Shop.

A shelf of manuals, a few prints, and nothing behind the counter. If we ever open one it will be small — things worth owning, described honestly, priced once. There is no counter today, and no till. What follows is the shape of a shop, so you can tell us whether it is worth building one.

What works today

What is a concept

Nothing on this site is for sale. No price here is a price you can pay.
No cart, order, checkout or payment exists, and no payment processor is connected to VWX.
The product below was invented for this page. It has never been printed, packed or posted.

Looking for parts? A parts marketplace is one of the things we would build. There is nothing to sell you today, and nobody to send you to that we have checked out — because we check out nobody.

The directory concept

Four shelves, and nothing on them.

A shop this small sorts itself four ways.

AllPostersApparelBooksStickers

A filter would do something here. This one does not: there is one thing to see, and it is made up.

Everything below is an illustration.

Illustrative example — not a real record

Posters

A print we have not printed

A workshop print of an air-cooled engine, drawn to scale. It does not exist, and neither does the shop that would sell it.

Photograph placeholder — no photograph exists

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There is no club to join.

A shop like this would probably have members, and members would probably get something. Neither exists. There is no price to discount and no parcel to send.

A cart, for the sake of the walkthrough.

The cart is the part of a shop where the pretending usually starts, so it is worth showing empty.

See the cart illustration

Envisioned

A short list of things worth owning, rather than a catalogue.
Each one described by someone who has handled it.
A price set once, and the reason for it written down.
Nothing sold that we would not keep ourselves.
VWX will not authenticate a vehicle, and will not share anyone's contact details without their consent.

Tell us what you think

Would you buy anything from a site like this?
Manuals, prints, or neither?

Concept

Directory.

Everybody in this hobby knows a shop, and nobody can prove one is good. A directory would be the easy part; standing behind it is the hard part, and we are not going to pretend we can. One shop is here because it is doing documented work on a truck we write about. The rest is a shape, with an invented shop standing in it.

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