VolksWorld

Air Jordan

“I had no intention of changing the overall look when my dad sold it to me, but I definitely wanted to give it a modern twist”

Is it feasible that all classic Volkswagen owners are people that were just pain-in-the-arse kids who didn’t have a hobby and were not all that good at sport? I’ve long bemoaned the lack of football conversation amongst my VW friends, and a lot of them are still pain-in-the-arse grown-ups, so I’m starting to wonder if Jordan Hale’s description of his own path to air-cooled ownership is a much more familiar one?

“I think it might be!” he laughs. “I hated sport at school, but I did have an interest in classic cars.

“Randomly, one day my old man decided to pick up a copy of VolksWorld, and we went to the Show that same year. It all just went from there.”

From a single copy of this ol’ rag to a full on, air-ridin’ Resto Cal 1960 Bug? Honestly, we’re blushing.

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