1981 mk1 golf c overhaul

think you're a legend…

love that you just stripped your engine, the car's a shell, and in your big pile of new parts, you've got a head unit and gearknob!!!

that's ambition!

love it, you're putting me to shame.

dont mess about me

plus its the little things that push me to finish it lol

been cleaning and painting

dirty hub vs clean hub


black handle vs chav handle


and 1 primered bay!!



not quite so prtty on the other side

bay now
was told me covering it all in primer was a bad idea n t all needs to be metal lol


arty farty pic of chris aka golf gt welding his bay

oh n todays delivery

excellent progress Laura.
is the paint top, if so, Nice  8)

yup, thats the colour its going to be

VW texas yellow

Fab colour choice! Can't beat a yellow Mk1.  8)

y's it bad to prime it? do you ned some kind of sealler 1st? or an etch primer?

thanks

epoxys awesome as a 2k sealer primer. then some high build over it.

plus its the little things that push me to finish it lol

too true, just not as quick as you, but i cannae wait to put my new valve caps on  ops:

mon the restos!

thansk for the comments, i have 2k high build primer

went up with a massive list to do tonight n eneded up doing nothing apart from mending the hole in my sill … lots of grinding back to do now but at least its solid woo

Worked on my hole last night…

some back ground on "the hole"

looked like this when i got it


on grinding it back i discovered it looked like this




which made this


Welded a small plate in but the surrounding metal was like tin foil
started grinding it back last night and jusy started going through so thought sod it all do it properly

crappy iphone pics coming up
after grinding back



taken back to decent metal


ouch thats a big hole

then 3 hours of messing with sheet metal, body work hammers and lots of swearing an d throwing tool about, id managed to fabricate a decent enough peice…
still required some tweeking but it was getting late





im proud of that

Good work! keep it up, its coming along nicely.

Cheers

Dib

ENGINE BAY… ALMOST THERE





me looking like i should be skiing not working lol



Christophers new higher turrets!





and a guy that looks liek the guy off viva lol

my new clocks arrived the other week



direct fit into the standard gti centre console

prepping for paint has now started red bloody rust everywhere!!
came in on moday and a door had magic'd its self onto the car… i was very impressed the car has started putting itself back together haha!



the old one was rotten at the botton and this one is better so christopher decided to fit it for me



after lots of sanding



the door has for some reason been half sprayed in white … i was a little worried it was covering some rust of dodgey repair up but nope… all sanded back fine





wow you can see how much dust there is… i finally invested in a face mask after coughing up god knows how much crap. cant be healthy

The other side




This was the roof!
yummy… not been washed in years and by the looks of it never polished haha





SAND SAND SAND

velvet looking roof



and the workshop doodle pad



couple more essential bay pics… almost 100% there now

well its been about 5 weeks sisne ive done any work on the mk1 but decided to change that today



bought a whole sill section insted of trying to fabricate a peice the right shape to weld in…


cut down to the right size


winer! happy with that, means ill also get the right little lip in which although i didnt notice it at first would bug me now i have noticed it lol


bay almost ready for primer… finally


new wings


something a bit wrong with our inspiration wall


and the result of todays work… ouch..
dont let go of an angle grinder when its on…


start of the new dash pod design  

Hi iam having serious truble i want to buy a 1981 vw rabbit diesel but i want it to have gti front and all emblems is that posible? please help me please

and will it look like a golf gti to the common i not someone checking under the hood

just realised not updated this in aaaages

shes alive!!!