Vw Audi magazine Nov 1995

Just been given a copy of above mag it has an article on Series 1 convertibles. Article in b/w but I wondered if the vehicles pictured are still around? Registration plates may not be real I guess or may be stock VW pics but here they are anyway.
Rivage J156 XVV
Silver cabby OVV 119V
Clipper E68 NNH
Also an article on a restoration project they called "Red Baron" a 1975 senegal red golf N it's reg HDV 983N

Hope everyone has a great weekend at the AGM I can't make it myself, cheers.

I find old mags strange to read as there are no web addresses.
And its not really that long ago.

Not many S1 convertibles left as they rusted faster than a Lancia Beta in Brighton plus only ran for 1 year.

I spoke with the owner of Red Baron a few years ago though he sold it before then. Nice story picking it up of the top of a scrap heap though.

I found and restored the red Golf HDV983N, an 1100 N iirc. I bought it for £100 from a scrapyard in Bicester (LC Hughes) in 1995 when it was already 20 years old. According to VW, the engine, gearbox and bodyshell were produced in December 1974 but the car wasn't assembled until Jan 1975.
It had already been restored with new wings, front panel etc but the previous owner scrapped it because oil was dripping from the head gasket into the alternator. I took the head off and replaced the gasket to sort that one. I put some seat covers on which never fitted right, and replaced the standard box with a 3+E Formel E Jetta unit which absolutely transformed it.
It cleaned up well enough, and in 1997 some bint in a Megane clouted the O/S front wing and door. Took it to Rye Mill (the new defunct VW Audi agent in High Wycombe) who did a superb insurance repair - new wing which was properly undersealed, blended the paint into the rear door and waxoyled it thoroughly. They also valeted it to within an inch of its life - someone took pride in their work on the Baron!

It was a good little car that, and even then it attracted a bit of attention. I daresay in the intervening 15 years some Mong drove it into the ground and it ended up in another scrapyard. It's not been taxed for many years.

I did another Golf for VWAC as well, a silver GLi OMJ104V, one of the first Golf Cabrios. What a heap of s**t that was. Rotten wings and arches, ripped hood, siezed engine. Put all the body to rights with new panels, resprayed it, new blue hood, good used interior and an engine from a rusty 1977 R reg Golf GTi.