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Porsche 356 seats add a touch of class to this project

If you’re reading this and you’re too young to remember the pre-internet days of building old Volkswagens, you’ll probably never truly understand just how much more difficult it was back then to source project cars and parts for a build. Although the internet has blown the VW scene up with ready availability of rare cars and parts, in the 1980s and early ’90s you had to make do with what you could find.

Frenchman, Olivier Boggio, knows this all too well. He grew up on the delightful Côte d’Azur, the well-heeled part of the Mediterranean coast of south eastern France. It’s a place where the rich drive hypercars if they want to attract attention, but he was dealt a masterstroke at the age of 10 when his uncle imported a 1970

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