System PORSCHE
To fully understand exactly what you’re looking at here, we need to take you back a few years to around 2011. Back then, Jamie Colley was the proud owner of a very respectable looking Type 25 with a 1.6TD engine. The problem was, there was nothing respectable about being overtaken my petrol tankers for a guy who works as a technician for Porsche.
Jamie: “I’d seen a few Subaru conversions doing the rounds, but I decided to keep it VAG and fitted a 1.9TDi engine from an Audi instead.”
He did all the work himself, including the necessary upgrades to fly-by-wire control. Now, you might not know Jamie, but we’re confident you’ll know somebody just like him: “Once I’ve done something and, in my eyes it’s finished, then it’s up for sale,” he explains. Does that ring any bells?
“People can never understand why I’d get rid of something
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