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REACHING THE ZENITH

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’ve been fascinated by so-called Old Speed performance upgrades for VWs for many years, but have never got around to building an Old Speed engine. Now, don’t get me wrong, I love Vintage Speed – the distinction in my mind being that genre seems to be defined by anything pre-1600 (i.e. early 25 / 30bhp and 1200-1500 engines), while the Old Speed title seems to fall to the 1600

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