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 hoodwinked54
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| posted on January 26th, 2013 at 06:09 AM |
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build date
i have purchased a 54 beetle and am interested in finding out its build number. would anyone know of a website i can go too to find out. cheers...bob
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| posted on January 26th, 2013 at 10:05 AM |
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What is the chassis number?
I read it on samba, so it must be correct.
Sometimes Volkswagen dealers sell spare parts. Amazing isn't it!
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| posted on January 26th, 2013 at 03:59 PM |
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build number
chassis number is 1525272
bob
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| posted on January 26th, 2013 at 07:24 PM |
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if itsa 54 then it must be 1 - 525272 is that right????
54s have to have a dash between the 1 and the main number
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| posted on January 27th, 2013 at 11:51 AM |
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1954-model cars had chassis numbers between 1-575416 and 1-781884. As Dave says, yours should have the '1-' at the start. If so, that makes it
slightly earlier - around October 1953.
BUT - if there is no '-' in the number, then that means yours is the 1,525,272nd built, which puts it at around April 1957. In that case it could
have been assembled in Melbourne up to six months after this.
See http://www.clubvw.org.au/vwchassis
For a VW that old, you might want to order a 'birth certificate' from the Wolfsburg factory, which costs 50 Euro. Here is the link: http://automuseum.volkswagen.de/index.php?id=12&L=1
(Note this may not work for Australian-made VWs, especially 1959-68).
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