Showing Off His Split Beetle

This guy is definitely showing off his standard Split Beetle. Well, I can’t blame him if your driving such a nice Split. It looks like a post July 1949 Split but it still has the ‘football’ type mirror. I thought these changed somewhere mid ’49. I can’t determine if this beetle has the thin aluminum trim or the thick chrome trim around the lens of the tail lights. From mid 1949 through very early 1950, Beetles used the thin aluminum trim version. The thick chrome trim ones were used on pre mid 1949 Beetles. This car also has the non embossed deck lid, small VW logo hubcaps and new style bumpers instead of the ‘banana’ style bumpers. All visible features making this a post July 1949 Split Beetle. Of course it can be modernized which was very common back then.