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    Learned behaviour

    Aug 20, 2021 6 minutes
    Words and pics James Wallace

    If ever there was a story where parental influence plays a part in the outcome, Alex Boughen’s is it. Those pesky guardians have a lot to answer for here, not least for dragging 20-year-old Alex up proper, and blessing him with an irreverent sense of style and a non-conformist attitude to cars.

    Mum and dad, Beverley and Andrew, were most definitely part of the late ’80s VW uprising, when you could buy a not-so-old Beetle, or a used Split Screen Bus, for less than £500 and keep it on the road for not a lot more. Pastel paint, EMPI eights, DIY paintjobs, short shorts and weekends spent in fields were the order of the day back then. Ah, the good ol’ days, eh?

    The golden age

    Some call it the golden age for the modified VW culture, with a defiance and a youthful energy about it that seems to have been replaced by a somewhat more corporate

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