Birth Certificate Wrong?

[tatzbug]

I just got my VW Birth Certificate from Classic Volkswagen Parts in Germany and can’t believe how wrong it seems...

First it says my car is Savanna Beige? But every corner of my car is clearly Lotus White...

And it also says the car was built in October ‘67 when every chart shows it built June ‘67. 117844140 is not an October car.

Is this kind of misinformation normal? Not sure whether to write and complain, or just suck it up as lost money?

[wayne1230cars]

Birth certificates are not always correct. Colour may be incorrectly identified. That happens.
As far as the date of manufacture, the first two digits are the day so the tenth. The next two digits are the month 07, so July and then 1967.
10.07.1967 and that corresponds to your VIN #.
The old style certificates spelled out the month to avoid this confusion.
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[wayne1230cars]

Thanks to the poster of this pic taken from the gallery. I am using it to show how the first two numbers are the day, not the month.
20.02.1959

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[tatzbug]

Ok, now that’s a relief... and makes a lot of sense. Thanks!

[bluebus86]

Son, your mother and I wanted to wait until you were older before we told you this. But you found your birth certificate, and now you know, you are illegitimate.

Bug On!
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[meranda]

I think the US is the only country that places the month before the day of the month like that. We in the rest of the world are confused too!

[viiking]

But do they?

Is it the "Fourth of July" (04/07) or "July Fourth (07/04)? I think it seems confusing even over there.

Interestingly what is also confusing is the German 1, which has a 45 degree stroke at the top of the one so it looks like a distorted 7. That's why they have a horizontal stroke through their 7 to distinguish it.

Which brings to me to a story about such confusion. I worked for a German company and had to drive from Hamburg to a town in the country. I received a hand-written note which said to drive south and take the 77th exit. Knowing the discrepancy between their numbers 1 and 7 I continued to drive until I got to the 11th exit. And not where I should have been. I was a hundred kilometres away from where I should have been.

When I got back to the office, we all had a giggle. The Germans, knowing that us Aussies didn't use the crossed 7, wrote the 7 the way we did, but I of course second-guessed that they really meant that it was a 1 not a 7, otherwise they would have written it with a cross line.

Ditto with commas for thousands. The Germans use a decimal point to indicate a thousand and a comma to indicate a decimal????

If only we could convince some countries to be standardised. My little brain cannot understand what happens when you measure something in 64ths when you can measure it in mm!
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[heimlich]

I see San Antonio which looks correct.

I heard a story a while back about the San Antonio port. That is where VW delivered. In that same story I heard how VW reorganized everything and the person who owned that distribution hub lost it because they didn't want to move it to the Port of Houston.
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[tatzbug]

Now that the Month/Day confusion is cleared... I'm noticing that according to this my car was built in Germany on Monday July 10th, and then delivered in San Antonio, TX the next day on Tuesday July 11th.

That's better than Amazon Prime!

[mukluk]

[heimlich]

[mukluk]

[heimlich]

[wayne1230cars]

[EverettB]

[Adriel Rowley]

I put Ruby's certificate in a safe place, otherwise would post.

I am so thankful for this mention of left the factory is now date of delivery. Dad had his original paperwork stolen and both of us puzzled by the February delivery, as Dad clearly remembers her arrival at Long Beach being Bastille Day. Does that jive with the time it take to ship from Germany?
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[tatzbug]

What about my having gotten a different color than my car is painted on my certificate?? (Even though there's no factory paint code tag on the apron, I'm nearly 100% certain my car has never been repainted... at least not from Savanna Beige to Lotus White)

Wondering is there's an intriguing story behind having a different color code on the Cert like there was the build date.

Also wondering if getting the wrong color on the Cert is a common experience?

[mukluk]