back to my grass roots ;)

Right here she is, had her ten years, so man and boy lol.  Im the fourth owner, this is my second lhasa green MK1 completely standard, apart for the BSS Splits, still got the P-slots tho, wouldnt part with them :wink: and a VW motorsport gearknob. She has mostly VAGSH but was serviced at GTI engineering back in the mid eighties (just thinkin i was about 7 at the time lol ) as you can see the rear arch covers are missing as i took them off to inspect for rust and at the same time brought new VAG arch cover items at the same time!!!!

The car was manufactured on the 29th of september 1983 and was first registered on the 1st november 1983 and has an EW chassis number

These pics were taken just before xmas as im hoping to take her to a few vw show in 2008.

the BBS RS split rims i brought from graham vanstone many years ago they came off his 20v mk1 (dont know if any one can remember that car)

Here she is on the front cover of VWM many moons ago!!

To be honest i thinking of doing a few sensible upgrades to her like lower strut brace, bigger throttle body, weighted shift rod,etc you know bolt on stuff nothing crazy!!! but half of me thinks that that could be a slippery slop, and as i said shes completely standard apart from the BBS even the suspension is standard and i still have a paper filter in her, would like some people views on that

enjoy

 

8)  looks very nice, love the BBS :wink:  whats happened to the rear arch cover???

looks cool ...but i think some one has let your dog out the gate lol lol

very nice 8)  8)

nice car could do with lowering  

I remember graham vanstone...........it was mettalic blue his car, skinny chap with specs yeah?

Those alloys are abit special, amazing how a set like that can make so much impact on the whole car

are they RS's? or RM's? or neither lol

MK1_Arron said

Those alloys are abit special, amazing how a set like that can make so much impact on the whole car

are they RS's? or RM's? or neither lol

As he says RS's I'd say they are just that  :wink:

Lovely car chappie, I remember that copy of VWM, still got it!!!

I'm thinking whether the car would look better a tad lower? but strangely I like it at standard height for some reason???? :dontknow:

thanks guys for the comments. thats right top of the range yep nice car he had, yeah could do with lowering a tad but i have just finished rebuilding the front suspension, including new wishbones, struts, top mounts, anti roll bars, all VAG parts too :roll: i think i took it a bit to the extreme as you can see from the photo.





p.s cheers mk1_aaron for the tip off on tinypic.com :wink:

Whats the brick for?

R u taking it to any shows this year? 8)

Yeah im planning on taking it to a few shows this year just not sure which ones yet!!

Can I eat my dinner off of your sump please?? now that is clean!!!!  8)

depends on what your thinkin of eatin off it, nothing to greasy i hope lol
yeah i alot of work hard, time and moneys has gone into her, and possibly the photos dont do the car justice, and i think people thought i had brought shares in VW at one point.lol

took some pics of the interior today enjoy!

that looks lovely mate, very tidy, so where are the rear arches?

cheers mate
they are in me garage waiting to go on! i brought new ones cos the originals had started to fade

8) nice one they do go a lovely shade of grey when they get old, VAG still do the original black pop rivets for putting them back on as they should be

what a great looking mk1, I love lhasa green!