Blaupunkt Wolfsburg AM Radio

[Stevie Fierce]

Anyone have any idea what this is from?
It seems to have had an ID tag of some sort on the side but it looks like it fell off. BIG Bass and Treble buttons on the front.

[retrowagen]

That Blaupunkt Wolfsburg has a faceplate common for the Blaupunkt fitment in a '58-'66 Beetle. The radio was current closer to '58 than '66, though.

Hope this helps.
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[Stevie Fierce]

i was PM'd and was told it was for ovals 53-57. any ideas? was this radio a better option over the standard radio or was this type the standard radio? any idea of its value?

[Stevie Fierce]

FROM THESAMBA!
VW Fact #240: In 1972, a Blaupunkt Wolfsburg AM radio cost $62

[zaizai]

Actually, the Blaupunkt Wolfsburg faceplate is different - it won't fit later Blaupunkts since the gaps in the faceplate are spaced for that specific radio only... I only found out after I bought a Wolfsburg faceplate for my Blaupunkt Frankfurt radio...

Anyone want to buy Blaupunkt Wolfsburg face plate?

[speed holes]

[53 0val]

[dstefun]

The Bremen is a dual band radio (M=AM, L=LongWave) and was first made in 1955 as a tube model. Transistor Bremens were made as late as 1970, maybe later. Depending on faceplate and knobs it could be installed in almost any European car and was switchable from 6V to 12V. It was never offered as an export radio to the U.S. market due to Long Wave is not used here. Very popular with the 356 crowd.

The Wolfsburg radio is AM only but used the same chassis and case as the Bremen so they just made the Bremen band buttons into on-off switches. When later models moved the on-off switch to the volume control, they added bass & treble controls to the buttons.

I've seen Wolfsburg models as early as 1958 and up to the early 70's. It was designed specifically for VW and does not usually show up in the Blaupunkt brochures of the period. The Wolfsburg model was exported to the U.S. market and was sold through VW dealers. The early Wolfsburgs are 6V only and the later ones are 12V only.

Here's a Wolfsburg radio ad from 1958 or so... (buttons say on & off)

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[Stevie Fierce]

cool pic, thanks for the info everyone!

[psychosquirrel]

what he said

[SamBerr74]

this is the radio that is in my 1959 ghia cabriolet, the only thing different is the bezel

[bwaz]

I know, old topic, but this Blaupunkt has lost it's paper tags, and i'm trying to date it. I've been told that because it's got two downward pointing arrows between the 5 and 7, and the 10 and 15 were the stations to go to in an emergency. (cold war thing) Any help in guessing an age

[bwaz]

this is the faceplate it came with. It has no secondary tube pack box

[KTPhil]

Those marks were for national emergency broadcasts from the CONELRAD system. Radios made between 1953 and 1963 had those marks at 640 and 1240 kHz. Some radios continued to use them through the mid-'60s (probably just using up inventory), though the CONELRAD system was replaced by the EBS in 1963.