63/64 Australian Delivered Beetle Cabriolets

KaeferMann · 30 Dec 2013, 8:31 pm

Does anyone out there know of any surviving Australian delivered Beetle Karmann Cabriolets from late 1963 / early 1964?

First hand account from original owner of one of them says that each state received one for promotional purposes. They were European 1964 models (ie built after August 1963).

I asked the original owner if the car had been a special order but they said no, only purchased the car from the showroom floor after seeing it.

AA003 · 31 Dec 2013, 11:35 am

I read that they were only in the dealers in Melbourne and marketed in June.
Andrew Dodd had one about 10 years ago.

vwo60 · 1 Jan 2014, 1:22 pm

I know of one that was a 63 model that came from the vw dealer in brisbane, this was years ago when volkspares operated from Abbotsford road at Main, the guy who bought it off the origial owner was a mechanic at the dealership at Breakfast Creek, put a set of flaired guards on it and a set of wire wheels, i remember the car, it got stolen from under his house for the wheels and was found cut up and dumped in a creek a few months later, i have no idea what happened to it after that.

KaeferMann · 2 Jan 2014, 9:15 am

Interesting.

The car I know of is a Brisbane delivered car. It still has it's original registration from Dec 63.

I believe the June Melbourne cars were the 1961 batch.

vwo60 · 2 Jan 2014, 12:26 pm

I have no idea if this was ever welded back together.

Carl and Emily · 2 Jan 2014, 6:48 pm

vwo60 wrote:I know of one that was a 63 model that came from the vw dealer in brisbane, this was years ago when volkspares operated from Abbotsford road at Main, the guy who bought it off the origial owner was a mechanic at the dealership at Breakfast Creek, put a set of flaired guards on it and a set of wire wheels, i remember the car, it got stolen from under his house for the wheels and was found cut up and dumped in a creek a few months later, i have no idea what happened to it after that.

That's a sad story.😠

AA003 · 3 Jan 2014, 6:36 am

KaeferMann wrote:Interesting.

The car I know of is a Brisbane delivered car. It still has it's original registration from Dec 63.

I believe the June Melbourne cars were the 1961 batch.

That sounds right to me. It was a batch of 50 cabrios.

I didn't know that there was a second shipment.

empi · 3 Jan 2014, 9:24 am

I know of a Ruby red one and a white one both here is Vic.

KaeferMann · 7 Mar 2014, 7:24 pm

Well the 63 Cabriolet is on its way to reside in my garage.

Birth Certificate confirms it was dispatched to Brisbane from the factory.

Abbeyborg · 16 Mar 2014, 7:06 pm

i have driven that 63 convert loads of times. it come from a old mate. look after it please