white 78' series 1 *PROJECT ANGUS* Updated 06/04/2011!!

Well thought I'd finally start this thread as the work started about 4 weeks ago, but i wanted to collect a few photies first.

The car isn't actually mine it belongs to my mate who is on here (white_78), but he doesn't get online much so asked me to do the thread for him. I'm sure he'll pop in and give his views every so often.

So as the title says it's a white 78' series 1 1.5 auto. My friend is the second owner and bought the car off an elderly man 2 years ago who had suffered a stroke and couldn't drive anymore.     He had owned the car from new and was very anal in it's maintenance. When he first got the car we serviced it and on removing the air filter found the date of the last service written on it! July 1996 and the mileage (which i don't rember) but it had only done 12,000 miles in the last 10 years!!

It's called Angus as the owner was Scottish and it had loads of Scotland stickers in the back window, which have been kept and added too.  8)

Here He is.





started by stripping the interior, heater matrix and a few trim parts.





The rot has set in after 30 years but he should be good by christmas as far as bodywork. Drivers side inner and outer sill. The bottom hinge on the door is a bit rotten too but not too bad.





Passenger side inner sill (forgot to take pic of outer  :? )



Passenger side wing.



And the inner wing on the drivers side.



After this we removed all the ancillaries (spelling?), drive shafts, front wings and the brake assembly (will get some better shots of this before posting). The previous owner had also caked the entire engine bay with this tar like black goop to ward off tin worm. It's a nightmare to get off so any suggestions welcome? We are currently useing stanley blades to scrape it off then using a bit of thinners to take the last of it off. Spent an hour or so last weekend, at the end of the night at the garage getting a bit off. It looks surprisingly clean underneath and the rot in the top of the wings hasn't penetrated far at all so it did it's job!  





goin again this weekend hopefully so will get some more pics while i'm there and some off my mates cam too and edit them in.

Love the series 1 auto's will be watching this one, good luck to your mate.

Bong boogle!

Cheers for the PM dude, looks great stuff. All good down here I might be buying some coils soon with any luck!

This looks hamazing fella. I'll be back up north for a week or so at Christmas so if you two need an extra pair of hands give me a shout! I'm probably gonna be sandblasting some parts too so if you want anything cleaning up/stripping let me know. It's not a very big cabinet though so best for engine ancillaries and stuff like that.

Gonna have an eagle eye on this thread dude, just been bookmarked fo shiz.

PEEEACE!

yeah sand blasting sounds good and an extra set of hands is always welcome. car will be off to paint mid way through next month and should hopefully have it back for crimbo for re-assembly.

Sounds cool, I'll be there to help bolt stuff up

This looks like a great project. Should look great when finished! I'll be watching this too. It looks pretty low, is it lowered?

Is that Angus as in Steve Angus?  8O   Looks really smart.

no. but i do know steve angus. is this andy that had the ghia?

ross_m said

This looks like a great project. Should look great when finished! I'll be watching this too. It looks pretty low, is it lowered?

yeah it was on fitting the coilovers we started to notice it was rotting.

Ah, you beat me to it man, i was just bout to post the same as that !! Looking forward to getting back to the fun on monday!!  

And also, i'll be more than happy for an extra set of hands from the tyeness!! Ha Ha

rustys_mk1 said

no. but i do know steve angus. is this andy that had the ghia?

Aye thats me, just getting my Golf tidied up recently so on here a bit more often. I added you on fyassbook a while back to check out your Mk1, looks sweet.  8)

thought it must have been you. what you doin to the golf like?

rustys_mk1 said

thought it must have been you. what you doin to the golf like?

Few bits n pieces, take a look here:

The Mk1 Golf Owners Club

Just picked up a 16v engine this week so get that in soon hopefully.

Sweeet motor,

Will be watching this one 8)

forgot to menton what the intentions are as far as restoring it. staying basically totally stock bar it being lowered, some shiny wheels and possibly an uprated servo and master cylinder to make the brakes a bit mor reassuring. will have some more pics after monday should hopefully have the block out by then.

that looks top mate look forward to the progress 8)

Sounds cool fella, did you get the starmags shifted in the end?

Who's doing the bodywork on this? Thinking of taking my clipper kit off next year but I think there might be some rot in the arches

Mat

a guy called tommy. this is the only stuff i can find online

http://durhamdubs.co.uk/forumdisplay.php?s=7426ba3368c1cb0327ccaa8f65795a92&f=63

he's been out and looked at the golf and he seems to be a really nice fella. this is only gonna be the second golf he's dones but normally deals with aircooled stuff so the rot should be a breeze compared to those. lol. he came with a good recomendation too so i am confident in his ability. prices aren't too bad either.  

still got the starmags there at the mo but he stll can't decide whether to put them on or not?  :dontknow:

Cool well you'll have to let me know how you get on cos the guy that does bodywork on the local forum down here seems like he might be a bit steep, although his work is brilliant from the pictures I've seen.

I reckon the starmags should stay, they're brilliant and the more chrome the better I reckon. Did you say you had problems fitting them in the first place?

they need some spacers but it might end up too wide will have to see.