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In the beginning... • When this car was photographed for the cover of the February 1975 issue of Hot VWs magazine, it was known simply as ‘the white car’. 50 years after it was built, it’s known as the car that started the Cal Look movement

NEVER Surrender • Building a hardcore Cal Look Bug in England is difficult. Building one of this quality in a single car lock-up in Walthamstow is an extraordinary achievement

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California (Look) über alles • But even in California in the ’70s, the style wasn’t as clear cut as we might like to think

TREND setter • VolksWorld changed the perception of California Look in Europe when Ivan McCutcheon completed his ’67 Beetle in 1994. We thought it’d be cool for him to recount the story

Viva la revolution

G0 pony go go • California Look puts the sting in the tail of a Ghia its sporty looks always demanded

Insight: Kinky Turtles by Mike Pye

Look of the Irish • Nose down, tail up, de-chromed body, single-colour paint… Yep, this bad boy scores well on the Cal Look check list

Phileas BUG • This ’67 took a little more than 80 days to travel round the globe before ending up in the UK, but with a distinctly Californian vibe

From California it came • In this issue we’ve got two European-spec ’67s dressed as US-spec ones, but this one is the real deal. Or is it?

Motor spec • If you read the feature first, you’ll know this car has had several hot engines in its time, and the 2276 that’s in it now is the latest. We don’t have a horsepower figure for it, but Ron describes it as “adequate”, explaining, “It ran a 13.4 on a Pro Street gearbox with long fourth gear and less compression, so should be good for low 13s now with the combination I’ve got in this car.”

’SHELL energy • Some people like to make their lives easy. Others, like Robert Robello, choose the hard way, starting a project with just a bodyshell

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