Hidden treasures

I’ve always been a fan of Volkswagens, in particular the Beetle. Having owned a ’69 in high school — until I ran the oil dry on a trip from Oamaru to Timaru — I had always liked the idea of finding another one that needed a bit of work.

I’m a builder by trade and when we started a shed extension for a local automotive engineer who happened to own a ’69 Beetle, we naturally got talking. I asked him to