Vintage Thing No.54 - VW Special (the Car with No Name)
I was looking for a better picture of a GP Centron (I'm sure I've got one somewhere) but found this instead. It was taken at the Kit Car Show at Stoneleigh in c.1984 when I was a student at Coventry (Lanchester) Polytechnic (now Coventry University). I have the vaguest of feelings that a Centron turned up at the same show but if I took a photo of it I can't lay my hands on it. Written on the back of the print (in crayon) is VW Special - a state of the art statement of the obvious - and that's all I know about. But what sort of VW Special?. Someone's gone to a lot of trouble over this, which I'm sure is a one off. Okay it's ugly, but it's practical. Those are Beetle side windows and that's a Beetle windscreen. The front headlamps could be off a Mk1 Escort as they look suspiciously like those on my Siva Llama. I wonder about those doors. How are they hinged? Why is the handle down so low? Could it be that they are gull wing doors? If anyone anywher...