Volkswagen Beetle found by Hobart man in paddock after nearly 50-year search for first family car
A man who spent more than four decades searching for the Volkswagen Beetle he bought as his family's first car, almost 50 years ago, has finally found the honey-coloured bug after a chance sighting in a paddock on Bruny Island.
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A man who has spent decades looking for his first family car has found it accidentally
The 1971 honey-brown VW Beetle sits abandoned in a paddock on Bruny Island, south of Hobart
Kim Valentine says he often wondered about the fate of his much-loved Beetle
Kim Valentine was on a day trip to the island, south of Hobart, when he found the car he bought when his son Chris, now 48, was a baby.
"I often wondered what happened to that honey-brown Beetle — today, I got the answer," he told ABC Radio Hobart.
He checked the number plates and it was the very same vehicle that he bought in the early 1970s.
Read more: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-09-12/kim-valentine-finds-his-vw-beetle-in-paddock-50-years-on/12649032
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