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 roach
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| posted on February 16th, 2015 at 02:35 PM |
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what year
hi could somebody help me work out the correct year of my beetle the rego papers say 62 but the tailights are 50/50 the chassis no is 3789669 you can
see under the dash where the reserve was but it has a fuel guage and at the back of the speedo says 62 the hood opener is on the pasenger side. thanks
Tony
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| posted on February 16th, 2015 at 06:50 PM |
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It's late 61 so may have been registered new in 62 as a 62.
That was also the same time that fuel gauges started.
It could be either a fuel gauge added in by someone or its possible the last of those bodies still had the reverse tap mounts but they werent used, is
there a plug in the hole?
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roach
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| posted on February 16th, 2015 at 06:58 PM |
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thanks for that no plug but everything was stripped out when i bought it. Tony
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| posted on February 16th, 2015 at 07:41 PM |
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Could b a standard model as well which had the fuel tap
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| posted on February 18th, 2015 at 07:17 AM |
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The 50/50 taillights came in in June 1960. The fuel gauge (and deluxe towel rail bumpers) came in in late 1961. The bonnet pull was moved to the
driver's side in June 1962, the same time the rear lights were enlarged to 3-segment.
The Standard didn't appear until August 1962, so I don't think it's one of those. Standards never had 2-segment tailllights or passenger side
bonnet pull.
3789669 is a 1961 chassis number, but the numbers were assigned by Germany and stamped in Australia. The August 1961 change to 1962 model for Euro/US
Beetles doesn't apply to Australian-made cars. As Joel said, it could have been made in Melbourne in late 1961, or early 1962 and sold as a 1962
model.
Australia had a mini-recession in 1961, and car sales slumped. VW's Aussie sales dropped by 38%, from 28,600 in 1960 to 17,800 in 1961, and the
Clayton factory laid off 90 production line workers. Even if your VW was built in late 1961, chances are it sat in a wholesale yard or on a dealer lot
for a few months before it was sold. Sales recovered in 1962, but only to 24,600.
Have a look at the wheel centres of all four wheels plus the spare. There is a mm-yy date stamp in between the wheel bolts.
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| posted on February 18th, 2015 at 02:55 PM |
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thanks i will have a look Tony
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