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Thanks to one of our members from Norway, Alf sent us some details and pictures of his jeans which at first threw me solely because of the vin, then it all fell into place. As can be seen with the picture of the production plate the week build is for week 35 day 2 which puts it to 28th August 1973 a week earlier than our present forerunner, but the one on our uk list has a earlier numbered vin. We now strongly believe that VW Wolfsburg built the chassis's in batches to be sent out to Belgium for assembly, hence why there are gaps in VIN's on our charts, and why the production plate is the most important piece on your beetle, as it gives colour, allocated production date and place on the production line. So I have a plea for you to check your production plates to see if you have a older one than Alf's
6 Comments
Morten
30/1/2017 05:26:23 pm
I own one, that have vin thats around 6700 newer than this. I'm going to check chassisnr soon. This was fun News. In Norway, Alf's Jeans was registred on the road, 13 days before mine...
Andy
30/1/2017 05:49:23 pm
Thanks that would be great if you can give us details of the production plate too that would be perfect
Morten
31/1/2017 10:19:11 am
Production plate sats 354-0035 so if I understand correct, mine is 2 days newer... so Alf's is still oldest?
Andy
31/1/2017 05:10:55 pm
Morten, you are indeed correct, I've provisionally added your jeans to the list pending further information from yourself I.e vin number and the presence of the E9 on the production plate, if you would like to email me a picture of the plate and verification of the vin then I'll change the chart to verified. Thanks for your comments, you are now the 2nd oldest jeans on record (pending verification)
Morten V
16/10/2017 12:41:17 pm
I then guess mine is in the same week then?
Andy@ jeans beetle
16/10/2017 01:47:28 pm
Morten V your jeans was built on the same day as Alf’s making yours 2nd oldest production run jeans. Leave a Reply. |
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