DEVILISH DETAIL

If you’re into the finer things in VW life then you’ll love this ridiculously detailed award-grabbing double-slider Bay

WORDS IAN CUSHWAY

Aurélien Bes from Toulouse bought this ’69 Bay Window in 2014 and finished it in 2020 ready for the show season, just as Covid hit. It was absolutely ‘shot’ he explains, or a word similar to that effect which we can’t repeat here. Alas, he doesn’t speak much English. That might have come as a nasty surprise given the fact that despite having done up a Beetle and a Buggy, it’s was the first Bus he’d tackled. More impressive still is the fact he ended up virtually all the work himself. “I made my own ‘spit’ so I could turn the Bus on its side then spent the next year cutting out all the rust,” he explains. This included a ‘orrible’, as he put it, aftermarket sunroof from an Opel.…

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