DDK - Die Deutschen Klassiker

Also worth knowing (though I suspect you'll be going down the DIY route) is that Classicar Automotive do a really great job of refurbing calipers - they come back as new (inc. re plating of the outer surfaces). I sent them my 3.2 fronts a couple of years ago and they came back within a couple of day...

Thanks Nick - easy when you know how!

Okay, so you're all thinking run the engine to warm and check whilst running, but when I opened my '72 oil filler (the one on the outside of the car) to get at the dipstick, warm oil was being returned from the engine straight over the top of the stick - I guess this is a feature peculiar to the '72...

James / Dyno Thanks for your responses - I was just about to go with Hammerite but the VW forum review has changed my mind. Dyno - your piccies remind me of my teenage years and my first car!!! How those Beetle's rust so badly (well, mine did). I think I'll be spending some of my hard earned with Fr...

Thanks for the clarification Gary.

Nice car - hope mine looks like that when finished (and hope I don't find any tin worm that bad either)! Just one point on aluminium liners - don't want to scare everyone, but I was once told these would encourage rust in the surrounding steel areas. I hope I'm wrong and that there is a subject matt...

Guys Having this evening pulled the rear seat squabs out of my recently acquired 'no rust' Californian car (and yes, Nick did warn me), I have found evidence of previously standing water and the onset of the dreaded tin worm. Having bravely (or is that stupidly), prodded the area with a screwdriver,...