Average age????

With nothing better to do on a Saturday afternoon than to watch the football and browse the old site, I got to reading overminds post about turning 17 (congrats). Now I'm wondering what the average age of website attendees is……..

and what about the older 60's then? my dad is a young 63 and still loves to drive our mk1!  

Let's just say I fall into a rather popular age bracket shall we.

Tian :shhh:

Perhaps an interesting poll to take would be who is as old as their Mk1..

I am part of the majority :mrgreen:  

Reliving what I couldnt afford to do when I was young :dance:


Oooh, the young uns have woken up and started voting………..just incase the 20 year old section starts leading the poll, my age is 37, dont want to mislead the forum :posh:  

GAMMYGOLFGTI said

Reliving what I couldnt afford to do when I was young :dance:

I'm with GAMMYGOLFGTI on this one.

I'm 52 years young, was a teenager when the Golf came out - wasn't interested at all (had an Austin Healey Sprite but wanted a Morgan), got into MK1 Golfs after my 20-year old son bought one a couple of years ago…

Better late than never  

What amazes me is how the yougsters (17-25) are so switched on to a model that went out of production before they were born  :dontknow:

Have Fun
 8)  8)  8)

Andy

drochesaunders said

Perhaps an interesting poll to take would be who is as old as their Mk1..

I'm older than mine, but they're older than my girlfriend  8O  


     

Im 22, my golf is 23, and originally bought from the same town i was born

 8)

Im 22, my golf is 23, and originally bought from the same town i was born

 8)

Apologies to anyone 60+ I got bored of typing new poll answer lines…

I think the results so far are a good indicator of the iconic status that the car has, it'd be interesting to compare the results to the mk2 escort following.
It's great that generation after generation appreciate the car and an excellent prospect for the Mk1 owners club moving forward. My car is older than I am, I barely remember the Mk1 that my dad had when I was a kid - Mars Red 1.6 as far as he remembers. He scrapped it at 105,000 miles cos he thought that was a bit much, The follies of youth eh!?

Way-hey!…I'm not the only Oldfart in this club!
51 years old and driving a Mk1 GTI as my daily driver, and still fixing it myself…
One day I'll maybe buy a car that's still in production….maybe!

Oldfart said

One day I'll maybe buy a car that's still in production….maybe!

…then you'd be a BORING oldfart…..  

..been there, done it - NEVER AGAIN !!! In our old age we can't afford to throw money at the government - they take too much as it is ….don't start me off on a Sunday !!!!

Tian said

Let's just say I fall into a rather popular age bracket shall we.

Tian :shhh:

31-35?

drochesaunders said

Tian said

Let's just say I fall into a rather popular age bracket shall we.

Tian :shhh:

31-35?

Fallen off top spot since I wrote that post.

Tian :mrgreen:

I'm the same age as my GTi, although I'm quite a bit younger than the one I'm about to buy  :mrgreen:

Rich

mcscrew said

I'm the same age as my GTi, although I'm quite a bit younger than the one I'm about to buy  :mrgreen:

Rich

tell me i want it  :x  what is it don't tease me  :cry:

It's too secret… I couldn't possibly reveal anything It's not that 78Mk1 shell on the for sale section though, if that cheers you up?

I will spill the beans in late Feb or early March, depending on when it arrives

Rich

i'm 22 and my Golf's are

25, Y plate GTi
26, X plate GTi
27, W plate GTi
28, T plate GTi

and i'm always  on the look out for more! 8)

I'll be 27 next month, the Mk1 will be 25 in march.. think it deserves a big treat for making it 25 years :mrgreen:

MKone said

GAMMYGOLFGTI said

Reliving what I couldnt afford to do when I was young :dance:

I'm with GAMMYGOLFGTI on this one.

I'm 52 years young, was a teenager when the Golf came out - wasn't interested at all (had an Austin Healey Sprite but wanted a Morgan), got into MK1 Golfs after my 20-year old son bought one a couple of years ago…

Better late than never  

What amazes me is how the yougsters (17-25) are so switched on to a model that went out of production before they were born  :dontknow:

Have Fun
 8)  8)  8)

Andy

That's a good point - I'm 57 and I've had a Mk1 for nearly 22 years.
If I look back to when I was 20-25, there was no way that I'd have wanted a car from the mid 1940s. There was a classic/vintage car scene at that time but in general anything 20-25 years old couldn't have been used reliably to any real extent.
There was a time when I wondered what people thought of old men in Golf GTIs but I never really worried. On the other hand, there's a few cars I wouldn't want to be seen in……….