Covin Owner Andy Devlin

This is Andy's second Covin as the first one he owned was not up to the standards he wanted so he decided to sell it on and add to his budget in order to buy a perfect example.

Andy bought this Covin fully built and on the road but even though it was perfect in every way with very good attention to detail, he had plans right from the start to upgrade brakes and power output along with a few other touches with no expense spared.

He researched many brake options and decided first to convert the front Type 3 callipers to BMW items that have improved the braking 100% (see his Technical article).

His next step was to build himself a tuned VW air-cooled 1776cc engine that was fitted in 2004. No sooner had the engine been fitted he started collecting parts to build another tuned engine but this time he's going all out on a fully tuned VW Type 1, 2.2ltr stroker air-cooled engine that should produce around 160bhp.

Andy only lives about 40 miles away from me so we often have Covin development weekends in my garage/workshop trying out new ideas, modifications etc so who knows what we'll do next to his Covin. I did suggest attempting to turbo charge his NEW engine once it's fitted, but he wasn't to keen on the idea... Don't know why ? ? Where's your sense of adventure Andy?

More pictures to follow soon.....

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