About us

Its 11.15am on 4th march 2025. Its a momentous occasion. After 22 1/2 years we have a new website.. welcome, enjoy and sorry its a bit slow.. we are still working on it. Please let us know if you find any major problems.

We sell used classic Volkswagen parts to help your Classic VW Rebuild / Restoration.

For over 22 years, Dr Robinson’s Parts Emporium has been here to help keep your Air-cooled VW Alive and on the road with lots of used VW Parts.

We are not a scrap yard. We do however have lots of used car parts stored on our shelves, we buy cars to save and clear workshops and garages and have an independent specialist who pulls apart any dead but complete vehicles for us leaving us with the best bits for you.

Parts Emporium is the online classic VW AutoJumble for old Volkswagens, have an internet rummage.

The Original VW Saveyard. 

Every part that we have for sale is on this website. If you cant see it then i dont have one.

LOCATION – I am on the Herts / Beds Border near Junction 10 of the A1M (5 Miles) – Or 18 Miles from Junction 13 of the M1 (Hitchin, Letchworth, Luton, Baldock, Stevenage, Milton Keynes area) – Monday to Friday only.

 Visitors by appointment only please – this means talking to me before you are at the bottom of the road!

WANTED – I am looking to buy – Beetle, Buggy, Karmann Ghia, 356 Speedster, Kit Cars, Camper Van, Vans, Transporters, T4, T5, T25, T3  etc in rebuild able / restorable condition – I want to Save your forgotten project – I’m good at digging them out from a long sleep!

Whilst looking at this website, please try to remember that I am just a bloke with a barn full of old VW parts, an unhealthy VW obsession and a computer… this is supposed to be fun! Its a Hobby that went wrong! I will do my best to help where I can.

NOW BUYING! Is it time to shift that unfinished project? Let me know what you have for sale and maybe we can make you some space and money? We buy Classic VWs and parts and other interesting classic cars too.. I like finishing your old projects and abandoned cars! Saving old Volkswagens is my passion. 

WANT LARGE PARTS BUT CANT GET HERE? – ASK US – WE MAY BE ABLE TO DELIVER TO A VW SHOW NEAR YOU!  

Postage is available for small/light items to the UK mainland only! I can not put glass in the post… it breaks! I would expect you to collect items such as wheels, Bumpers, Engines, seats, Bonnets, doors, gearboxes etc!

The prices you see are what you pay – NO VAT!

I have a few NOS items, but most items are in “NOT-NOS” © condition…  Used!

Parts Emporium, Over 22 years of putting the “Rest” into Restoration! – Established September 2002 

Thanks for looking… and please come back another time!

WANTED – WE BUY OLD, DERELICT, DEAD OR POORLY VW BEETLES BUGS AND VOLKSWAGEN CAMPERS, VAN, BUS, Motor caravans, CARAVELLE, T4s, TRANSPORTER etc… Please Send us a message – parts@partsemporium.co.uk

I’m actually not as grumpy as I seem… really! 

^{Our Original website was was created using naked hands, no skills and a lot of luck on 19th September 2002… Our “new” Website was created in March 2025 as the old one was a little too old school for todays youth. Hopefully you all like it? I’d like to thank you for your support in what has been a strange period in life for us all … keep your dog on its lead at all times…enjoy your VW, treat your friends well and treat others as you would like to be treated by them… No Smoking please… Get out there and enjoy life…  its easy to sit at home and complain and wait for stuff to happen…Its harder to make things happen… Clunk Click Every trip… wibble…  will the aliens be naked? ….  make an effort and it will be a more fruitful life that you lead…  no ball games… planet vacant is a strange place.. its a way of life.. You can choose your friends … expensive clothes don’t make you a better person, BugJammin, Boneshakin, Zoom Tubin, Valvedroppin, petrolguzlin, windowwiping, bugslamin, karmanncruising, baydriving, flat4thrashing, cal-lookin, aircooledfun. racing can be fun if you do it right,  have a laugh, it might be your last chance, it aint what you do its the way that you do it…  The handshake seals the contract. … I’m gonna build a boat and call it Dignity…. its all luck …… does any one read this anyway?}

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