It seems that certain aspects of the 90s are making making something of a resurgence (checked shirts, for example). One thing that I thought was unlikely make a comeback was a black beetle owned by an old school pal of mine, Jim. I was more than a little cynical, therefore, when Brad mentioned that a …
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How did that happen?
That’s not me wondering how something went wrong on a Volkswagen (insert emission gag here), that’s me wondering how it’s gone from July to being October all of a sudden. September in particular just seems to have evaporated (4 days in Dublin probably didn’t help!). There are so many clichés kicking around about time going …
Not For The Faint Hearted
It’s a strange old world, and it seems that despite the sheer numbers of cars they produced, the VW world is actually quite a small place. This evening, for example, I received a private message on the Early Bay forum from a chap who had seen a picture of the bug on a post on …
The Beginning
Late July 2010. My 10 year old Saxo had just died, and I was in need of some new wheels. Me being me, something sensible wasn’t very high on the list, and thoughts immediately turned to old VWs. I’d had a bright orange ’74 some 10 years previously which the Saxo had replaced – whilst …