Mid-life crisis part 2

It doesn’t seem right to try and cram 14 months and 1,100 hours of hard graft into a few pages of a magazine. But, when the pictures look as good as this and the magazine is VolksWorld, hopefully we can pull it off.

If you’re a member of the Split Screen Van Club’s monolithic forum, you cannot have failed to miss one of its cornerstone threads. Lurking in the Rides and Projects section lies a build thread to end all build threads. Entitled ‘My first VW!! Mid Life Crisis’ it runs to over 300 pages and has had in excess of half a million views, and documents one man’s battle against a basket case ’66 Split.

Spoiler alert: he wins and the finished Bus made the front cover of our sister mag, Camper&Bus, in February 2014.

Well, the man that authored that thread and built (though it does all get a bit confusing in the epic thread) the Bus is 52-year old Mark Pindar. A bodyshop manager for BMW by day and restorer of old VWs by weekend, or any other moment he’s a good boy and wife, Claire, grants him man cave time.

So, now please