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30 years ago

With the feature in this issue on Brenda Perrin’s fabulous US last edition ’77 Beetle, it seemed apt that there should be an article in this month’s retrospective on Mexican Beetles.

As noted by Stefan Szantai in the copy that accompanies the pictures of Brenda’s car, Mexican Bugs were never officially imported into the US, making them something of a rarity over there. But here in the UK, thanks largely to Beetles UK (the former name of Danbury), a large number were imported, though they’ve always sat slightly outside

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