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    Posted: 17 Sep 14 at 16:55
Last weekend, me and my brother in law headed off to Wolfsburg to visit the Museum and the Auto Stat

We booked the ferry a few months back and just headed off with a tent and some clean smalls in the boot

We set off Thursday night about 2330 and headed down to dover for the 0640 crossing to calais
Landing in France about 0930 we set off on the 500 mile trip to Wolfsburg hoping to arrive around tea time at the campsite by the Autostat, a few traffic jams and a smash on the autobahn about 100kms from Wolfsburg meant we finally arrived at 1930, 10hrs later 

Saturday saw us visit the Autostat and have a nose round the city
Sunday we spent at the museum then headed back towards Belgium where planned to kip for the night before reaching calais for the monday lunchtime ferry back, but since we made such good time on the way back we managed to make to Calais late Sunday night for the midnight crossing

Anyway enough dribble, we had a cracking time and took plenty of pics
Here's some of the trip and the museum and the link to the rest on photo bucket
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This was the chariot all packed up ready to go, 1989 mk2 Golf 16v


Dover


Unloading the ferry 


Welcome to Germany

Quality German place names

58km to go


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So carrying on the the last pic of the approach to Wolfsburg have are some pics of our arrival and the skyline of the city













not the easiest thing taking pics from a moving Golf
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We set up camp and decided to head in to the city for some food and a beer before bed





The plan just to have 1 beer, we didn't really manage to stick to that idea Laugh
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Saturday saw us struggling to recover from the night before (me especially) so we headed off to the autostat which the bro in law has the pics

Sunday morning we where up bright and early packed up camp and headed off to the museum

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So on to the main pics

The passage up to museum gave details of the history of VW



At the main doors an early beetle dash greeted us



Then we went in, and what a sight to behold - Dubs everywhere



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The main feature of the museum at the moment is celebrating 40 years of the Golf

Bro in law (golf nut) on his knees having a little pray to the Dub Gods




7 faces of the Golf



1&2


3&4


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So i'll just let the pics do the talking

Milestone cars

20,000,000th Beetle



50,000,000th Volkswagen


10,000,000 Golf


30,000,000 Golf


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Some vans












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Herws the link to the photo bucket folder with loads more pics of the museum 
VW Museum Photos by whereufromnosecity | Photobucket
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote LTCamper89 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 17 Sep 14 at 18:43
Got your work cut out putting captions to that lot.Wink

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Looks like a wicked trip
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It was a great weekend away, were already planning next years european adventure Wink
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Nice one, really want to do this, especially whilst the Golf stuffs going on. Thanks for sharing your pics
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Awesome place... cant wait to go back



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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Alonline Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 18 Sep 14 at 00:08
We seen quality engineering there.

Noticed the lack of T5's
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Originally posted by Alonline Alonline wrote:

We seen quality engineering there.

Noticed the lack of T5's

Yep not a 4 or 5 to be seen
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Originally posted by whereufromnosecity whereufromnosecity wrote:

Originally posted by Alonline Alonline wrote:

We seen quality engineering there.

Noticed the lack of T5's

Yep not a 4 or 5 to be seen

Too embarrassed to admit they make them and the quality has sunk soooo loww. 
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I'd argue the 4 is a solid workhorse…
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