{"id":34305,"date":"2020-06-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-09T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/volkswagen-t1-restoration\/"},"modified":"2021-10-14T08:34:18","modified_gmt":"2021-10-14T08:34:18","slug":"volkswagen-t1-restoration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/en\/volkswagen-t1-restoration\/","title":{"rendered":"Volkswagen T1 Restoration"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

If the managing director of a car dealership is infected with the classic car virus, it is no wonder that there are theme-fitting cars parked the showroom. It goes without saying that often not only the brand actually offered by the dealership is the main topic of the classic car collection, but also that it is possible to think outside the box. A corresponding example can be found in the Taunus Mountains directly on the river Lahn in the tranquill village of Braubach in Germany. Here you can find Sch\u00f6ntges Automobile, a Ford dealer under the management of Andreas Vierzefski, and a branch of the Foerster GmbH car dealership in Koblenz. Of course there are numerous new cars and young used cars in his parking lot. But there is also really old sheet metal in more than representative conditions. Recently, the in-house workshop restored a Volkswagen T1 built in 1964 to the condition in which it had once left the factory in Hanover.

The ‘Bulli’, as German-speaking fans nicknamed it, went to the USA by sea freight at the end of April 1964, where it was first delivered in Grand Rapids in July. Unfortunately, Volkswagen’s factory documents don’t reveal whether it was Grand Rapids in Ohio, Minnesota or Michigan. The vehicle with chassis number 1 287 791 was fitted ex works with a split driver’s compartment rear wall, split front seats and six opening side windows as well as a bicolor paint scheme in turquoise and blue-white with upholstery in como green. Sch\u00f6ntges Automobile received this information in the same way that any owner of a classic Volkswagen can use it: By requesting the ‘birth certificate’ from Volkswagen Classic Parts. The T1 itself had been acquired accident-free in Germany, to which it had been returned in the course of its car life. However, there was no way around a complete restoration.<\/p>\n\n\n

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