I had an absolutely stock one owner low mileage 1955 Type 1 back in 1977. The original 36 hp motor had never been apart. It would go 75 mph maximum speed on flat ground with no tailwind. I sold it for $1,500, a very high price for an old VW at the time. Clean good running oval window cars were trading at $500-$800 in Washington State. I bought a nice 1956 356A Porsche for $1500 around the same time. It was a great time to be a car guy.
At a vintage VW meet in 1983 in Seattle, there was a 1955 sunroof bug for sale for $1500. 1955 was the last year of the larger threefold ragtop sunroofs on the bugs, complete with larger roof opening. From 1956 until 1963, sunroof bugs had a smaller twofold sunroof with smaller roof opening. Come 1964, bugs had the even smaller metal sunroof. I believe the shrinking of the ragtop sunroof in 1956 was because the driver could not possibly extend the larger sunroof all the way back from the driver seat while driving. Having owned two 1962 sunroof bugs, I can attest that the smaller sunroof was a more appropriate size.
@@nonelost1 You are bringing back the memories, Marshall. I drove my 1962 VW to the Wenatchee Apple Blossom festival in 1970. The highlight of that 2 day party was sitting on the roof ( sunroof open), steering with my feet while driving through the orchards sharing a bowl. If you pulled the choke out a little ways for fast idle and put it in second gear you could cruise along at about 15 mph. When things got hairy the driver would just drop down behind the wheel and save the day. My final stunt was a drive down the ski slope at Squilchuck State Park. Very steep and scary with lots of logs and bushes to crash through. The assembled crowd cheered all the way.
The world's first reliable small car , solid engineering , brilliant suspension, brilliant radiator free air cooled motor , a masterpiece of engineering for common people .
Hey man if you like it some were on internet i v e found a blog were is explaind The entire restoration of the 38.beetle. Is dating back to 2000s ween The Kdf-wagen was found some where in czeh republic but it was a completly different car, it was Red and have pieces frome some communist cars. The car haved been taked by The soviet s in 1945. It was restored with original pieces. There every caracteristic of the 38 model were presented. At last you have what you see today
Late to the party on this one but this restoration is incredibly beautiful. Whomever performed this resto is a pure artist. I'm sure it was a collaboration but you get my point.
If this one is from 1939, then what of the 1938 KdF in Australia I was just looking at with an even earlier number plate, no badging on hubcaps and probably just as valuable if not more so. This one in this vlog is plate IIIA-43028 and the one in Australia was IIIA-43006....Perhaps the narrator here got his facts crossed when he said it was the only one?
The existing 43006 is located in AUSTRIA, not Australia! We don't have Kangaroos in the middle of Europe. But you are right, the 43028 isn't the only one existing.
@@kingearl2596 I know you don’t have kangaroos in Europe as I am Australian and have visited Europe travelling it extensively visiting European family. The car I mentioned was showcased in Australia at a local exhibition. It would have then been returned from whence it originated, presumably Austria if you state that is where the vehicle is housed.
There is a thread about it on thesamba forums, It was found in Lithuania by latvian witch is related to Australia maybe thats why its somehow made it there for a show.
First - there was 50 VW39, not only 14. Second: if "machine tools were used for the first time to produce the Model 39", so they certainly were produced at KdF plant, Mercedes-Benz, Reuter or Ambi-Budd shops, not at Porsche garage, since Porsche "facilities" were extremely small and tight, producing only hand crafted parts. Third: the engine that equipped this particular VW39 is noticeably the standard 25 hp 995 cc. The Porsche typ 64 auto (64 refers to the car, not the engine) had dual carbs and higher compression, enabling 40 hp, something visually different from what we saw in this video.
It's the only VW39 in existence, there are three VW38's which feature squared off front and rear engine lid corners, fully hand build body's, with many differences to the 39 series, which was a lot closer to a production model.
Napa auto parts i worked at, one of asst. mgrs that owns a Porche chastised other asst mgr for saying "Porch". Says, It's "Porche-a has e on end pronounced Porch-a(short a). So other asst mgr responds "Michael, please help(an other) this customer with his Dodge-a truck!" I BUSTED OUT LAFFING!!! 😥Then got written up. WORTH IT! Wheatridge store Denver Colorado (circa 2014-ish). (Got cancer 2016. Retired 2018, NOT EVEN A "THANK YOU", or DON'T LET THE DOOR HIT U ON UR WAY OUT! NOTHING!!! for many years of service from NAPA AUTO PARTS!!!)
Order destroyed as they were Government funded projects. But like the German Jets of WW2 surviving pet projects, plans and bits ordered destroyed were saved by some the engineers. This one is a Genuine German Holocaust Survivor.
Porsche was responsible for the design of the Volkswagen and had prototypes built, but did not produce any of them. The Porsche company was just a design office! The Stuttgart Zuffenhausen factory opened long after WW II
This is what Tesla should do with the Tesla Roadster. A race car for every working familly. One peice giga press frame less than the Tesla Model 3 $30,000. Kids first car. Newlyweds race car. College kids' car. Low-income race car for America.
What do you mean? VW Beetle (on its official name: VW Type 1) was the first Volkswagen model ever made. This is where the brand started from. Hitler entrusted Ferdinand Porsche to make a car for the folk, which is cheap, compact, it can ship 2 adults and 2 children and can go with at least 100 km/h. That's why it is called Volkswagen (volk means folk and wagen means car in German).
The car was on the drawing board first as a project. Then came a number of prototypes that were built here and there. The factory to built the cars had not yet been built. The idea was that the compulsory pseudo workforce-union "Deutsche Arbeitsfront" would be the owner and manager of the VW-plant. The scheme was that future owners of that car would subscribe for it by paying only 5 Reichsmark a month. They would get the car then as soon as a certain amount of the total price of about 1000 RM would have been paid in. The site for the factory was chosen for two reasons: The "Mittellandkanal" links it to all major inland navigation and the iron ore pits in the area were to supply the steel. You have to see it in context with the "Hermann-Göring-Werke" in the Salzgitter region. Lots of people were won to subcribe for the car. The factory was built in short time, then came the war and only a handful of "beetles" were ever produced till 1945. The bulk of the production was the military version that the Germans nicknamed the "Kübelwagen", the "bucket" or "vat" if you translate it. When you look at the logo on the hubcap of this prototype you will see the pre-1945 logo of the VW plant. It is the two letters within a cog wheel. The cog wheel around the swastica was the logo of that inner-party group, "Deutsche Arbeitsfront" that acted as a pseudo trade-union and organized workforce as well as welfare schemes in Germany. In autumn 1945 its leader, Robert Ley, was confronted with what he had been responsible for during the war-: slave labour of men and women whom his organisation had pressganged and exploited from all of Europe under German control. Ley suffered a nervous breakdown and hanged himself in his cell at Nuremberg prison the night before the trial opened.
That is a really nice early VW. Cool history. I have a green 1954 Beetle. I got it back in 1991.
I had an absolutely stock one owner low mileage 1955 Type 1 back in 1977. The original 36 hp motor had never been apart. It would go 75 mph maximum speed on flat ground with no tailwind. I sold it for $1,500, a very high price for an old VW at the time. Clean good running oval window cars were trading at $500-$800 in Washington State. I bought a nice 1956 356A Porsche for $1500 around the same time. It was a great time to be a car guy.
nice
At a vintage VW meet in 1983 in Seattle, there was a 1955 sunroof bug for sale for $1500. 1955 was the last year of the larger threefold ragtop sunroofs on the bugs, complete with larger roof opening. From 1956 until 1963, sunroof bugs had a smaller twofold sunroof with smaller roof opening. Come 1964, bugs had the even smaller metal sunroof. I believe the shrinking of the ragtop sunroof in 1956 was because the driver could not possibly extend the larger sunroof all the way back from the driver seat while driving. Having owned two 1962 sunroof bugs, I can attest that the smaller sunroof was a more appropriate size.
@@nonelost1 You are bringing back the memories, Marshall. I drove my 1962 VW to the Wenatchee Apple Blossom festival in 1970. The highlight of that 2 day party was sitting on the roof ( sunroof open), steering with my feet while driving through the orchards sharing a bowl. If you pulled the choke out a little ways for fast idle and put it in second gear you could cruise along at about 15 mph. When things got hairy the driver would just drop down behind the wheel and save the day. My final stunt was a drive down the ski slope at Squilchuck State Park. Very steep and scary with lots of logs and bushes to crash through. The assembled crowd cheered all the way.
I have to say this: You are a very lucky man to have had the experience of owning those treasures!!
The world's first reliable small car , solid engineering , brilliant suspension, brilliant radiator free air cooled motor , a masterpiece of engineering for common people .
Brilliant exhaust system hea...(cough-cough-cough)heating car(cough)💤
Insanely gorgeous!!!! A dream to see it in person..my God!!!
Go to vw museum in wolsburg and you Will se The 38 'vw
@@hmm1379 Thank you ! That is my dream trip!!!
Hey man if you like it some were on internet i v e found a blog were is explaind The entire restoration of the 38.beetle. Is dating back to 2000s ween The Kdf-wagen was found some where in czeh republic but it was a completly different car, it was Red and have pieces frome some communist cars. The car haved been taked by The soviet s in 1945.
It was restored with original pieces. There every caracteristic of the 38 model were presented. At last you have what you see today
Search 1938 vw beetle and see the entire article
And The car was found in Lithuania sorry
Late to the party on this one but this restoration is incredibly beautiful. Whomever performed this resto is a pure artist. I'm sure it was a collaboration but you get my point.
It's kinda beautiful.
Technically it's a Porsche, since the Volkswagen factory wasn't even built yet!
Absolutely beautiful car
beautiful
Una belleza increíble!
If this one is from 1939, then what of the 1938 KdF in Australia I was just looking at with an even earlier number plate, no badging on hubcaps and probably just as valuable if not more so. This one in this vlog is plate IIIA-43028 and the one in Australia was IIIA-43006....Perhaps the narrator here got his facts crossed when he said it was the only one?
Buy the bug 😂
The existing 43006 is located in AUSTRIA, not Australia! We don't have Kangaroos in the middle of Europe. But you are right, the 43028 isn't the only one existing.
@@kingearl2596 I know you don’t have kangaroos in Europe as I am Australian and have visited Europe travelling it extensively visiting European family. The car I mentioned was showcased in Australia at a local exhibition. It would have then been returned from whence it originated, presumably Austria if you state that is where the vehicle is housed.
There is a thread about it on thesamba forums, It was found in Lithuania by latvian witch is related to Australia maybe thats why its somehow made it there for a show.
@will triumph ...and your point is???...because you certainly missed mine!
First - there was 50 VW39, not only 14.
Second: if "machine tools were used for the first time to produce the Model 39", so they certainly were produced at KdF plant, Mercedes-Benz, Reuter or Ambi-Budd shops, not at Porsche garage, since Porsche "facilities" were extremely small and tight, producing only hand crafted parts.
Third: the engine that equipped this particular VW39 is noticeably the standard 25 hp 995 cc. The Porsche typ 64 auto (64 refers to the car, not the engine) had dual carbs and higher compression, enabling 40 hp, something visually different from what we saw in this video.
interesting.
An black jewel!!!
Note that the VW logo on the trunk and hubcaps was made to incorporate a stylised Swastika, something that never made it onto the postwar cars
It is NOT the only survivor, there is an older one: 43006 still existing.
It's the only VW39 in existence, there are three VW38's which feature squared off front and rear engine lid corners, fully hand build body's, with many differences to the 39 series, which was a lot closer to a production model.
Napa auto parts i worked at, one of asst. mgrs that owns a Porche chastised other asst mgr for saying "Porch". Says, It's "Porche-a has e on end pronounced Porch-a(short a). So other asst mgr responds "Michael, please help(an other) this customer with his Dodge-a truck!" I BUSTED OUT LAFFING!!! 😥Then got written up. WORTH IT! Wheatridge store Denver Colorado (circa 2014-ish).
(Got cancer 2016. Retired 2018, NOT EVEN A "THANK YOU", or DON'T LET THE DOOR HIT U ON UR WAY OUT! NOTHING!!! for many years of service from NAPA AUTO PARTS!!!)
WOW! Thats art!
...some period correct German marching/parade music would suit this video better...:)
no, why?
imagine a VW that can bury the speedometer straight from the factory in 1939!!! How cool is that? PEACE LOVE n HIPPYNESS!
Order destroyed as they were Government funded projects. But like the German Jets of WW2 surviving pet projects, plans and bits ordered destroyed were saved by some the engineers. This one is a Genuine German Holocaust Survivor.
145kph = 90mph😳
Porsche was responsible for the design of the Volkswagen and had prototypes built, but did not produce any of them. The Porsche company was just a design office! The Stuttgart Zuffenhausen factory opened long after WW II
Lindo Fusca
👌🥰👉❤gorgeous!
VW A SIDO MI VIDA 4O ANOS
Único.
The world 2nd old Kdf-wagen.
Why u have to ruin the video with that music? 😜😜😜😜😜😜
1532 pounds 90 mph
This is what Tesla should do with the Tesla Roadster. A race car for every working familly. One peice giga press frame less than the Tesla Model 3 $30,000. Kids first car. Newlyweds race car. College kids' car. Low-income race car for America.
..Is this the one that was burned to a crisp in the warehouse fire?....
Which fire?
Top speed 145 km/h...really....
Yes I was wondering about that as well . . .
So why has it what looks like VW signs on it when VW wasn't invented then?
What do you mean? VW Beetle (on its official name: VW Type 1) was the first Volkswagen model ever made. This is where the brand started from. Hitler entrusted Ferdinand Porsche to make a car for the folk, which is cheap, compact, it can ship 2 adults and 2 children and can go with at least 100 km/h. That's why it is called Volkswagen (volk means folk and wagen means car in German).
The car was on the drawing board first as a project. Then came a number of prototypes that were built here and there. The factory to built the cars had not yet been built. The idea was that the compulsory pseudo workforce-union "Deutsche Arbeitsfront" would be the owner and manager of the VW-plant. The scheme was that future owners of that car would subscribe for it by paying only 5 Reichsmark a month. They would get the car then as soon as a certain amount of the total price of about 1000 RM would have been paid in. The site for the factory was chosen for two reasons: The "Mittellandkanal" links it to all major inland navigation and the iron ore pits in the area were to supply the steel. You have to see it in context with the "Hermann-Göring-Werke" in the Salzgitter region. Lots of people were won to subcribe for the car. The factory was built in short time, then came the war and only a handful of "beetles" were ever produced till 1945. The bulk of the production was the military version that the Germans nicknamed the "Kübelwagen", the "bucket" or "vat" if you translate it. When you look at the logo on the hubcap of this prototype you will see the pre-1945 logo of the VW plant. It is the two letters within a cog wheel. The cog wheel around the swastica was the logo of that inner-party group, "Deutsche Arbeitsfront" that acted as a pseudo trade-union and organized workforce as well as welfare schemes in Germany. In autumn 1945 its leader, Robert Ley, was confronted with what he had been responsible for during the war-: slave labour of men and women whom his organisation had pressganged and exploited from all of Europe under German control. Ley suffered a nervous breakdown and hanged himself in his cell at Nuremberg prison the night before the trial opened.
Sorry about th