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Mon Dec 20, 2010 5:09 pm

NorCalSquare wrote: Whoohoo! Ordered mine for my '69 Square! Ordered Dec. 3rd!

Got mine in the mail today, 17 days. Talk about a great Christmas present! And even better is I found out my square was part of the tourist program! I'll get a picture up when I get to a computer.

Mon Dec 27, 2010 11:15 am

Does anyone know you can find the stats of your car, such as how many were produced etc? I have a 67 KG vert and I know it is not rare, but curious how many were produced.

Thanks

Kyle

Mon Dec 27, 2010 11:31 am

kwand wrote: Does anyone know you can find the stats of your car, such as how many were produced etc? I have a 67 KG vert and I know it is not rare, but curious how many were produced.

Thanks

Kyle

Production Figures - Karmann Ghia

Year Coupe Vert Type 34
1955 1282 0 0
1956 11556 0 0
1957 14715 104 0
1958 13782 4392 0
1959 16964 4584 0
1960 19155 5468 0
1961 16690 3962 660
1962 18813 4570 8548
1963 22827 5432 6719
1964 25266 5260 7365
1965 26650 5325 6870
1966 28387 5395 5947
1967 19406 4183 2819
1968 24729 5713 2533
1969 27892 6518 1044
1970 24925 6396 0
1971 21063 6553 0
1972 12430 2909 0
1973 10461 2555 0
1974 5608 1558 0

Wed Dec 29, 2010 7:57 am

I ordered mine yesterday. Ill post it when I get it in the mail 8)

Wed Jan 05, 2011 7:57 pm

Ordered mine on 12/13/10 and got it today, 1/5/11! I was really happy at the short time it took to get it.
My car's destination was Karlsruhe, Germany on 8 March, 1956.
Interesting... :D

Thu Jan 06, 2011 7:57 am

I understand that the Museum no longer shows the engine number, does anyone know how i can find out the original engine number of my splitty ?

ive changed the engine from a 1200 to a 1600 a couple of years ago and i need the original number ?

many thanks

shaun

Thu Jan 06, 2011 12:38 pm

grubdub wrote: I understand that the Museum no longer shows the engine number, does anyone know how i can find out the original engine number of my splitty ?

ive changed the engine from a 1200 to a 1600 a couple of years ago and i need the original number ?

many thanks

shaun

Nope, the only way to find out what the engine number is/was is to supply it to the factory, and then they would let you know if it is/was correct or not. If you ask them, for legal reasons they wont tell you the number.

Tue Jan 18, 2011 3:16 am

Applied for mine today, seems that my engine number is 1957 but chassis is 1958, confusingly. Hopefully this will clarify...

Mon Jan 24, 2011 5:11 pm

I got mine today. It took about 4 days to get to Florida from Germany. One for my '67 Bug and another for my '73 Bus. They came in a nice folder and they look great.

I have a question about my '67. It says that the destination for it was Reserve, USA. Does anyone know what that means?

'67 Bug and '73 Bus certificate:

Options on my '67 Bug:

Mon Jan 24, 2011 5:44 pm

That has come up a few times before in the Bus Forum and no one really knows.

It supposedly means that letter was "Reserved" for future delivery port destinations so basically it is unknown.

If you have any original history on the vehicle and where it was first sold, that may be informative.

Mon Jan 24, 2011 5:51 pm

Thats pretty cool. I don't have any info on the car at all.

I still have the email from Ms. Fendler from the museum. Ill email her and see if I get an answer.

Mon Jan 31, 2011 12:50 pm

cake wrote: Applied for mine today, seems that my engine number is 1957 but chassis is 1958, confusingly. Hopefully this will clarify...

So I got my letter and cert through and my car was born on 4 feb - birthday celebrations this Friday then! Perhaps I'll give her a nice oil change... But the letter advised 'cannot certify the originality of the engine number xxxxxxx because there is no entry in our files'. Not sure what this means but have asked the nice mr Wolfgang doerk to advise so will keep you all posted.

Mon Jan 31, 2011 2:06 pm

I'm sure Ms. Fendler & Wolfgang already gave you All the info they have. Go work on your cars instead of bugging the polite Germans! :twisted:

Mon Jan 31, 2011 10:12 pm

cake wrote: ... the letter advised 'cannot certify the originality of the engine number xxxxxxx because there is no entry in our files'.

Not sure what this means......

It means that the records for your engine are either damaged or missing and they can't help you any further.

Tue Feb 01, 2011 2:35 am

Mike Fisher wrote: I'm sure Ms. Fendler & Wolfgang already gave you All the info they have. Go work on your cars instead of bugging the polite Germans! :twisted:

Hey no need for the unfriendliness, I'm new to all this and just trying to find my way and figure out what's what. I sent a very polite email to Mr Doerk and I don't mean to bug anyone.

Fri Feb 04, 2011 9:20 pm

magnus0328 wrote: I got mine today. It took about 4 days to get to Florida from Germany. One for my '67 Bug and another for my '73 Bus. They came in a nice folder and they look great.

I have a question about my '67. It says that the destination for it was Reserve, USA. Does anyone know what that means?

'67 Bug and '73 Bus certificate:

Options on my '67 Bug:

I got an email today from an employee at the museum. My initial email asked her to clarify what Reserve, USA meant. This was her email:

"Dear Mr --------,
The name "Reserve USA" means a Town or City in USA for military or so"
Regards
Ros---- Hen---
Stiftung AutoMuseum Volkswagen
Dieselstraße 35
38446 Wolfsburg

She said she will clarify this on Monday and let me know.

Does this sound correct?

Fri Feb 04, 2011 10:51 pm

Sounds reasonable, I'll be interested to know what else she says.

Sat Feb 05, 2011 5:59 pm

I sent my request for my 1967 panel walk through camper conversion last week. I am looking forward to seeing some history on my ol 67. It was only 13 years old when I bought it.

Tue Feb 08, 2011 7:07 am

magnus0328 wrote: magnus0328 wrote: I got mine today. It took about 4 days to get to Florida from Germany. One for my '67 Bug and another for my '73 Bus. They came in a nice folder and they look great.

I have a question about my '67. It says that the destination for it was Reserve, USA. Does anyone know what that means?

'67 Bug and '73 Bus certificate:

Options on my '67 Bug:

I got an email today from an employee at the museum. My initial email asked her to clarify what Reserve, USA meant. This was her email:

"Dear Mr --------,
The name "Reserve USA" means a Town or City in USA for military or so"
Regards
Ros---- Hen---
Stiftung AutoMuseum Volkswagen
Dieselstraße 35
38446 Wolfsburg

She said she will clarify this on Monday and let me know.

Does this sound correct?

I got an email yesterday about this. This is what she wrote:

Dear Mr.--- ,

We thank you for your e-mail.
After new researches in our records and expert advise with our colleagues we mean your opinion may be also right. There are different towns with the name but better is perpaps yours, because buying a car in the USA is a little bit different than Germany/Europe. The US customer perfer the car at the dealer (instead to order a car), a store of cars in the USA would be mean with "Reserve USA".

If you have further questions you're welcome.

Mit freundlichen Grüßen aus dem AutoMuseum
i.A. Gerolf ---

Basically, they are unable to confirm if "Reserve, USA" meant that the car was stored somewhere in the USA until it was needed -OR- if it meant that the car was shipped to a Military reserve base in the USA.

If it were stored in the US somewhere, where would it be kept? Did VW have a place to store the cars here until needed?

Tue Feb 08, 2011 9:23 am

I filled out the online form listed on this thread on the 24th; charge came through on the 25th and I had the certificate in the mail yesterday.

WAY faster than I expected but it has a few things that are incorrect for a 65.