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With Chris Jones’ period rally-style Oval (p54) in mind, we’ve gone off on a bit of a side track for this month’s Old gold, back to ’89, but not as we know it. It’s the German magazine, , in the spotlight, due to a track test feature it ran comparing a genuine Okrasa-powered Bug with a Porsche 356. Reason being, we thought it might be interesting to see some real-world data about how quick an Okrasa-equipped VW was, rather than just advertising

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