When Simon Gough lost his convertible Bug in an accident in 1991, it wasn’t just the sorry Beetle that left him. “The feeling I had with that car never came back,” he says, sadly. “I went through another three Bugs during ’92 and ’93, but eventually they were all sold and I just moved away from the whole VW scene completely.”
If you think you’re ever going to fall out of love with Volkswagens, we have news for you. It just doesn’t happen. There may be gaps in ownership, but you will never fully lose it. Simon’s situation is the perfect case in point.
A year shy of a full three decades later, he found himself in Sheffield during the summer negotiating on another Beetle Cabriolet.
“I always knew there was a bit of me missing, car-wise,” he tells us. “After having a Bentley, a TVR, a Porsche and countless hot rods and superbikes, nothing ever really scratched
