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| posted on June 24th, 2003 at 01:27 AM |
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get your VW's birth certificate
Ok guys & girls....
Here are the details for getting a "birth certificate" for want of a better term,on your cars.
Below is a copy of the email from VW germany that i got today.
... its a great little bit of info to have and probally couldn't hurt when it comes time to sell your pride & joy onto its next owner...
anyway , i just recon it a pritty cool thing to have.
cheers
57 Cal look
Dear Sir or Madam,
Your enquiry about vehicle data
The Stiftung AutoMuseum Volkswagen will be happy to research data of your old
Volkswagen vehicle from the vehicle database and to draw up a
Vehicle identity certificate
with the recorded data.
We ask you to inform us about the chassis number of your Volkswagen.
The price for each certificate is 15 euros / 15 US dollars (cash with order or
pay by Visa/Mastercard – card number and expiry date, please. Thank you.
Our address:
Stiftung AutoMuseum Volkswagen
Frau Neefe
Dieselstrasse 35
Brieffach 1003
38446 Wolfsburg
GERMANY
We are looking forward to hearing from you.
Yours sincerely,
Christine Neefe
P. S .
It also helps them if you have the engine number too... but its not really important, but if both numbers match... then WOO HOO... you gotta love that
... i know i did
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| posted on June 24th, 2003 at 03:33 AM |
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Very helpful Christine,handy to know,does anybody know if you can get a birth certificate for an aussie built beetle,im assuming a 57 is german
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| posted on June 24th, 2003 at 10:25 AM |
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No, VW Australia began assembling German-made CKD kits in Melbourne from June 1954! Local content was gradually increased as the 50s went on. By 1960
the cars could be said to be 'manufactured' in Australia rather than assembled, as the local content was by then more than 50%.
German records of Aussie cars in the 50s should be fine, as they are German-made kits bolted together and painted here. After 1961 their records would
be less accurate. Aussie cars had 95% local content by 1966, and even had special Australian chassis numbers that began 19y nnnnnnn, not 11y nnnnnnn
like German cars.
I would be interested to see their reaction to one of these late Aussie Beetles!
Anyway go for it. This is the only place you'll get a birth certificate for your VW. VW Australasia Ltd went bust in 1968, and their records no
longer exist. The current VW importers have no old records at all.
[Edited on 24-6-2003 by Phil74Camper]
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| posted on June 24th, 2003 at 10:40 AM |
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I want my Aussie 66 Birth Certificate :cry
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| posted on June 24th, 2003 at 10:44 AM |
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Well you could always send over your Aussie chassis number...I would bet they would reply:
'Ve are sorry, you haf made a mistake, zer iss no such number.'
It would be even more fun to send them over a Country Buggy chassis number and see what they make of that...
[Edited on 24-6-2003 by Phil74Camper]
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| posted on June 24th, 2003 at 11:08 AM |
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Phil74,
It amazes me how vast your knowledge is on the VW marque.
You are the VW Oracle.*bows with hands raised!
W:o
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| posted on June 24th, 2003 at 11:55 AM |
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| Quote: | Originally
posted by Phil74Camper
Well you could always send over your Aussie chassis number...I would bet they would reply:
'Ve are sorry, you haf made a mistake, zer iss no such number.'
It would be even more fun to send them over a Country Buggy chassis number and see what they make of that...
[Edited on 24-6-2003 by Phil74Camper]
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Hmm, might just do that!
Pay your debts, CxxT
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| posted on June 24th, 2003 at 05:55 PM |
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hey
i remember someone having troubles getting there early beetles cause they lost the record for it!?
cheers
rhys
p.s. i been to that museum
it aint just cool its aircool'd
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| posted on June 25th, 2003 at 12:57 AM |
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i believe they can even offer info on Australia built beetles , as the germany company demanded copies of every peice of papaer work the Aussie plant
produced ... one thing you can say about the german's , is that they were sticklers for having all the paper work done.
So you aussie built guys could well be in luck
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| posted on June 25th, 2003 at 07:37 AM |
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I delivered the details of my 56 to them in person last year, and a couple of weeks later I got a letter from them saying that the records for my car
were too old and fragile to access.....They did refund my money though.
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| posted on June 25th, 2003 at 02:59 PM |
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Aw you guys say the nicest things!
You might be right about copies of Aussie prod'n records in Germany. VW AG bought out all the stock in VW Australasia Pty Ltd in 1964 when the
last big expansion phase was begun, so that after that our local concern was 100% German-owned. It did have Australian management though.
We will soon know if you ask them about a Country Buggy chassis number !
I do recall reading that the museum was no longer able to supply this service, due to the original records being too frail to use. I would hope they
have since microfiched or scanned the original documents to CD by now - maybe that's why they're offering it again.
All libraries do this with newspapers - you can't look at 1960s Sydney Morning Heralds, you have to look at microfilm. In Sydney Library you can
read the SMH back to the early 1800s this way, and same with the Age and Melbourne Herald in Vic.
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