76 Golf Resto

Here she is - what a beauty!







The bodywork is pretty good throughout, except for the passenger footwell, and the front panel, which is very rotten.

Plans are to complete the strip (not really much left to be honest!), restore the bodywork and respray it the same colour, then drop in a poky engine of some description, plus one seat and a roll cage, and lower it until it looks like my red one.

Can't wait  :mrgreen:

Rich

What a cracker! Love the swallowtail  8)

Keep us up to date on the progress

I hope you two are good together! Enjoy Rich   Just need to fill the gap now  :wink:

She is a beauty for sure. Love some of the early non GTI colours!  

Looks really solid. Nice find. I like the idea of a porker engine in there Just make sure it is a blown one :wink:

Thanks Rajan - I owe you one I bet it's not long before you get another one either

I love the pastel shades they used to do too, although the yellow is definitely my favourite. And I'd love to put a boxer engine I must admit, but this shell is too good to chop about for a rear-drive conversion.

The next Golf I do (a few years away unless I win the lotto) will be RWD though. The fun you could have with a 3.0l turbo…  8)

Rich

Is there anywhere that has some swatches of the original pastel colours? I'm looking at getting a respray soon and quite fancy one of them although am undecided on which one.

nice mk1 man... look forward to this restore... I want one

good god, this is literally my absolute dream car, this is what i would love to have but cant afford, so i have an 83 big light in a similar colour.
mate shes gna look a beauty!

very weird to look at those pictures cos i keep thinking its mine for a split second as the colour is so similar…well now its slightly blackened!

keep up the resto pics, will be amazing!
and lots of luck
Josh

stunning old chap, even in that state  :notworthy:

8)

think you'll need to put 2 seats in though, you'll be taking me for a spin when it's finished  :wink:

PhillTMK1GTI said

8)

think you'll need to put 2 seats in though, you'll be taking me for a spin when it's finished  :wink:

Of course - silly me!!!

Thanks to all for the kind words - the resto will begin in a month or so, once I've moved house, so watch this space!

Rich

woZa said

Is there anywhere that has some swatches of the original pastel colours? I'm looking at getting a respray soon and quite fancy one of them although am undecided on which one.

I'll answer my own question in case anyone finds it useful…

http://www.tcpglobal.com/autocolorlibrary

obcene amount of potential there mate…8) Love the colour!

I want to see it very low.

and without any kind of suitcases/wicker work in sight.

Otherwise I will shoot you.  

In the back.

Damnit - I was just going to nip up into the loft and retrieve my old skateboard and a picnic hamper from 1937

woZa said

woZa said

Is there anywhere that has some swatches of the original pastel colours? I'm looking at getting a respray soon and quite fancy one of them although am undecided on which one.

I'll answer my own question in case anyone finds it useful…

http://www.tcpglobal.com/autocolorlibrary

Nice find!

Rich

nice mate would love a swallowtail.
Did it come with little chrome bumpers aswell ??

Unfortunately not

It's literally the shell, the glass, and some suspension. I need to source everything else…

I've got a cunning plan up my sleeve for the bumpers, but fitting them is a long way off!

Rich

It's been a while since I did anything to this, but last weekend I finally got some storage sorted, and together with my trusty co-pilot (sitting on top of a small table as there's no seats)



I got both cars under cover…



Roll on Christmas when I'll have some time to get cracking again  

Rich

look the cars are playing hide and seek!!!