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“Back in the 1990’s whilst working as a Marketing Manager for Kettle Chips, I was inspired by the owner’s story of discovering Norfolk whilst on his European road trip...”
DAVE RICHARDS
Vivid Yellow Subaru Sleeper!

I knew then that one day I would like to explore Europe, its many cultures, cuisines, and landscapes on my own road tour. At the time I used to travel regularly to festivals and remote beaches in my good friend Luke’s bay which I loved, but when I met the infamous Poncho-Poncho and saw his split, I knew that one day I would own one of my own”.

It was at Latitude festival in 2011 that Norman Comfort met his now wife Chix, who owns a business importing wines from across Europe to sell in her wine bars in Brixton. The couple commissioned Border Restorations to source a suitable base vehicle to rebuild to their specifications and this split, originally a ‘65 US Samba was found. It was stored and up for sale quite locally in Portmadog, Wales and a viewing was arranged on Norman’s behalf. The seller had recently emigrated to France and needed to liquidate some assets to help fund his projects across the channel. It was a proper ‘ten footer’, it looked OK from a distance, despite a few obvious and unsightly repairs to the floors. The seller assured Border that the bus had been in a body shop, the welding and repairs were all done and it was ready for paint…

Once purchased and back at the workshop, a proper inspection could be made. And although the bus may have spent some time in a body shop, it had never seen anything approaching even a partial restoration. It was very disheartening to find rust that had been hidden with filler and primer. The only thing for it was to start again. Someone had spent an awful lot of time hiding rotten panels, if they’d just spent a little bit more time they could have done it properly first time round.

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Lance & Lisa Beaver tell the story of their...‘Old School' Westfalia Bay

The history of our bus is varied. I heard that it used to belong to a soccer player who lived in it for a while, and a tale of a cross country trip that was taken in it. Since we’ve owned it, we have been to numerous car shows with our car club Kahiko Kula and enjoy that immensely, but taking it camping is our joy.

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Messing About in Boats

“Believe me, my young friend, there is nothing — absolutely nothing — half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.”

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Hector A Cautionary Tale.

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Since the tender age of just 3, Joanne Dix has been into splitscreen Volkswagens.

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Playing with Fire
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Playing with Fire

‘There we were, all just sitting around the campfire...’

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Four lads take on Le Mans

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Happy 70th Birthday, Miss Sofie!

This T1 Bulli from 1950 is the world’s oldest street-legal VW bus and is kept in VWCV’s Classic Vehicles collection in Hannover.

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Sitting on the Dock of the Bay…

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California Dreamin'
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The beginning of our second week and we were being treated to a day out...

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Brochure Line - A 2.6 litre T3!

Taking a peep at a highly desirable VW Bus few of us will ever see in its ‘Exclusiv’ finery

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