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Our Friends Electric
volksworld.ed@kelsey.co.uk Every now and then, a topic crops up at VolksWorld HQ that divides opinion, and this month it’s the subject of electric vehicles we’ve been debating. Not EVs in general but, more specifically, converting classic cars to ele
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Behind closed ’Doors
The idea of turbocharging air-cooled VW engines first gained acceptance in the 1970s, but it was still far from a common thing to do then. VolksWorld has followed the trend and featured its fair share of turbo cars since it started in ’87. Historical
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Prairie Dog
Luke Theochari and Terry’s Beetle Services are legends in the UK VW scene. I remember reading about his and his beloved late wife, Helen’s, cars in VolksWorld before I was even old enough to go to Volkswagen shows. When I did finally talk my older br
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Hardcore Honey
This ’61 Bug has been on our radar for longer than we can remember. It’s no wonder, as its owner, Mark Akullian, began working on it some 27 years ago now, not that long after I wrote a story about his former car, a turbocharged ’57 Oval, in the earl
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New RED
The 1964 Shelby Cobra Daytona Coupe was the first car to make the National Historic Vehicle Register in the USA when it began in 2013. If you know what that car is, that should come as no surprise. What might raise a few eyebrows, however, is the car
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Studerman’s Legacy
It’s hard for many of us to remember a time when Porsche’s earliest models were practically worthless. Same goes for other now highly desirable classics. I remember my great uncle Lawrence telling me he’d once seen a Mercedes 300SL ‘Gullwing’ on a se
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Against All Odds
I’ve written before about so-called survivor cars. More specifically, what constitutes a survivor car for me. But I got to thinking in the past week about survivor parts. For most people, that might make you think of NOS, or ‘good used’ parts that ha
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Coupé do Brasil
Produced in Brazil from June 1972 until December 1975 for the domestic market only, just 10,205 Volkswagen SP models were produced, 681 of which were exported to Africa, the Middle East and Latin America. Despite being voted Volkswagen’s most beautif
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Cor’ Blimey
Remember the VW scene of the late 1980s and ’90s? A time when creativity was on display everywhere, and builds were a riot of wild colours, body modifications, unusual wheels and crazy interiors. There seemed no end to the fresh ideas and every VW sh
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Six Of The Best?
Writing the feature on Chris Gosting’s Corvair-powered Notchback for this issue (see p21) got the cogs twisting in my brain and made me want to look a little deeper into these conversions, which had a short-lived boom in popularity in the late 1960s
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Varnishing Poınt
Alternative-engined VWs are not a new thing. The Subaru boxer motor has been a favourite in the VW engine swap community for years. We’ve seen Golf diesel-powered Splits in the past, as well as Porsche and Corvairengined Buses, if six cylinders are m
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One For The Chop
From time to time, you come across these little Japanese tin Volkswagens for sale at toy shows, or in online auctions. The oval rear window shows they represent the 1950’s era of Volkswagen production, so it’s no surprise to learn these toy VWs were
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Starter Motor
Email: VolksWorld.ed@kelsey.co.uk Email news, thoughts and products to VolksWorld.ed@kelsey.co.uk Email your news, thoughts, opinions and products to volksworld.ed@kelsey.co.uk New at John Brown Wheels (JBW) are these Cookies – essentially a replica
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VolksWorld
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TOP Bossing
We’ve seen numerous customer projects surface from the gates of Irv’s Resto Shop in recent years, but occasionally the talented team behind the doors finds the time to work on their own cars, too. This beautiful 1959 Porsche 356A coupé belongs to the
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Full Steam Ahead
volksworld.ed@kelsey.co.uk As a fellow VW enthusiast, you probably share the same deep appreciation for Volkswagen’s history, design and engineering as many of us. Similarly, you may also enjoy tinkering with, restoring and perhaps modifying these ol
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Future Proof?
Email your rides, thoughts and opinions to volksworld.ed@kelsey.co.uk Ireland’s Glenn Williams is no stranger to VolksWorld. The radical creations he and his brother have created have always made you stop and look (check out your back issues from Sep
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Burning Desire
Do you have a burning desire to build your own car one day? Do you picture it, daydream about it, save pictures on your ’phone for inspiration for when that day arrives? I do. It’s mostly just a collection of ideas. The car itself is not set in stone
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Full CIRCLE
Not many of us are lucky enough to have grown up in families with parents who drove air-cooled VWs when they were new, but Erik Thorsen was one of the chosen ones. Not only did his father buy the 1960 Double Cab pick-up you see here in 1971, but he t
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Bucket List
If, like me, the first time you saw a VW Kübelwagen was in one of those old World War 2 films on TV, they were always driven by the enemy, so you didn’t really mind if they crashed, or were blown up. They were almost all, as I was to later discover,
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Sign O’ The Times?
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
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VolksWorld Show
The daffodils are blooming, sheep are lambing and the big fireball in the sky is finally beginning to give us a bit of warmth. More importantly than all of that, across the land there’s a distant rumble of flat-four engines starting up. Many for the
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VolksWorld
www.volksworld.com VolksWorld magazine, Kelsey Media, The Granary, Downs Court, Yalding Hill, Yalding, Kent ME18 6AL EDITORIALEditor: Paul Knight Email: volksworld.ed@kelsey.co.uk Art Editor: Michelle Mitchell Sub Editor: Mike Pye Contributors: Rob
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The CHOP
Having owned over 200 VWs so far, ranging from Barndoor and 23-window Buses to full drag cars like The Red Baron Fastback, Utah’s Cliff Witham is well acquainted with just about every style of VW out there. However, there was one car in particular he
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FIERCE Look
Der Fieser Luftkühlers VW Club (DFL) was launched in 1998 and, in the time since, has grown to become one of the premier Cal Look clubs in Europe. Roughly translated, the name means The Fierce Air-Coolers, which is a pretty apt description of the car
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Memorable Times Part 2
In part one of this mini series last month, we looked back at the European VW scene in the 1980s, and how parts of it were influenced by what was happening in America, California particularly. This month, we up sticks and move to America and dig out
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Spark Käfer
A large percentage of the Volkswagen model cars we’ve covered over the years in VW Toys have been produced in Germany in the 1950s. This is no great surprise, of course, as the Volkswagen is of German origin, and the ’50s were arguably its heyday. Ho
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LAND Speedster
If you’re as old as me, you’ll likely remember the 356 Speedsters in Top Gun, Point Break and Doc Hollywood. But what’s the link between the Speedsters in all three blockbuster films? That’s right, they’re all replicas. I can clearly remember winding
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Combi-nation
It’s over 40 years since Jean-Marc fell into the VW ‘cauldron’. In 1982, he bought his first VW, a 1967 Beetle, then others followed, including Beetles from 1958, ’65, ’67 and a ’63 Cabriolet, which he still has today, but eventually he felt the need
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Come Join The Party!
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