Keep calm & carry on

Here’s a question for you. Which one thing invariably ends up costing you the most when restoring an old vehicle? Is it the paint? Rust repair maybe? Or what about a major mechanical overhaul? No, it’s none of the above (but at the same time it’s also all of the above) because the answer is actually sentiment. Sentiment will cost you an arm and a leg, guaranteed.

If you allow yourself to become sentimentally attached to any classic car you’ll find yourself spending way more on restoring it than you would if you sold it and bought a better starting point to begin with. But as we all know, it doesn’t work that way with old Volkswagens does it? Once you allow something as charming as an old Bay Window into your life they have an alarming tendency to settle in and become part