How many split and early oval 3 fold ragtops?

[oldbug55]

just wondering....probably been covered in another post before...
hey I am old and thought I knew everything....

but how rare worldwide (I am in Australia), is my jan 54 german ragtop bug.

how many "german delivered" ragtop bugs were built in the the 3 eras below?. does anyone have german ragtop production number data.
a split rag
b zwitter rag
c oval rag pre 55
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[cooter19]

Does anyone know how many Ragtops and how many convertible beetles were made in the oval days?

Is there any information out there about how many may have survived?

[Bruce]

The only information you both ask that is known is the number of Karmann Beetle convertibles for each year. Other than that, VW didn't publish ratios of sunroof cars to non-sunroof cars.
Survival numbers anyone throws around are just wild guesses.
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[TSLAVO]

Beetles convertible figure

Year Production
1949 364
1950 2695
1951 3938
1952 4763
1953 4256
1954 4740
1955 6361
1956 6868
1957 8196



Beetle production figure
1938 44 All from Germany
1939 50 All from Germany
1940 8,532 All from Germany
1941 8,532 All from Germany
1942 13,427 All from Germany
1943 13,904 All from Germany
1944 13,673 All from Germany
1945 12,852 All from Germany
1946 10,132 All from Germany
1947 8,987 All from Germany
1948 19,244 All from Germany
1949 46,146 All from Germany
1950 89,895 All from Germany
1951 98,709 All from Germany
1952 114,348 114,339 from Germany
1953 151,323 151,315 from Germany
1954 202,174 199,975 from Germany
1955 279,986 278,592 from Germany
1956 333,190 321,523 from Germany
1957 380,561 365,087 from Germany

Convertible is about 2% of total. May be you can make a guess on ragtop figure say 1%?

[*Darren]

The only way you are going have any idea on ragtop survival #s is to start a registry. There is a registry for split bugs. So you can go to split forum and look through it and count up the numbers. Given the production numbers for ovals that would be a major undertaking and the problem would be participation could really bias what you have.

[cooter19]

I would think the vw museum would have figures since they issue birth certificates with the classification of "sunroof" for ovals. Any other ideas on what other alternatives for data there would be?

[EverettB]

They would if they came into the modern age and computerized all the info.
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