When you own a company turning out top-flight restorations, some of the customers’ ideas are undoubtedly going to rub off on you. Dean Jones of Classic Car Revivals in Hertfordshire (classiccarrevivals. co.uk) has been behind several high-quality cars featured in VolksWorld and displayed at The VolksWorld Show in recent years, and this is his most recent personal project. Yep, it’s a little bit out of the ordinary for this magazine…
Let’s face it, though, since a certain point in the mid 1970s in the USA, and maybe a decade later in Europe, VW owners have been taking cues from the marque’s more expensive cousin – Porsche – when it comes to building cars that look cool.
When you look back at cars like Keith Goss’ chop top DKP car (owned by our founding Editor, Keith Seume, for a while) and countless others from that era, Fuchs or ‘Porsche alloys’ as they were called in California then, were the hot ticket. Similarly, chrome trim was removed, or blacked out, to emulate
