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Derelict Deluxe

“if you have a Split in your garage, and have always lusted after a Samba, why wouldn’t you do the window and roof mod?”

I suddenly felt really old while writing this intro. Reason being, I was about to launch into one about how I remember a time when Sambas were rare. You know, you’d go to a VW show like Stanford Hall and might fix you peepers on one, two or three at most, in the SSVC line up, but that’s it. Especially enthusiastic types might even take a picture on their camera, hope it was in focus, no one had walked in front of them as they’d taken the photo and then waited a week for

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