OLD SCHOOL ’66 BEETLE
If you’ve got a decent memory and are a fanatic of period accessories, you might well remember Peter Neilsen’s stunning red ’54 Oval we featured in 2018. That same year, Peter brought the car all the way from his home town of Silkeborg in Denmark to display at The VolksWorld show in Esher. It was dripping in trinkets that brought many grown men to tears (you may have spotted our own Mark Walker going a bit dizzy about the seat covers in a recent column).
Peter owned that car for almost 30 years, it being the first car he ever drove. And yes, you did notice the past tense dropped in there. The car was sold to a buyer in the United States at the end of last summer as Peter had
