The title of this article is bound to evoke mixed responses (try explaining it to my 13 year old nature loving middle son), and in the interests of not offending readers, I have left a few of the sordid details to one side (find me at the next VW show and ask what hit the cutting room floor), but for all its dark past, it has become an iconic Australian Split panel. The Roo Shooter has led three lives so far since rolling off the production line in 1957 as a pristine panel van. Its first role was that of a transport van for the Depend-On Dry Cleaners Company, with some of the original signage still visible. From hanging garmets, it was then commissioned as a shooters van, primarily for carrying Kangaroo carcasses.
