A trickle of KdF Beetles were made between 1937 and 1944, most of which were supplied to local officials – and incredibly, this is one of them and it’s coming up for sale at a US auction in June with an estimate of $275,000-$350,000 (£190,000-£240,000).
According to a European classic car organisation, eighties, nineties and ‘noughties cars run the risk of disappearing from our roads unless manufacturers act now to ensure the future availability of electronic components.
Swapping factory rims for something a bit more interesting is often the first step many of us take on the long and usually winding road to making our cars stand out, sit better and generally look a whole lot nicer. So what are the wheel options when it comes to the VW Beetle?
There’s always been a certain kudos in owning a car that looks like a snail but goes like a scalded hyena. The much fabled ‘wolf in sheep’s clothing’. There’s all sorts of aftermarket engine upgrades available to soup a VW and make it go faster than it looks like it should but some cars left … Continued
Southern California has traditionally been the place where rules are bent, boundaries pushed and VW trends are started. But there were two quite different car cultures to come out of SOCAL in the late seventies and they’re easily confused. So here’s our at a glance interpretation of the main differences between ‘Cal-style’ and ‘Cal-look’
In our never-ending quest to uncover the most oddball VWs ever made we’ve discovered yet another totally bonkers VW-based kit car. Indeed, this one’s almost as mad as its name…
Forget the big, brash steroid pumping SUVs, the exotic Italian sports cars and the Hummers – acting legend and star of Shallow Grave, Trainspotting and more recently Star Wars VII up until recently Ewan McGregor has been trundling around Tinseltown in something a lot cooler. Namely a 1960 De Luxe sunroof Beetle. However, with a … Continued
Spring has well and truly sprung and judging by these results from a recent Anglia Car Auction sale, the rising sap is obviously influencing the hammer price of various VWs…
Brazil’s draconian import restrictions put a lid on the possibility of buying a Porsche or Mercedes back in the sixties and seventies so car enthusiasts had to look closer to home for their sports car kicks. Hence the emergence of a rash of small, specialist domestic car manufacturers eager to create something exotic with a … Continued
During the last six months of split rear window Beetle production, between October 1952 and March 1953, Wolfsburg produced a ‘hybrid’ or, using its more commonly known German name, the ‘Zwitter’. It still had the split rear screen but adopted the later Oval rear window Bug’s dash and various other details like the oval shaped … Continued
