Special Edition Mexi's?

[VWGirl]

I have a 1998 mexican beetle with the rollback top and alloy wheels and have been told that this is a special edition. Does anyone have any more information on this conversion? I know that the conversion for the top was done by a company in mexico called transforma, but was this done by VW or private parties? Any info would be nice, thanks!

[Douglas Hanauer]

Hi VWGirl,
nice Picture.
I think your Mex is a so-called "Fire-Beetle". This kind of wheels are mounted on this special modell.
The roof is from VW, only the small ragtops, which were available in Germany were installed in Germany by private firms.

Greets from rainy Germany to where you are

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[icke WES]

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[icke WES]

Du kannst Deine Fahrgestell-Nummer (Fahrzeug-Identifikations-Nummer) an das VW-Museum schicken. Die haben Unterlagen über alle Volkswagen ab Baujahr 1945.

Wenn Du unter http://automuseum.volkswagen.de/urkunden.html das Formular ausfüllst und bereit bist, die 53,-- € zu bezahlen, bekommst Du eine Urkunde und zeitgenössische Werbung über Dein Auto.

Gruß

icke WES!

Hi VWGirl,

You can your chassis number (vehicle identification number) to the VW museum chic. They have records of all Volkswagen Year of construction from 1945.

If you're under http://automuseum.volkswagen.de/urkunden.html the form below and're ready, the 53, - € to pay, get a certificate and contemporary advertising on your car.

Greeting

icke WES!

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[whitewalls]

Just to clear things but not to repeat anything, I post the link to your threat at thesamba.com.

http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=331732&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0

The guys are right, the wheels on your bug are official VW accessoires and metallic paintwork could be ordered on every Mexican Beetle.

Different shades of silver paint were available since August 1996.

The tops were installed after the cars left the production line. The official German importer once told me, that a few of them were converted in the VW factory, but most of them were aftermarket.

One of the Mexican companies who converted the bugs was 'Auto Clasicos y Desportivos SA de CV (See link below). I guess, it doesn't exist anymore.

http://www.thesamba.com/vw/archives/lit/99specialtysheet/sheet.jpg

There was a German Companyas well, Wensauer, who created their own version of the rollback top which is slightly different and it's less durable because they just didn't kept things that easy than the Mexicans.

The rollback top was introduced in 1995. Not too much of the rollback cars have been built, maybe a thousand something - a lot of them were imported to Europe. But from 1998 model year on only very view have been exported to th US but none to Europe.

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