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> Ah, but the Kubelwagen came before the Beetle convertible (i.e. WWII).
not necessarily, there are shots of a vert beetle, identical to the
Karmann made one (and not to be confused with the Hebmuller), at the
ground breaking ceremonies of the wolfsburg factory in 1938, whereas the
Kubel was 1941-1945 and the ghia was 1955-1973/4.



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>   -----Original Message-----
>   From: scirocco-l-admin@scirocco.org
> [mailto:scirocco-l-admin@scirocco.org]On Behalf Of Robbie Cotner
>   Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 9:01 PM
>   To: Scirocco16vJay@aol.com
>   Cc: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
>   Subject: Re: Ghia
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>   Nope, AFAIK the first VW convertible was a beetle convertible. They
> started making them in 1950.  The Karmann Ghia didn't come around until
> '58. HTH,
>
>   -Rob
>
>    Scirocco16vJay@aol.com wrote:
>
>     I was wondering is the Karmann Ghia the first VW convertible?
>     Jay Frasca
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