Hopefully you can see this pic, it's a direct link to a facebook page so I guess may not show due to permissions etc.
But assuming you can see it, I was 'Papped' at the first Nation Meet I attended. I'd had the car about a month iirc and the roof bars were there because I was buying a load of parts off Bobby (G60go).
There's something I really love about this picture, it shows the life this car had had 'rust an all'.
It was something that after the restoration started I felt very weird about changing. Like the car lost some of it's character forever.
Anyway, I recently watched the episode of Salvage Hunters: Classic Cars, with Drew Pritchard where they tackled a Beetle and very professionally restored it restored it to a very tired and worn out condition .. huh!?
Well anyway some more info and pics about that here: https://patinavw.com/salvagehuntersclassiccars/
I didn't really dig the Beetle, I'd have loved to see it pristine, but I get it!
And I couldn't help think about my journey with the beloved Eleanor and how in her transformation she lost some her story, but started a news one..... Very philosophical, but I hope you get what I mean.
I find Drew to be an abhorrent arrogant little twerp , and he just goes around schools companies museums ripping people off ..Love T though
Seems to be the theme with any car restoration show, there’s always an annoying presenter.