Formed in 2008, the Karmann Coachbuilts Club is the original and largest community of Karmann owners.

Our members live all around the globe, from the UK, mainland Europe (Germany, Sweden, Holland, Norway etc), the USA, Canada and yet farther a field to Australia and back again. Our members own a wide variety of Karmanns ranging from the early Volkswagen Type2 (Bay Window) Karmanns to the very latest Karmann's models which are still being manufactured today.

The club owns and operates the only "Karmann Coachbuilts Register" and at present this Register contains details of in excess of 500 Karmann's.

In June of each year the Karmann-Coachbuilt Club hold their UK National Treffen (meeting) in the beautiful area of the Peak District National Park in the United Kingdom. This provides our UK (and European) members with the opportunity to meet the other Karmann owners and friends both old and new. In Germany the Karmann owners hold their National Annual Treffen at Stove in August.

Our website and forum have been created to allow all Karmann owners to share information about these vehicles and with a specific aim of helping all the VW Karmann owners enjoy Karmann experience to the full.

We hope you enjoy your visit to our site and if you own a Karmann or you are thinking of buying one, please do join the forum.

The UK National Karmann Treffen 2012

Germany National Karmann Treffen 2012

Details of the 2013 events are in the Karmann Forum

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T3 Karmann Gipsy and Cheetah's

In total 741 T3 Karmann Gipsy’s were manufactured on the chassis of Volkswagen T3 (T25 / Transporter / Vanagon). This number excludes 30+ 14" wheeled Syncro models made between 1986 and 1989 and 7 Syncro 16″ wheeled models made between 1990 and 1992. Parallel to the Gipsy production, 113 Karmann Cheetah’s were manufactured by Karmann between 1980 and 1992 to make a grand total of 891 T3 examples.

At present the "Karmann Register" contains details of 374 surviving Gipsy's and Cheetah's, but there are many more out there we don't know about. It is understood that there are 6 of these vehicles in North America, but 4 of these need to be confirmed. To our knowledge, six examples have so far been 'written off' or scrapped  representing a 2.4% lost. If we were to apply that 'lost' percentage to the total Karmann production figures, this means there are a maximum of 870 surviving examples, however the exact number of surviving examples may never be known.

The Gipsy and Cheetah's on these pages and represented on the forum are just a mere 40.08% of the total Karmann Gipsy/Cheetah survivors. One wonders where are the others!

 

Total Gipsy's Produced:	778	Known examples surviving:	322	Survival Rate:	41.38
Total Cheetah's Produced:	113	Known examples surviving:	51	Survival Rate:	46.01