The Shadows Guitar sound

Hi I am looking to get the guitar sound from the shadows song Apache. Can any help?

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Surf guitarists are noted for extensive use of the "wet" spring reverb sound and use of the tremolo arm on their guitar to bend the pitch of notes downward. Tube (valve) amplification, often through a Fender amplifier, is standard to achieve the Surf sound. The use of vibrato units (or more properly, tremolo) is also common; these were typically built into the guitar amplifiers of the late 1950s and 1960s, and more recently in effects pedals. Distortion is not commonly used, but occasionally a fuzz effect may be heard.
If you don't have the Jam Packs, I would goof around with the parameters mentioned in the above paragraph until I found a satisfactory sound.

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