Four tuned

This isn’t the first car Joel Johnson has had in VolksWorld, though it is his first full blown feature. Many years ago, his Cal Look ’67 was a Readers’ ride, but was then sold to fund his tenure at university. Even that was a good while ago now.

That ’67 was his pride and joy at the time but, not long after it was in the magazine, Joel decided his life wasn’t really going anywhere and that he needed to do something about it. He didn’t completely leave the scene behind, always keeping an interest and owning a Mk1 Golf that’s been on the back burner for years.

“I always felt an Oval Window was the pinnacle of Beetle ownership, though it’s more the windscreen shape and front of the roof than the back window that does it for me,” he explains.

So, when family life and work commitments became a bit all consuming, he made the decision to start looking for an Oval