Bought another 1973 Super Beetle! Well sort of.

I bought this 1:24 scale "1973 Volkswagen Super Beetle" from ebay this week. It has a certificate saying that it is an officially licensed product of Volkswagen AG but I would be surprised if anyone at at the company even looked at this thing since there are so many things wrong with it.

It doesn't look too bad from the front but the hood looks too narrow and it has an extra right-hand mirror that you could have probably gotten installed from a dealer but they were not common.

The tail-lights are the wrong shape, sort of a lozenge shape instead of the '73 fat rounded tail-lights.

It's hard to see from this picture of the interior but it has a standard dash instead of the rounded, padded dash of the '73 and later Supers and it has the deep-dish steering wheel from earlier models.

Looking inside the trunk reveals an upright spare tire that shows this model is not really a super at all but a standard with a rounded windshield stuck on.

Oh well, I only paid $7 for it and it looks cool on the TV stand in the living room.