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CINEMA has long been the architect of our passions, and seldom is this more the case than with people who love cars. Whether it be the trio of Minis in The Italian Job, Paul Walker’s Nissan Skyline in The Fast and Furious or Steve McQueen’s Ford Mustang in Bullitt, many of us can trace our love for all things four-wheeled to a film we watched years ago.
For Luke Theochari, that film was The Love Bug. It was adapted from the book Car, Boy, Girl, and Luke went to see the movie on its release all the way back in 1969. He fell in love with Volkswagen Beetles, kickstarting a lifelong association with the iconic ‘People’s Car’.
After establishing Terry’s Beetle Services in 1986 alongside friend Peter Engelzos, Luke went on to become the go-to specialist for VW bugs, building race-winning, 1,000bhp dragsters, and restoring VW Type 2 buses for the likes of Jamie Oliver and Jenson Button.
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