“The entire concept was based around a purple Cyclone exhaust that isn’t even fitted to the car”
Laurent set up his El Dub Nostalgia website, which you’ll find at cal-look.no/nostalgia, in the year 2000, and has been researching anything and everything to do with the pioneers of the custom VW scene ever since. On top of that, he’s also a passionate collector of rare original parts, and his current stable of cars includes the Auto Haus-logo’d Split Bus, the old Auto Haus custom Bug that was discovered by Randy Carlson, an original slalom Bug called the Zig-Zaggin Wagen and the savage Bug.
To some, all these cars represent an era of custom VWs that went out of fashion as the ’70s drew to a close, and should perhaps better be