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Ian went one better than Steve Martin when he acquired this one owner from new ’67 Beetle...

How many cars have you owned? And how many of them have been VWs? For 92 year-old Ken Jevons from Bournemouth the answer’s three and just one respectively. The one being the Delta Green ‘67 1300 you see here. He bought it new from Hayes Corner Garage, Wimborne on 18 October that year, got it home and pledged that it would be the last car he would buy. And, yep, he kept to his promise and has garaged it every night for the last 52 years. He’s never even had the remotest intention of getting another vehicle.

Alas, there comes a time when even the most devoted Volkswagen enthusiast has to hang up his ignition keys, and that moment came a year or so ago when Ken came to the realization that driving was just getting a bit too much. Don’t get me wrong, at 92 Ken’s still able to do pretty much everything else – only stopping riding his bike reasonably recently, would you believe – it’s just that he felt it was time for the Beetle he’d cherished all its life to find a new home.

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