Acording to the info in Muir's book, 1,785 cars were produced in 1945, and
10,020 in 1946, but the first cars officially exported to the US were two
in 1949.  That doesn't preclude the possibility that one of the earlier
cars was brought over privately.

At 08:44 AM 4/19/98 -0700, you wrote:
>I may be full of hot gasses, but didn't WW II end in 1945 and the VW
>plant lay in ruins. I would think it would have been difficult to get
>into production by 1946. Just a thought.

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