Quit trying to figure out the year. There is no question about it, the car is a 63.

bruce wrote:

it could be a 63 or a 66 :?

Ovaltine wrote:

Do you know for fact or just what you read :?:

I do not see how you can decide from looking at the poor picture below which does not show much of the windows, it could be a 63 or a 66 :?

Ovaltine wrote:

I always remember from 20 years back this car being reported as a 63…

55Kab wrote:

We shall never know whether or not Volkswagen had a place in their Museum for Mr Klein's Beetle as it was written off in 1997, there was a small note to that effect in VW Motoring at the time.

Sadly the car was gone before the days of the internet and Mr Klein wasn't interested in publicising it. He just wanted to drive it. It probably didn't stand still long enough to be photographed :wink: .

Mike Peckham wrote:

Klein's car is not there though, which casts doubt on it for me.

Standard split wrote:

As taken from your own thread on The Samba. :wink:

54 Gertie wrote:

Why not write to the Wolfsburg museum, and ask them why Rattletrap isn't there? :wink:

54 Gertie wrote:

But Rattletrap isn't there either, should that cast a doubt on it for me? :roll: :lol:

pre67vw wrote:

I wanted post that 😶 :cry:

Standard split wrote:

Remember, VW supplied and fitted a replacement chassis for Rattletrap, so they must have considered him of value. My guess is they'd snap him up if I offered him to them 😎

Standard split wrote:

So, write to the museum and ask. :twisted:

54 Gertie wrote:

I don't want to part with Rattletrap……:(

Standard split wrote:

Remember, VW supplied and fitted a replacement chassis for Rattletrap, so they must have considered him of value.

Standard split wrote:

Either that, or after they looked into it in more detail they needed an exit and a replacement chassis was an easy way out... :lol:

pre67vw wrote:

I'm thinking its time for the Rattletrap summer recess

pre67vw wrote:

No, just see if they would be interested. And they may have more info on Mr Kleins '63.

54 Gertie wrote:

So, write to the museum and ask. :twisted:

54 Gertie wrote:

I still haven't found the note of it's (Klein's Beetle) demise in 97. Maybe it's still going...:shock:

Mike

Mike Peckham wrote:

I guess the answer to all OUR questions on Rattletrap is realy how much it bothers you to recognise the reality John?

After all, as you have the car (person:? ) himself you are best placed to show us by way of photos what is what. I mean cut/weld lines under the bonnet area/behind the dash etc, ID of the chassis number now and any old paperwork. If you don't mind knowing and it would end a mystery for me, I'm sure it would be greatly appreciated if we delved just a little bit deeper into what happened since new and when he was rebuilt at Hazelocks.

55Kab wrote:

I've had no luck finding an email address to contact the VW Museum about vehicle enquiries, does anyone know of such a contact:?:

Standard split wrote:

Okay, I guess its only fair as some of you have dug out some really helpful items, and especially to Rob who has endured such a lot from Rattletrap causing havoc across the forums. :?

I'm getting the camera out this weekend to see what signs of repair I can 'capture' to show here. :shock:

Standard split wrote:

Tony used to live at the end of my road in Ickenham (Wallasey Crescent/Swakeleys Road)

My Dad at the time had from new a Black 67 with Red Interior and US Towel rails as optional accessory)

Tonys car I knew as a child as the car like dads with the funny window.

Tony also has a cream 58? beetle

Fast forward to when I got into beetles and I made a visit to Terrys Beetle Services.
In their yard I could see that there was something early under a cover, I asked Luke what it was and he explained that it was Rattletrap after it had been totalled.

The job of restoring the car was going to be down to Terry Beetle Services and WAS going to be full restoration trying to keep as much of the original car as possible, luke had searched and collected NOS panels to do the whole restoration.

Then some falling out happened and the car was given to house of haselocks to do the work, I was told that alot of the panels were sold on and not put on the car by Haselocks

Tony kept ducks and was well known, I believe he was pretty eccentric and when I taked to Luke from TBS years later he remembers his wife seeing Tony talking at a petrol station is a broad american accent, then changing it straight back when he spoke to her.

All tonys storied i would say are half truths half folklaw of his making.
The car has always been a split from my earliest memories when I was six years old

Were you living in Ickenham as a kid, My name is Matthew Keen and used to live at 36 Wallasay Crescent and had a street party for the jubilee

opl505e wrote:

Were you living in Ickenham as a kid, My name is Matthew Keen and used to live at 36 Wallasay Crescent and had a street party for the jubilee

opl505e wrote:

It was my first ever sighting of a split rear window 'Beetle' and at the Queen's Silver Jubilee celebrations in 1977, in central London of all places 😛 It had a big impact on the young 'Standard Split' – more so than seeing the Queen:shock:

Rattletrap managed to put in an appearance in front of the huge waiting crowds just before the Queen's procession and carriage passed...

...he managed to get everywhere...

Standard split wrote: