he German toy firm by the name of Karl Arnold GmbH was in business from 1906 to 1965 primarily manufacturing toys and games in the Nürnberg area. To the delight of the vintage VW toy collectors, the Arnold GmbH product line introduced during the early 1950s a large 1/18-scale, 215mm or 8.3 inches in length Split Window Volkswagen toy with a catalog number of 4000. The body on the new released VW toy represented the basic silhouette shape of the Split Window sedan and there was great attention to details of the body proportions. The cutout windows and the seam lines of the VW as represented in the hard plastic, injection
