The Florida blues

Hi all I've had the car for a few years now so so thought I would start a thread about it.

the car when I first picked it up.


I drove the car around for a bit like it was but how low the car was and the roads where I live kept wearing a hole in. The down pipe  so the 2nd time welding it up the time had come to bite the bullet and look at having air ride installed.
after looking round I went too Luke at plush automotive and had him install the air ride.


At its first meet after having air fitted


next was the wheels I wanted a set of BBS RS  so on the Hunt I went managed to find a set in hungry that I liked so got them shipped over
 
had two weeks to get them refurbed before ultimate dubs so had a company do them.

A few pics of my car at ultimate dubs



After ultimate dubs I managed to track down a couple of seat covers in matching material so got them changed over
Old seat

Seat covers


Seats back in


Brought a set of twin carbs and manifold ready to put on the engine in the winter



And the manifold after a few hours on the polishing mop


And this years winters project taking the engine out cleaning it and a bit of polishing and smoothing the engine bay







We taken the rain tray out in one so it could be welded back in in the future if wanted

Your mk1 is just stunning.  Seen it a few times at shows - love it.

Looks lovely mate!

Love this thing !! seen it at a couple of shows and its stunning

what where the wheels called that where on the car when you bought it ?

Lovely MK1 you have got mate. Particularly like the colour.

Smudger

gelstharp said

Love this thing !! seen it at a couple of shows and its stunning

what where the wheels called that where on the car when you bought it ?

The wheels were image DMs

Thanks for the comments guys

Cheers man  
I love them don't suppose you still have them and/or want to sell them ?? (Fingers crossed) 

gelstharp said

Cheers man  
I love them don't suppose you still have them and/or want to sell them ?? (Fingers crossed) 

I'm sorry mate I've sold them to Richard user name golf1980

Was drooling over your golf at the AGM, absolutely stunning  

Matt

it was this car that made me fall in love with mk1s


All Types - MK1 Golf by M-B Photography, on Flickr

     

Stunning mk1  

Looking good mate !!
Nice shot at UD :-)

Bit of an update bin Busy at work started work on polishing the gearbox so far spent about 13 hours on it.


First bit of sanding


All done with sandpaper so far and a belt sander

 
Still a lot to be done on it and a final going over on the mop.  Brought a new water pump and been polishing that up at work when got a spare 5 mins


Started to plate up the engine bay

how low does i sit on air ?
did a company make the seat covers ?
keep up the hard work

Looks great and the interior bits you got from me have really sorted your old seats out

Gearbox looks cool mate. Nice work.

astraman18 said

how low does i sit on air ?
did a company make the seat covers ?
keep up the hard work

the 3rd pic at the top of the page is at the lowest point as it sits as my Exhaust manifold hits the floor.

Chris Everiss said

Looks great and the interior bits you got from me have really sorted your old seats out

Thanks mate the trimmer did a good job, hows your polo getting on.