Love you long time

Jon Bateman has more than just sentimental attachment to his GT Beetle, it’s been with him his whole life, and it looks set to stay in the family for many more years yet

Words and photos Jon Cass

“One day, my dad told me to take the old Beetle to the scrapyard, and said I could keep the money I got for it” “It had some amazingly bad areas where Beetles don’t normally corrode” As the 2017 show season is almost upon us, our thoughts turn towards the freshly completed projects we’re all dying to see. Some of these may have taken a winter from start to finish, others may have taken much longer, but one thing we never tire of is talking to owners and finding the story behind their own particular VW. When we met Jon Bateman at last year’s VolksWorld Show, we were surprised to hear that the main reason he’d chosen to undertake the restoration of his ’73 GT Beetle was because the…

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VolksWorld (Digital) - 1 Issue, April 2017

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