Factory Pictures
From the VW assembly line to you
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completed 1303 drives off the line in 1973 at Werk Wolfsburg. Behind it
can be seen a 1303 special edition 'Sports Bug' in Marathon Blue metallic
(L96M) headed for the US market and a 'Fruit series edition' Bijzondere
Kever in Tomato Red (L30M) headed for the Netherlands
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long line of 1303 Super Beetles which look to have just been painted
Some
of the very first VW 1303 Super Beetles on the assembly line at Wolfsburg
in November 1972
50th
anniversary - June 1973. Volkswagen Brussels produces its 1 millionth Beetle
1971
model year Beetle bodyshells, including 1302 models, are fitted out at the
Wolfsburg plant before moving on to final assembly
1303
Cabriolet Super Beetle body assembly line at Karmann in Osnabrück.
A total of 331,847 Beetle Cabriolets were produced at this factory during
the model’s thirty years and six months production life from July 1949
to January 1980
An
assembly line worker proves that you can take a break in a Super Beetle
trunk
Volkswagen
employees take a break for a photo shoot while working on the Beetle assembly
line
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Volkswagen employee on the Beetle assembly line in Wolfsburg in the 1972
model year. The VW is a 1302 Super Beetle
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line worker is distracted by the photographer while fitting out a Pastel
White 1302 Beetle in the body fitting out hall at Volkswagenwerk Wolfsburg
during the 1972 model year
Installing
the headlamps on a VW 1303 on the line at Wolfsburg during the 1974 model
year
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colourful selection of cars at Wolfsburg in 1972, awaiting export to North
America
VW
1303 assembly in the final production hall at the Wolfsburg factory in 1973.
These cars appear to be European-specification painted in either Phoenix
Red or Kasan Red
Fitting
the interior vinyl trim on the B-pillar area of a 1971 model year Beetle
in the body fitting-out stage at Volkswagenwerk Wolfsburg
The
start of 1302 Super Beetle production at Wolfsburg. With its new front suspension
and improved luggage capacity, a new era for the Beetle had begun
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freshly painted green Volkswagen Type 181 is closely followed by the new
1971 Super Beetle 1302
Beetle
number 14,000,000 was produced at Wolfsburg on May 5th 1971. The Silver
Metallic (L96D) 1600cc right-hand drive 1302S model was destined for Great
Britain and was handed over to legendary Major Ivan Hirst at the end of
the assembly line in Hall 12
New
Volkswagens are pictured arriving at the Port of Albany, New York, aboard
a car carrying ship belonging to Norwegian company Höegh-Ugland Auto
Liners in 1974
A
Trailer Train of the Norfolk and Western Railway is seen in Albany, New
York, full of newly imported Sun Bug Edition Beetles from Germany, sometime
in 1974
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Super Beetle Cabriolet final assembly at Karosserie Wilhelm Karmann in Osnabrück,
West Germany, in the late 1970s. The cars in the photo are North American
specification, headed for the USA and Canada