Mk1 golf driver

I thought I'd do a thread for my golfy , I left the unit one day and spotted this in the next doors garden, knocked on the door and turned out he was looking to sell it  


Got it back to the unit and proceeded to remove all of the previous tat that had been added.


My original plan was to get an mot and use it as a daily driver, it sat in the unit for a couple of months and then I made the mistake of taking the arch trims off and poking holes in various places  :roll:

Doesn't look too bad mate to be honest. I've seen far worse. What's the plan for her then? Standard or engine conversion?

Exactly the arch trims are staying on haha. Doesn't look too bad though fella, what happened to spare wheel well :/

Will2343 said

Fairly big rust hole there, not seen one that bad before  8)

smudger1980 said

Doesn't look too bad mate to be honest. I've seen far worse. What's the plan for her then? Standard or engine conversion?

Stripped out, lightweight track slag  , I got some berg arches and compomotives but decided on keeping the stock arches instead of cutting them out. I got an abf engine and and am gonna run it on twin 45's.
pics of the arches and comps.


The spare wheel we'll was rusted out so I took the grinder too it  :wink:

Il get some pics up of the work done so far when my computer stops tripping out.

Looks good Mate.

What plans do you have beyond track and arches ?

Regatta blue is my favourite colour for the mk1 driver   

I'm in the middle of restoring a Regatta blue driver, and my arches were worse, due to being very poorly repaired by a previous owner.  :cry:

We're still cutting out botched rear wheel arch/cill repairs  

What you going to do with the interior, cos I'm looking for tweed material to re-upholster my interior in parts ?

Have a look at my blog on here 'Golf driver - winter project '

Good luck with the re-build

Cheers

David

 

dal said

Looks good Mate.

What plans do you have beyond track and arches ?

Regatta blue is my favourite colour for the mk1 driver   

I'm in the middle of restoring a Regatta blue driver, and my arches were worse, due to being very poorly repaired by a previous owner.  :cry:

We're still cutting out botched rear wheel arch/cill repairs  

What you going to do with the interior, cos I'm looking for tweed material to re-upholster my interior in parts ?

Have a look at my blog on here 'Golf driver - winter project '

Good luck with the re-build

Cheers

David

 

Pretty much a full rebuild, yeah the arches on mine were rotted out, it's been welded up now though, ended up getting both rear inners and outers done, both sills, lower rear panel and one chassis leg patching, I'm going for a full multi point cage and bucket seat. The original seats were ripped so they got scrapped.  :cry:

Had all the welding done and everything blasted, there's still a couple of small welding jobs to do but il get on it over Christmas. Got the computer working so here's some pics.

Got a few more bits sorted ,
Eibach anti roll bars, powder coated gti beam and weitec hicon tx coil overs


All chassis bits have been powder coated. Superpro poly bushes, crazy quiff anti roll bar clamps and new bolts for everything,


Got some new front calipers,


Trying to find some drawings for the 02a gearbox mounts if anyones got some, I've seen the mounts for sale at just caddys etc but the all seem a lot of cash for what they are.