My Gti

Righty people, here's a few pics of the last week working on my Golf Gti.  Im aware its far from gti spec as it was when i bought it, but i wanted a solid base for a small project so thought this perfect, and am used to people saying its a ruined Gti….but its my car built how i like and thats what this is all about in my eyes.
I bought it in the existing colour but it had ronal turbos fitted, along with bucket seats and a show cage which i was content with for all of a week, along with the awful orange mirrors/side trims.  Unfortunatly all the pictures of the car at this stage were lost along with my old phone.

This is the past week and a bits progress, lucky to have a week of work that was mainly sunny.
Riding on 13" polo steelies, nasty.



The ronals made way for a set of G60's that i had blasted, then spent hours priming and prepping for the Lada Cream paint.  I used Polo G40 centres, but had to fibreglass the 4 clips to mount onto the wheel nuts, not easy to find 16 of those down the scrappy these days, happy with the results though



Had the tyres from the ronals fitted to these, 165/50/15 as a trial as was unsure howd they look, but glad i did, got the car to this stage



Unfortunatly although most of the bodywork was very good, things like the bumpers had suffered and were removed, along the the tinted rear lights and front indicators.  The replacements for all of these parts were donated from the 2 mk1's my local breakers has in stock, the genuine front bumper, wing mirrors, lower sill trims, golf ball gear knob, rear lights and indicators costing the grand total of £50, all just needed a proper cleaning and sprucing up before fitting.  The rear bumpers is a pattern part i got from ulimate dubs, which is something i thought i didnt want, but being so impressed with he quality i bought it and lugged it around for the whole show.  I painted the side trims in cream to match the wheels also, along with the sill trims also, although not shown here, bloody rain.




Thats it so far, ill get some piccies of the interior as it is now, along with all the future plans i have for the car, all comments welcome whether they be good or bad.

Richy

Oh, and if anybody knows the car from its previous owners and could shed some light on the paint code thatd be sooooo helpfull, thanks.

superb, love it.

Well done.

Thankyou, im happy with it at the moment, engine needs a bit of love, when time and funds allow.

looking really good. the blue and cream work well!

looking really good. the blue and cream work well!

looks lovely mate, you're doing a fantastic job

although the person that fitted the tyres needs shot for his balancing weights, i got my g60's done and they're on the inside

I Know mate, I asked them to put them on the inside and when I picked them up they'd done that, wasn't atall happy, and they scratched the paint too so got money off, so I'm going to paint the weights for now, just want to drive the thing at the mo lol. Thanks for the comments guys, hope to meet a few of you at a show or 2.

i am loving those wheels mate great job

Thanks dude, really happy with how they look

Messing around with the iphone's awful camera, took this

really cool lookin car bud, love the wheel's, don't know bout you but i like unusual colours, n' it looks great with cream wheel's, keep up the good work!    al

agree the car looks great

Thanks people, i do like more unusual colours, it almost gets boring looking at loads of the same colour cars in my opinion, thanks again for the compliments.

doh!!
i must have the most boring colour white

no white is gooooood, my polo is white, and so were my jap cars, love white

I love white MK1's, but yours does look mint! I did wonder about powder blue or a similar colour when i had a choice.
The wheels are a good choice and the height is spot on!  :wink: