"I first got involved with VWs when I was 14, and my brother and I would drive by a VW shop every day after school. I thought I wanted to buy a Bug as my first car. Later, I went to the grocery store with my mom and I bought my first two VW magazines. I read those and admired those cars for a solid month, waiting for the new issues to come out.” It was shortly after when Stephen Hartlauer made a friend at school who had a ’72 Baja daily driver; the pair started hanging out together and his VW addiction grew, a sign of things to come.
They went to a local meet at Taco Bell and Stephen was exposed to even more of the scene. “Shortly after that
