(Mods if I’ve posted this in the wrong place please feel free to move, thanks) So I’ve eventually got round to wheeling my very first vw into the workshop. I bought this ‘75 back in 1988 when I was 18 and still in school. After being inspired by reading about what was happening in the vw world in Volksworld, Trends & Hot VW’s I carried out a 3 year body off restoration doing mods such as dechroming, solenoid doors, one piece windows, lowered suspension and Porsche turkis paint etc etc. I drove ‘Henry’ to bugjam, RTTS, beetlebash, summer nationals etc. and had a whale of a time. Over the years the chrome went back on and the car became a resto cal. The colour changed to black at some point too. It was my pride and joy and lived in a garage very rarely seeing the rain. Some time around 2001 I became quite ill and the car ended up in a field under a tarp. Eventually I managed to get the car back to my new home and after a number of years into dry storage. Unfortunately the car has suffered badly from spending nearly 20 years under a tarp and if it didn’t hold such sentimental value I would have just given it a good shake and swept it up. It’s now in the workshop and work is under way!
Very nearly went a different direction when I found a nos wizard van kit. This picture shows us eventually getting the car in the workshop. The van kit was sold to someone up north and I decided to go back to the Turkis looker built many years before!
Gutter on the driver side looking very very bad. It’s rotted right the way through and looks even worse from inside as the inner roof support is missing!
Having seen your other great work on here, I look forward to this resto thread. Good luck and glad you're back in the game.
Genuine steel W engine lid replaces the fibreglass one that I fitted back in the day when such panels were hard to find. It amazing when I think I built this car back in the day with the help of magazines and going to the shows. There was no internet back then and no eBay! Living in west wales was a long way from the Essex birthplace of the new wave scene!
Found a cool retro exhaust for fun. I’d rather a dual quiet pack which I think would be a little more sensible. Hoping one turns up
This car really is rusty everywhere. A hooky’s door post bottom is welded in and another body cut from a donor car and the door swings properly again
