RED VW Volkswagen V.W. BEETLE Die Cast TOY CAR

Condition of the CAR is absolutely screaming MINT

Contained in its slightly "Scruffy" Original BOX

N.O.S. "New Old Stock" from a UK Toy Shop that closed down some long time back

This car has only been removed from its box to be photographed, I had to cut the Scotch Tape to release it from the factory packaging

The doors and bonnet do not open

I have three different colours available

This listing is for the RED one

If you wanted an addition BLACK or WHITE VW in EXACTLY the same condition? ask me after you win my auction :-)

The Volkswagen Beetle, officially the Volkswagen Type 1 is a small family car produced by the German company Volkswagen from 1938 to 2003

One of the most iconic cars in automotive history, the Beetle is noted for its distinctive shape. Its production period of 65 years is the longest of any single generation of automobile, & its total production of over 21.5 million is the most of any car of a single platform

The Beetle was conceived in the early 1930s

The leader of Nazi Germany, Adolf Hitler, decided there was a need for a people's car—an inexpensive, simple, mass-produced car—to serve Germany's new road network, the Reichsautobahn. The German engineer Ferdinand Porsche & his design team began developing and designing the car in the early 1930s, but the fundamental design concept can be attributed to Béla Barényi in 1925, predating Porsche's claims by almost ten years

The result was the Volkswagen Type 1 & the introduction of the Volkswagen brand

Volkswagen initially slated production for the late 1930s, but the outbreak of war in 1939 meant that production was delayed until the war had ended

The car was originally called the Volkswagen Type 1 & marketed simply as the Volkswagen

It was not until 1968 that it was officially named the "Beetle"

Volkswagen implemented designations for the Beetle in the 1960s, including 1200, 1300, 1500, 1600, 1302, & 1303