This car has been a hi- tech hot VW in one form or another for most of this decade, but now it has finally become the car its owner, Richard Cooper, dreamt of way back in 1987 when he bought a 1975 1200cc

Beetle from Belgium (hence the left-hand driving position). Before its current guise it was already a well sorted car with a Gene Berg 5-speed and a 2276cc, fuel-injected motor for starters.

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