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ALPS V1 Oval Window VW Article

A large percentage of the Volkswagen toy cars that were produced in the 1940’s and 1950's era were made in West Germany due to the fact of course, the Volkswagen is of German origin. Well, now is the spotlight on a tin plate Oval Window VW toy produced in Japan. Over the years we have seen the popul...
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COMANDO V1 Oval Window VW Article

The split rear window on the Volkswagen Beetle was replaced with an oval window in March of 1953 and was then later replaced with a “big” window in the 1958 model year of the Volkswagen Sedan. Although the Oval Window Volkswagen Sedan was only produced for five years, some toy manufacturers wanted t...
Published in: COMANDO

DINKY TOYS Oval Window VW Article

DINKY TOYS VOLKSWAGEN TOY CARS Not to date myself, I grew up in an era in which "DINKY TOYS" were very popular in the line of toy cars, trucks, military vehicles, etc. In fact, the name was so popular, just about any small toy vehicle was called a "DINKY TOY" whether it was one or not. These popul...
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DISTLER Split Window VW Article

Volkswagen models, promotionals and toys have been produced in many scales, colors and materials over the years. Some have been produced with very fine details and others as a caricature toy. Materials used range from metal stampings that include tin plate painted or lithographed or a combination of...
Published in: DISTLER

HAUSSER KdF WAGEN VW GAME BOARD

HAUSSER KdF WAGEN GAME SET   The conception of the Volkswagen had begun in 1933 when Adolph Hitler announced at the 1933 Berlin Auto Show the importance of transportation in the form of a small, economical car. He stated that the living standard of a nation was judged by the total length of i...
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HÖFLER & WAMOO VW CONVERTIBLE Article

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KÖRA & GAMA Split Window VW Article

Since the introduction of the Volkswagen Sedan in 1938 (called the KdF Wagen back then) and its sudden popularity as a car the German worker could purchase in a savings program, it did not take long for the toy manufacturers of Germany to jump on the band wagon and produced their version of the new ...
Published in: KÖRA

MARUSAN Oval Window VW Article

One interesting characteristic of tin Volkswagen toys from the vintage era is that most of them do not represent the true silhouette of the famous Beetle shape. This is due to the fact that the Volkswagen body design and shape has negative contours that is hard to stamp out of a single sheet of meta...
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MODERN TOYS - MASUDAYA Oval Window VW Article

Back in the 1950's, the Japanese toy manufacturers were producing tin plate toy vehicles like it was going out of style. The tin cars depicted the automobiles of the same 1950's era that included just about all the American cars and the European models as well. Most of these tin cars were produ...

MORESTONE - BUDGIE Oval Window VW Article

OVAL WINDOW VOLKSWAGEN NO. 8 Vintage Volkswagen Models and Toys VW toy review is of an Oval Window Volkswagen toy that has been sold under various names over the years.  This 1/70th scale (58mm in length) metal diecast toy was originally designed and manufactured by the Morris & Stone Limi...

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