In addition to pruning back the number of older guitar and bass models, the 1969 Vox catalog introduced the Gretsch inspired
V.G.4 bass,
V.G.6 six string and the
V.G.12 twelve string guitars. Vox ceased to offer guitars produced in Italy in 1970, but the
Les Paul inspired V.G.2 and V.G.2 Bass were added that year. The
SG200 guitar and
SG200 Bass arrived in the summer of 1971. All of the Vox "V.G" and "SG200" guitars and basses were most likely produced for Vox by Vibromatic in Japan and were significantly less expensive than the Italian made models they replaced.
The Vox V.G.2 bass was a knock-off of the Les Paul Bass introduced in 1969 by Gibson Guitar of Kalamazoo Michigan. Unlike the Gibson Les Paul bass which had a 24 fret "set" neck, the Vox V.G.2 Bass was equipped with a 22 fret removable or "bolt-on" neck. Like the original Les Paul Bass, the V.G.2 Bass had block neck inlays, dual pickups, volume and tone controls for each pickup, a pickup selector switch, an adjustable bridge and a scale length of 30½". The headstock of the V.G.2 Bass featured a diamond shaped pearloid inlay (a nod to diamond pattern of Vox grill cloth) but no Vox logo.
The Vox V.G.2 Bass did not appear in the 1969, 1970 or 1971 Vox product catalogs or price lists. To my knowledge, the only literature from the day that included the V.G.2 bass was the magazine ad below. The 1971 retail price of the Vox V.G.2 Bass was £53.65.