Volkswagen Käfer Cabrio
Car-ID: XT0112
Vehicle Description
This remarkably beautiful, intense blue paint is called “sapphire blue”, it carries the VW colour code L50D and quite frankly, it makes you wonder why nowadays cars hardly ever sport pretty colours like they did in the 1970s. Here’s a Volkswagen Beetle convertible, built by Karmann in Osnabrück in 1970 for the German market where the vehicle is believed to have stayed all of its 46 years of existence. The VW is rust-free according to the consignor and features a beige convertible top in good condition with only slight discolouring on the inside. It even comes with a heated rear window. A contemporaneous radio is also installed. The beetle runs on steel rims with chrome hub caps. The carpet has been renewed, and a new set of window seals has been fitted.
The black leatherette interior has been well looked after and displays favourably with the right degree of patina. In the rear, there’s the 1.3 litre 4-cylinder boxer engine which produces 32 kW (44 hp) of power and sends drive to the rear wheels via the well-known four-speed manual gearbox.
The VW convertible has valid technical approval until 02/2018 and comes with heritage certificate, German registration documents and historic plates. A recent Classic Data appraisal states a replacement value of this car in condition 3+ at € 20,900.
When production of this convertible came to a close, its fans had tears in their eyes! Precious few other vehicles had found their way into the hearts of people the way the Beetle Convertible had – thanks to its timeless, cuddly shape and certainly also due to the fact that it had brought the convertible feeling to people far below the ranks of the “upper ten thousand” in the first place.
During the final years of the nearly 30-year production span, the open version of the VW Beetle became increasingly popular, and as the demand went up, so did the prices for well-kept used cars, which surpassed their retail prices almost right from the start. A car that had already become a classic during its construction period, after all it was produced with relatively marginal changes from 1949 to 1980.
All along, the convertible was always based on the most powerful and best-equipped version of the “creepy-crawly” of its time. A total of 330,281 open beetles were manufactured at Karmann in Osnabrück, right up to the final “Volkswagen 1303 Cabriolet” with an engine power of 37 kW (50 hp) as of 1972.
Vehicle Overview
Interior Features
- Black
- Leatherette
Exterior Features
- Blue
