Vantastic Kombis | Noosa Today

By Margaret Maccoll

The Kombi Shop at Doonan has established its reputation as the go to place for Kombi refurbs across the country but the origins of the business owned by Nick and Keri Parker-Davies hail from the UK.

Kombies are commonplace across the UK but Nick’s love affair with Kombis was sparked one day when the mechanic spotted a restored one pass him by in the street and he saw it as a challenge to buy an old one and restore it to his own specifications.

He found a split screen in California, had it shipped over and restored it mechanically over nine months with his four-year-old son Connor watching. When he went searching for resources to restore the internals nobody was doing it.

Having established his own…