Right from the start the Volkswagen saloon was offered in a convertible form and as the austerity of the immediate post war years passed it was a model that would go on to capture the zeitgeist of the swinging ‘60’s especially in the sunny, beach orientated climate of West Coast America.

From as early as 1949, German bodybuilder, Karmann, had been charged with building the convertible Beetle.

Over the next 31 years Karmann would produce a total of around 300,000 Beetle convertibles for Volkswagen.

This remarkable survivor Beetle Convertible comes from late in production and just a year before the Golf Convertible appeared, ultimately replacing the rag topped Beetle in 1980.

This is a US specification car in ultimate 1588cc, fuel injected guise.

This amazing Beetle was imported to the UK in 1990 spending the next 30 years reportedly dry stored and mounted on blocks.

This would certainly help explain this car’s incredible mileage to date of just 10,000.

Surely a once in a blue moo...