If there is any truth in the disparaging idiom ‘those who can, can, those who can’t, teach’ then Kevin Snuggs definitely can, and he absolutely did – just don’t go expecting him to be rocking up at your local polytechnic any time soon! This neck-breaking T5 is a product entirely cast from his own hands, with help from his cousin, big Daz, along the way.
The path to a T5 for 41-year-old Kev is a familiar one, with a ferry load of Golfs and Caddys in one form or another having passed through his hands first.
Well, familiar that is until we hit a Renault Traffic around 2013. Kev explains (and he’d better!): “At the time, I was doing mobile smart repairs, and also working out of my cousin Daz’s unit doing anything from a half bumper to a full repaint.
“He trained me to paint over 25 years ago, and I used the Traffic for carrying my generator and other kit around to jobs.
No illusion
“When I decided I needed something a bit bigger, the T5 was my first choice.” Working to a tight budget, Kev found the perfect candidate in this base model 2010 SWB T28 Panel Van. But be under no illusion. In 2014 these pictures would have looked a little less dramatic and lot more Reflex Silver.
“With hindsight, I would have gone for a higher spec, older, six-speed and facelifted it, but this was the newest Van I could get for the money at the time.”
In a wonderful moment of automotive schadenfreude, on the way home from putting down the deposit, the previously reliable Traffic threw a tantrum and the gearbox failed.
Just two weeks after that, the new Van was running on 17in banded steels and a set of Jom coilovers.
هذه القصة مأخوذة من طبعة Issue 89 من VWt Magazine.
ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 9,000 مجلة وصحيفة.
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هذه القصة مأخوذة من طبعة Issue 89 من VWt Magazine.
ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 9,000 مجلة وصحيفة.
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