With regards to Albert Kleins ’63 beetle (there is no dispute about it being a ’63 despite some of the non–motoring press misrepresenting it as a ’66) Mr Klein was reported as being a very quiet, unassuming man who courted no publicity. The only reason his car made it into the press at all was because the supplying dealer brought it to the attention of VWoA when it was due to pass the 1,000,000 mile mark, VWoA arranged a publicity event that saw it driving onto the supplying dealer’s forecourt as it clicked over on to 1,000,000 miles. VW then presented Mr Klein with a VW Fox.
Mike Peckham wrote:
Thanks, Mike, but how do we know for sure that some of the non–motoring press
misrepresented it as a ’66, and why did several different sources (as I posted earlier here on this thread) state it as a 1966 car :?:
For such an achievement, there are absolutely no pictures of the car around, the window size would be the give-away to the year, '63 or '66. One would assume that Mr Klein would be extremely old or has passed away by now, so where's this 'mega-mile record' car now :?:
Volkswagen were interested in
Rattletrap for their museum, so why not this. I do have doubts about this car.
Rattletrap was a publicised car back as early as the 1960's, which is credit to Tony Levy's claim, then hey presto, 20 years later a guy in the USA has a Beetle that goes the extra miles …:roll:
Tony Levy was a quiet, unassuming man too – it was when people badgered him with annoying questions about
Rattletrap that he himself became 'rattled' :lol:
John
If you're interested, I probably still have the article Tony wrote about his encounter with Mr Klein and his '63 Beetle. It'll take a bit of digging but I could probably find it and post it on here for you...
Mike
Mike Peckham wrote:
That would be interesting to see, Mike – certainly hope you can dig it out :beer:
Rattletrap – the Volkswagen Beetle that has covered an incredible mileage equivalent to over 35 times around the planet :omg:
Running nifty since 1950… the King of Volkswagens:beer: Why not make friends with this famous little VW – he's on facebook! :d
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