The components were made according to the German model year, but completion in Melbourne could often be up to six months later, due to the shipping time for the CKD crates to arrive in Melbourne, be railed to Clayton and unpacked, prepared, assembled and finished (joining with the various Australian-made components such as tyres, batteries, glass, paint, upholstery etc).įull local manufacture ran from 1960 to 1968. This also matched US practice. The Karmann Ghia and Transporter also moved to this arrangement the following year. The German factory has used the 1 August to 31 July model year to the present day.įrom 1954 to 1959 Australian Volkswagens were assembled from German CKD parts. On 31 July 1957 the Volkswagenwerk changed to the 1958 model year for Beetles, which meant that the new model year begins when the factory returned from the summer holidays. Originally the VW ‘model year’ ran from 1 January to 31 December. These charts will help you determine the ‘model year’ of your pre-1980 Volkswagen, and usually - but not always - when it was built.
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