BACK TO ’84
“I found myself drawn to the image of Rick Pearmain’s lemon yellow graphic’d Bug parked on Southend seafront”
Visitors to UK VW festivals over the last two decades or so have enjoyed countless displays of nostalgic show cars thanks to the dedication and enthusiasm of Stu, the founder and main driver of the Back to ’89 movement, B289 for short.
The aim has always been simple – to celebrate and remember the custom VWs of the late 1980s and early ’90s.
If, like myself, you recall most of these cars, either from seeing them at shows or reading about them in magazines, the displays are a little window back in time, but they also serve as a rolling education for those fresher faces to the scene who have never seen or heard of some of
