Shall i sell

Thinking of selling my mk1 has my mk2 is sat in garage and dont want it rusting on engine, bodywork is mint, i have put it up for sale on a mk2 forum as i would ideally want to keep the mk1.
I dont have an ebay account and dont intend too as they are a bunch of no hopers and rip peeps off along with paypal.
What would i be asking realistically for my mk1 considering all work done on her and thousands spent.
Am i going mad, i need to sell one of them as one is not being used and money i have spent on her replacing everything, i dont want it sat their with nothing to do, and with money problems with bank's collasping etc is it a good time to sell, do people have money to spend? so i can sell one, mainly mk2 to be honest
Please help, can peeps put word about for me about mk2 for sale, i am wanting round ?1800 and thats cheap, she is a very well looked after mk2
Best wishes
Pete

hi ya pete

to be honest with you we have got a mk2 that is in excellent condition with only about 40k on the clock and we have not been able to sell it so we are going to be stripping it.

am sure lawsy will be able to give you some more info on it though.

Why strip it, a waste of a good car, parts are getting harder to find for them and low mileage ones are getting rarer, not seen a mk2 apart from a 1.3 in my local scrap yards for over 2 years.
Problem is surface rust is coming on the block and me being sad and all, its bugging me and want it kept in tip top condition, i dont have access to electric at my garage as i rent it, so no bubble.
One thing is for sure there is no way i am stripping it.
Thanks Mrs Lawsy
Pete :wink:

Pete

i know what you are saying mate buts it a low mileage 1.8 auto, done 40k… So the engine would be great for one of our mk1's the car itself is tornado red and although its got loads of history the paints faded, the car also has a cracked windscreen and major rot under the windscreen rubber..
It has electric windows, central locking, power steering, really tidy interior plus last year i had to take the head off to change the manifold etc and ancillaries, its had other new parts, so its worth more than ?200 as an engine alone to me Plus with it being an auto that got bit of rot we cant sell it for anything more than ?200…
so its tiem to start taking it apret and seeing what can bu used on one of the MK1's then sell on whats left on ebay

ideally, I'd like to find a decent(ish) 5dr with a knackered engine and in need of some resorations to start a s aproject and make a good mk1 form both cars and be useful to see how many mk2 bits can be used to preserve ,IMO, the better range, the MK1..


so as Mrslawsy said above we have tried to sell the MK2 and beacause no one wants a tidy(ish) 5dr Automatic its been sat on my drive for a year now, i used it for a while, but the auto is soooo greedy it wasnt cost effective

There's a C reg 84k 5 door mk2 with a 1.8 carb on VZi, tax and test and he's struggling to get shot of it for ?125. 8O

I've been down the early mk2 GL carb route and although it was a great, original low miles car with bags of history and not a bit of rust was only a pocket money, don't mind if it goes pop car.

They just don't command any real value.

Good condition GTI's, however, are on the up.  :roll:

If i was you sorn the mk2 and leave it covered and dry if you can as the cash you will get for it now is peanuts might be Worth just keeping hold or sell for bits  :dontknow:

DO NOT SELL THE MK1 NOW AS IN 1YRS TIME YOU WILL WONDER WHY YOU DID IT AND ITS A NICE LOOKING CAR MATE i LOVE THE COLOUR  

If you get desperate and you will have to be i will take the  mk1 off your hands for ?200      now you can tell me to go away and reproduce

It is already in a garage and sorn away from weather and has been for 3 year, the mk1 is not going, was more the mk2, but considering replies etc it just isn't worth me parting with it.
Now go and reproduce andy  

Hey,

I sold a tornado red mk2 1.6 driver with 153k on the clock for 900 two months ago. In fairness it was advertised for about 2 months on autotrader and piston heads. What model mk2 have you got?

Ross

How much do you pay in rent on the garage?

1986 1.6 gl, slight mods, weber carb, single wiper, full new suspension, brakes, pads, discs, new fluid, clutch and cable, leather trim, original sunroof, i basically replaced everything new when i got it, list goes on bud

Paul i pay ?3 a week, works out cheaper than if i tax'd and mot'd it, but just another bill to pay out and i dont need garage anymore, only for the mk2

Well, as an investment, you're doing really badly, although ?3/week isn't that much to lose. If you think we're in a 'recession' at the moment and honestly evaluate the sale price of the Mk2 as, say ?300, then think that you could get ?600 for it in 18 months (in hopefully good times), then you'll only have made ?66 in 18 months. So based on that, I'd sell the Mk2 and stop renting out the garage.

for  ?3 per week i would keep the garage and fill it with mk1 bits i do  :wink:
Bert

Bert said

for  ?3 per week i would keep the garage and fill it with mk1 bits i do  :wink:
Bert

If I were looking to buy up anything as an investment, it wouldn't be car-related. Historically its never really made anyone much money. In these troubled times, get it into an Irish Bank, or National Savings, or even Northern Rock. Or do a search on something like Money Supermarket .com. There's some ridiculously good rates at the moment. I'm just about to transfer an ISA with an interest rate of 6.67%, can't be sniffed at.

?300 , a 1.3 with little mods on ebay at moment and nowhere near as mint as mine currently at ?975, how you get ?300, nevermind, but my mk2 is not an investment it is there as i worked bloody hard on it for over a year and planned keeping it as a spare or to relive my youth in 7 years when i hit the big 40 , it shall remain that if someone thinks he/she can offer me ?300 for it and drive off 8O
Cheers anyway bud.
Bert i won't put anything else in garage as i dont want any accidents happening to the car, so have them on new wardrobe, it's massive so lots stored

Paul, it never was or has been an investment

ive got 3 garages,one side of house full of citi and new mk1 bits,one at sisters flat where TD lives,also racked out and filled with mk1 bits,and a council lock up,with electric  8O  full of mk1 bits just incase  :wink:  cant be shure how long bits will be about  
Bert

I never did quite understand why you had 2 cars anyway. I guessed it wasn't an investment though.

I got mk2 as it was bigger for space with kids than a scirocco, but it was a quality golf and had no intentions of putting away for investment.
but when you drive places and peeps pull you over the car, i'd get the saying of "Mate, get a mk1, you dont know what your missing" so the wife found this one, and i do love driving it, but mk2 is comfy, mk1 is a go-kart
But if no sale, i will keep her for one of my lads whoever passes test 1st, hopefully he'll look after it