Swamp Thing

Having written one or two of these features over the years (!) there appears to be a common theme appearing. We’ve noticed that a great many former modified Golf owners eventually turn to the dark side and go air-cooled. The really weird thing is, they don’t just turn their backs on comfort, reliability and performance, they go the whole hog and get into arguably the least comfortable, most unreliable and woefully underpowered (from the factory) air-cooled VW possible - a Split Screen Bus. In fact, we honestly couldn’t tell you how many Split owners have switched allegiances from Golfs, but we can tell you that Darren Chown joined their ranks a little over 13 years ago.