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    Double feature

    Aug 20, 2021 3 minutes
    By Mike Pye

    So, if you’ve read the features in this issue first, you might now be wondering why a car like Brett Hawksbee’s Ghia, which was such a big part of the emerging UK custom VW scene, never appeared in VolksWorld before.

    To understand why, we need to take a step back in time, to around 1986, maybe even a year or two earlier. These days, there are magazines devoted to incredibly niche aspects of various hobbies. Like fishing but only want carp fishing? There’s . If you’re into tractors, but only certain types, might be the one you

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