Who got you into mk1's ?

Haven't seen a thread like this so might as well.  My dad got me into older golfs and then i found this site and the mk1 became my favourite car.  It was newer golfs before that for me.  So who got you into mk1's then?

My dad and my cousins, i always wanted a beetle growing up, then one of my older cousins got a mk1 gti and she used to spend all her time working on it, and my dad used to take me up to see it and what have you, and then TADAAAAA 17th birthday i get one of my very own!!

came across this website, actually i dont know how, but im here now!

My best mate got me into the whole dub thing. He turned up in a standard 1.8t mk4 and took me for a drive and that was it i was hooked! He then bought a mk1 cabby and took me out in that which was such good fun! I did always want to own one and now i do. Its such a raw experience and i love older cars so getting a mk1 was the perfect choice! 8)

I was on the hunt for a cheap car after my test (13 years ago  8O !!!).  My old man is a bit of an old school car nut… so… off we went to look at local adverts and garages who have unwanted part exchange stock laying around… after much searching and looking at mini's, metro's, novas and generally rubbish etc (which my dad wouldn't touch with a poop-stick)… we happened to see a white mk1 golf driver in the corner of one particular car yard.  My old man asked to see it… went round it with a fine tooth comb and everything… he haggled with the guy and got it for a couple of hundred quid…. don't know who was more chuffed me or him
 :roll: .  It was a brilliant motor but got quite a good job a year later and had to sell it for a newer car…. I was gutted and had to get my old man to sell it as I couldn't face it  :cry:  fast forward 13 years and I now own a mk1 gti which I could only dreamed of owning for 13 years…. well worth the wait!!!!

When I grew up I always wanted a beetle, after owning four I decided to move onto something watercooled.    Still would love a tin-top Mk1 though, and will one day own one.

my car was my nanas who had it from new. when she past away it was left to me. many many arguments are still raging within the clan over this. but i really dont care.
she was insistant i got. to the point that she signed it over to me (i was not aware) 3 weeks before she past away.
if my cousin had gotten his hands on it, it would have been scrapped along time ago.

came into mk1s by chance realy, after owning my first car for a couple of years (mk2 punto) one of my mates got a mk3 polo saloon slammed on some nice wheels and that opened me up to the vw scene.
now it was summer time and i had just quit my job, but had some money saved up, and not too far away from me was a caddy for ?400, so i decided to buy it as a project, then sold my punto for the money to sort my caddy out, many a rattle can later it was matt black and very low looked the biz in my eyes.but with me doing quite alot of miles and the winter it ended up having to go, but there was something missing with every car after that.
so a month or so ago i brought my mk1 gx and will never look back.

My friend had a white and navy cabby which was such fun that when one came up I jumped at it!

Never liked driving anything else since  :mrgreen:

I'm gradually spreading the obsession around my family. My stepdaughter (Rach) has one, my son has a series 1 as his first car, my nephew at uni is looking for one and hubby has a caddy. (I still have my original blue cabby which will be restored one day!!

When we were first together he drove a Sierra and thought a car was just to get you from A to B…..but not for long  

i blame my family and friends for my love of mk1 and vw's

My mate had a Mars red mk1 1.3 when i was at school and as he couldn't drive at the time we just used to mod it and sit around in it.

then the first day he could drive we went out cruising around and it broke down (classic mk1) one of the engine mounts had gone it couldn't be driven. looked like a pair of right idiots

then many years later my brother had a mk2 gti and then sold that and bought a mk1 cabby, i loved that car. then that broke for some reason so he bought a G60 carado and he's still got that even after the engine ate the supercharger and it cost ???? to get jabba sport to fix it

then i bought my mk1 and i can't get enough of it.

my dad and the guys at his work all got their new company cars on 1st august 1981.

my dad had a saab 900 turbo, 1 of the others a bmw 323i, and 1 a mk1 gti in mars red.

i was 6 and loved the mk1.. always wanted 1 since then…
had a black one when i was 19, then a blue one when i was 20. now at 33, i finally have my mars redder!!!wooooo  

My dad, it was my 2nd car. I had green 1.3 GLS it was a nice car then it rustyed to death. Also I fitted a 1.1 in it in the end thinking it was a 1.3 not a bad engine as it happened but it wasn't really a very good car and I think the interior was a beige.

My 2nd golf was a MK1 1.3 Driver Metalic blue 3 door, very nice interior and exterior. I loved that car unfortunatly it met a nasty end in a head on
collision I'm looking for a similar one to replace it for the missus

3rd is my current, had it for 10years, its never let me down. I've been to Norfolk twice in it in not too small a period of time). It keeps going despite not driving it often enough and my years of neglect

I love Mk1's i'll keep owning one for however long they still run  :mrgreen:

bikes got me into mk1's. started on trikes (found a vw one then the love started, then got fastback, then something more morern MY GOLF

My mum is to blame. Our first new car was a MK1 mars red 1.1 CL. Painfully slow but I will never forget family holidays as a kid in the little mk1, fab car managed to do 280,000 miles by the time it was finally sold. Lots of trips to Scotland did it.

I got into mk2s as that was what my parents had and mk3s by the time I learnt to drive. Always wanted a GTI, first one was a bag of poop mk3 8v but I got a taste from that. Had a chaved up mars red mk2 gti that was quick but always looked a bit over the top. Then settled on my mk2 Oak Green run out, which is a very comfortable and fun daily driver. But it always feels a bit too modern and disconnected, even though it's 16 years old! So it was time for a mk1, got the engineering a month ago and have big resto plans, but even now it drives like a dream, very responsive, flat round corners at speed, light nimble, everything a mk1 GTI should be. I vow to always have a mk1 gti tucked away in my garage forever!

Clarkson ops: .

Brought one for ?350 and i havent looked back. Most fun cars ive ever owned and ive had loads from an alfa 156 to an intergrale.

I blame Early-1800.

He had done a number of retorations (mk1, caddy and beetle) and spent ages on his cars they look great but not really my thing. also helped him move house and emptied the loft off doors, interiors and various other bits, everything but a chassis. Thought he had gone strange living in deepest yourshire.

That all changed when he got a mint white cabrio and I went for a spin on a summers day. Wow that was the starting point.

Bought present cabrio and Early-1800 helped me get on top of maintenance etc and thats it. Set in stone when I took the family out for sunday lunch in the country and someone came up and and was askin about the car. Also the feeling of driving on the roads around pendle in the sun was fantastic.

As you can see bug has bitten, bring on the summer!

my brother was right into them tbh and just went from there

he got a red mk1 1.1 5dr when he was 19 and i got my first one pretty soon after

i had a mk1 cabby come into my garage one day for some work and i fell in love with it so i started looking for one for myself and it went from there!!

Went to look at one local in the early 90s 4spd Gti (early) small rear light..was a bag of pants stolen recovered no brakes n bits missing but went like stink (i de fell in love).
Then i bought my 1st mk1 Gti W reg with vinyl roof in mars red RLR 171W in Southampton, last seen sheffield. Went on from there was previously air cooled but needed a heater so the mk1 was the next step i suppose .. :dontknow:

For as long as I can remember, our family has had Mk1 Golfs.  My gran ran a 1500 GLS, my unckle had two (a GL model and a GLS), my dad had three (MUM 629P was a 1975 metal bumper series 1 1100) he also had an X-plate pale/mid blue 1100 and a Y-reg Mars Red 1.3 Driver.  His mate had one of the very first GTI's into the country - that thing ripped!

I'd always known that I'd have one but the car that sealed the deal for me, I remember it so clearly.  I was sitting in the back of my dads MK2 Jetta (we are a Volkswagen family) and this black Mk1 GTI came past absolutely flat out, darted up a motorway slip road still shifting and at the last minute, braked hard and chucked a 90 degree left at about 50mph then accelerated away.  I was so impressed by it, I even memoriesed the reg number incase I ever had the opportinuty to own it (now bear in mind that at the time, I was only 6 years old), reg plate was A21 WVK although I think it's now been scrapped?