What year is this Oval?

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What year is this Oval?

Post by whc03grady » Tue Dec 14, 2010 10:45 am

Does someone more in tune with Beetle minutiae have a good guess as to the year of this thing? All I know is, it's either a '55, '56, or '57. I think.
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Post by airkooledchris » Tue Dec 14, 2010 12:39 pm

assuming all of those bits are original (bad assumption) - ill say its a 57.

the pics in my beetle book aren't good enough to say for sure though, but the tail lights look like the 57's as the earlier ones were smaller. it's not a split window and has no semaphores, so it isn't AS old as the earliest ovals...

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Post by Hippie » Tue Dec 14, 2010 5:19 pm

Wow...it still has sides!
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Post by Bleyseng » Wed Dec 15, 2010 5:25 am

I'd say a 57 but you have to check its vin as the 55 and 56's mostly had their tail lites upgraded to the later style.
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Re: What year is this Oval?

Post by Amskeptic » Mon Feb 07, 2011 6:36 pm

Good looking car regardless, buy it.
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Re: What year is this Oval?

Post by BellePlaine » Tue Apr 12, 2011 9:14 am

Amskeptic wrote:Good looking car regardless, buy it.
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Or for the love of God, please have them move it off of the grass.
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