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Many people inspire us here at VolksWorld. Almost every tale we hear is one of adversity, passion and overcoming difficulty. That’s just the way it is when you have a passion for old cars, but for Barry Grunnell, 49, from Felixstowe, his journey has been an exceptional one of hard graft, guts and determination, together with a can-do attitude that’s as heart warming as it is inspirational.

We don’t want to harp on too much about the past, so let’s just say that when Baz was a younger man, he found himself living on the streets of Luton after getting a little bit too heavily involved in the illegal rave scene of the time, and losing everything as a consequence.

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The break he needed came when he was 18 and a bloke he didn’t know from Adam made a charitable gesture that was to

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