One thing about classic Volkswagens is that you can buy a perfectly restored or ratted example and find you just can’t help yourself from taking something off or adding something new to it. It seems buying one that’s good to go and

enjoying it on the open road is only part of the fun. The enjoyment in putting one’s own stamp on a VW is the other, and Oli Bradshaw fell into this latter category when he bought his dream car, a perfectly presentable Oval Window Beetle which was ready to drive. But Oli had bigger plans.

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