9-inch Split

“Maybe Distler should be credited with the first ‘chop top’ Volkswagen?!”

Perhaps one of the most desirable models of the vintage toy era, the stamped tin Distler Split Window Beetle is sought after by both VW toy and model collectors alike. It is one of the largest scale vintage VW toys produced in quantity and was manufactured by the German toy firm, Johann Distler K.G. of Nürnberg, the epicentre of Germany’s buoyant toy industry.

Distler had already been producing tin toys for years when the KdF Wagen was officially introduced in 1938, and it did not take long for the company (along