Jimmy's Canyon Red 5dr '80 Series 1 GLS!

A few of you might have seen this in the newbies section, my summer and beyond project car.  I had planned to buy a series 2 and get someone to drop a tdi lump in, but couldn't pass up on this little beaut, and seemed a shame to spoil the originality.  I'm the 4th owner and I have MOT's all the way back, original bill of sale (the guy traded in a 3.2 jag to have her!) and original plates and dealer sticker from Bristol, so glad to have her back in the city!  

I've been running around in her as is, and did a wicked trip to Dorset last week covered well over 200 miles and she didn't skip a beat, not bad considering she'd done less than 20 last year.  Plan is to tidy her up, new wheels (picking up some castellets tomorrow thanks to Kane ) subtle drop (maybe not coilovers but don't know what a good alternative would be?) and when MOT time comes around maybe a little bodywork - wings and valence need doing as do the rear arches in time - the rest is remarkably good, sills, wheel well, inner wings all look pretty solid, sure there's some rot lurking.  There are also numerous little dings chips and scrapes, so a full respray will probably be on the cards next year.

Little bits of interior trim need doing (brown, hooray!), speedo needs a trip odometer (was changed for one without, 5 years ago) and the front seats are a little baggy but otherwise she's solid, original and my pride and joy!

Now the sob story, I got made redundant yesterday so You'll probably find me here quite a lot when I should be filling in application forms!  More seriously, I came home tonight to find some cnut has pulled the side section of the plastic front bumper right forward and bent it, cracking the chrome trim.  Luckily nothing else is damaged and it wasn't in the best of condition, but it makes me fecking angry someone would do that for no reason, I might have to get a garage to keep vermin like that away.

Anyway, hope you enjoy the pics and cheers for all the help and advice you've given so far, I'll be asking for lots more for sure!

Cheers

J

Hmm, why didn't that work….?  :dontknow:

You have to right click on the pic and go to properties and copy and paste the link to here, then add the img tags

so its like this:

with spaces taken away

Nice mk1 btw :wink:

Dammit, maybe flickr doesn't work?

Here you go (trimmed back the codes so they ended in 'jpg' and cut off all the other numbers and stuff (?v=1238747721 etc) at the end…if that makes sense!)


Always was an derier man!

Before the vandalism

Chuffed with the sills

Know anyone who can tighten up baggy seats?

These were covered with masking tape, apparently it passed it's MOT like that!


Sticker and plates

Fun with seatbelts!

Made in Germany

Thank you Mod!  was begining to think it just wasn't my day!   

Straight to the bottom of the class

No worries. I'm not a computer whizz or anything, just fiddled and about and used the post 'preview' button to see what happened after each try!    Sorry to hear you've lost your job. Hope something comes up soon. It's a great Mk1, very retro and original! Fingers crossed no more silly sods touch it.  :twisted:

ross_m said

Nice mk1 btw :wink:

Cheers Ross, very impressed by your MK1, amazing amount of work gone into it.

I'm originally from the Borders, the other end of Scotland, nice to know there's some MK1's bombing aabout up there.  

Diesel-dubber said

No worries. I'm not a computer whizz or anything, just fiddled and about and used the post 'preview' button to see what happened after each try!    Sorry to hear you've lost your job. Hope something comes up soon. It's a great Mk1, very retro and original! Fingers crossed no more silly sods touch it.  :twisted:

I tried a few variations but it beat me!  Cheers, would like to have caught them at it, as long as they weren't too big!  

I guess everyone is feeling the pinch, some much worse than me so can't complain.  Something else will come along I'm sure.

Cheers  About the seats.. I would try and find someone whos breaking a mk1 and get the covers out of it. I dont think that can be fixed

Cheers, thought as much, will keep my eye out.

Hi J

I'm glad you had a trouble free journey to Dorset.She needed a good run.
It's nice to hear your sticking to your original plan's for it.

The gaffer or duct tape was a requirement to pass the MOT which i believe they did.

J , i was meaning to Contact you if your interested ?.I have a full Damper and spring suspension  kit .approx 50-60mm drop for a MK1 just kicking about.It's done very little miles .?60 to you .

Pm me if your interested

Gra

piks of the wheels  :wink:
kane

Since you asked!  The project begins! I love castellets, had a set on my old MK2 GTD, see what you think…

Some twunt thought it would be fun to try and rip my bumper off


To cheer myself up I took a trip up to see Kane and have his old wheels off him.


Quit a different wheel but bolted on no problem, after I'd worked out the jacking points  ops:

Starting to take shape

Before and afters




 


What do you think?  I'm pretty happy with the results, thanks again to Kane, top bloke, and an amazing project, can't wait to see it finished.

Next for this one, roof rack and lowering…stay tuned.

Anyone fancy a set of solid steels with excellent tyres all round?  Wrong time of year to be sellend a set of winters, these will clean up real nice though!  Offers welcome, inc swaps  

J

they look sooo much better cleans the car up
will be looking out for it
 :mrgreen:

kane

Those wheels look good!  It just needs to come down a bit.

Quick update, desmo roofrack ?13 ebay bargain!



Someone's had a go at the wing mirrors though, and smashed one  :cry:
Think I know who it is but can't do anything about it or it'll just get worse.  :evil:

Cant beleive how much vandalism your getting 8O  :cry:

On another note. What a bargain!

I wouldnt sleep a wink if i had to keep my car on the street!