It’s funny how influences we pick up in life tend to stick with us. We might park them in a long-forgotten dusty part of our minds, like a car project under a cover in the corner of a garage, only to somehow return to them years, or decades, down the line. One of the early influences that stuck with Neil Hansford is being at an early Bug Jam age 17, when there were Bajas everywhere with stingers fitted. I well remember that time myself, especially being woken by the sound of a stinger apparently inches from your tent at some ungodly hour!
Neil parked that particular influence for a while, and embraced a few others, including Beach Buggies – he has a very nice, simple early-style Manx, as well as a lowered Karmann Cabriolet on Magnus Walker rims, a bone stock ’64 Bug and a stock Mk1 Golf Clipper Convertible. I get the feeling that if it has a VW badge on it, he’s up for owning it!
This project, however, came about more by accident when he discovered that a
