The instinct not to throw away cool things is in us all, but few of us have the space and money to hold on to all of the interesting stuff we come across over decades of work.
But that is just what Mark Reynolds has done.
Founder of air-cooled Volkswagen parts supplier Just Kampers, Mark has been part of the scene for more than two decades, has owned 200 or so VWs and Porsches in that time, and has all the contacts you’d imagine that brings.
On a stand in his garage, in front of the 1951 Dannenhauer & Stauss Sportkabriolett featured recently in Classic & Sports Car, is what looks like any old VW flat-four.
“I had a friend who went to the Okrasa bankruptcy sale and bought a big pile of wheels that was sold simply as it was,” he explains. “This engine was buried beneath it.”
Mark bought the unit, which turned out to be one of the first ever by famed Volkswagen tuner Okrasa.