e can think of 2276 good reasons to build a UK Cal Look car, but we’d probably never come up with the one that set Mark Houghton on the road to this hard-as-nails ‘56. It was all his friend’s fault! “It’s true,” he laughs. If you’ve ever spent a moment perving over the UK Cal Look Register page on social media, chances are high you will have come across Joel Johnson’s green 56 Oval, Cal Looker. Mark and Joel are the archetypal ‘best friends for life.’ Their mum’s were friends before them. They went to the same schools, grew up in the same area of Bromsgrove and in their late teens got their first Beetles together. With both approaching the mid century in a couple of years time, there has been something of an air-cooled renaissance. “I
