1962 Volkswagen Beetle 1200 Convertible Sedan

Volkswagen designed its 'people's car' before World War II, but production didn't begin until 1946. In 1953, VW turned to German coachbuilder Karmann to produce a convertible version of the Beetle. The convertible remained in production through 1979.

In 1962 Volkswagen's production reached 819,326 cars in Germany, plus a few in other factories around the world. It was 1965 when that number exceeded on million. The Cabriolet, sometimes Convertible, was the model #151 with the vast majority of the bodies built not by Volkswagen but by Karmann, well before they joined forces in a merger. Between 1958 and 1967 around 103,000 'Karmann Kabrioletts' - so said their domestic tag - were produced although there are few like this one.

This 1962 Pacific Blue VW has had only two owners. It underwent a 'body-off' restoration - the body bolts to a simple sheet steel floor pan, that serves as the chassis - to its original specifications using only all-German parts.