Shall i buy one?

Hey all,
I am 15 and am i car LOVER! and love the MK1 (who doesnt!) and i am wondering shall i buy from the scrap yard and refurbish it? I was wondering is it an easy build?

Thanks

Don't buy a car from a scrappie unless you never plan to put it on the road…..

Have a little faith there Paul!

But what if i try and refurbish'it? i also can get help from family members? or is there no point? also whats the min - max engine sizes?

thankyou again

X!!!

Over to you mate, set him straight.

BTW Paul's right about the scrappy.

T

Dannyd said

Have a little faith there Paul!

For registration reasons rather than anything else - all cars coming into a scrappie are normally notified to DVLA as permanently scrapped, thus making reregistration for the road, impossible.

Get yourself a little budget together and have a look on some sites.  I've got a list of them if you want?  

Great to see a young-un interested in the good old mk1!!!  You've got good taste.  Welcome to the site and let me know if you want a list of sites to check  :wink:

My first car, on the road, was a mini bought from the scrapyard for ?100.  I did a light resto on it whilst I learnt to drive, and once I'd passed it lasted me 3 years.

Paul's got the general facts right, but he may not be right in your case. See if there is a V5 with it, and decide if you could realistically repair it. How much would they be after?

The swallowtail on ebay could've quite easily ended up in a scrapyard - if it was and had a V5 would you walk away Paul?

I was 15 when i got my golf.  I'm now 16 and can say find one in good condition, because if you can't fix something or do something for example bodywork and paint then it turns out expensive.

GavB95 said

The swallowtail on ebay could've quite easily ended up in a scrapyard - if it was and had a V5 would you walk away Paul?

If you're going to ask me personally, then yes, I'd walk away, not from being in a scrappie but because I already have 4 cars. Yes its true, sometimes reasonable cars end up in a scrappy and are perfectly good as projects. However, normally there's a good reason why they've ended up there. More so a Mk1 Golf, scrappies aren't daft and they know the intrinsic value in an older car such as this. So it would normally never enter the scrapyard, yet alone be offered/resold from here to the general public.

Projects in general? To fix something, is always going to cost more than you first think, and probably more than had you bought a working car. But you get the benefit that particular area is now 'sorted' and should prove trouble free for a while. Secondhand parts are handy to save money but don't offer nearly the reassurance with new parts, but you can make savings if you're patient and careful with your purchases.

I just said to avoid cars from a scrappy as a generalisation and there's exceptions to the rule as explained above.

Best source of a cheap car if you're 15, is probably a spares/repairs one off eBay or here, where someone doesn't have the time to commit to it and has gone and bought another car to get themselves transport again, thus has lost interest in the Mk1 Golf. Probably a few on ebay, they tend to all have some fault or other on there!