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A BIT OF ALL WHITE

We were parked in the pits at last year’s Le Bug Show to check out the drag and circuit racers when we first stumbled across this ’65 Bug belonging to Maik Koller. Thirty-nine-year-old machine operator Maik lives in the town of Brebersdorf, Germany and has owned a string of neat VWs prior to this project. “I have a ’64 Type 3 1500S at home and have owned cars including a ’69 Bay window, a ’56 Oval Beetle and a ’79 Mk 1 Golf.”

This particular project was purchased back in 2000 and Maik spent the next five years rebuilding it. Yes, that’s right, it was completed

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