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 greenken
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| posted on October 19th, 2014 at 06:04 PM |
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year model
anyone tell me year model of our vw convertible chassis number 118475742
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Joel
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| posted on October 19th, 2014 at 08:11 PM |
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68
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Phil74Camper
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| posted on October 20th, 2014 at 06:47 AM |
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As Joel has said, 1968. It's the third digit that tells you - '8' for 1968. The first two digits, 11, mean VW Type 1 (Beetle).
Genuine German cabriolets had a '15' prefix, but these weren't sold in Australia.
All the info on chassis numbers is here:
http://www.clubvw.org.au/vwchassis
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greenken
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| posted on October 20th, 2014 at 08:35 AM |
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| posted on October 23rd, 2014 at 02:58 PM |
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So mine is 1352***, does that make it a 75?
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Phil74Camper
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| posted on October 23rd, 2014 at 03:52 PM |
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Yes. The '13' means a Volkswagen Type 13, which is a Superbug. The third digit is the year model, 1975. In the same way, a 1975 Golf would be
175**** (Type 17).
The '2' is almost the start of the chassis number. VW used '2' here as a check digit to ensure there was no confusion with 1965. Of course there
were no Type 13s in 1965, but that was the principle. It's more useful for Kombis.
This VW system came to an end in 1980 when the international VIN system came into use.
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TrevK
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| posted on October 23rd, 2014 at 04:13 PM |
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Thanks for that Phil, new to the beetle thing and seem to be getting wrong information from suppliers.
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