Type 3 Factory Convertable!! · Aussieveedubbers

57 Chook Shed · 31 Dec 2009, 3:44 am

Has anyone seen this on carsales?
Advertised as a "Factory Convertable"!!!
My god I feel sick!
Sorry if this belongs to someone on here but that is one UGLY car!

Bookwus · 31 Dec 2009, 5:04 am

Whose "factory"?

boristherat · 31 Dec 2009, 7:22 am

Poor little fasty😢
That has been on Carsales forever.....tell him he's dreamin'!

karmann54 · 31 Dec 2009, 7:23 am

A production Type 3 Cabrio was never produced. A prototype was built, and is in the VW museum.

And it doesn't look anything like that!

57 Chook Shed · 31 Dec 2009, 7:24 am

Shame, it looks pretty good otherwise.

sander288 · 31 Dec 2009, 8:29 am

hahahahha, factory my arse!

71dub · 31 Dec 2009, 9:06 am

sure it wasnt the butchers shop fitted

MISS VDUB · 31 Dec 2009, 9:13 am

Oh my eyes!!!! 🙁

Matt Ryan · 31 Dec 2009, 9:42 am

Here is the one in the Wolfsburg museum.

From VWVortex:

As Volkswagen Model History by Joachim Kuch says: "The brochures were already printed; the price was set at 8200 DM. But testing showed the body didn't have enough torsional stiffness and so it was never added to the model line."

As a comparison, a basic 1200 Beetle cost 4500 DM, VW 1500 cost a bit under 6000 DM and Karmann Ghia Type 32 Cabriolet cost 9500 DM. (prices are from different years and can vary a bit..)

Regards,

Matt.

Scarab · 1 Jan 2010, 8:44 am

I think I just threw up a little when I saw that Fasty....such a shame. Sorry if it belongs to you, I dont mean to be horrible, just realistic.

As for the factory one in the museum, now THAT is a thing of beauty!! I'd roll something like that for sure!

Scarab (aka: Paul)

polak · 1 Jan 2010, 9:58 am

scary yes..... factory no.... why do ppl do this to poor defenceless cars?

57 Chook Shed · 1 Jan 2010, 11:05 am

Yeah that factory convertable is awesome. Looks great.
Happy New Year everyone!