I thought I’d show you a friend’s VW you very likely have never seen before. He’s a Waterside lad and restored it in 2003, drove it to shows and stuff until 2007 and then to everyone’s surprise left it in his garage for 18 years.
Just recently the car has been recommissioned and is doing the shows again.
My pictures from 2004, but it still looks as good…
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People from the waterside do that My old man had an MG midget that stayed in his garage for about 10 years and never moved until he passed on and it was left to my nephew who has got it back on the road.
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I’ve certainly never seen one, weren’t they mainly sold in Brazil?
Yep, Volkswagen SP2. Made in the Karmann Ghia factory near Sao Paulo but never sold outside the country. A few have made their way around the world and there are about 4 here in the UK.
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I’m guessing from the air intakes on the C-Pillar that it’s the old air-cooled flat four?
Yep it was a 1700cc Type 3 pancake flat 4 engine. Not terribly quick but like a lot of aircooled VW easy to upgrade into a monster. 
I never knew they did drag racing at Silverstone.
Bit of nostalgia there for @lifeintheslowlane 
good old-fashioned seventies filming, and I’d swear there’s a bloke taking the piss out of Saville around the 2 minute mark.
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Was RuPaul around in '73?
They’ve aged well
This a feature with a hairy-chested drag queen…at Blackbush Aerodrome in 1964.
It’s the same supercharger I have on my KG.
I was going to say, they wouldn’t get away with a title like Drag On a Summer’s Day in 2025.
What was it?
Looks like an Austin 1800.
@scotty there were a lot of us about yesterday evening. We were all going to an evening meet at IBM Social Club in Hursley…
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That’s probably where he was headed then, given that he went down Pound Lane.
Yep that’s the route North Baddesley’s two rare Karmann Ghias took.
You’ll be pleased to hear that the MGB is now sporting a Dutch-made distributor incorporating electronic ignition, plus a shiny new coil and is running as sweet as the proverbial nut. 
Hes not crossing the road
It could be any one of those four photos