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In this edition

Badly Dubbed
Yes, it’s 30 years since the first Golf Rallye rolled

PRECIOUS METAL
At the Blechworx workshop near Berlin, rare Rallye steel is subtly going under the knife – and that’s as much about preservation as it is about presence.

MOUNTUNE’S M52 RANGE
Mountune, the Brentwood-based Ford performance specialists

What’s New?
The sad news that track legend Maurice Reeves had passed

DANCES WITH WOLVES
Some people use Lupos to pootle to the shops. But for Greg Gordon, this lupine little tearaway is all about dancing through the curves and monstering the straights on any racetrack he can find…

STEER FROM THE RARE
Up until recently Audi only produced the R8 in all-wheel-drive then, in 2018, some bright spark decided to make a limited run of rear-wheel-drive cars. Just 999 R8 RWSs (effectively a GT3 R8 for the road) were ever built and this is car number one!

SOUND DEADENING
Keep the bad noise out and the good sound in - it really is that simple. Here’s how!

THE RALLYE BROTHERHOOD
Two stories of polar opposite Rallyes that ‘you couldn’t write’ gave us one hell of a contrast, 30 years down the track.

CULT FOLLOWING
Coming from a family of VW owners, it’s no surprise Dennis Bialke wound up behind the wheel of a Mk3 Golf. That said, there’s nothing else predictable about this cleaned VR6 more door!

SHOCK WAVE
Following on from coil springs last issue, this month we look at dampers; how they’re made, how they work and why they’re an essential part of your car!

ELSECAR 2019
For many northern VAG owners, Elsecar At The Races marks the start of the forthcoming show season and it’s become a favourite place to debut those recently completed winter projects.

2019 RALLYE SHOW
What better way to celebrate 30 years of the Golf Rallye than attempting to gather 30+ cars and owners together for jelly and cake?

2019 VW JETTA S
With our Wörthersee trip coming up, and the deadline for the ship that will carry the cars from the USA to Germany, it was time to get the latest and greatest new seats from Recaro mounted into the car.

1993 VW GOLF SYNCRO
Literally fresh off the boat (see last month’s issue.), and with only 7 days until the comeback Alpine VAG Fair show in Helen, Georgia was happening 750 miles away, I decided it might be cool to fix up this car and try to drive it there.

1993 VW ATLAS SEL R-LINE VR6 4MOTION
And this month’s prize for longest car name, and quickest lowering of a brand new car, goes to.this nice new seven-seater 2019 VW Atlas!

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RELOADED
What are these Reloaded pages all about then? We launched

REWIND
It’s already a year since Tanner Foust bagged cover

TALK THE TALK 204
OCCUPATION: retired military - CEO - Blount office

EVENTS DIARY 2019
Crosland Moor Airfield, Huddersfield Facebook: The

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