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The life aquatic

If you’re a regular reader of VolksWorld, you’ll remember the Cal Look Ghia on turtle backs from a couple of issues back. It was pretty much the polar opposite of this svelte, stock example, but both are the recent handiwork of Pete Morley and his crew at Californian Classics (www. californianclassics.co.uk).

We say recent, but this Dolphin Blue coupe has actually been hanging around for a while now, but became another of those lockdown projects that are only now slowly blinking their way into the post-Covid daylight.

Whilst many businesses have suffered as a result of the global pandemic, a

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