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West - Berlin am 29.9.1980, Siegmunds Hof. An abandoned VW Samba Bus in West - Berlin in 1980. From Jödicke on Flickr.

My fathers car first, then the volkswagen of friends of my father and mother. They are somewhere on the way to Austria from Sweden in may 1952. From Ylvas on Flickr.

Well, we were offline for a while and now we're back! There's plenty of new features, some of which might not be so obvious but they're here honestly! Read more for some goodies and to see what's changed...

Dug from the deep dark depths of history for your viewing pleasure. Many forget that the VW Bus took the role of 'work horse' for many a business venture, as can be seen by this colourful selection of buses from the Original VW Dealer's logo book. A big thanks is due here to vintagebus.com who provided the original pages. They are a great resource for splitty information.

Anyway, enough chatter, there's a lot of images here so we suggest you click the 'read more' link below and let the page load whilst you make a brew. Enjoy...

It's been far too long since our last update, unfortunately other commitments have taken priority but do not fear, we're still around. Expect some major updates to the site within the next few weeks (there'll be another post about this soon) and we've got some cracking articles lined up also. In the mean time sit tight and check out some of the videos in our video section!

Big Hair and Flairs. This vintage beauty was discovered by BigBlueVW at bigbluevw.com. You can find more of his vintage photos in his Flickr stream here.

By B Rosen on Flickr

"along the way in cabbagetown we came across an old VW Beetle in disrepair. it had a cool custom paint job, and i had a blast shooting it. old beat up cars are one of my favorite subjects... i find them so interesting."

From Ian's 18,000km trip around Australia in his 1975 Kombi at vwcampervanblog.

Not too sure of the story behind this, but that's a Bay window ambulance.... and that is a baby in an incubator. The text on the back reads "Baby Ambulance" in German.
Courtesy of motorpasion.com

From motorpasion.com

By Matt Seppings on Flickr

By thomas.merton on Flickr

By Leo Reynolds on Flickr

This is just a quick heads up to let you know what's going on behind the scenes at vwCartel. As you may have noticed we have now launched, there's been a few hiccups but we are finally here.

We bid all you new users a warm welcome to the site and a big thankyou for joining and becoming part of the community. Below are a few changes that have been made to the site since launch that you may (or may not) be interested in.

We have a new privacy policy, disclaimer and terms and conditions article that is available through the link at the bottom of each page. It is important you read this and understand the use of information on vwCartel.

A few fixes in regard to user privacy have been made thanks to some helpful members.

You can now also access our Twitter and Facebook pages from the bottom of each page. And may also access all the site news from the 'Blog' link aswell.

Our how-to articles are becoming quite popular but we'd really like all you VW gurus out there to start adding your own as well. In the next few days we should hopefully have our Help and FAQs section up and running which will give you a walkthrough of how to write your own articles.

Stay tuned for more...

Thanks!