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 vwejit
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| posted on March 21st, 2016 at 05:44 AM |
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CKDs
Are CKDs deemed less desireable, and therefore less valuable within the scene?
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coletrickle
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| posted on March 21st, 2016 at 08:33 AM |
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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.
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| posted on March 21st, 2016 at 09:56 AM |
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They weren't CKD. They were made here.
I read it on samba, so it must be correct.
Sometimes Volkswagen dealers sell spare parts. Amazing isn't it!
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Carl and Emily
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| posted on March 21st, 2016 at 02:24 PM |
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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.
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 vw54
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| posted on March 21st, 2016 at 03:39 PM |
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not one ounce of difference who would know
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modnrod
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| posted on March 21st, 2016 at 08:02 PM |
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Personally I think all the CKDs are barely worth anything...........
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Phil74Camper
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| posted on March 22nd, 2016 at 06:36 AM |
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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
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vwejit
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| posted on March 26th, 2016 at 08:12 PM |
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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?
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Phil74Camper
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| posted on March 29th, 2016 at 08:24 AM |
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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.
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okrasa5462
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| posted on March 29th, 2016 at 10:59 PM |
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Its about what year the car was made......that fact its a CKD has nothing to do with it!
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