If you are after a specific vehicle, you can trawl the classified ads daily searching for the perfect project. But you’re just as likely to find the prime candidate through a different channel altogether – and this Savannah Beige 1972 Crossover is a case in point. The path that led it to the doors of Leon Spanos and its current owners is an interesting one, to say the least.
Leon’s Poole-based Concept Poptops and Upholstery workshop is next door to a motorbike MoT centre.
“We normally have something cool parked outside the unit, and it often attracts the motorbike guys waiting next door,” he says. “On this particular day, a chap came in and began telling me about a barn full of VWs that his dad owned.