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Winner! Winner! - Owner : Blake Parson
I have been into VWs since I was a little kid. My first car in fact was a rusty yellow 1973 Super Beetle followed by a white 1966 Bug. As I got older life happened and the Bugs had to go to make way for more practical alternatives. Fast forward to 2020 and decided it's time to get back into VWs! Little did I know that I would be doing it in such a big way.
I attended an air cooled Volkswagen show in Dawsonville, GA which is
where I first met Rodney and Cate Culp, the owners of MetalMorphosis
Customs in Alabama. I started following them on social media and the
next year they announced they were going to build a custom 1963 ragtop
Beetle to raffle
off and raise money for the orphanage they operate in Indonesia called
Foundation 18, which is now called MetalMorphosis
Charitable Foundation.
That VW was won by a lady in Washington state, but as it was being finished
up they began work on their second giveaway car. A 1960 Euro Beetle with
semaphores that they named Paisley. On July 5, 2022 my phone rang. It
was Rodney and he wanted to know if I was sitting down. I had just won
Paisley! They were kind enough to deliver the car to me about six weeks
later and it was even more impressive than the pictures online.
Paisley was built in 105 days and 1,200 hours of labor. She has a full
leather interior, freeway flyer transmission, a brand new 1600cc engine
complete with air conditioning, VW Blue paint with paisley graphics, and
hand engraving on the horn button, hood hinges, and firewall. I've taken
Paisley to many shows since and she never fails to attract a crowd. It's
truly been a dream come true and I never thought anything like this would
happen to me!
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