There are finite ways an enthusiast can come into possession of their next project. Barn finds, hand-me-downs and the little old ladies nursing their garage-kept Polos are all fit for punching your next project car ticket. But sometimes it’s the cars right under your nose that work best.
“I got this car from my good friend Jesse Seymour in April 2013,” 35-year-old Daniel Herrera tells us. “I had painted this car Alpine White for him and that’s how we met and became friends.” Daniel, a body shop owner from Bowie, Maryland, is no stranger to these pages, having painted a handful of previous feature cars including Joe Tavella’s 24v Mk1 (PVW 3/13) and Tony Grimmel’s Mk2 Jetta Coupe Rallye (PVW Autumn 2017).
One thing you’ll notice is the pop of colour that’s no longer reminiscent of snow. We’ll circle back to that. “Back then Jesse had his eyes on a different project and wanted me to do the bodywork and paint on his new car, (a white MK1 GTI that found itself on the pages of the December 2014 PVW). He knew I always
