My 1982 mk1 Golf GTI project
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My 1982 mk1 Golf GTI project
So on the 21st of January I picked up my first Volkswagen, my first Golf my first GTI and the oldest car I've ever owned. I had wanted one since I first saw one, such an iconic car which would have had a place in my dream car garage and now I own one, so needless to say I'm chuffed to bits.
This is how he (yes it's a he, not typical she) looked when I picked him up.
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so as you can see the grill was a mess, the middle spot lamps were not a standard item on this car, so the went straight in the bin and were replaced with a CL new/old stock grill I found on ebay for ?15, bargin, although it came with chrome trim instead of red, which is what IMO every GTI needs so I popped to halfords and picked up a can of mars red no.2. You can see the state of the grill here.
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so after a lot of rubbing down, the chrome strips were really tough, I got it to look like this.
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A ten fold improvement if I do say so.
The next thing that needed attention was the suspension as it was as vague as a vague thing, so I ordered up some hottuning coilovers from ebay after hearing nothing but good things about them and at such a bargin price it was rude not to, I also popped down to my local GSF to pick up some new top mounts, I then ordered a new set of wheels, I liked the euro look so went with some ATS classics, 13x7 with 175/50's on the front and a 13x8 with 195/45's on the rear. I then ordered up an alarm of ebay, only a cheap hawk alarm but I have had hawk alarms before an never had a problem, this one also came with a remote central locking set up.
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so my wheels and suspension turned up and I went straight out to get it all fitted, so I built up my coilovers with the new top mounts.
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during.
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vs.
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result was 80mm of ground clearance.
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so if we remember what he looked like,
before and after style
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not a bad change I think.
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unfortunately I've been stuck with this for the past week
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so we've both been bored with not much to do.
I've got some more pics on the camera, so I'll upload them and give you all a bit of an update in a bit.
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few of the engine bay aswell
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not to sure about all those pipes, they don't look right but I've yet to find a similar picture to compare or go by.
I also change the passenger door handle today as the original had broke
new vs old
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are they bumpy or will they break my spine???![]()
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loving the wheels as well![]()
bumpy not spine shattering, depends on the roads I suppose, I consider the roads around here to by some of the worse in the uk, there's more pot holes then there are cars lol on the flat it's really not a noticeable change.
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cant wait to get mine back on the road, its nearly 6 mopnths since ive drove a mk1 :cry:
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1962 Rover P4 80
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benj said
love this, so simple! where did you get the new handles from?
cant wait to get mine back on the road, its nearly 6 mopnths since ive drove a mk1 :cry:
thats what i wanted something simple where i can revert to standard at any point.
got the handles from ebay.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/VW-GOLF-MK1-MK2-GTI-FRONT-DOOR-HANDLES-R-H-L-H-C348_W0QQitemZ200293098893QQihZ010QQcategoryZ9889QQtcZphotoQQcmdZViewItemQQ_trksidZp1742.m153.l1262
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I've installed my new alarm and central locking, while i was doing that I pulled the front seats out for a bloody good clean.
and today I used some vegetable oil on the arch trims
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2008 BMW Z4 2.5Si
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Never heard of it before…I used shoe polish once…came out nice actually
Stunning mk1…Nice colour too :mrgreen:
Keep up the good work..
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Proper nice motor mate…
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