Unlike the other feature I penned for this month’s mag – David Hughes’ Doka – another David – David Carter – wasn’t trying to forge a new path or reinvent the wheel with this T5.1. Instead, he used a fairly familiar recipe with his T5.1 build but incorporated some pretty trick but subtle mods along the way – the kind of thing that stands out as soon as you look at a photo and wonder why no one has done it before.
Right from the off, this project had the makings of something great. David started the build with a 2011 (61 plate) Pure Grey T32 panel van – widely regarded as the best colour Volkswagen has produced for the Transporter range in the last couple of decades. I remember taking a holiday to France in 2010 when the T5.1 had just come out and seeing Pure Grey panel vans driving around – I hadn’t seen a T5 in this colour before, but gradually
