I purchased my Benny from Vanvest 2006, Ive always admired VW's , I have to admit I wanted a splity but just wouldn't part with the extra cash, walking around I saw this one and went for it, Back in my early 20's I owned a mk2 golf gti, pretty tatty when I purchased it but with some tlc, time and loads of money it was a show stopper.
Benny was built in 1972 originally orangutang/white
roof, running a 1700, most the restoration had been carried out when I purchased him. He is now turkish green/white roof, 1600 type 1 twin port
The first item I purchased was a Protech drive in shelter and in my opinion its got to be money well spent.
It broke down a few times within months of having him but basically teething problems nothing major and flat battery every time I wanted togo out, forever jump starting the old boy!, and what with no power steering and what felt like no brakes I started to think I'd purchased a lemon and even worse I was growing guns on my arms and legs lol.
Early February 2007 I found a VW specialist, I had it lowered - purchased twin 34 webers and a single glasspack. When you install a glasspack you will get a really deep and aggressive tone in stead of the boring factory exhaust i personally love glasspacks. And another thing that's nice about them is they improve your fuel economy(depending on how you drive) and they can also give you anywhere from 5-10hp to so that's always nice. When the mechanic was working he found that the servo on the breaks wasn't connected which explained why I needed to stamp on the breaks to stop!
Still not entirely happy with how the drive felt I took Benny to the Race shack mid 2007 for a full diagnostic test and retune and gave him new tyres all round, since then he has done me proud.
It houses an original Westfalia conversion, I have since gone on to have some custom interior chroming and bespoke sun visors made.
I'm sure there's loads more stuff to tell....watch this space
Photo taken by VolksWold RTTS 2009 July mag
