1972 VW 1600TL 'Fastback'

It's about time I started one of these!

Bought in 2002 as a replacement for my marina blue 1600TA, sold to Dubscene magazine. It originally looked like this:



and was bought as a 'runner', including the inverted commas which indicate it was a runner if you were a bloody lunatic. The brakes especially were little short of apathetic of any stopping requirements.

Features:

Engine of unknown capacity, possibly a 1641, maybe 1776, but since it works we're loathed to strip it to find out!
Pair of carbs from a Porsche 356 sticking through the engine cover
One-piece fibreglass flipfront
'Smoothed' dash - in reality some wallpaper stuck over filler that was deep enough to cover the heater controls without removing them.

It then sat for a year in my garage, before being trailered down to t3d in cambridgeshire for some much needed safety work. this involved a whole new braking setup, new exhaust (after puppy nearly poisoned himself driving it to the test station), some welding although only a tiny amount, and an MoT. I then proudly drove it back..... and put it in a barn along with a few bits I'd collected - a pretty good dash top (getting rare, but a £10 clearout bargain!), two new doors with proper windows to replace the one-pieces, and some new lights and dials.

Roll on three years, and I've just been to the owner of the barn who is arranging for the rewiring to take place - when the dash was smoothed all the wiring was fooked - and he reports it should be done within the month. yay! then it's time for my porsche 944 seats to be trimmed and fitted, a carpet and some paint.

if it's not done by bugjam, i'm reliably informed by my wife that the salvage yard over the road have a crushing machine that would like to meet it.....

current state is - (excuse the cameraphone pics....)