Imagine if your day job involved choosing what cool car you wanted to build next. Paul Medhurst and Mark Fulton at Type 2 Detectives are two such lucky guys, although they’ve had to put a lot of effort into building a business that has earned them the right to create fun build after fun build. And let’s not be coy, each one of them is also a business decision, they’re not simply building their own private collection.
The fact that fashions regularly seem to re-surface some 20-30 years after they were first popular is a phenomenon that puzzles many. Is it a response by a fresh generation of people donning a nostalgic pair of rose-tinted spectacles? Or is it more about there being a finite number of ideas in the world, so old ones come back when we run out of fresh ones? Whatever it is, the resurgence of 1980’s-style builds is one of the current hot tickets in the air-cooled Volkswagen scene, as evidenced by last year’s VolksWorld Show
