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Details
- Registration Mark
- 04 D 64501
- (a) Type:
- Type 1
- (b) Year:
- 2004
- (c) Colour:
- Cream
- (d) Paint code:
- unknown
- (e) Engine CCs:
- 1600
History
- (a) Country of origin:
- Ireland
- (b) County first reg'd:
- Dublin
- (c) Current or last known location:
- unknown
Model information
Special Edition and Ultima Edicion
Info
A 2004 beetle? On Beetle.ie? Really?
This may well be THE VERY VERY LAST brand new air-cooled Beetle to be registered in Ireland. EVER!
I spotted this Beetle in a truck yard near Clarina, Co. Limerick in April 2004. It was literally fresh off the boat, having only been unloaded off the truck that morning. I spoke to the man who imported it (with great difficulty I’d imagine!) directly from VW Mexico as a personal import. It didn’t come through any official Irish or European channels, I think he did it just to see if he could more than anything else!
When I saw it it hadn’t yet been registered and had all the wrapping and packing any car coming straight from the factory and onto a ship would have. The sea air hadn’t been kind to the Mexican chrome, even fresh off the boat, the headlamp rings and bumpers were already showing rust. I can only imagine it needed a few hundred spent on new chrome bits to put it back to proper “New Car” condition.
It’s an Ultima Edicion model, a final Special Edition Beetle to commemorate the end of worldwide Beetle production, in 2003.
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