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Mystery machine

The subject of this month’s feature has been something of a mystery over the years, and perhaps writing about it here in VolksWorld magazine will let readers and collectors alike have an idea about its presence.

First, though, we have to jump in our air-cooled time machine and head back to the 1970s. I was with the US army at the time, stationed in the area of Schwäbisch Gmünd in Germany for two years. As I have noted in these pages before, that is when I really started to become interested in vintage Volkswagens, having the

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