March 2023

VolksWorld

Britain's best-selling air-cooled VW magazine

VolksWorld2 min read
Organised Chaos
volksworld.ed@kelsey.co.uk Here at VolksWorld HQ, it’s all systems go as we count down the days until the 2023 show. As I type this, we’re beginning the final show car selection process, which involves sifting through the many applications we’ve rec
VolksWorld2 min read
Come Join The Party!
Order tickets online @www.volksworldshow.com Sponsored by Contact: volksworld.show@kelsey.co.uk We’re thrilled to announce further details of the 2023 VolksWorld Show at Sandown Park. With people all over the country busy finishing fresh builds, it
VolksWorld1 min read
VolksWorld
www.volksworld.com VolksWorld magazine, Kelsey Media, The Granary, Downs Court, Yalding Hill, Yalding, Kent ME18 6AL EDITORIAL Editor: Paul Knight Email: volksworld.ed@kelsey.co.uk Art Editor: Michelle Mitchell Sub Editor: Mike Pye Contributors
VolksWorld4 min read
Show News
Order tickets online @www.volksworldshow.com Julie and Diego from Nostalgia Cars in Belgium recently tackled the Dakar Classic rally in this wild Baja Bug, which we’re excited to say will be displayed at The VolksWorld Show. Having campaigned the car
VolksWorld8 min read
Travelling Man
Inspiration for custom VW projects come from all different places. Sometimes straight out of our brains, other times from outside sources. In this case, it leapt straight off the pages of Super VW magazine, more specifically one of the regular monthl
VolksWorld5 min read
Sweet Rıde
Here’s a little story about a German Bus that went to Norway, and then moved to England before settling in Belgium. It’s a tale of European unity to warm even the cold heart of Jacob Rees-Mogg. If you’ve been a fan of Volkswagens for more than a minu
VolksWorld5 min read
Natural Mystic
In 2017, Kalani Mack, originally from Hawaii, was looking to have some work done on his ’57 Oval to create a promotional tool for his food business. “My original plan was to restore and customise the car, and to use it in marketing and promoting my r
VolksWorld7 min read
(Back) In The Pink
Imagine if your day job involved choosing what cool car you wanted to build next. Paul Medhurst and Mark Fulton at Type 2 Detectives are two such lucky guys, although they’ve had to put a lot of effort into building a business that has earned them th
VolksWorld4 min read
The Thing
It must first be said that this isn’t Eric Latour’s first rodeo. Passionate about VWs since the age of 15, he has been helping other local VW ‘addicts’ in the Bordeaux region of France with their projects, ranging from Beetles through a ’66 Split Bus
VolksWorld5 min read
Holy Lowly
I know opinions are just that, but personally I can’t get my head around why someone would sand down and re-paint an original Delta Green Bus in its factory paint. [Hark, is that a can-o-worms I hear opening? – Ed.] That said, I’m sure there are just
VolksWorld5 min read
A Fine Mentor
How many of us can say that our earliest experiences of VW ownership were devoid of things that might now make us cringe? I know that for me personally, there are plenty of things I did to my first Beetle that make me weep inwardly, but then I came f
VolksWorld3 min read
Hot VWs
An Extreme Heat Warning at the end of July could not keep the VW faithful away from what promised to be another fantastic event in the grass at Tacoma, Washington’s LeMay Auto Museum, adjacent to the famous Tacoma Dome. Recognised as one of the 10 be
VolksWorld2 min read
Country Cousins
It was in 1967 that off-road enthusiast, Ed Pearlman, founded the National Off-Road Racing Association – better known as NORRA – and promoted the first Mexican 1000 race, starting in Tijuana, just over the Mexican border. The event soon came to be kn
VolksWorld2 min read
Cruising For Charity
Like every year, the pops and I kicked 2023 off the only way we know how – with a VW cruise along the Essex Riviera on New Year’s Day. After a night of partying like it was 1999, but actually 2022 / ’23, we woke up to a grey but dry start to the year
VolksWorld6 min read
Bigger Is Beautiful
Ever since the introduction of the KdF Wagen in 1938 at the Stadt des KdF-Wagens cornerstone ceremony, toy manufactures have jumped on the bandwagon and produced their own versions of the people’s car in miniature form. Naturally, German toy companie
VolksWorld3 min read
Patina Part 2
I’ve resisted making this column about the Patina Volkswagens books I had published, or patina cars in general, as I didn’t want it to seem like flagrant self-promotion. If you’re a regular reader, you’ll know that while I love patina cars, I also en
VolksWorld2 min read
Organised Chaos
volksworld.ed@kelsey.co.uk Here at VolksWorld HQ, it’s all systems go as we count down the days until the 2023 show. As I type this, we’re beginning the final show car selection process, which involves sifting through the many applications we’ve rece
VolksWorld2 min read
Come Join The Party!
Order tickets online @www.volksworldshow.com Sponsored by Contact: volksworld.show@kelsey.co.uk We’re thrilled to announce further details of the 2023 VolksWorld Show at Sandown Park. With people all over the country busy finishing fresh builds, it’
VolksWorld4 min read
Show News
Order tickets online @www.volksworldshow.com Julie and Diego from Nostalgia Cars in Belgium recently tackled the Dakar Classic rally in this wild Baja Bug, which we’re excited to say will be displayed at The VolksWorld Show. Having campaigned the car
VolksWorld8 min read
Travelling Man
Inspiration for custom VW projects come from all different places. Sometimes straight out of our brains, other times from outside sources. In this case, it leapt straight off the pages of Super VW magazine, more specifically one of the regular monthl
VolksWorld5 min read
Sweet Rıde
Here’s a little story about a German Bus that went to Norway, and then moved to England before settling in Belgium. It’s a tale of European unity to warm even the cold heart of Jacob Rees-Mogg. If you’ve been a fan of Volkswagens for more than a minu
VolksWorld5 min read
Natural Mystic
In 2017, Kalani Mack, originally from Hawaii, was looking to have some work done on his ’57 Oval to create a promotional tool for his food business. “My original plan was to restore and customise the car, and to use it in marketing and promoting my r
VolksWorld7 min read
(Back) In The Pink
Imagine if your day job involved choosing what cool car you wanted to build next. Paul Medhurst and Mark Fulton at Type 2 Detectives are two such lucky guys, although they’ve had to put a lot of effort into building a business that has earned them th
VolksWorld4 min read
The Thing
It must first be said that this isn’t Eric Latour’s first rodeo. Passionate about VWs since the age of 15, he has been helping other local VW ‘addicts’ in the Bordeaux region of France with their projects, ranging from Beetles through a ’66 Split Bus
VolksWorld5 min read
Holy Lowly
I know opinions are just that, but personally I can’t get my head around why someone would sand down and re-paint an original Delta Green Bus in its factory paint. [Hark, is that a can-o-worms I hear opening? – Ed.] That said, I’m sure there are just
VolksWorld5 min read
A Fine Mentor
How many of us can say that our earliest experiences of VW ownership were devoid of things that might now make us cringe? I know that for me personally, there are plenty of things I did to my first Beetle that make me weep inwardly, but then I came f
VolksWorld3 min read
Hot VWs
An Extreme Heat Warning at the end of July could not keep the VW faithful away from what promised to be another fantastic event in the grass at Tacoma, Washington’s LeMay Auto Museum, adjacent to the famous Tacoma Dome. Recognised as one of the 10 be
VolksWorld2 min read
Country Cousins
It was in 1967 that off-road enthusiast, Ed Pearlman, founded the National Off-Road Racing Association – better known as NORRA – and promoted the first Mexican 1000 race, starting in Tijuana, just over the Mexican border. The event soon came to be kn
VolksWorld2 min read
Cruising For Charity
Like every year, the pops and I kicked 2023 off the only way we know how – with a VW cruise along the Essex Riviera on New Year’s Day. After a night of partying like it was 1999, but actually 2022 / ’23, we woke up to a grey but dry start to the year
VolksWorld6 min read
Bigger Is Beautiful
Ever since the introduction of the KdF Wagen in 1938 at the Stadt des KdF-Wagens cornerstone ceremony, toy manufactures have jumped on the bandwagon and produced their own versions of the people’s car in miniature form. Naturally, German toy companie
VolksWorld3 min read
Patina Part 2
I’ve resisted making this column about the Patina Volkswagens books I had published, or patina cars in general, as I didn’t want it to seem like flagrant self-promotion. If you’re a regular reader, you’ll know that while I love patina cars, I also en

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