Got my MK1

Collected yesterday  

On 8th March 1983 Mrs Susan Hann went to M.H Gilby Motors,Camberley, the VAG agent and traded in her 1977 Scirocco GLS, she ordered a new MK1 Golf GTi in black paint with sunroof and tinted glass, she also asked the dealer on delivery to fit mudflaps, upgraded door speakers and a twin headlamp 'Hella' grille, the total iclusive of extras was ?7618, she was offered ?1450 for her Scirocco.

In December 2004 , YPK, came back on the market for the first time since new, it was bought by Mr Walkingshaw, a director of Walkingshaw VW in Cumbria, at this time the car had covered 82,000 miles, still retained all its original panels and paint and full service history.

The car was put through the main dealer workshops, valeted, a few minor parking dings were removed by a dent removal specialist. The car was then put on display in the main showroom amongst the new VW models.

After a while the display space was required for buisness and YPK379Y was put into storage in the company warehouse.

Last November whilst getting my MK5 GTi serviced I asked as to the fate of the MK1, Andrew (Mr Walkingshaw) took me to see the car and said it isn't strictly for sale but if I was interested I could have it,I had known Andrew for many years, well its took me best part of a year to get round to buying the car, something TR or Escort related always got in the way.

The car was fully valeted, put through the workshops and put on display again in the showroom where I picked it up this morning. The boot is full of new unobtainable VW spares which they had bought just in case and all the history including the original bill of sale and service pack are filed on the back seat.

Forgot to add, the car has a small spoiler fitted made by FOHO or FOHA, hard to tell, it also says on the spoiler Austria and some other writing ?

Any ideas ?

cheers, Paul

dare we ask the cost of such a minter?  :dontknow:

very nice, good to see an original mk1  ,,,

thats the one from the for sale section on here isnt it? looked a right bargain to me.

Gazvenn said

thats the one from the for sale section on here isnt it? looked a right bargain to me.

No mate, to my knowledge the car has never been advertised for sale.

cheers, Paul

RUDDY said

Gazvenn said

thats the one from the for sale section on here isnt it? looked a right bargain to me.

No mate.

lol something tells me this has had a very sheltered life, how many miles has it done Ruddy?

has it been out of a vw showroom much in its life?

lol something tells me this has had a very sheltered life, how many miles has it done Ruddy?

has it been out of a vw showroom much in its life?

Its got just under 83k on the clock but has done less than 1k since 2004 when the main dealer got it.

cheers, Paul

Very very very very very and so on..... nice 8)

Absolutely stunning!

I think Gazvenn is mixing yours up with this one that is for sale on here:
http://www.vwgolfmk1.o…ms&file=viewtopic&t=69508

The pictures from the dealership do look very similar.  :wink:

Nice car mate,

What was the damage then ? :wink:

Now you have got yourself a proper gti How much for the mk5 (only joking) Car looks lovely

Bit of a heap, hope it was cheap :wink:

allana13 said

Nice car mate,

What was the damage then ? :wink:

Somewhere between ?1 and ?10,000 ……..  :wink:  :wink: