What started your Mk1 love affair?

Hello!
I've just been looking through the family album and realised there's little wonder I ended up obsessed with the Mk1 Golf and subsiquently the entire Marque.
As I scanned through, the first car I remember, my Dad's old Golf. No C or CL just Golf. so pretty basic.
N reg,three door, the small tail lights didnt even have reverse lamps! god I wish I owned that now!!
then a black five door CL totally mint condition, chrome eveything. again if only!
 A mk2 followed, again just a Golf but that was the end..the Mk1 always stood out as the winner to him.

So how about you?
What started it?
Where and how did you catch the bug??

17… first car that stood out from the metro's and fiesta's I could afford so bought it… fell in love the moment I drove it lol …. couldn't afford a gti… so got one now I'm 30 lol …. it's just as good as I imagined

I was lucky enough to have my first Gti when I was 19, god I loved it.
It was a little scruffy but it never mattered.
I'm 32 now and I've got a Golf C, got that one backwards I think?

cubed said

I was lucky enough to have my first Gti when I was 19, god I loved it.
It was a little scruffy but it never mattered.
I'm 32 now and I've got a Golf C, got that one backwards I think?

LMAO   …. is it your daily?

i got my first gti when i was 18…

was a choice between the gti or a gordini turbo

had the gti 2 years, then it took me 17 years to get another.

(7 months ago)

The old man kept buying old vauxhalls n fords, enough the convert anyone to Germany's finest. only problem back in 81 i could not afford one had to wait three more years for my 79 gti great memories  

LMAO   …. is it your daily?

HeHe! No she's currently undergoing major surgery…
keeping the badge though!

What made you choose the golf Spenny?
must have got under your skin 'cos your back for more now.  

the gordini was fast but just did'nt appeal to me like the gti did

always had golfs, but the fire in my belly never died for the mk1..

ill keep this one for ever now..   

Same for mine..cant say i'l ever sell her now.
waited far too long for a good one.

yes to long….

and mine was a total impulse buy …

took me about 2 mins to decide…

my Grandad had vw`s , then my fella always had mk1 Gti`s, my mum reckons its skipped a generation & ive got the car bug, i love all the old cars, alpha suds lancia Rs turbos cosworths etc, waited 17 years until i could afford mine sometimes when she plays up i could cry, but love nothing more than on a nice day turning off the music  & listening to engine while driving

Always wanted a golf as my first car, quite liked the mk4's at first then my dad suggested a mk1.  Having found this site i haven't wanted another car apart from a mk1.

It started when I was 19 when my mum bought me a W reg Lido green 1.1L for my first car  from a friend of the family. Now I'm on my 4th Mk1 with 7 Golf's in total 6 of them GTI.  So makes around 14 years of being VW fan.

mine started when i was 16 (back in 1996), at the time i wanted a mk1 escort (do still have a soft spot for them too)  and on my way home from school one day i saw a tarted up tintop mk1 golf.
changed from very light blue to deep purple when the sunlight hit it (not helios), clipper kit, very low and loud on polished 5 spoke wheels.

that very mk1 made me want one,  started a job when i left school and a new lad started after a couple of years, the same lad who owned the blue mk1 which i saw as an impressionable 16 yr old, the car was for sale but as much as i tried to talk him into keeping it (untill i could afford to buy it) it was sold on, he then bought it back after about 7 months, and i bought it from him when i was 19

so my first mk1 gti was the one that made me want a mk1 in the first place.
i had only been driving a few months when i bought the mk1 (in an mg metrot of all things) so insuring the gti was a bit of a struggle but well worth it

set me up properly though as ive now had 13 tintop mk1's with various engines in them amongst other vw's
i dont have a tintop at the mo, but hopefully that wont be for too long.

thanks for reading.  karl

My first was a mk1 fiesta a present for passin my test, had its about 12 months then had a mk1 escort I built (my first ever a build a totally ground up rebuild from a rolling shell) I'l dig out some pic's. So I too have a major soft spot for those, but its been dubs ever since 2x mk1 golfs, 2x mk2's (one a syncro) and a corrado. all been great but the mk1 has just got THE magic!

Turning into a good little thread this!

I have very destinct memroies of walking up a bank home from school and seeing a mk1 golf black gti with ats classics, handbrake round a tight righthander and roar off from that day forward me and my brother fell in love with mk1 golfs and i have never owner another car!!!

I love vw since my mom bought her 89 16v GTI new and I just loved the car!  Then she added a 89 fox for a second car.  So about 5 years ago I saw a 84 GTI for $500 right outside of my mother-in-law's house.  Once thing lead to another and I bought the heap.  I wouldn't part from the car for the world.  I smile every time I drive this 8v!

Y2K was the year and a bronze grey metallic GTI convertable with original wheels and little black bumpers!!
  In a car park with full v-dub service history and 90k on a C plate(84) with a 1600 price tag AND a new Roof!!!

    It took 10 seconds to decide and another 3 seconds after i drove it.

 service myself now and hasnt let me down or failed in 9years!

p.s.Oh i remember alternater went….WOW!!

 Paul.  8O  

Fantastic thread, you can feel the love.

Seeing this as a child made me fall in love with VW Golfs….and led me to purchase one.
A Volkswagen never needs changing? - YouTube
Having a massive love for my beloved precious Mk2, introduced me to my love of Mk1's.
Ok I know its gone backwards, but I'm there now.  

Special little cars that make me beam from ear to ear.

Brilliant, I remember that advert!!

Mine started when my brother came home one day with a battered green Y reg mk1 gti which looked in a sorry state. I asked him why he bought what looked like a rusty piece of junk (didn't no much about mk1's) and he just smiled and took me out for a drive…the engine was good and I was hooked. Bought one for myself 3 weeks later, now on my third one!!