Mk1 Caddy - Brighton

My name's Jake, I'm 18 years old. Me and my Dad have always wanted an old vehicle to work on together, and this was perfect. I've just started my third year at college doing a level 2 car vehicle maintenance course at college. Enjoying this far more already than the 2 years of photography I just did. And I finally got my own caddy. So happy!



Now, to introduce the caddy. She's a 1.9l (AAZ I think?) diesel, from a 1997 mk3 golf, all in all a good caddy but needs loving as previous owner turned to motorcycles! She needs a fair bit of work doing to her to get to the stage I want, there's a few rust issues as expected, but she starts and stops which is good haha.



The downside is it needs welding in the rear arches to pass the mot, and brakelines sorting out. Both which shouldn't be good hard to do, I may make a restoration thread eventually. Tax ran out a week after I bought it last month, mot too. Just recently fitted a horn (it didn't have one?!), and sorted some electrics out. Smashed a headlamp in the process which gave a cheeky excuse to pop by vw heritage in Burgess Hill to buy a new one, had a good old chat there and they pointed me in the direction of this forum. I'm already on a caddy forum but was told this has a wider community.













I've decided to name her Claudia I think, although I feel like it's got more the personality of a male.

Any other caddy enthusiasts nearby, it'd be cool to meet up and see yours, I can't drive anywhere to meet just yet though! 2-4 weeks and my broken ankle should be healed at the same time as Claudia's back on the road.

Hey there and welcome along to the forum

Hey there, thanks! I may be a bit lazy asking this but, where do I find about upcoming shows?

Also, anyone got much experience with the AAZ engines? Hard to fit a turbo to one?

welcome along mate nice caddy
there are a few differnet sections for shows

You got the regional section here
http://vwgolfmk1.org.uk/forum/index.php?page=forumview&id=regional-meets

then the nation section is here
http://vwgolfmk1.org.uk/forum/index.php?page=forumview&id=national_2

if you wanna see past shows here are the pics/reviews
http://vwgolfmk1.org.uk/forum/index.php?page=forumview&id=show-meet-pictures-and_2

also go to the homepage there is a drop down box on the right hand side to set your region

Scott

Nice one cheers!

Greetings  

Hey mate-Caddy looks good.
Nice to see more Caddy owners on here! 

Cheers! Any caddy owners down south that fancy a meet up once she's legal?

Could be a plan 

Hello and welcome to the club !!!

I too along with my cabby am a caddy (in restoration) owner too so it's nice to see more here and yes we are a very wide community catering for all things mk1 !!!

Any questions that you may have just ask away in the relevant section and you will get your answers fast,  our resident diesel guru is a chap call Bert he will help you with any problems that you may encounter.

It'll be wrong of me not to mention the benefits of being a paid member of the club and how much it will be able to save you through our various club discounters just click on the link below this post or on the left hand side of the site to see the range of benefits,  and its the satisfaction of supporting the best VW club there is !!!!

Once again welcome to the club !

cheers Dave.