be an excellent venue for this event.

The day turned out to be rather warm and this certainly contributed to a great day for the club members and their families. More than 70 members and 15 children attended and enjoyed the wonderful Christmas spread and plentiful liquid refreshments supplied by your generous club. Also suppling liquid ales was the Kombi Keg and this was also another Bay Window feature that was well received by the members present. On the entertainment side, we had some great music from the ‘Idle Men’ with Rod Davies belting out some memorable tunes.

There was also a Christmas auction which provided some excellent opportunities for members to get a last minute item for the Christmas tree. A special auction of the DOTVW Kombi Banner went to a very keen Andrea Green from Ballarat.

Also a special Encouragement Award was given to Daniel Scicluna to reward him for his enthusiasm and hard work at as many VWCV events he could get to. The award was a stylish trophy with a complimentary membership for Daniel and al this family. Congratulations Daniel, we appreciate your significant contribution this year and know you will keep the VWCV ball rolling in 2020!

After a good session of catching up with friends and reflecting on the year’s events, Santa made an appearance and the little ones went into a frenzy with lots of presents supplied by the club! Brian Palmer and David Hennessey with support from Maurice Ryan kept up a good supply of BBQ goodies – empty gas bottles are no barrier to these guys! Finally we would like to thank Lyn and Lloyd for providing a wonderful venue and many thanks for all the effort to have it ready for us together with thanks to the other volunteers.

Until next year, Happy Volkswagening!

July 1969On July 16, 1969, the huge, 363-feet tall Saturn V rocket launches on the Apollo 11 mission from Pad A, Launch Complex 39, Kennedy Space Centre, at 9:32 a.m. EDT. On board the Apollo 11 spacecraft are astronauts Neil A. Armstrong, commander; Michael Collins, command module pilot; and Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., lunar module pilot. Apollo 11 was the United States’ first lunar landing mission. While astronauts Armstrong and Aldrin descended in the Lunar Module “Eagle” to explore the Sea of Tranquillity region of the moon, astronaut Collins remained with the Command and Service Modules “Columbia” in lunar orbit.

There were issues surrounding the possible explosive nature of moon dust. Armstrong and Aldrin did their own test. Just a moment after he became the first human being to step onto the Moon, Armstrong had scooped a bit of lunar dirt into a sample bag and put it in a pocket of his spacesuit—a contingency sample, in the event the astronauts had to leave suddenly without collecting rocks. Back inside the lunar module the duo opened the bag and spread the lunar soil on top of the ascent engine. As they re-pressurized the cabin, they watched to see if the dirt started to smoulder. “If it did, we’d stop pressurization, open the hatch and toss it out,” Aldrin explained. “But nothing happened.”The Moon dust turned out to be so clingy and so irritating that on the one night that Armstrong and Aldrin spent in the lunar module on the surface of the Moon, they slept in their helmets and gloves, in part to avoid breathing the dust floating around inside the cabin.

VWCV HISTORIAN’S CORNERChris Scane WVCW Historian.

One of the joys of doing this job is seeing an idea come to completion. This was certainly the case when I came across this picture of these Bay Window Kombis at Cape Canaveral in July 1969 a few years ago. Although the quality was poor it is interesting that there are some very similar Westfalia Campers! Maybe this was a publicity picture from Volkswagen America as the Bay Window Kombi had only been released a short time. It is always a lot of fun to bring you the ‘Corner’ and we hope we have enjoyed this year’s editions.

December 1969R. Jacobsen was the President of our club in its 15th year. The club champion and winner of the ‘Laurie Whitehead’ Perpetual Trophy was Pat Whitaker. Pat was also the Motorkhana Champion and winner of the ’Roy Jarvis’ Perpetual Trophy. Pat Whitaker is the longest serving Life member of the club and was integral in the production of the written history of our club. Australia in ’69 many say was a simpler place had a population

of 12,008,635 which is less than half the current population. In December, the Australian Prime Minister John Gorton announced that a withdrawal of Australian Army troops from the Vietnam War would begin in 1970. Sir Henry Bolte was the 38th and longest-serving Premier of Victoria and one the other side of state politics was the Opposition Leader, Clyde Holding. Of the notable Australian performers born in 1969 there is Ben Mendelsohn, Simon Baker and with two Academy awards, Cate Blanchett. Of the sports personalities born in 1969 there is the 3 times Olympian and Silver and Bronze medallist basketballer - Shelley Sandie, Luc Longley, Tony Modra, Andrew Vlahov, Kostya Tszyu and Shane Warne, cricket legend with 708 Test wickets was the record for the most wickets taken by any bowler in Test cricket.

Finally, a big thankyou to everyone who has given so much support this year and it has been a great honour and privilege to be nominated and voted a Life member of this great club. I hope to bring you more interesting Volkswagen stories next year and with a bit of luck we hope to add to that with some more new member stories too!

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Send your for sales and wanted ads to the WVCV Editor: VWCV Editor GPO Box 1215 Melbourne VIC 3001 or via email: editor@vwclub.com.au

FOR SALE 1973 Kombi Camper.Original white paint, automatic transmission, working pop top roof, driven regularly on club plates, serviced by Australian VW Performance.

VIN Number: 2332200878 Registration Number: 21512-H Price: Negotiable Contact: Rebecca T 0488 666 191

COLLECTORS CORNER - BAY WINDOW KOMBI SCALE MODELSChris Scane VWCV Historian.

What a good time to bring back a previous Wagensville News feature in year we celebrate the Bay Window Kombi. Looking through the collection, a bay window model was not to be found. So trip to the local hobby model shop revealed no choices! But a few steps next door to the toy store revealed an interesting friction control Kombi – Rallye Red and White Surfer Van, which made its way back to my place! A bit more research revealed another large model Kombi in the very patriotic colours of gold and green.

Again you do not have to look far on Amazon and E Bay to find what you are looking for. If it is small models there is an interesting UK company called Oxford who do a number of 1:76 low light Kombis even with UK number plates.

They have three examples of the Bay Window version making up a nostalgic set, 76VW026 Bay Window VW Van – Light Grey. Comprising a plain grey solid bodied van registered ZXE 358G from 1968/69; this variation could be used for whatever you choose. The second VW in their set is a VW Minibus presented in a delicate shade of pale green and white with black chassis and cream interior. A special addition on this version is a planked roof rack and two surfboards. Registered TPD 735F from 1967/68, the model comes with white bumpers and wheel rims. 76VW004 VW Camper – Senegal Red/White. The last VW in the set comes as a

camper van decorated in bright red and white and registered RSX 144J from 1970/71. A special feature sees it with a raised roof section with clear ‘glass’ panel and canvas effect to the sides of the elevated section. The white roof also features a brown slatted area for luggage purposes. The interior of the camper van is cream and further detail worthy of note is the louvered effect to the side windows and the Westfalia name across the top of the rear window.

When you go to 1:18 models there is a bigger choice and sometimes a TV series is thrown in to add a little more notoriety. This Blue & White 1:18 Kombi from the LOST TV series and is a Greenlight Collectables brand -CODE NUMBER: 19011. Diecast Model - 1971 Volkswagen Type 2. 1978 Volkswagen Type 2 (T2) Bus Yellow with White Top “Little Miss Sunshine” (2006) Movie 1/18 Diecast Model is also by Greenlight as is the 1973 Volkswagen Type 2 Bus (T2B) “Field of Dreams” Movie (1989) 1/18 Diecast Model.

There are also lots of Model Bay Window Kombis in the 1:24 series so there are really no shortage of models to choose from. The wonderful aspect of having a model collection rather than the real thing is you can afford to have a good variety of cars, with plenty of space to keep them and very importantly cost nothing to run them!