March 2024

VolksWorld

Britain's best-selling air-cooled VW magazine

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Stand Up, Sit Down, Keep Movin’
My good buddy, Jolly Jim, has doubled as my ‘photographic assistant’ for at least a decade now, and just recently we were trying to guesstimate how many ’shoots he’d attended over the years. “It must be 100,” said Jim, to which I replied, “And then s
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Come Join The Party!
Order tickets online @ www.volksworldshow.com Sponsored by The world’s best air-cooled VW magazine brand has teamed up with its fellow publications, Classic Porsche and Performance VW to bring you not just the best air-cooled VWs, but also the crème
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Perfect Circle
Many cars hold a certain amount of sentimentality for people. With varying degrees of attachment, and for numerous reasons, we hold on to these lumps of metal and wires with a passion normally reserved for a loved one. So, when Spencer Pritchard lost
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Morale Boost
Take a canary yellow 1970 Beetle, refurbish it with new wings, bonnet, decklid and valances from a ’65 model. Then cut the roof to fit a ragtop and paint the body bright green, enhanced with magenta and sapphire graphics. Sounds like a car that some
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Script READING
Thanks to the Portland Sculpture & Quarry Trust for the use of Tout Quarry Sculpture Park & Nature Reserve for the photoshoot Who doesn’t love a Ghia? Who doesn’t love true patina? Who doesn’t love slammed suspension and shiny wheels? My word, this c
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Dog gone Ghia
Regular readers will most likely remember our feature on Chris Godding’s Beetle a while back, running his own brand of custom Dogtown Wheels – three-piece split rims that he has machined out of solid billet alloy. When Chris first bought that Beetle,
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Car Blanche
I remember the feeling Fabian had that day in the bookstore very well. I had a similar epiphany when I walked into WH Smiths aged 11 and discovered magazines with VWs in them. The feeling of eager anticipation we all had back then, waiting for the ne
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APAL Of His Eye
As well as being a member of Belgian Cal Look club, Der Autobahn Scrapers, David Ballard is also a big American car enthusiast. So, when he decided to choose a Belgianmade Apal Jet Buggy as the basis for his new project, he determined to combine his
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Sheep In Wolf’s Clothing
When I first saw the pictures of Ashley Smith’s low riding ’58 Bug, I immediately liked what I saw. I even guessed the colour – L434 Fjord Blue – as it’s one of my favourite classic VW hues. What I wasn’t expecting, however, was a 30-horse engine. I
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All WHITE now
It seems you can’t turn on any form of social media these days without being bombarded with stories of special ‘barn finds’, or crusty discoveries from deep in a forest / in a remote desert / up a mountain etc. So much so, I think it’s fair to say we
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New Year revolution
More often than not, it’s the teenager of the house that ends up hungover after a New Year’s Eve party, but that wasn’t the case in the Knight household this year. The parents headed off to a party, leaving us kids at home to get a good night’s sleep
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Identity Crisis
From time to time, you might see this little blue tin VW convertible in toy collections, at toy shows or for sale on online auction sites. Invariably, when you do they will be referred to as a Hebmüller Volkswagen convertible, VW Type 14A. However, a
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Busman’s Holiday
After a few Christmases where our house has been full of visiting family, we decided on Christmas Day 2022 that things would be different in 2023. We’d be going away. I’m notoriously bad for not wanting to agree to Christmas plans until we’re into au

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