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Behind closed ’Doors
The idea of turbocharging air-cooled VW engines first gained acceptance in the 1970s, but it was still far from a common thing to do then. VolksWorld has followed the trend and featured its fair share of turbo cars since it started in ’87. Historical
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Hardcore Honey
This ’61 Bug has been on our radar for longer than we can remember. It’s no wonder, as its owner, Mark Akullian, began working on it some 27 years ago now, not that long after I wrote a story about his former car, a turbocharged ’57 Oval, in the earl
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Six Of The Best?
Writing the feature on Chris Gosting’s Corvair-powered Notchback for this issue (see p21) got the cogs twisting in my brain and made me want to look a little deeper into these conversions, which had a short-lived boom in popularity in the late 1960s