’66 TIKI SPLIT
Following the bicycle accident on Easter Sunday, 2013 that so cruelly claimed 24-year-old Kyle’s life, his parents had the unimaginable task of going through their son’s things. Finding the proposed specification of his cherished Bus, together with drawings, and a detailed plan of the trip he planned to undertake across America in the Bus, Paul and Vicki made a joint decision. Rather than spend considerable time and money on therapy to come to terms with their loss, they would see Kyle’s project through to fruition. That would be their therapy, and a fitting tribute, too.
Kyle had already travelled the world to engage in art projects, and rebuilt a ’73 Bug that was given to him at age five (!). It had blackberry bushes growing through it at the time, but he gradually rebuilt it and finally drove
