The second in a series of just four Special Edition Beetles for Ireland, the Marathon Beetle (or “World Champion Beetle” according to the advert of the time) was released in August 1972 […]
The Marathon Beetle
Split Love!
1966 Split Bus Having seen ‘the light’ as I walked along Vancouver’s main street I just knew I had t have a Splittie. The design stood out so much against the humdrum […]
The Anniversary Beetle
In Autumn 1971, the Beetle surpassed the significant milestone of a total worldwide production figure of 20 million cars. In Europe, VW produced a Special Edition called the “Jubilee Beetle” to celebrate […]
Ballsbridge Memories
My name is Eddie Staunton. I lived in Ballsbridge, Dublin 4 in 1950 and saw the first crates of Beetles arrive in the tram yards to the site now called Ballsbridge Motors on […]
Dealership documents
This set of documents have kindly been submitted by Herbie Graham. He got them from the old PJ Woods dealership in Clane, years ago. They show pricing information from Volkswagen Distributors Ltd […]
Old VW ads
Some examples of old distributor and dealer ads for Irish VWs. Right back from the start in the early 50s to the end of beetle sales in 1977.