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    ’BOX OF TRICKS

    Dec 09, 2022 3 minutes

    hen roof boxes started becoming commonplace on VWs, I developed a pathological hatred of them. At that point in my life, I lived in Cornwall and I’d made a commitment to driving air-cooled VWs all year round. I was angry with the world and viewed the roof box as the epitome of being a sheep, and being ‘normal’, what I was most resisting in my life at that point. The dreaded roof box

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