Covin Owner James Latcham

James has owned his Covin for a few years now and I travelled down to Luton with him to view it and give it the once over.  It was fully built, complete with C2/C4 body kit, Porsche interior and it was clear to see that someone had put together a very good quality build that had unfortunately fallen into the wrong hands and you all know what that means.... Yep the brain dead had been at it.

Luckily James made the decision to buy the Covin before any further damage was caused.

We knew the Covin required some work, with blown up engine, electrics not right, water leaks, damaged door skin and a host of other small problems all caused by idiots not having a clue, It's so annoying when you see this kind of thing but both myself and James could see past all this and as he lives only 25 miles from me we had a cunning plan.....

In order to get his Covin on the road and get to ALL the shows through the year he acquired an old  1200cc VW air-cooled engine and simply used it like this for 2 years travelling some 400 miles round trip to each show to support the club with a 1200cc sewing machine engine singing away in the back,  following close behind me in my Covin so he could stay in my slipstream and keep his speed up. You have to admire his dedication to get to the shows.

The opportunity came up to get Andy Devlins old VW 1600 engine and we fitted that in 2004.

During all this time he slowly collected a whole host of bits together ready for the day when he could finally  say... "RIGHT IT'S TIME FOR IT TO BE DONE"....

That time is only a couple of weeks away because February 2005 his Covin is going to spend many weeks in my garage where I'm going to do some Gandalf impressions and try to work some magic.

As you can see in the pictures It's a great looking Covin that deserves some time and money spending on it to make it look it's best.

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