Trophy Trap won Europe's Most Beautiful VW & Best of Show in 1991, 1st at Bugjam 2011 Nostalgia show & featured on TV this year. Unused & dry stored for 20 years, she remains in staggering concourse show condition and driven on dry days only!
Here are some 'You Tube' links of the car which go some way to highlighting the quality and detail of this beautiful car.
Bugjam 2011:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7ud_9-TKewSome still pictures:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuvlEQ6japUOut for a drive:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyzprZUAOncNBE 822M was bought by a familiar name in the Volkswagen circles, Andy Parrott in December 1988 with the intention of a light restoration which developed into a rebuild obsession of unrivalled proportion. Over 2½ years Andy turned the car into an award winning Cal-look showcar which went on to win 16 awards through 1991 including Europe's Most Beautiful VW (Best of Show) at BugJam 1991. It is not surprising she adopted the name ‘Trophy Trap’ and was featured in several magazines back then including Volksworld.
The amount of effort, detail and engineering that Andy ploughed into this car is beyond comprehension and these photos don’t do Andy’s talent justice. From frenched welding, too many handmade billet aluminium components to list, intricate single stranded red piped wiring throughout and a paint job that would rival any modern car – Trophy Trap really is a work of art. She needs to be seen to be fully appreciated.
Trophy Trap was bought from Andy in 1991 when a dedicated garage was built for her. She has remained in dry storage by the present owner, under a blanket and unused for 20 years, other than the occasional turning of the engine once every few years. This year it was decided the time is right for others to enjoy her so she was MOT’d in April - her last MOT expired in 1992, and displayed at Santa Pod, UK. In the last 20 years she’s driven just over 50 dry miles, all this year to the two VW shows at Santa Pod, UK. It goes without saying, she's never been wet.
This year, Trophy Trap won first place and trophies in both nostalgia shows at Bug Jam and VW Action, and also featured on TV this August in the Bug Jam documentary on Eurosport and Motors TV. She's also featured in a double page article in this months (Nov 2011) Volksworld magazine.
Body
Modifications: Shaved Bonnet and deck lid handles. Fuel filler flap, rear side air vents, exhaust cut outs and aerial hole have all been welded up and smoothed. Frenched electric aerial. De-seamed door pillars. Dashboard vents, speaker grills, ash tray and switch holes all welded up and smoothed, with Sony radio cassette frenched into the dash. 1965 desk lid and bonnet fitted c/w front & rear valances along with 6v style rear wings and tail lights. Front wings are late 12v type with Nissan Stanza front indicators.
Paint: Strippen to bare metal inside and out. ICI 2-pack etch primer followed by ‘loads’ of cellulose primer. Glasurit 2-pack ‘Tintable’ primer followed by Glasurit acrylic ‘Ford Lavanti Blue’ basecoat metallic and Glasurit 2-pack lacquer.
Chassis
Front End: New VW torsion beam with Sway-a-way lowering adjusters, lowered 3” with castor shims and long travel ball joints. 1500 disc brakes with stainless steel braided hoses, shorter Armstrong shocks and Sway-a-way uprated anti-roll bar.
Rear End: Sway-a-way adjustable spring plates, lowered 2” with standard VW shocks and Sway-a-way ‘Camber Compensator’. Standard VW 1300 drums with stainless steel braided hoses.
Steering: Stock VW steering box, anti-bumpsteer kit fitted with homemade stainless steel tie-rod ends.
Wheels & Tyres: Front & rear 5 ½” x 15” American Eagle 529’s. 195/60/R15’s on the rear and lower profile 195/50/R15’s on the front. Goodyear NCT Eagle tyres. Homemade billet aluminium hub caps.
Drivetrain
Engine: 1641cc VW Type 2. 041 VW heads polished and ported with 40x36 Stainless steel valves and hardened valve seats for use with unleaded fuel. HD springs and retainers, bolt-up rocker shafts and swivel adjusters. Eurorace ‘H’ grind high lift camshaft with standard stroke VW crankshaft. Lightened and eight-dowelled flywheel. Melling high volume oil pump with external remote oil filter and front mounted 16 row oil cooler all connected using stainless steel braided hoses. Twin Dellorto DRLA 40 Carburettors with K&N air filters, Facet electric fuel pump with Filter King filter & regulator. Bosch 009 distributor and ignition, ‘Smoothcut’ rev limiter. Engine fully blueprinted and balanced. Lots of paint, polished stainless steel, chrome and homemade billet aluminium components. ‘Scat’ road exhaust.
Transmission: Standard 1300 gearbox with rigid 200mm clutch and urethane mounts. ‘Scat’ short throw gear shifter.
Interior
Grant steering wheel, Recaro front with VW standard rear seats trimmed in pattered/plain blue velour. Drilled standard pedals, billet aluminium door handles, winders and hand brake. VDO Night Design gauges. Sony radio cassette & Sony CD player, Sony 25W front speakers, Pioneer 150W rears and Pioneer 80W tune-up woofer system. Matching under dash fire extinguisher.
General
Car completely rewired by original owner/builder in red stranded wire, all numbered and diagrammed. Flip-up petrol tank on gas strut. All stainless steel Allen headed bolts and fasteners throughout. All billet aluminium components one-off machined by original owner/builder. All work except exterior paint and upholstery completed by original owner/builder.
£12,000 ONO - Location UK, Northampton
guy.bowden@ntlworld.com
