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1980’s NOSTALGIA

It could be argued that Volkswagen buffs are nostalgic by nature. If you weren’t, you’d probably be reading magazines about the latest cars, rather than VolksWorld, right?

Of course, that sense of nostalgia is nothing new. People have been reminiscing about their youth since the dawn of time. But for many of us VW people today, our fondest recollections are of the mid-to-late 1980s.

To better understand why this era was so special, we need to travel back a little further to the 1970s, and the dawn of the ’80s. The British Volkswagen scene in particular was a very different place back then, the modified side of it relatively

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