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27rockin Learner Dubber

4 posts · joined May 2011 ·

#843843
I've just bought what we believe to be a 1966 beetle, but I can't confirm it from any Beetle VIN decoder sites that I've come across. The VIN on the beetle starts with the numbers 197... Can anyone help with confirming the year of it?

bajachris88 The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 6

6,661 posts · joined Apr 2005 ·

#843844
Is this the beetle chassis number from the chassis tunnel? as stamped under the rear seat near the tunnel access cover?
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27rockin Learner Dubber

4 posts · joined May 2011 ·

#843845
Yes, it's from under the rear seat, on the top of the tunnel.

bajachris88 The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 6

6,661 posts · joined Apr 2005 ·

#843849
here you go:

http://www.mickmotors.com.au/vwchassisnumber.htm

australia chassis numbers are different to the rest of the world.

DATE CHASSIS #

8/1966 197 000 001
12/1966 197 442 503
7/1967 197 999 000
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69' baja: kombi box, thing spindles, irs, disc front, type 3 rear drums, 2 inch lift kit, 31x10 rears. 👍
New engine in process: 94mm p&bs, 74mm C/w chomol Crank, 35.5x39 SP heads, turbo. Wierd combo, hopeful torque monsta!

27rockin Learner Dubber

4 posts · joined May 2011 ·

#843850
Excellent, thank you.

68AutoBug Beetle Restorer - Experience over 138\% - YIKES --

11,654 posts · joined Aug 2002 ·

#843859
27rockin wrote:I've just bought what we believe to be a 1966 beetle, but I can't confirm it from any Beetle VIN decoder sites that I've come across. The VIN on the beetle starts with the numbers 197... Can anyone help with confirming the year of it?
Cars didn't use VIN numbers back then...

Chassis numbers and engine numbers were used..

is it the deluxe model with over rider bumpers and chromed bars?

and would have the interior light and glove box lid and chromed quarter windows... etc
[which the standard and custom beetles did not have]

Lee
- Helping keep Air Cooled VWs on the road - location: SCONE in the Upper Hunter Valley - Northern NSW 320 kms NNW of SYDNEY---

Phil74Camper Head in the Clouds

2,703 posts · joined Aug 2002 ·

#844047
The format for Australian 1965-67 Beetles is 19ynnnnnn. '1' means Type 1. '9' means manufactured in Australia - US websites don't know about this one. And the third digit - '7' - is your year model.

Mick Motors' listing is pretty good but not quite right. They've just changed the '11ynnnnn' for German VWs to '19ynnnnn' for Australia. Australian models did NOT begin their next model year in August - that's Wolfsburg. Australian models began the new model year the following February or March, due to the shipping delay from Germany and also the Xmas-New Year holiday period. The Aussie 1965, for example, did not appear in August 1964, it appeared in Feb 1965.

Likewise the 1500 Beetle did not appear here in 8/67. Aussie '67s were actually made until March 1968, and Standards until September 1968! The fully imported German '68s first appeared here in March '68, and CKD assembly began a few months later.

VW switched to the modern VIN system in 1980.

27rockin Learner Dubber

4 posts · joined May 2011 ·

#844107
Thank you everyone for your help. Between your responses & the mechanic doing the roadworthy, it's been registered this afternoon as a 1967 beetle deluxe. I'm just happy to have a number plate on it.