Mike Wolanin | The Republic Terry Milligan poses for a photo with the 1974 Super Beetle he is restoring at his home in Columbus, Ind., Tuesday, July 11, 2023.
By his own admission, Columbus resident Terry Milligan was “always taking stuff apart” as a kid and trying to figure out how things worked.
As a teenager, this interest turned toward cars, as he had a friend whose dad was into hot rods.
“We didn’t know what we were doing, but we had access to all these really great tools at my buddy’s garage, and we had access to their knowledge, and it was like, ‘This is great,’” said Milligan. “And so you just learn and pick up on it. I was a junior in high school, I bought my first VW Bug and three months after I bought it, I already had the engine tore out of it trying to rebuild it. And I didn’t know what I was doing; I just had a book and a whole bunch of tools. And…
