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Long in the roof

’68 SQUAREBACK

“if you like to mix your classic VW ownership with a bit of practicality, there’s really nothing in the air-cooled VW range (except for the Marmite Type 4) that can touch a Squareback”

There’s no doubt Las Vegas is an absolute hot bed of top-flight VWs. The glitz and glamour of the Strip, the overblown hotels and casinos, the neon signs of Fremont Street and just the whole experience of the place fully translates to the build styles of the local VWs. Vegas VWs, in general, are crowd pleasers.

Steve Peter has been a Vegas resident for 50 years now, and is a member of the local Misfits Volkswagen club. Being of that kind of age where he was around to witness the 1980’s VW scene first hand, it should come as no surprise that Steve’s first VW was a daily driven 1970 Beetle with colour-coded eight spokes.

Unlike most of us here in the UK, though, Steve’s first car didn’t have an

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