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    The original Outlaw

    Oct 16, 2020 1 minute
    Words Mike Pye
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    VolksWorld (Keith Seume)
    “a screaming yellow zonker, and way ahead of the Outlaw 356 trend”

    ‘Rad’ Ritchie King has always been ahead of the game. He was importing and magazines into the UK before the dawn of . He chopped a 1950 Mercury when most people in the UK had never even seen one for real, and he was building custom Karmann Ghias and modifying Porsche 356s when the VW / Porsche scenes in this country were all pipes, slippers and turgid concours events. Ritchie King is the original Outlaw, and in February 1995 brought you his ‘Hollywood hotrod’.

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