Herbie Beetle

1976 VW Beetle 1600 RHD
Rare Air Conditioning
White/Cream Trim
Herbie Livery
Great Investment
76,000 Genuine Miles

The Icon
Style, hard to achieve and even harder to maintain, this car oozes it.
An automotive icon that’s eternally cool, the ‘Poor Man’s Porsche’ with
a similar air-cooled, rear-mounted boxer engine and trans axle driving
the rear wheels. The car which really started the retro craze and the
Beetle makes an ideal starter classic. She drives like a dream, the rumble
of a vintage engine and the need to actually press the brake to stop, makes
your heart race. I love the manual window cranks with side windows, and
the lack of fancy gadgets inside... pure nostalgia.

Genuine JDM Classic - DDE 236P
Manufactured 01-05-1976 this is the more powerful 1600 cc car with all the
attributes the later cars possess. Imported to the UK 01-12-15 not even a
year ago, this Beetle is in a highly solid state of condition and reckon
that the best conditioned classics come from this part of the world. This
is a genuine Japanese domestic market classic vehicle sourced for a customer
with high expectations and imported direct from Japan, therefore has only
one UK keeper. The Japanese climate is literally in the sweet spot for
classic cars. The climate is not only warm with no salting of the roads
in Winter, it is also extremely dry without the intense heat of other
countries allowing for the perfect environment that does not contribute
to deterioration, and does not age like normal vehicles do elsewhere.
The strict govt test known as the " shaken", is the strictest of tests to
an extremely high standard, as the cars get older the tests get stricter
which creates an environment where vehicles are not generally kept more
than 6/7 years, making classic cars rare indeed. Finally, foreign cars
such as these carried a large premium when imported to Japan when new,
and deemed special from day one. Japanese owners have a culture of keeping
special cars a very long time, meaning enthusiastic ownership.
Original factory colour and not a repaint.

Condition
Mechanically excellent, the 1600 has a wonderful soundtrack. All running
gear working as it should and its a superb driver you could drive anywhere,
never failing to start. Chrome wheel trims shod with a matching set of
Bridgestone Sneaker tyres of the exact factory spec. All chrome is perfect
and all panel gaps are bang on. It is lock fast with 3 keys. The body is rot
free with a bone dry underside and was kept garaged by UK owner. Odd incidental
mark on the very original body, that you would normally associate with a 10
year old car, not 40. Interior very tidy with minimum wear. Full MOT with no
advise, initially done by the supplying UK dealer and then all of 11 miles
later by the new owner as he wanted to have his people do it, thats the type
of chap he was. The sole UK owner was a professional man, who in his youth
had been given a Yellow Beetle by his Father to allow him to get around whilst
studying at Glasgow University in the mid 70s. He never forgot the car or the
times, and for nostalgia bought this car just under a year ago. He has never
really used it by his own account, it just sat in the garage with other cars.
It totally ready to be used and deserves to be shown and admired.

- Fully UK registered with period number DDE 236P
- March 2017 MOT

£6,500

The Modern Classic Car Co is a trading name of Cleardaze Ltd.