NICE BIT OF WEDGE

When Stuart Skerry’s Bay Window project hit the buffers, this ready to roll, refreshingly original T25 proved the perfect stopgap

WORDS IAN CUSHWAY

Stuart Skerry runs his own smart repair business, aptly called The Smart Repair Dude, and has always been into VWs. “My first car was a ‘70 Beetle which I restored with my dad when I was 15,” he explains. His first foray into Buses followed soon after when he acquired a ‘72 crossover Bay which, he thought, just needed a six-month makeover when he bought it. That was three decades ago and having done the hard bits, as he puts it, it’s no nearer being back on the road than when it first rolled off the low-loader. So where does the gleaming ‘84 Auto-Sleeper you see here come in? Well, believe it or not, that came about due to peer pressure and money set aside for a new bathroom! “To…

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