My first car (a 1973 Beetle) and first car to undergo the full restoration process. This had been my daily driver whilst on a year's work placement whilst at university but of course with a job comes money and with money comes ways to spend it which at that time meant the car.

Subjected to a full, body off, anything and everything restoration with a few custom tweaks and tricks along the way. So, after new floorpans, the bottom six inches of the body all the way around, a new front end a few 'tricks':

Smooth dash - nothing except the speedo and the glovebox was visible, this included hiding the stereo.

Relocate the fuel filler from the wing to under the VW badge on the top-centre of the bonnet - press down on the badge, it flipped up and revealed the filler.

Obviously the paint work was a little labour of love, even more so that this was the first vehicle I had ever sprayed, let alone the first graphic paint-job. So out with lots of masking tape, mix up some metallic orange paint and metallic blue for the flames/scallops (sclames?) and bury it all under clear lacquer, then cut and polish it all, easy really, ahem! Please note it was all sprayed on the drive-way and in the garage - no fancy spray booths around here folks.

Wheels were powder-coated and then masked off to spray in the grey fleck/splatter paint to give a cast metal look. The same paint was used on the engine hardware to keep the theme flowing through the car.

The overall theme was to inject a large dose of 1960's hot-rod. This was all done before the 'hot-rod' theme became a trend in the V-dub scene.

Eventually sold it to a woman who just fell in love with the way it looked, to the point where she never sat in the car, let alone take it for a test drive before handing over the £££'s...gotta love it!!!