Third time lucky on this one, I've dipped my toe in the ownership of Trekkers twice before but never got to the end of what I wanted to do with either of them.
I saw this whilst, like many no doubt, cruising the FB forums on various cars, a flippant comment on a reply to a different thread showed me a photo that price dependant I knew I was buying the Trekker!
A few pm's back n forth saw me organising a flight to Newquay to look at the car. I knew soon as I saw it I was having it, but it was an unpainted shell with what I was told was all the parts to rebuild, in other words a big project, oh and it was 350 miles from home, naturally I left a deposit that day.
Back home it went to the paint shop for the hardest decision in car life, what colour? I settled on an old school VW colour called Guineablau, I hit the net to see any cars in that colour and couldn't find any? maybe i'm curse word at searching or it was a rarely used colour, I chose to believe the latter.
I got one door painted as a test to see if I was happy then the virus hit (that sounds like a zombie film line) and progress stopped completely.
Once lockdown eased the car got painted and back to my mates to thrash on it.
What a learning curve as despite being a simple vehicle the 'all the parts to put back together' didn't help as some were missing or most were that ratty and worn they just didn't belong a freshly painted Trekker, and being Trekker the parts have an extra VW scene tax to them or are harder to find than just generic bits. This has resulted in many of the parts being sourced new with a good few big items like Roof and side curtains still to purchase when funds allow.
This is how it sits for now, the before pics are in here for easy reference but credit to the PO for all the hard work and dedication to get it to ready for paint stage.
Pretty much every part is now new, the new loom was a biggie but sooooo worth it. Long term is change the interior as it came with some fibreglass bucket seats, not sure if they are my thing or not as yet.
suspension is fully adjustable but may go on air?
Other than that i can't wait to finish it and drive it now.
edit, some of my piccies haven't loaded ? bear with me
I saw this whilst, like many no doubt, cruising the FB forums on various cars, a flippant comment on a reply to a different thread showed me a photo that price dependant I knew I was buying the Trekker!
A few pm's back n forth saw me organising a flight to Newquay to look at the car. I knew soon as I saw it I was having it, but it was an unpainted shell with what I was told was all the parts to rebuild, in other words a big project, oh and it was 350 miles from home, naturally I left a deposit that day.
Back home it went to the paint shop for the hardest decision in car life, what colour? I settled on an old school VW colour called Guineablau, I hit the net to see any cars in that colour and couldn't find any? maybe i'm curse word at searching or it was a rarely used colour, I chose to believe the latter.
I got one door painted as a test to see if I was happy then the virus hit (that sounds like a zombie film line) and progress stopped completely.
Once lockdown eased the car got painted and back to my mates to thrash on it.
What a learning curve as despite being a simple vehicle the 'all the parts to put back together' didn't help as some were missing or most were that ratty and worn they just didn't belong a freshly painted Trekker, and being Trekker the parts have an extra VW scene tax to them or are harder to find than just generic bits. This has resulted in many of the parts being sourced new with a good few big items like Roof and side curtains still to purchase when funds allow.
This is how it sits for now, the before pics are in here for easy reference but credit to the PO for all the hard work and dedication to get it to ready for paint stage.
Pretty much every part is now new, the new loom was a biggie but sooooo worth it. Long term is change the interior as it came with some fibreglass bucket seats, not sure if they are my thing or not as yet.
suspension is fully adjustable but may go on air?
Other than that i can't wait to finish it and drive it now.
edit, some of my piccies haven't loaded ? bear with me
