VolksWorld

VolksWorld is Britain's best-selling magazine dedicated to the whole air-cooled VW scene and a must-buy for all fans of the legendary vehicles, particularly the iconic Beetle. VolksWorld takes pride in going to extraordinary lengths to bring its readers the most outstanding and fascinating features packed full of the very best photography and information that cannot be found anywhere else.

Volksworld Magazine

The Riviera look • Knighty traces the new wave VW scene back to its source

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SO-END dreaming • It may have taken Toby Dammery 30 years to own the car of his dreams, but when those ambitions were formed in Southend in the ’80s, there was only one style he was going for

Hello again Dolly • With the price of Splits these days, no one would cut one in half, but in 1989…

Learned behaviour • Often, when your family is into one thing, as a teenager you rebel and go the other way. But when they’re consumed by the VW lifestyle, the best option is to jump aboard

The gambler • No Kenny Rogers reference here, just a tale of a couple of good old boys who knew when to twist and when to stick

Double feature • How and why Custom Car and VolksWorld shared the new wave booty in the late ’80s and early ’90s

So-End dreaming

RAD’ rides of YESTER YEAR • Both these cars were built in California in 1987. One has been in almost continual use since, the other has just come out of hibernation...

Full circle • Another one from ‘back in day’, Gary Hartwell originally built this wedge chop in 1990, and recently bought it back again to re-live his youth

The way we were

THE MISSING INK • Brett Hawksbee’s T-top Ghia was one of the leading lights of the new wave VW scene yet, would you believe it, this is the first time it’s been featured in VolksWorld

BACK TO ’84 • Stu Betty is the man behind the Back to ’89 movement but, when it came to (re)building a car for himself, he went a few years further back…

Right place, right time

20 YEARS AND COUNTING • For this nostalgic trip down UK Cal Look lane, we asked Stu Betty for an update on what’s happening in Back to ’89 land

File it Mignon • Nothing to do with steak, or those funny little yellow figures, instead an early remote control VW toy

BRUNO AND THE DEATH BUS • Mark Walker on the Buses that started his addiction