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Scale Model Guide Sheets

Inspired by Andy Gore’s very high quality Jeans Beetle restoration decals available through the Jeans Beetle & UK Register and Colin E. Shinkin’s work assisting an enthusiast replicate a 1970’s Kamei decor set SEBeetles...

Production plate decoder

As more and more owners contact us asking for help to identify whether the Beetle they have is an SEB or not we are finding increasing numbers of former SEBs hiding under later updating...

E.3 – Badging

VW Beetle badging explained. Standard European production VW Beetle badging 1970 -1979 explained first: In mid-1970 Beetle engine lid badging was straightforward. With the exception of a brief period around the time of the...

E.6 – Wheels

One of the regular features of the SEBs manufactured in Volkswagen’s European factories  1970 – 1979 was the replacement of the standard road wheel and chrome hub caps with alternative, distinct pattern, wheels. Like...