You may recall from the Volksworld Show post, that after we’d got back from the show back in March we spent some time putting together an email to Volksworld Magazine in the hope that they might think that Carlos was worthy of appearing on the pages of their publication.

Well, somewhere round the beginning of May, I had a call from Brad – and he was more than a little bit excited!

The reason behind his excitement? Well it wasn’t the fact that he’d come home after yet another 48 hour stint in the office to find the latest copy of Tax Monthly Magazine sitting waiting for him on the doormat. Nor was it his Elton John tickets. Oh no, it was something altogether more appealing than that!

Not only had Carlos made it into that month’s magazine’s Readers’ Rides section, but he was Car of the Month!

And, there was a photo of him on the Contents page!

All we need to do now is somehow get Clarence featured in the magazine and the whole family will have made it in there – although Brad did suggest that we could maybe avoid this becoming some sort of VW arms race……..

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Well as it happens, he made it under his own steam. Admittedly this was after he’d spent over 2 and a half hours waiting for the breakdown guy to arrive, but fortunately said breakdown guy simply diagnosed some slightly misadjusted points so he was soon back on his way! It’s almost like these old VWs know when the most inconvenient time to break down is……

Anyway, as the car was to be used to take the condemned man to the site of his execution, we needed to get some ribbons on it. I was a little disappointed not to be getting in on the act and ribboning up the bug or the bus, but the fact was that it was a very long trip down to Hanbury Manor and I wanted to make sure I got there ok. Oh, and Andy offered me a lift – which meant that I didn’t have to drive home the following day. Which, as it turns out, was a very good thing!

The journey to the church was a little like something out of Top Gear, in that we kept overtaking Brad and Jim in the KG and taking photos out of the window. Unfortunately those are all on Brad’s camera, as mine is still buried somewhere at the bottom of my storage room. I’ll add those at a later date, and in at least one of them you can see Jim holding up the horn push button, which fell off half way to the church. I hope Brad quickly realises that this is simply a part of owning an old VW, and something that you just have to get used to!

After an awesome weekend I was very glad to have taken the Monday off work. I’m not exactly motivated at the moment following the announcement a couple of weeks ago and the wedding had been pretty tough emotionally (I miss her), so what better way to forget about the stresses and strains of recent events than to get out in the bug for an hour or so in the sunshine? Had a lovely little potter around, with the soundtrack being provided (quite loudly) by ACDC – it’s a pretty awesome combination! On the way back to the ranch I took the opportunity to pop in and see our friend John at Beetle People for a coffee and a chat, and thoroughly enjoyed catching up with him.

As promised, now Brad has returned from honeymoon here are the shots we took of Carlos en route to the church!

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