REAR PARCEL SHELF COLOURS

We all know that the Rear parcel Shelf is a prized item in a MK1. They dont make them anymore and rarely come up for sale especially in the colour you require.
My car interior is Brown. Trying to source a Brown original parcel shelf was virtually impossible.

Newton Commercials do an after market one but only in Black. Believe me i tried to get them to do me one in brown.

Then i decided after watching a episode of Wheeler Dealers to try and Dye the carpet on the shelf.  So i purchased a after market Shelf from Newton and this is the result.







 

Good result.

About 20 odd years ago I had a Indiana(?) red 1.5 GL, it was pretty mint but the rear shelf was mangeled or missing (that long ago I can't remember lol).

Even back than I was resigned to never finding a hens-teeth brown shelf.

There was small old-school scrap yard about 2 or 3 miles away that I popped into one day and they had a MK1 with a brown interior and intact shelf. Result and think I only paid a tenner for it  

You wouldnt find a MK1 now at a scrap yard unless they were selling it whole.

bones65 said

You wouldnt find a MK1 now at a scrap yard unless they were selling it whole.

No, even then they were getting rare unless a VW specialist breaker