BAT Auction Alert! 1956 Canadian Standard VW Beetle Slams for 50k+

this 1956 Volkswagen Beetle a Canadian standard ragtop Beetle slammed down this past week on bring a trailer for over $50,000 guys pretty damn good price for that yeah you probably could not still restore that car for that money uh maybe if you did it yourself that is a possibility uh but I wanted to Showcase this vehicle today along with another vehicle that's also on bringer trailer right now that's uh got a little bit of a conversation going on and that is this 66 Volkswagen uh the issue they have here with this car is is that it's Brazilian and they really don't state that in the title nor do they really state that in the description before we get to the 66 let's go back to the 56 and what's really funny about this car is that it's a beautiful piece no question about it uh it is a standard at first I thought there was something up with the car they were showing some standard features but not all standard features now in some countries when you say standard there is no bright work on the body so you got no trim the hub caps and the rims would be pretty much the color of the vehicle along with the chrome bumpers they also would be the color of the vehicle so very you know basic looking Volkswagen this one is a Canadian standard so the Canadian standards actually had a little more bright work going on uh to my understanding uh I did have a Canadian standard at one point in my collection and now that I look back at that they Al it did have Deluxe some Deluxe features on it but we'll go through the car and I'll show you quickly um why this car probably did well uh topnotch restoration no doubt about it color combination really nice that's one thing about the car is probably uh the car pops when you open those doors you see what's going on on the inside and there you have it and I've said this before in the past that you know when you have a a color contrast going on with your Volkswagen I always do color contrast you know if you have a cool outside you got a warm inside or vice versa and when you do that it gives the vehicle that so-called pop and Volkswagens because they are a cartoony looking vehicle to in in my opinion when you go the pop route these cars attract eyes I can't tell you how many times I go to car shows even high-end car shows and where there's Maseratis pulling up and there's Ferraris and Bugattis and duesenbergs all cars that are pretty much out of reach for the common man and I show up in my Volkswagen wagons and part of my French it's literally like flies on where people start walking over to your vehicle here to your Beetle and why do they do that well because the beetle the beetle is relatable it is has got such history the common man had it the stories behind the car so this vehicle uh now what's really funny is that I mean the the restoration is beautiful correct engine all the engine components uh have the correct features on it it's got the correct Canadian uh badge here on the rear passenger fender the Insignia there and the black three spoke spe uh steering wheel is the is the giveaway for standard along with uh the black knobs on the and the black uh buffers on the the window crank and the door handle there's no piping the piping is also Alo the same color as the seat along with no piping around the door panel and also really no uh stitching on the bottoms and faces of the seats so that's kind of a giveaway there so if we scroll down some more this is absolutely beautiful now you know by Factory the floor pans were never this glossy uh I have clients that you know they can go either way with this some clients want a really shiny glossy undercarriage and some want more of the satin matte look uh these are probably painted I would think in a high gloss I mean you can get these powdercoated as well in high gloss so that is a possibility but this is way more than what the factory did you can eat off the bottom of that that's very attractive to some people some people I deal with they just want a truck bed headliner on their floor pans which will prevent from Rock chips if you're going to be driving the car and it also does some insulation as well to a little bit of sound deadening for you so now here's what's really funny they're calling it a 58 Beetle here in the video so the dealer that bought this you know that's I guess the one thing with the dealers they don't know every car of course they dealing with a lot of different cars so they're not so-called experts on particular models so he completely got this wrong and called this a 58 I mean a dead giveaway for 58 Beetle as you guys should know once it hit 58 the rear back window went from oval to square uh you know the oval that you see here I mean that's very really should know something like that um for this this video so you have even a discrepancy in the ad which is really funny I thought you know so uh I don't know but beautiful color I don't know if that's a true color it might be it might be that diamond gray or maybe Nile not Nile Bay maybe it's probably a polar silver so most likely polar silver there so look on the Swatch yeah that kind of looks like it so now I was under the impression too that you know the standard models have metallic uh I wasn't under that impression if anybody wants to correct me on that uh leave it in the comments section below I pretty much thought that standard models pretty much had a flat color but very pretty car and slammed down for 50 over $50,000 now just about a month or so ago I was is highlighting this 53 that crossed the Barett Jackson block now to me a 53 is still more rare than a 56 even though that is I mean a Canadian standard ragtop that's pretty rare as well I mean where you it's tough to find something like that but I still believe a 53 in my eyes is more valuable and this car slam down at Barett Jackson for 50,000 so both cars went for pretty much around the same price when I do feel like this 53 should have went for more for sure um again could have been timing it's the auction or is it just that bring a trailer is kicking ass uh they're really doing very very well you got a lot of people on here now and if you know you ever wanted to sell something I mean I would I would consider them uh just because whatever kind of car you have really um so very interesting to see that this car did very well here uh this 56 um pretty car nice color combination I definitely like that uh the three-spoke wheel is just killer that is just a killer wheel I mean even if you wasn't true to your car and you wanted to put it on it it it really looks sweet I mean that's an ex killer accessory there if you wanted to put onto a deluxe model Beetle uh so I don't know if anyone wants to chime in if this car is a true standard or not or what did he just make it look standard um that's the that's a question I have so part of the standard models too is that they don't do a headliner all throughout the inner cabin of a beetle so uh if you had a a hard top Beetle um it would just be the Center Square section that would get the headliner around the back window and such you would not get that but uh they got the correct German Square weave carpet here's the rare uh little ashtray that they had on the shifters back then and the shifters were also like painted black so uh the steering column also painted black on a standard model now I had a standard 53 at one time and the really cool thing about that was that had cable brakes not hydraulic brakes and double clutch and the cable brakes actually weren't bad I mean I'll be honest it was very interesting to drive that uh I did not see any fault uh in that and and any sort of you know I mean maybe he's less failing with those I tell you these wheel cylinders that are on the market today uh that are failing very quickly but you know they got all the characteristics here to make this all look right the right distributor here with the vacuum advance on it it's got all the right features for sure so just wanted to point this out to you guys I mean it was a uh a really good uh find on auction um you know I get these updates on a weekly basis with what cars cross The Auction Block so it's always good to watch the market so um I'll say it again you know it's still alive and well um like I said we we did see a dip a little bit uh but overall um it's maybe it's kicking right back around again so if you read the comments here apparently this was restored by this fella I think and he bought it back I think he regretted selling it kind of like what I've been talking about over these past these past few years um I wish I had some of the cars back that I restored I mean gosh they just some of these cars just hit home with you guys and you know when you remember the Blood Sweat and Tears that you put into them the cursing and the the throwing of tools maybe but in the end when the car is all finished uh it turns out to be a beautiful piece uh so uh 56 standard really nice color nice combination of course I love White Walls I thought it would look good with white walls but again it's a standard model probably would not be the option to choose when you're going for a standard model because you're trying to keep cost down if you are the customer going into the dealership correct so very nice car great presentation this is how you present and if you want to sell well this is how you do it now I I did notice this is a uh Square rear Square U rack top so you got rounded Corners in the front and square in the rear so this is an early 56 once they went to uh once they started moving along 56 then they got rid of the square uh rear on they head on the top if I can find a shot of the top um and then they went back and then they went round eventually on all four corners so this is actually that's another rare piece about this car is that you have uh you know square corners in the back and round in the front so that's pretty interesting so yeah it is a rare car for sure um a standard model very cool in in general in the past I haven't seen standard models do you know super well uh just because a lot of them they look kind of uh boring and dull you know they don't have the bling they don't have the pop you know even like you know getting a badge I don't even believe the badge was on a standard model so or the like I said any of the bright work so most people who want a beetle they want the bright work they want the the contrast and they want the pop but uh congratulations to this this is a good sale um maybe last year the year before maybe would have did a little bit more money I don't know uh just speculating really I'm just uh looking at things how things are going lately but you know again if you were to hire someone to restore this to this caliber I mean guys in today's day you're you're 80 to 100 Grand so uh 50 Grand is a pretty good deal if you bought this uh pretty pretty cool but I definitely thought the 53 here with the metallic blue uh should have did a little bit better uh but you know again things uh you know things are mysterious sometimes the you got to just take them to the right auction houses or the timing has to be right so uh now let's get to the 66 real quick um I just got this forwarded to me by a friend of mine just questioning this my name actually popped up in the comments section too so they're saying 66 now some people are asking me is it worth it to buy a Brazilian Beetle h i mean as time goes on if the real Beetle the old you know the real Beetle that came out of the German Factory starts going you know getting Out Of Reach which a lot of them are and even the type twos the micr buses they're getting out of reach for to many of the common buyer just somebody that wants to have a goodlook car a good-look Volkswagen to toodle around with and they're getting Out Of Reach they getting it to the six figure marks or we're getting close to 100,000 something like that the Brazilian option might be your option because they're always they're worth less and they're a little more affordable uh so looking at the 66 they say it's a 66 but someone mentioned down here that it's a 68 now I did say to you guys in the past that a 70s something looking Beetle from Brazil would look like a 66 or 65 you know they were late they were slower on the characteristics and the transitioning that the American Market had so you still had low back seats you still had a hard Dash so you still had the characteristics of the you know pr67 Beatles on a 70 model bug but always the dead giveaway to me with a Brazilian model is the horn button um if you see this horn button it's not the wolburg crest it's their their Brazilian Crest and usually if you look at the fuel gauge it says Gasolina on it uh and also their speedometer would be in kilometers so you know there's some quirky things about the Brazilian model that's just a little off from the American bound or german-made uh factory made Beetle so something to keep an eye on there uh they like I said they are saying this car is a 66 but somebody did mention below that it's a 68 but this car also looks lowered in the back there's something up with the rear uh but right now this car is around I don't know around 10 grand I'm missing the emblem in the back Hood it's got the an aftermarket bumper set you know cuz it's got the grommets on the end of the towel bars yeah see the car is really sagging in the rear uh so I don't know what's up if they have something lowered here they have a lowering kit or something wof I don't know to me that's I don't like messing with the rear end like that but you know again this car is at 10 grand and if it stayed around there I mean yeah that's not kind of affordable and if you go driving around and you know most people are just not going to care you know what year it is or where it came from you know as long as it looks like a cute bug so these are your options here but I just wanted to point this car out this is still live I'm bring a trailer right now as of this week it's uh SE it's February 29th 2024 and let me see how much time this car's got got so it's got another four days and it's currently at $10,000 so Brazilian options are out there that are a little more affordable for you guys so all right that's a quick video I hope you enjoyed that I was definitely intrigued by this 56 oval rag uh Canadian standard rag top Beetle which is pretty rare these days uh to find something like that to fit your fancy and uh all right guys leave uh comments in the comments section below love to hear what you guys think I'll see you later [Music] m