Kim Valentine never stopped looking for his first family car, a honey-coloured VW Beetle, and earlier this week he found it in a paddock under an apple tree on an island off Tasmania.
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.The 1971 honey-brown VW Beetle sits abandoned in a paddock on Bruny Island, south of HobartKim 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.
They had driven south from the ferry terminal to check out a new restaurant, and as they turned out of the car park Mr Valentine looked left for any oncoming cars and noticed a honey-brown VW in a paddock.
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