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The car
Power25 bhp
Engine1.1-1.6L flat-four
Builtover 21 million
The people's car, the best-selling single design in automotive history.
Finding one
Typical
£500,000
for a good example
Range
£250,000 to £1,500,000
authenticity as a genuine prewar prototype, documented history, condition, essentially a museum grade rarity rather than a market commodity
For sale now
effectively none, a genuine 1938 car is a preproduction KdF Wagen prototype and survivors are museum pieces
public listings
rarealmost never trades, genuine prewar cars are in museums and collections · Last notable sale: no reliable recent public sale of a genuine 1938 prototype, the earliest surviving KdF Wagen cars are held by museums such as the ones in Wolfsburg, any figure is an estimate
Market figures are indicative, drawn from public auction and listing data; they guide, they do not appraise.
Parts and support
Postwar Beetle parts are abundant, but genuine 1938 prototype specific parts barely exist
Specialistsprewar and split window VW specialistsKdF and early Beetle restorersmuseum grade fabrication specialists
In the network
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