BLANK CANVAS

Despite growing up enjoying family holidays in a Split Bus and helping his dad convert a Bay panel van into a camper, and even running around in Beetles and a Fastback when he was young, 54 year-old Eddie Blackmore from Workington, Cumbria had never owned a Volkswagen of his own. Until September 2017, that is, when he clicked on the ‘bid now’ button for a dilapidated looking ’69 1200A Beetle. He bought it as a derelict rolling ’shell from a guy in Yorkshire, with no interior, very little glass and a 1200 engine with more end float than Kim Kardashian’s grandmother.