VIN Plate on Beetle?
 

Stupid question guys, lost V5 for Poopermint, cant find the vin number on the car. Any idea's on a 1303 Beetle.

Cheers

Dom

yes look by the drivers seat, or i have seen them by the bulk head under the front bonnet area it was on my 1200 ,1972 beetle, great car

Cheers Gab

Chassis number should be on the centre tunnel at the back, on the inside of the car.
You may have to lift the carpet up!

Mr Cox, just found it, should it be a 10 digit number? Seems short?

Should be, should start with 118 for a 1978 Bug.

114?

That's a 1974 built bug.

Basically, from 1965, Beetles had a 10 digit chassis number. The first two digits represented make/model 11 being a Type 1 VW Beetle, the 3 number was the build year.

Now being a left hooker, would 1978 S reg be the import date on a 74 car>? help!!!

yup, it's deffo a '74 car, but if it was imported in 1978, it would have been given an age related plate to the year in was registered in the UK as opposed to the build date. They didn't change giving age related plates cars until about 12 years later.

How do I find out where it was originaly registered in 74, as would be interesting

errr, not sure on that one. If you write the VW Milton Keynes or Wolfsburg, they will provide you (at a smallish cost) a 'birth' certificate for your car. The chassis/floorpan etc would have been built at Wolfsburg and then sent off to the Karmann factory to have a sexy convertible body added on to it!
Where it went to then will be very hard to trace though. It could have been exported to the US or sold in Germany. US spec ones are easy to tell from difference such as front valance (additional holes for US Spec bumpers), US spec lights etc, however, as yours has had a few late '80 customizing touches to it, I doubt these are the original ones!

According to the MOT testers manual

I took a Hillman Hunter to an MOT for a customer once (with a bag on my head). It didn't have a vin plate anywhere we could find it. The examiner said it was a fail, but I remembered reading in practical classics that vehicles first used before a certain date didn't have to have one. He gave me his copy of the manual while he carred on with the test, and I eventually found a reference to it.

http://www.motuk.co.uk/manual_630.htm