The long term owner acquired a Beetle chassis and soon after bought the Spyder kit and numerous ancillaries from GP Projects and other sources.

It was his intention to convert the Beetle chassis to a spanking new Spyder evocation with a mechanically minded friend.

In the end, however, work and life got in the way and he was put in touch with a specialist builder by GP Projects.

Courtesy of this contact the body work was professionally sprayed in two pack paint and the various components were professionally brought together.

The specialist builder also supplied and fitted a brand-new VW 1600 twin port engine to power the diminutive Spyder.

According to the paperwork this appears to have been undertaken in 1998 and the car has been in the vendor’s ownership ever since.

To say it has been lightly used is an understatement, with that new twin-port motor having covered a mere 1,870 miles in the intervening 26 years.

Needless to say, the vendor has commissioned other work on the Spyde...