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Lockdown Breakout

For the past 25 years, my summers have consisted of non-stop VW events pretty much every every weekend from April through ’til October, until 2020 when Covid changed everything… Missing a year of The Show was a bitter pill to swallow but, as the months rolled on and the summer panned (fizzled?) out, it was clear the postponement of Sandown was just the beginning of a nightmare season for events and gatherings of all kinds.

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