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The VW Standard Beetle 1200A had more or less no chrome. The bumpers, hubcaps, handles, outside mirror and hood emblem badge was painted in VW L328 steel grey metallic. Unfortunate, most of the leading suppliers of car paint products do not have VW L328 in the system. Not available, because the VW L328 steel grey was only used for Standard...

The handy little VW Beetle Ashtray Clip accessory takes your cigarette and prevents a falling by driving shocks, through contact or through the change of emphasis during the burning of the cigarette. The clip was Made in Germany and is easily inserted into the VW ashtray. The pictures shows the VW Beetle ashtray Clip Accessory, scanned from Auto Ausstattung Parts...

GHE Happich, Perohaus and Volkswagen produced a few nice accessories for the VW Beetle vent window. The VW Beetle vent window REGUS Rainguard Accessory from GHE shown at the first picture protects the driver and front passenger with vent wing window open against rain and drafts. No more rain streams on the doors and no water splashes to the clothing...

The VW Bug, Bus, Karmann and Type 3 have a simple electric system and they need only a few vintage VW light bulbs. Osram, Philips and Fischer produced the vintage VW light bulbs for the headlights, parking lights, semaphore turn signal lights, speedometer instruments lights, dome light, license plate light, stop and tail lights. Sometimes it’s hard to get the...

The VW Beetle driver side footrest gives the left foot specific support and protects against fatigue. The left foot of the driver's needs - especially on longer trips - a safe, sloping support surface. Otherwise, it will inevitably lead to fatigue. Especially with the VW automatic Beetle, the left foot is completely inactive and motionless, so that the foot support...

The VW 1200A Standard Beetle with 34hp was produced after the VW factory summer holidays in 1965. The new 1200 A beetle has 34hp and flat hubcaps. Here you find more information about the old 30hp 1965 1200A VW Beetle. Below you find some interesting pages of the 34hp VW 1200A 1965 Standard Beetle brochure from Volkswagenwerk Wolfsburg in Germany...

The VW 1200A Standard Beetle with 30hp was produced till about August 1965. After the VW factory holidays in summer 1965 the 1200A had 34hp and other improvements. Here you find more information about the new 34hp 1965 1200A. Below are the most interesting pages of the 30hp VW 1200A 1965 Standard Beetle brochure. VW 1200 A Brochure 01-1965 Page...

Hello VW Fans. The german Fire, Police, Ambulance and Civil Protection vintage VWs had lots of interesting and necessary accessories from Bosch and Hella. For your vintage Fire Department, Police and Civil Protection operational T1 and T2 Bus, Beetle, Type 3 and 181 Volkswagen you need a low and high fanfare horn system (tatütata sirens), a spinning lamp with blue cover, an...

Hello VW Fans. I was on the Volksworld Show 2013 in London on Saturday the 23th March. The Sandown Park parking lot was muddy, it was snowing and raining but the VolksWorld was awesome. Lots of great VWs and people and I can recommend the VolksWorld Show very much. Here my Volksworld 2013 photos from Sandown Park Racecourse in Esher...

Here some information about parking lights on vintage Volkswagens. The old VW bug and bus was manufactured without a park light. On VW Split and Oval, you can remove the semaphores and put a Jokon turn signal, parking and boarding light unit on the b-pillar. This was a good option around 1960 but not these days, because the semaphores are...

The console has an additional instrument board and a storage option on the tunnel. The additional storage is in the sight and reach of the driver and front passenger. You have the option of installing additional instruments in the cockpit, such as tachometer, oil gauge, ice warning, clock, hazard warning lights, switches, sockets and so on. I think the gauge...

Check out the awesome drawings on this vintage Vintage Volkswagen Dealer card game. They are about 50 years old and they came with pen and nice leather bag. The cards are made by Volkswagen for the sales forces for a good cooperation from the seller to the customer. The selling tips on the cards are very useful. Below pictures of...