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 pancake
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| posted on November 20th, 2008 at 09:08 AM |
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Beelte Birth Cert Accuracy - Stiftung Auto Museum
Hello
Wanted to gather feedback on your thoughts in relation to the accuracy of the birth certificates issued by Stiftung VW in Germany.
As many of you are aware you can send in a letter. (Sample posted below if you want to do it) VW will then send back a letter with birth cert stating
year of manufacture, colour options, interior colour and they will verify IF you have the original engine no. If it is not they will not tell you what
the original engine number was(due to privacy reasons).
Anyway point I raise is that my beetle "looks" original, has had one prior owner yet nothing matchs the birth certificate!
So two things can explain this -
1 The car is totally not original ,and the old lady before me hated the black interior so much she decided to change it to RED, then repray the car
savanah beige instead of cloudy white and replace the engine with another 69 model 1500?
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the records kept back in 69 could be inaccurate.
Please share your experiences?
Copy of letter:
Stiftung AutoMuseum Volkswagen
Frau Neefe
Dieselstrasse 35
Brieffach 1003
38446 Wolfsburg
GERMANY
011 49 5361 52010
Dear Frau Neefe:
I would like to enquire about the Stiftung AutoMuseum Volkswagen to research data of an old Volkswagen vehicle from the vehicle database and to draw
up a vehicle identity/birth certificate with the recorded data.
The Vehicle Identification Numbers of the vehicle is:
119890111
The engine number is as is:
OH-1109111
The car is a 1969 1500 beetle in Savanah Beige. It is stamped ‘Made in Germany”
I understand the price for each certificate is 40 Euro? Is this correct?
I understand you take MasterCard and Visa. Accordingly, please charge my Visa card for the appropriate amount. 12345212121 (expires 07/11)
Please send the certificate to:
Your Address
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 vw54
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| posted on November 20th, 2008 at 09:14 AM |
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things change over the years sometimes its the records sometimes its the car
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| posted on November 20th, 2008 at 07:29 PM |
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I have one for my '64 Ghia and it is spot on, as is the one for my '66 Westy Camper,
A mate got one for his '68 imported Bug and it is all over the place, wrong paint colour, wrong interior, even has it as a LHD car imported to
Canada. 
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| posted on November 20th, 2008 at 08:15 PM |
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| Quote: | Originally
posted by Menangler
I have one for my '64 Ghia and it is spot on, as is the one for my '66 Westy Camper,
A mate got one for his '68 imported Bug and it is all over the place, wrong paint colour, wrong interior, even has it as a LHD car imported to
Canada.
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Very nice collection Menangler.....
cant help but feel a little dissapointed as I wanted to feel like she was "original". Looks like it will always debateable.
But at the end of the day if we love our Vws then thats all that matters....and I DO!
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| posted on November 20th, 2008 at 08:34 PM |
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Another possibility is that the stamps used to punch the number are pretty average, and it is sometimes hard to tell what the number actually is. My
56 has an '8' that looks exactly like a '3', I only picked it up when I got the Vic rego history. A bloke on TheSamba had a similar experience
with his 54, and got the wrong birth certificate.
I suggest having a very good look at the chassis number at both locations to double check you have the correct chassis number.
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 posted on November 20th, 2008 at 09:49 PM |
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I have heard from the US that the Birth Certificates are now issued from a very small department and they are NOT accurate any more.....
So, I wouldn't throw My 40 Euros at them....
You can usually find the details yourself - approx..
but maybe closer than the VW Museum these days...
One US owner had the original sales docket with the VW options listed on it... as numbers... eg M109
They couldn't tell Him what the option numbers He had were???? and the colors etc were all wrong...
Lee
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| posted on November 21st, 2008 at 11:43 AM |
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If the Beetle is indeed a 'Made in Germany', then there is no reason why the data on the birth certificate should be wrong - ignoring human error,
of course. For example, 119 is certainly a 1969 chassis number, and being the 809,111th of the year, puts it at about three quarters of the way
through the model year - so about May 1969 at a guess. Have a look at your five wheels - each of them has a date stamp in the centre, near the stud
holes.
But this won't necessarily be true for Australian-sold Beetles. Beetles sold here after September 1968 were assembled locally from German-made CKD
kits, so any German info on manufacture dates is likely to be inaccurate - the CKD parts had to be made in Germany, then shipped in crates to
Melbourne, before being welded together, painted and finished. You could easily allow an extra six months...
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| posted on November 21st, 2008 at 03:40 PM |
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also eg the wheels may be from a stock pile just as the speedos are
all stamped but maybe 3 months or so b4 assembly in Germany ......plus 3 months if assembled in AUS
want any vw bits old but like me, Made in Germany!!!
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| posted on November 21st, 2008 at 10:08 PM |
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I have a certificate for my 56 floorpan and it says it was sent originally to Fiji, Not entirely impossible, but I dont think so. It also says that
colours are unknown. Basically, all it does is to confirm that its a 56 pan.
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That IS the usual problems with the certificates NOW...
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