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SIGN O’ THE TIMES?

BORDER PATROL

Writing the feature on Len Jones’ Kübelwagen for this issue came at a time when I’d just come back from this year’s VolksWorld Show.

As I say in the feature, I’d never paid much attention to wartime VWs until a few years ago, and the only thing that brought them onto my radar then was seeing a ratty, slammed Kübel. The only reason I thought that one

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