Engine Punk

So there you have it - The Car With No Name built by Anon I find this highly amusing. Through the power of the internet a chap has got in touch about a mysterious VW based special that I saw years ago at the National Kit Car Show at Stoneleigh. I featured this as VT No. 54 , described it simply as a VW Special and asked if anyone could identify it and tell me what it was called. Bob Bateman got in touch to say it was his car and it was called the CWNN. What does CWNN stand for? It stands for Car With No Name. The origin of this car still remains a mystery. Its builder must have called it something and if it still exists it ought to have something other than Volkswagen on its logbook or V5 because it definitely isn't a Beetle anymore. And the authorities are a bit fussy about that nowadays, unlike the glory times when this car was built. As if anyone could mistake it for a Beetle.... I nearly bought this issue Bob has filled in some of the gaps. He wrote about it i...

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...