<p>From the coldest ice tops of Mawson Base, Antarctica, to the beach fronts of the sunny Gold Coast, a Volkswagen's 45-year journey is continued in a daughter's boundless love for her father.</p>

A photograph of a red classic Volkswagen Beetle car is shown emblazoned with green and yellow stickers, a rally 32 number, a black number plate that reads HZB-624 and a second plate with ‘ANTARCTICA 1’ on the front. There are two front driving lights on the bumper bar. A young girl leans out the passenger side window of the car, smiling to camera.

White text appears on the screen: ANTARCTICA 1, A TRIBUTE TO DAD

I've always had a fascination with Volkswagens as my father used to drive in the BP rallies...

A picture of an older man in a flat cap and sunglasses fades into a photograph of two men standing next to the red Volkswagen with the passenger side door open. The video cuts to middle-aged woman with long blonde hair, wearing blue overalls sits in the passenger side of a red Volkswagen, facing out with her feet on the ground. The Volkswagen has a large BP logo sticker on the side and the woman is wearing light blue overalls with a VW logo on them. The car looks like the red Volkswagen from the photo.

I remember being home and listening to the radio with my mum.

Close-up of an album of old black and white photos showing various Volkswagens and people, and with the Volkswagen at a rally with spectators looking on. Dissolve to another old photograph of the Volkswagen, this time being driven past a herd of sheep on a country road.

And of course, my mum getting excited when she could hear his name read out and what place he was positioned, at the time.

A colour photograph shows the Volkswagen on a stage with BP banners and surrounded by officials. Fade to a black and white photograph of two men in overalls sitting on the bonnet of a Volkswagen with garlands around their necks. In the background is a banner on a bridge which reads ‘AMPOL TRIAL 1964 FINISH’.

He would have been like a celebrity coming in and having the car brought in, up on a stage.

The WOMAN is sitting in the red Volkswagen. Cut to old footage of the red Volkswagen driving across a white expanse. There is a tractor in the background and onlookers standing nearby. A black and white photo of two men standing by the Volkswagen smiling, with one of his hands raised. The car is very muddy and dirty and there are many people around. The man looks happy.

He was able to drive a car that came from Antarctica 1 in the BP rally and he came outright winner with that.

In a closer shot, the middle-aged WOMAN, sitting in the red Volkswagen continues to talk to camera.

He'd had a navigator with him, called Joe Dunlop, and between two of them they did very well in the racing.

A slow, close-up move across a black and white photo, showing two men standing by a Volkswagen. One wears white overalls with a VW logo. The other wears casual clothes.

And old Volkswagen motor sound can be heard in the background.

An old photograph of the old red Volkswagen, Antartica 1, is shown. Fade to the same framed shot, but in modern time: the inside of the current red Volkswagen is shown with the motor running, and a hand on the white steering wheel. Cut to the WOMAN in the passenger’s side seat of the red Volkswagen, facing outward with her feet on the ground, talking to camera.

Earlier this year I went to a car show and saw a red Beetle and as soon as I saw the red Beetle it brought me back to those days that he was able to drive this particular car.

A close-up of the bonnet and number plate of the current red Volkswagen is shown. The bonnet has a green shield with the letters “BP” in gold-yellow writing and a yellow boarder around the shield. The red Volkswagen has a Queensland number plate with white writing on a black background which reads ‘HZB-624’.

I'd earlier tried to track down the vehicle that he'd driven but the plate said unknown. And when I found out the plates were unknown, I thought this is a chance for me to be able to get these special plates and have them on the car that were on his car back in 1964.

The front of the current red Volkswagen is shown in immaculate condition with number plates and ‘ANTARCTICA 1’ on the front. The BP logos on the bonnet match the original Volkswagen rally car shown in previous photos.

And when the car was finally finished it, it was just amazing to see it finished and looking like the car that my father had actually driven. Luckily my father was still alive at that stage and he was able to see the finished product so I think he was totally blown away.

The original Volkswagen from 1964 is shown again in black and white footage driving across a white expanse that looks like sand with a beach nearby.

And surprised, to see the car again looking like it did back in 1964.

The new Volkswagen is shown driving around the slow curve of a country road.

Iconic motor noise of the vintage Volkswagen Beetle can be heard as it passes by.

Cut to black. White text appears on a black background: Behind every plate is a story. Fade to PPQ logo.

In 1963, a red Volkswagen landed on Antarctica. It spent a year there before it was shipped back to Australia. Ray Christie was then sponsored by Volkswagen ...