Second time lucky...

Hi everyone, my name is Alex and I'm a member of Dubpound, were quite a small and relatively new club based in the Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire. This is my first proper posting despite being a member since April, unfortunately about a week after joining, my First Mk1 was written off by a drunk driver, I was out of action for couple of months but now I'm back with MK1 no. 2.

Meet Marmite.

She's a Rat 1982 Golf C Diesel 5 speed (original) Which I thought might be fairly uncommon.
Now I know what a lot of people think about rats, but to me it's not about destroying a car for image, it's about finding a cheep car and giving it enough love to keep it from entering the scrap yard in the sky.

The car is lightly modified… more accessorized and currently sitting pretty on a 70mm drop on the front and 80mm drop on the back (was a 110mm drop before!) sporting black mk2 14" bottle tops. An original 70's harry moss roof rack, I lensless foglight with a mangled dolly head in it…  :roll: … a good dose of stickers, tin plates and yellow headlights.
 
Marmite has had a lot of welding and engine work over recent weeks to keep her roadworthy and is now my daily drive as my girlfriend and Is beetle is currently not running properly… as usual.
She's almost about to reach her 200k birthday but since having a been given the magical spanner by last owner and friend Harry, she runs sweet as a nut. My favorite part is getting 50 mpg on a 60 mile round trip each day and I have now become Lidl's best customer for my fuel needs… I know, booo! hisss!

Anyways, this is what £500 buys you, tax and test included… Sorry about the duff phone pics

she looks ok, ive seen worse and by the looks of it you wont loose her in a carpark

chris

The sills are dead, mainly filler and paint, those have been patched and welded in places. The arches are swiss cheese… thats why it's got covers over them   The passenger side wing is gone, got one off my old golf ready to go on there. The worst was the rear drivers side, the rust has eaten into the chassis, the inner skin and through to the seatbelt mount which was flapping around, it had also eaten away into the lock bolt section which left the door permanently closed… that's been replaced with one off my ld golf as well though.

Sad thing is my car that was hit by the drunk was in almost immaculate condition. 1.1 c formel e with about 80k on the clock. The interior was completely uncut and had full service history plus one owner who garaged it for the first 22 years of its life!

Hi mate

nightmare about your last car, but on the plus side your new one looks like a good little buy for £500 !

welcome to the site, there is a few of us in Bristol working on the southwest meets, also some guys in southwales sorting out the Welsh guys, feel free to come along to one of the next meets, be good to see ya

Im work in chepstow and often bring my golf to work, so let me know if your ever around this way

Rich

Cheers mate, don't go Chepstow way that often unless I'm desperate for chips (best chips ever near the bus stop)

I got a hello, hows your mother off someone from this club down by the castle around march time… I think they might have had a civic as well. I was with my girlfriend in a Red MK1 (paid £500 for that one as well)

Welcome to the site mate.

I know this car….. a fellow member owned here here to

So what are your plans with here.

Is ur 1.1 scrapped ?

Hi, my 1.1 is in pieces on my drive, a lot of it has been sold and other bits have been donated to the new car.
Was a Cat B write off unfortunately, The chassis was buckled bigtime.

My plans for the car are a bit more welding and filling to get it more solid.
Try and get hold of the right paint colours to max it look more tidy.
Find a good ratty child's bike for the roof rack…

Not sure really, Need to stop it squeaking and rattling so much.