![]() ![]() Tobias is a plumber by trade, but clearly this guy is generally good with his hands, as he’s carried out most of the conversion with his own bare hands, and what a transformation it has been: “I always like to have rare cars, but fancied doing something different with the Passat to make it even more unique. ![]() The 75ps car came with a 4+E gearbox and was front-wheel-drive (only the 32b Variants were available with a four-wheel-drive syncro drivetrain). “I didn’t even realise how clean the car was until we gave it a clean and removed the dust,” he told us. Tobias claims he always wanted a VW that none of his other Veedub friends had and in this 1985, 1.6-litre Passat 32b hatchback, which he found covered in dust, lurking in an underground carpark in Hamburg Dehnhaide, he found just that. Yes, we were a little confused, too: “Don’t worry, people always think it’s a Santana, but it’s not,” Tobias went on: “The Passat 32b hatchback was actually built from 1985 to 1987 and is basically a Santana with different headlights from a Passat 32b and deeper, Mk2 Golf-style bumpers and of course a Passat badge on the boot.” Twenty-nine year-old Tobias Herrmann, who hails from Hamburg, Germany is quite partial to odd VW saloons, too, however, the unassuming silver car you see here isn’t a Santana as we first presumed, but in fact a Passat 32b hatchback. Sadly, we lowered the car too much, cracked the gearbox casing on a cat’s eye and the car was scrapped, but we’ve always had a soft spot for the underrated VW saloon and thankfully we’re not the only ones… Despite its automatic transmission and ‘cruiser’ ride, the five-cylinder motor felt solid and as if it would be a great base vehicle to take pretty much anything you could throw at it. ![]() Until the day we bought the car we don’t really remember having any kind of opinions on the booted odd ball, but even before we fitted the banded steel wheels and chopped the springs (don’t try that at home, kids) we soon began to fall for the car’s instant charm and appeal. I’m not too sure how long you have been reading this very magazine, but old-skool followers may remember around a decade back we had our very own VW Santana on the fleet. ![]()
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