Non Aus Dubber from the UK heading over to Australia

[Gaz56]

Hey guys,
I'm Gaz, currently living near London in the UK. I'm coming out to Australia for a year or so in December, will be hanging around the Melbourne/Sydney area so would love to get involved with the VW scene while I'm out there.
Currently running a '91 mk3 Polo GT which I believe didn't make it over to you. Any info to what is and isn't available in the old school scene would be appreciated!

Cheers,
Gaz

[Jarred]

Hi Gaz, welcome.

it's easier to say whats out here, rather than whats not.

We got mk 1's, 2dr/44dr, with 1.6P and 1.5D'd, till '80. We got late model cabby's in 90/91, similar to sportline, but not quite the same.
We also got 200-odd mk 2 GTI 4drs, 1.8 8V's, with small valve heads, cats, and no power.
Then we got a we finally got something decent with the mk 3', in the VR6. but all 4 door. 2drs were 1.8 singlepoint inj. and not mk 3 GTI's.

Anything else that's early and cool, 2dr mk 2's, corrados', scirocco's, mk 1 GTI's were all imported.

[Gaz56]

Hi mate

Thanks for the reply, seems like you didn't get much in terms of old vw metal then
At least you got the vr6! I had a Corrado a few years back and before that a Vento, always fancied a mk1 golf so glad to hear they are available.
I'm guessing there is a bit of a price tag on the imported stuff. I see corrados going for $15-20k, when you can pick one up for £800 over here lol. And the mk4 r32 golf, $25k which is about £15k ish, whereas decent ones are about £5k here! And I always thought that was expensive.
Are there regular meets and events throughout the year?

[Jarred]

yea, we did get the short end of the stick in a sense. But cars in general are much more expensive.

you can't get much for 800 bucks, and if it's that cheap, it's probably a real bucket!
mk 1's are getting a bit hard to find, but they're still out there. Probably less rusty than most un-restored UK/Euro cars too I'd imagine, but not exactly peaches either.

There are about 4 or 5 reasonable VW/VAG/German cars shows throughout the year, and lots of smaller meets etc. for example we have a monthly pub dinner meet in melbourne.

[velly_16v_cab]

I used to have a Polo GT

they are awesome cars