if the first variant was available today, i'd buy one (1:1).

Seems to me ,too, that "Beetle" did not come about till the hippies in the 60s. Just sayin' ....

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Seems to me ,too, that "Beetle" did not come about till the hippies in the 60s. Just sayin' ....

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Really? The term came out the same time the actual car did, and even in the late 1940's it was already starting to sell in the thousands. Admittedly the British military decided on buying them out at the outset, but afterward...

I do remember vaguely that Hitler was supposed to have been driven in a Volkswagen during his last days before hiding in his Berlin bunker.

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I do remember vaguely that Hitler was supposed to have been driven in a Volkswagen during his last days before hiding in his Berlin bunker.

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I think you might be mixing it up with this spoof of the film about Hitlers last days.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8dl4faCpJE

Strange thing is that most of the variants ICM used to sell, like the one Timothy posted, are all post-war builds.

Aside from the info Frenchy posted, Volkswagen simply didn't produce any of the models destined for the civilian market other than the prototypes shown to Hitler prior to the war. The factory was shifted to war production before they could do so. Even those Type 60s produced for the Nazi officials had differences from the civilian cars.

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Strange thing is that most of the variants ICM used to sell, like the one Timothy posted, are all post-war builds.

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Since ICM has never produced any Beetles or variants, I assume you mean CMK/Czechmaster KIts

Jon

Don't know when the nickname came into popular use though ....

/ Robin