How many zwitter Convertible were produced?

tazm

Is there somewhere a source where I can find how many zwitter Conv where builded ??
Somebody told me 837 cars ???

Thanks,

Guido

tazm · Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2009 1:07 pm Post subject:

145 views, and nobody knows??
I was calling the Karmann factory but they could not help me Crying or Very sad

Guido

peter schepens · Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2009 2:35 pm Post subject:

Maybe you can count the cars made as a split....month by month.
recalculate pro month how many splits are made and you have an estimate how many cars they made with the oval dash before they changed to complete ovals..It is that simple Rolling Eyes

Oh what the heck....you have one Laughing

and I not... Crying or Very sad

congrats Guido. Nice find with those side plates.
Greets.
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passoa55 · Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2009 4:33 am Post subject:

At least 2. Laughing

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tazm · Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2009 3:23 pm Post subject:

Finaly the car is at my place after a long day ,I was leaving this morning at 7.30, and arived back home at 23.15 hr !
We Had a nice chat with our friends in Germany, and we went also to the Ercker shop , to check out the work Rainer and Marcus did to the Heb !! Shocked

I must say nobody could do better ! Its just perfect !
But If you could see what other cars there where standing in that shop
58 conv, , D&S , 2 Hebmullers next week 3 ! Laughing

A very nice ISO and they just dilivered a Laughing

a splitwindow Rolls R.
Pascal If your Heb is ready for a new top, thats the place you have to go for that Job, If these 3 cars are ready they have made 14 or 15 Hebmuller tops !

Best regards,

Guido

M113 · Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2009 5:08 pm Post subject:

My ignorance, what distinguishes a zwitter vert from an oval vert?
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Splitdog · Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2009 6:54 pm Post subject:

Made between Oct. 1st, 1952 and March, what, the 10th (?) 1953.
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Robs '52s · Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2009 7:46 pm Post subject:

ZwitterND · Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2009 9:49 pm Post subject:

ok so it's a zvertter Shocked

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Zwittercab53 · Posted: Fri Dec 03, 2010 7:05 am Post subject: Number of Zwitter convertibles

The best way known to me to figure out the actual number of Zwitter cars built is to compare body numbers from the earliest known car still in existence and the last known. They body number starts around 15-11000. By the end of 1952 body number 11800 was produced. This may explain why the figure 831 circulates as a suggested number. It seems believable to me that that refers to the number of zwitter built in 1952.

Last known Zwitter with a known body number is 15-12829. If you do the math you will end up with some 1829+ built. If actually 831 were built in 52, 1900 cars could be a good guess. It is also clear that Zwitter verts were build for some time beyond the last date for Zwitter sedans. My guess is that the last Zwitter vert may have been produced in the end of March based on known chassi numbers.

1900 Zwitter cars in 5 production months correspond fairly well to the total figures for Karmann vert production during 1952 and 1953

Last known Zwitter has Chassi 1-462508 and body 15-12829. Last Zwitter sedan produced mars 9 1953 had Chassi 1-0428156

The best source would be factory documents but I have not heard of any. If anyone knows better feel free to jump in and elaborate on these figures

Harris

Just a guess here.

I'm looking at sedan and convertible production figures from 1950 through 1954 and the trend seemed to be a 3.3 % average of total production were convertibles.

Edit: So logically, 3.3% of the number of Zwitters produced should be the approximate number of convertibles made.

Zwittercab53

Harris

Zwittercab53,

Yeah, I didn't read your post correctly to begin with. Good info.

passoa55 · Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2010 11:29 am Post subject:

And you have ones with split vert boxed seaphores and ones with oval vert semaphores....
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1950 Hebmuller #458
1955 lowlight lizard green
1955 original paint oval
1956 1600 super V-sunroof Porsche
1958 lowlight ghia black
1963 firetruckred 23 window
1967 SO42 westy
1969 original paint Westy
1970 one owner 1300L bug

RVT5373

Would anyone also know how many RHD Zwitter Convertibles were produced?

bomberbaja

HUGO bOSS · Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2011 7:22 am Post subject:

Well... very rare cars...
The VW Museam doesn't now?

RVT5373 · Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2011 7:32 am Post subject:

Either they don't know or I'm not asking the right people/dept in the museum

HUGO bOSS · Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2011 8:23 am Post subject:

Shame...

You told that you ask at the Karmann museam also?

peter schepens · Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2011 9:04 am Post subject:


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