Grey tweed fat biscuit seat covers, panels & Headliner. It's not often we do self fits for customers, especially with our name on, but a good friend of ours who's recently moved to California really wanted us to do them for his '64 bug. So we obliged. Plus we knew he'd do a good job of fitting them.

Ragtop beetle trimmed in beige leather throughout, with wool cloth headliner, square weave carpet and mohair sun roof outer. Parcel shelf includes retro style speaker build.

Vauxhal Nova Recaro retrim in grey brushed nylon with genuine check inserts. We also trimmed the front door panel tops in check, and included a speaker build to fit in with the orginal door pocket / arm rest.

1967 Beetle seats & panels trimmed in plain and basket weave black vinyl. The seat frames have been stripped & powder coated with crackle finish side plates.

A Burstner motorhome remodeled to the customers design. Front seats trimmed in 2 tone grey leather with the rear seating area remodeled in matching leather. New wall panels, under bed panels and bed guard in 2 tone Sanderson fabric with a light great tweed headliner.

Ex Darrell Vitone's Race Shop Double Cab at European Bug-In 2013. Seats and panels trimmed  in black plain/basket-weave vinyl

This soon to be Ultra VW featured restoration came to us as a rolling shell which we built back up with new parts where possible and some added accessories supplied by the customer. We completely rewired the car including a retro stereo install. The seats and panels were trimmed in red recycled leather, with a red deep pile carpet throughout including under the bonnet and a cream fabric headliner.

Photos 1-4 courtesy of Paul knight/Ultra VW

23 window VW Type 2 Samba trimmed in beige & cream vinyl PVC, beige wool cloth headliner, biscuit German square weave carpet, mohair ragtop and checkered floor tiles. Other work carried out was Dynomat sound proofing through out and some cable laying for split charger and ICE installation.

Early Microbus trimmed in black vinyl with basket weave inserts. Full headliner in cream vinyl including the full metal sliding sunroof which we also had to get working.

Beetle seats and panels in caramel leather with brown pipping and fat biscuit fabric inserts

It all started in the winter of 1988/89 at the age of 18 when Louis built built his first car, a 1967 lemon yellow Cal Looker which was a feature cover car in the June '89 edition of Volksworld Magazine. Although it was no show winner it did receive a fair bit of attention at the time due to the overall concept of following the colour scheme from the outside right through to the inside.

Fast forward 22 years and just after hitting the big 4 0 midlife crisis mark in 2011, and with New Beetle's being fairly cheap now, he thought it would be great to recreate the concept, but with a future retro twist.

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Jazz bucket seats trimmed in black leather with grey diamond stitch tweed inserts, plus a grey diamond stitch tweed headliner. Black leather was also used on the roll cage door bar pads, and a pair of front slip mats were made in grey german sqaure weave carpet.

Porsche 356  speedster seats, rear seats, dash top door, quarter and bulk head panels trimmed in brown/oxblood leather with fat biscuit stitching and beige squareweave carpet through out. We also sound proofed the whole car with dynomat before a heavy dose of carpet underfelt.

Porsche 993 with Recaro Pole Position seats trimmed in tan leather. The rear seats were deleted to make way for a full roll cage. The front and rear area were completely carpeted in black carpet. New front interior door panels were made to look like ones from an RS with simple door pulls and trimmed in black leather and tan stitching. Door cappings were trimmed in tan leather. The whole rear end was reworked round the roll cage and then trimmed in black leather with tan cappings. Finally the dash and center console were trimmed in a combination of black and tan leather to follow the theme of the rest of the interior.

In this months Ultra VW,  Louis' first project car for many years gets a full 6 page feature.

It all started in the winter of 1988/89 at the age of 18 when Louis built built his first car, a 1967 lemon yellow Cal Looker which was a feature cover car in the June '89 edition of Volksworld Magazine. Although it was no show winner it did receive a fair bit of attention at the time due to the overall concept of following the colour scheme from the outside right through to the inside.

Fast forward 22 years and just after hitting the big 4 0 midlife crisis mark in 2011, and with New Beetle's being fairly cheap now, he thought it would be great to recreate the concept, but with a future retro twist.

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Paint & body by iKustoms
Debadged, shaved front indicators, side repeaters, door handles, roof aerial, and 3rd
brake light. Votex side sills and US spec bumper for smaller licence plate with clear
fog light to match reverse light. Black wing mirrors with LHD passenger mirror used
as the drivers mirror so both match.

Interior by Bernard Newbury Auto Interiors
Front and rear (modified) MK4 Golf seats with Audi RS4 head rests, custom dash
with 7" android powered tablet, retro eyeball air vents, smooth solenoid operated
glove box with hidden stereo system, custom interior door panels and Lupo 3L
steering wheel all trimmed in a mix of plain & perforated yellow leather with satin
silver detailing. Modified Bora centre console with added ipod dock, sunglasses
holder, leather handbrake and gear level gator. The Head lining and A/B/C pillars
are trimmed in black tweed with deleted rear view mirror and silver grey seat belts.
The Boot is trimmed in black tweed with JBL sub bass tube trimmed in perforated
leather. Other modifications include custom speaker grilles, sweeping door handle and
smoothed door caps on the front interior door panels and hidden speakers in the rear,
plus hidden power window and boot lock switches.

Wheels, suspension & brakes.
17" satin black Audi A3 sport alloys, fully detailed FK high sport coilovers and fully
detailed stock brakes.

Engine
Detailed stock engine with K&N 57i Induction

Awards/Features
Best New Beetle @ Ultimate Dubs 2012
Best Beetle @ Early Edition 2012
Best Interior @ Early Edition 2012
Best Interior @ Bug Jam 2012
Best Of Show, Best Paint & Best Interior @ VW Action 2012
Featured in August 2012 Ultra VW
Best Beetle @ Deutsch Connection 2013

Mk2 Jag fully trimmed in sage green leather & vinyl including seats, door panels and centre console, with dark green wilton carpet throughout.

Early Ford RS 2000 Recaros are pretty hard to come by, so sometimes you just have to work with what you can get. These were in pretty bad shape as you can see below, but now they're as good as new with new webbing, repaird bolster foams and then trimmed in black vinyl PVC with dog tooth check inserts. A set of early Porsche headrests finish it off.

Trimmed without any patterns to work with and just a pair of fibreglass shells in black vinyl with basket weave vinyl inserts, and black square weave carpet backs.

After doing work for Stephan Dendievel on his Dyno Pincher race car, he brought to us his Low Light Ghia to work our magic. The seats & door panels were trimmed in a brick red vinyl with matching cloth instert and cream piping, while the carpets were beige square weave with heringbone cloth binding.

Saab 96 trimmed in Oyster grey leather (plane & perforated), wool cloth headliner, square with carpet and Alcantara door cappings / dash top

Mk1 Golf seem to be like buses. We can't remember the last time we worked on one and then we do 2 within a matter of weeks.

First up are the seats from a Mk1 Cabriolet. As well as trimming all the seats and panels in burgundy leather, we modifed the faux rear split seat to look like a single bench, and had to do lots of repairs the bolsters.

A pair of Range Rover seats trimmed in black leather with Golf Gti plaid inserts for Iain at iKustom's slammed air ride T5

Back in the summer we converted a T5 panel van into a luxury day van which was featured in Ultra VW. Well, not long after, it was sold on to make way for a new project. What was even more surprising is that the new owner, DJ John '00' Fleming, brought it back to us for some more work. He wanted us to take out the rear triple seat and replace it with 2 Porsche tombstones and a small sleeping area. As well as this, he wanted a heater, fridge, table and a smaller cupboard fitted. We also had to fabricate the seat frames so they tilted forward to access the sleeping area.

More fat biscuit action with Nigel Fleet's stunning '58 ragtop. Orginal front seats and door panels trimmed in beige pvc with beige cloth inserts. The rear seat has been omitted for that slick race look. 1200 style headlining and ragtop inner in beige West Of England wool cloth with black Mohair ragtop outer. Oatmeal square weave carpet completes the overal look.

Stock seats and door panels trimmed in cream leather with beige pipping and polished aluminium door panel trims . Carperts, parcel shelf and under bonnet in beige square weave. Headlining and ragtop inner in beige West Of England wool cloth. The glove box is custom trimmed in matching West Of England to house the stereo head unit, and the parcel shelf features hidden speakers trimmed in beige speaker cloth.

Beard Super Seats trimmed in tan leather, brown piping and fat biscuit cloth inserts. Rear seat and door panels have matching leather and fat biscuit cloth combination. Oatmeal square weave carpet throughout with herringbone cloth binding. West of England cloth takes care of the full headlining and ragtop inner, while the ragtop outer is finished in black mohair.

Feautred in this months Ultra VW, Gordon Chrystie's luxury T5 day van was brought to us as a bare panel van with just a set of Audi A8 seats.
We set about soundproofing throughout with Dynamat, then making the interior panels from birch faced ply with sculptured inserts. This was then trimmed along with the headlining with black tweed after we had laid all the wiring and electrical work for the split charging system, 240-volt hookup, 12 & 240-volt sockets throughout the van, 12-volt halogen down lighting, LED mood lighting and hidden speakers for the 24-inch LCD TV/DVD screen. 2 tone grey leather features on the retrimmed Audi seats up front, a retrimmed T4 Caravelle seat in the rear, headlining centre panel and rear over head speaker & down lighting box. This is finished off with a Piano-black gloss cabinet and black Wilton carpet through out.

Trimmed to match the original rear seats in genuine hide direct from Recaro's supplier in Austria.

It's not often you see a Wizzard Roadster these days. The owners have had this for nearly 20 years and have taken the last 10 years restoring it. We were given the task of putting the finising touches in terms of fitting it back up and trimming it.The interior features hand fitted bucket seats in Burgundy Brookland UK Hide plus matching rear rear seat & door panels, with hand fitted carpets in grey square weave through out.

Remodelled Golf Mk4 Recaros for the front and the standard rear seat in raspberry PVC. We have also trimmed and smoothed out the front and rear door panel inserts to match, with old school Beetle type map pockets and custom made rear speaker grills to compliment the raspberry vinyl. Other touches include matching armrest, gearshift gator, front grab handle and seat belt buckle covers.

Another one of Louis' rides from 2010. Converted from an old van, we trimmed this using genuine Caravelle seats & panels in grey vinyl & tweed through out. Subtle mods on the outside included lowering, debadged front grill & rear tailgate, clear lenses all round and moon discs

This was delivered to us as a rolling bare shell which was a built up with many parts being hand formed from aluminium sheet and marine ply. The seats were fibreglass shells that were hand fitted (patterns made from scratch) and trimmed in magnolia leather with navy blue piping along with the rest of the panels, plus navy blue Wilton carpet.

Stock seats & panels retrimmed in burgandy leather. Headliner trimmed in grey West Of England wool cloth. The original carpets were left.

Missy Manda's from The Paintbox "Bad Habit" Karmann Ghia. Seats & door panels trimmed in black vinyl with pink metal flake vinyl diamond stitch inserts. The car was featured in Ultra VW back in 2005

Yep, it's "that" infamous car from the TV series, and we were given the task of completey retrimming it from scratch. This included restyling the rear seat with rolled top/front and XR3 Recaro seats in the front, all trimmed in Alpaca (beige) leather with Alfa Romeo style twin stitching. The front and rear panels are also trimmed in matching leather and stitching. The headlining is Caramel West Of England 100% wool cloth with Oatmeal square weave carpet throughout.

These are the latest from our workshop. The seats are totally rebuilt and trimmed in biscuit leather. We have made new door panels also finished in biscuit leather with new aluminium trim strips.

This 1970 1302 cabriolet has been fitted with a new grey headliner, internal wading bag and a black mohair hood. The hood frame has been extensively reconditioned by The Paintbox, before we fitted new rear & front wooden bows, hood latches and new seals. The front and rear seats have been totally retrimmed in burgundy leather with door panels to match. To complete the interior, a full set of grey square weave carpets with black herringbone binding have been hand made and fitted along with sound proofing underfelt and a parcel shelf.

We realised today that we didn't have many photos of Karmann Ghia's that we have worked on. So we had a quick search on the internet and found Craig McKenzie's website, which is dedicated to his beautiful Ghia cabriolet that we trimmed in 2001.

You can check out the car and more photos at http://www.craigmckenzie.co.uk/karmannghia

This 1970 Savannah Beige beetle  has been fully trimmed and fitted with a new retro looking radio. Seats are Porsche and have been trimmed in black PVC with basket weave inserts. Panels are trimmed in matching black PVC with original type pattern. The rear seat has been modified to reflect the style and pattern of the Porsche front seats. Behind the rear seat there is a custom built-in parcel shelf/storage area where the rear speakers are fitted. The headliner is beige West of England 100% wool cloth. To finish the interior it has been carpeted in biscuit square weave carpet with cloth herringbone binding.

The seats and interior panels are trimmed  in Mocca vinyl following a stock style, 100% wool cloth West of England headliner and carpet in biscuit square weave with cloth tape binding.

Seats and matching panels are trimmed in black vinyl with tweed fat biscuit inserts. The Headliner is 100% woolcloth West of England  with  German Sonnenland ragtop. The carpet German square weave with cloth tape binding throughout.

Seats, cushions and panels trimmed in burgundy vinyl with burgundy tweed diamond stitch inserts. The headliner is 100% wool cloth beige West Of England.

Photos by Gwynn Clark courtesy of Ultra VW Magazine.

Seats, door panels, headliner and hood in pure white vinyl, with grey German square weave carpet

Seats, door panels and other internal coverings trimmed in a mixture of red & white vinyl, with a grey 100% wool cloth West Of England headliner.

Interior woodwork by Interior Motive (www.interiormotiveuk.com)

A selection of campers we have worked on in collaboration with master cabinet maker / designer Simon Wietz of Interior Motive.