Transporter In Disguise
Volkswagen Camper and Commercial|Issue 149
Looking like something from a Transformer’s Movie it’s hard to believe that this rad custom flatbed started life as an early T5 dropside single cab …
David Eccles
Transporter In Disguise
Transporter HQ in Leicestershire have only been going since 2016, though all the team have a history with VWs stretching way before that. In that relatively short time they have become one of the major suppliers of custom and modification parts for the modern bus generations, specialising in supplying and fitting items like custom suspension components like their own brand of coilovers called “So Low Suspension,” a kit for T5’s and T6’s which goes a lot lower than any other kit currently available and still rides incredibly well, which isn’t really any surprise as it built by Bilstein.

They also have a reputation for building and creating outstanding looking (and performing) camper conversions and have won many show awards.

Wanting to do something “out of the box” that “was a bit lairy” when they came across a decidedly battered 2004 LWB T5 dropside Pick Up they immediately knew it offered opportunities to do something completely different. The Pick Up had been used (and abused) as a delivery truck by an metal RSJ fabrication company in Belfast and the lads at THQ all agreed at the time that it really should have gone to the scrapyard; all the bodywork was dented and bashed, all the windows had metal splatter burns and there was this enclosed metal cage thing over the load bed area; however, the team at HQ already had a sort of Hot Rod Truck meets VW idea ..”

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