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Title: What Year Is It....
Post by: bwaz on August 21, 2007, 07:52:20 PM

A beetle rag sunroof, on the ID plate 11   on the left, then on the right 4585367? The samba looks to put it as a 59? Type 2.com calls it a 62? Anyone have other ID info to get a year?
thanks
B.Waz

Title: What Year Is It....
Post by: Matt on August 21, 2007, 09:06:54 PM

I thought the third number represented the year, (at least it does in later type 3). If I'm right, and that doesn't happen very often, it would be a 64. When was the last year for ragtop roofs?  

Title: What Year Is It....
Post by: Trevor P on August 21, 2007, 09:37:21 PM

The 3rd digit didn't start to represent the year until 1965. The last year of the sliding rag was '63.
Yours appears to be a 62 according to the # you provided

Title: What Year Is It....
Post by: bwaz on August 21, 2007, 09:42:15 PM

pulled the speedo and it says 3/62 on it. Type 2.com calls it a may 62
b.waz

Title: What Year Is It....
Post by: Matt on August 21, 2007, 09:44:20 PM

In that case I here change my above statement to say


I think its a '62.

Title: What Year Is It....
Post by: silas on August 21, 2007, 10:47:18 PM

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A beetle rag sunroof, on the ID plate 11

Title: What Year Is It....
Post by: bwaz on August 22, 2007, 08:36:04 AM

great! thanks. (I think I have an old \"what year is it\" booklet somewhere in my stash, I'll have to dig it out for old time sake!)
b.waz