"What year is it? VW brochures.

[BulliBill]

I have a bunch of those "What year is it?" VW USA dealership brochures in my literature collection. These brochures chronicle the subtle differences between each year of VW Beetle and how to tell each one apart. I tried to search for a thread about these, but nothing seemed to turn up.

As far as I can tell, the first one was issued was the 1964 edition. Any earlier ones? Anyone know when the last W.Y.I.T. brochure was produced? I'm imagining that 1979 should have been the last one since that was the last year for the German made VW Beetle (Convertible) and the last year of sales in the USA.

Can anyone out there shed light on these or confirm the year span of these brochures?

Bill
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[EverettB]

I don't know the year span but the oldest one on the site in the Beetle Literature section is 1964 and the newest one is 1978.
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[banana split]

I'll chime in on the earliest one... I also believe that 1964 was the first year for these. I've owned a number of the 1964 edition and later ones as well but have never come across anything older.

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[vwed]

Japanese 1978 version pictured below.
Same format but oldest models first.

[BulliBill]

That makes sense, and if correct (1964-1978) then I'm only missing two of them in my literature collection. Weird fetish, huh?

Bummer, I have none of the Japanese ones! Don't get me started!

Bill
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I'm looking for these license plate frames for my fleet:
Coeur D'Alene - Lake Shore Volkswagen
Mission VW - San Fernando
Thornton VW - Stockton

Thanks for any help!

[79SuperVert]

I picked up one of those at the 1967 Auto Show at the Coliseum in NYC when I was 14. I must have looked at that pamphlet dozens of times. Little did I know I would end up with a Beetle 35 years later!
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[BulliBill]

So it seems like the 1978 "What year is it?" brochure may have been the last in the series? Anyone ever seen a 1979 brochure?

Bill
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I'm looking for these license plate frames for my fleet:
Coeur D'Alene - Lake Shore Volkswagen
Mission VW - San Fernando
Thornton VW - Stockton

Thanks for any help!

[BulliBill]

As an update: I'm delighted that I finally picked up the last two "What year is it?" brochures that I was missing recently, so I have one of each year from 1964 through 1978.

Now maybe I can move on to one of my other odd VW fetishes, collecting all of those "Small World" magazines... Is there a topic about those babies? I know that Everett has photos of most of them in the Archives section... Thanks Everett for all you do for all of us!

Bill Bowman
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I'm looking for these license plate frames for my fleet:
Coeur D'Alene - Lake Shore Volkswagen
Mission VW - San Fernando
Thornton VW - Stockton

Thanks for any help!

[ZENVWDRIVER]