What would you do with an extra twenty to thirty grand? Take a trip around the world? Use as a down payment for a house? Buy a new car? How about restore an old one? That's roughly the amount world-renowned West Coast Classic Restorations (WCCR) charges to tra
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It's interesting the way some people progress through the VW hobby. Time and tastes evolve inevitably, and many times the fire of youth is replaced with more conservative values reflected in a given enthusiast's choice of project platforms. Take Southern Calif
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On a glass-bottom boat tour you're likely to see some fish, no doubt; and depending on where you are touring, the odds are good you'll see one or two types of fish dominate the waters around you. In Southern California you'll see Snapper, while in the waters o
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For me, patience isn't a virtue I practice on a regular basis. When I want something, I want it right away and I want it just right; it has to be a vision of perfection in order to make me happy. Although perfection is stamped all over this '66, Tom Enriquez o
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The craftsmanship involved in the construction of some custom VWs doesn't cease to amaze us. Not surprisingly, a small fringe of our readers will always find something to hate about these unique creations. While they politely acknowledge their disdain, we like
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Easily the most utilitarian of the original VW models, the Type II, or "Bus" as most of us know it, enjoys a niche all its own in the world of automotive enthusiasm. While the Beetle's universal appeal lies simultaneously in both its role as a historical icon
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With an e.t. of 8.96 at 155.87mph, this car is the quickest VW in Australia. Owned by Rod Penrose from Kembla Grange in NSW (New South Wales), the record was set in November 2001 when Rod ran that time at Victoria's Heathcote Park Raceway.
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We can already hear it. The story you are about to read is going to upset some of our readership; but in all honesty we don't care. After all, we have taken a few risks in the past by running features of "cosmetically challenged" VWs (check out last month's ra
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It's been said before, but the Beetle's universal charm is nothing short of amazing. The car's appeal transcends boundaries across the board, both within the realms of automotive enthusiasm and without. You could be a dyed in the wool muscle-car fanatic, a cla
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Some rides featured in VWTrends have left their mark on the Volkswagen scene. One such vehicle is Fred Hidalgo's Stink Bug . This gearhead/artist put his imagination to work and turned up with what many deem as one of the most influential
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As you've read in the previous pages, the Hot Rod culture is alive and well in the VW community as well as staying put in the V8 crowd. But it's not only a requirement to have a Rat Rod to drive down the street, it's imperative to look the part. Usually this s
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The Volkswagen world is quite diverse, and the more you look into it, the more you realize that there were more than just Beetles, Ghias and Buses built back in the 1960s, and not all VWs produced rolled off the assembly lines in Germany. As Volkwagens spread
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Smoking tires and a pile of rubber: an image most wouldn't expect from the wheels of a typical Volkswagen. Nevertheless, it's the most vivid memory I have of this wonderfully equipped '62 Beetle; a far cry from anything typical.
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In case you haven't noticed, there's a war going on at dragstrips across the country, and vintage VW drag racers are embedded firmly in the trenches. Not that VW drag racing has ever gone away, but compact car racing--billed under the catch phrase "import drag
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Since 1978, Volkswagen has been quietly turning out brand new aircooled Beetles at their plant in Puebla, Mexico. This state-of-the-art plant, with 14,000 employees, has produced 1.7 million Sedans to date. The "Sedan" (its official name in Mexico), is only pr
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Talk about a strange bird. From the front, it could almost pass as a Type III sibling, while the rear has definitely some traits in common with Type IIs. The vehicle is called a Volkswagen Fridolin, a.k.a. Type 147, and came out of the Westfalia production lin
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Driving through Yucaipa, Calif., a small desert town just inside the San Bernardino county line, you wouldn't know it but you are within a stone's throw of one of the best kept secrets in the Type II community, until now that is. The mammoth blue steel buildin
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Check out this beautifully restored 1963 VW Split Window Bus featuring a Como Green Vinyl interior.
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I'm shocked sometimes to hear that people are living out there in this VW world of ours with only one Volkswagen in their garage or only one VW in their name, yet there's clearly plenty of room for more. They've got two- and three- and sometimes more-car garag
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A Vw Trends Magazine reader takes his 1975 Volkswagen Kombi Bus from the Cape to Cairo, Egypt.
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A Vw Trends Magazine reader takes his 1975 Volkswagen Kombi bus from the Cape to Cairo, Egypt.
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Read this Vw Trends Magazine featured article about a trip Across Africa in a Vintage 1975 Volkswagen Kombi Bus.
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Ever since I learned as a schoolboy about the British imperialist Cecil John Rhodes and his vision of the Great North Road from Cape to Cairo, I have dreamed of driving the length of Africa, earth's second largest continent. Like many dreams, it seemed no more
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As an auto body parts salesman for Ford, Paul Amicone of Ambler, Penn., is around cars for most of the day, but for the rest, he's around Volkswagens. Since he was roughly 15 years old, Paul has always wanted to build a Volkswagen that would turn people's head
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For something so simple--the combination of a coil spring and a dampening shock--it took the auto industry nearly 60 years to come up with it. Since then, the MacPherson strut has been used on hundreds of different cars from Peugeot to Volkswagen and has since
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