Are CKDs deemed less desireable, and therefore less valuable within the scene?

Some VW people pay crazy money for cars,don't think most have ever heard of a ckd.Here in oz we have some very uncommon ckd cars that to some are worth more .A 62 standard springs to mind, Type three panels. Split busses with body colored dashes, you will struggle to find the before mentioned models anywhere else in the world,But worth more or less? How longs ya string.

They weren't CKD. They were made here.

I don't think being a CKD makes any difference on value. It's more about what year and model it is and it's condition.

not one ounce of difference who would know

Personally I think all the CKDs are barely worth anything...........

Only Beetle models made before 1960 were CKD. After that they were fully manufactured here. That includes the Deluxe and the Standard. Only from mid '1968 with the manual 12V 1500 Beetle did they return to CKD assembly.

The very early pre-'57 CKDs may actually be collectable because they have 'MK' body stamps - for Martin and King, the railway workshops that assembled the CKD kits for VW. That business and their Clayton workshop was bought by VW in 1957.

Aussie CKD Golfs in 1976 were pretty crap - but by that time it was Nissan assembling them, as they had bought the VW factory.

http://www.clubvw.org.au/history002 

I've got a Jan 56 11 Window, MK body number 170##. The chassis number starts 159### so dates back to manufactured in Nov 55 but I thought in 55 they had a 20- prefix ? chassis number is definitely only 6 digits? It's got some throw back parts from barndoor days, like the tubular gearbox cradle, so ties in with the mix match of parts that were used on buses from that time.
Would love to here from some of you guys who have some early buses, and confirm some of these things, particularly cross over late 55 to early 56

Can anyone else confirm the 20- prefix missing on their early 56 CKDs?

Volkswagen's own publications list the 1955 Transporter's chassis numbers running from 20-110605 to 20-160716. Then the 1956 model was 160717 to 223217, dropping the 20- prefix.

This was a few years before the model year was changed to start in September, so at this time it's still January to December.

These Volkswagen reference numbers refer to German fully-built up vehicles. Our situation is slightly more complicated, as our VWs of that time were stamped in Germany as a CKD kit, then shipped out to Australia in crates for local assembly. This matches your dates, which says that chassis number 159### would have indeed been stamped at the very end of 1955 production, then shipped out to Australia for assembly in the early months of 1956. The Melbourne factory closed down over the Xmas-New Year holiday period. The missing 20- prefix is an interesting detail, as a fully built-up car should have had it. I can only guess that VW dropped the 20- prefix from the CKD kit stampings before they did for the fully-built up cars.

Its about what year the car was made......that fact its a CKD has nothing to do with it!