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“for only £145 I was the proud owner of a Beetle”

When Neil’s parents told him their friend from Manchester was coming to see them in County Antrim, little did he know that this would start him off on a long and a quarter-mile straight road with a forlorn looking 1300 Beetle. A number of years prior to his visit to Antrim their family friend had started to restore his Beetle but the shop that was working on it had closed due to the unexpected death of the owner. With all the legal wrangling the ’72 was trapped in the workshop gathering dust. When the car was finally released the vim was gone from the project and the poor old VW just sat idle for the next two years. Said Neil: “Then a year or two later they were over in Ireland visiting my mum