my mk1 resto

hi i was on hear a couple of months ago when brought my mk1 golf formel e in white well since then alot has happen starting with mot pass after sitting in fild for 2 year all needed was a tyre witch was amazing then brought a new pair of 8  / 14 inc set of borbet wheels and gone for the streched tyre look to then perchaced a new pair of coilover and the biggest diffrence is the car itself   the advantage of me being a painter is that striped it down to bare shell welded new filer panel in couple of patches in door and the rear arches were getting a lil scabby so what have done is cut away the inner lip of arches and seem welded iner arch up and welded a new arch onto the existing arch giving it a 1 1/2 widder booth sides its a verry suttle diffrence but i think its well worth it will try and get some pic on tomoro and would love to hear ur opinoins thanks  

Look forward to seeing the pics :wink:

hear are two pics of the car when strarted the work iv repaired all dent and striped bk the inner arch and got it up on axle stands

after these pic the folowing work has been carried out the arches have been banded front and back i brought 2 new genuine wings and 4 arch repair panels and a filer repair panel and on front cut outer arch lip away and welded a back arch onto the front to give it a wider stance and done the same on the back with moderfieing the inner arch to then welded and seam sealered all up and stone chiped inner wings and arches and gonna paint them up also put my coilovers on and lowerd some but with the arch like they are it looks lower than is and keep the hight to cover the big speed bumps  also took bumpers of till can find a pair of metal one and done all welding to then primed the arches flated them all sorted out the pin holes and reprimered the whole vehicle inside doors and shuts to  now car in grey i think i looks quite nice so thinking in keeping it this colour but flatting primer and reprimering and satin laquering the whole lot leaving the front bk and sills stone chip black to be diffrent all would like to hear ur veiws on this








this was the shot that made me consider of keeping it grey what do u all think and hear is a better pick of the arch i think its a suttle but it make the car look fatter without loseing any char and realy like to know what u think

and can see my wheels hope to get sum more pics soon when done some more work and realy would like to no what think on colour cuz not far from the painting stage thanks and what u think of keeping the stone chip areas just stone chip black with satin laquer over top

Nice work on the arches, it works, really subtle but nice fat stance now. Not sure about keeping the stonechip/grey look!

thanks i wernt sure how the arches would turn out but just wanted to do sumthing sutle and difrent and never seen the arches done like that before and glad its liked and took me 5 days flat out to do 4 arches and the colour i have brought pria is a pastle light blue witch i realy like and keeps with the look and next is to try and fine crome grill and crome side strips for a 5 door

Another toilet blue MK1 on the way then!  Only taking the mic, quite like the colour actually. There was one on Golf+ from memory last year (?) in that colour, looked really clean 8)

its quite alot lighter than what ive seen but i know what ur saying its still quite common but its just such a hard thing cuz i want it to be diffrent but dont want a modern colour but iv still got couple weeks till paint so will have to get looking but thanks for ur opinion

Should be a decent colour to show those arches off :wink:

wow ur doing really well with that

well impress with ur efforts  

thanks ppl and hope u like her and will get sum more pics when done some more work on her and thinking of getting a mk1 golf gti to fully restore with bare metal strip so may have another one in a month or so got the bug now and onli 17

hi just wondering want to up rate the breaks and wanna no if the gti brakes disks and callipers will fit onto my mounting points thanks

just thought i would update on my lil girl  well been on it flat out since friday morning got all the primer flatted all re stone chiped up and got new brakes disks pads and drums and got some new tyres upfront and tryed the new front splitter on and love it so thats it for the moment and hope u like my decision in the end till i decide a colour keeping it primer and satin laquer init and keeping the stone chip  black  up front and sills and rear and satin laquerin that to will look good till i decide the colour in september

It looking really nice, good progress

I'm loving that mate, the arches look awesome on it and  the stance is great, shame your not staying in primer grey, that would have looked so so sweet..

keep up the good work fella.. Nice to see it on a 5dr as well

hi alot has happend since last posted all painted and ready for final polish and keeped it grey but went for an original vw grey colour and used a matt agent in the laquer so kept it with that colour and kept the front and rear and sills black and painted a decal on boot will hope to get pics soon when all bk togheter i know it aint every ones choice of colour  but with the archs i was looking for a certain look and the grey with the black looks realy well i think hoping to get all black parts lights trims will get sum pics next couple of days i hope u like

wussy said

hi alot has happend since last posted all painted and ready for final polish and keeped it grey but went for an original vw grey colour and used a matt agent in the laquer so kept it with that colour and kept the front and rear and sills black and painted a decal on boot will hope to get pics soon when all bk togheter i know it aint every ones choice of colour  but with the archs i was looking for a certain look and the grey with the black looks realy well i think hoping to get all black parts lights trims will get sum pics next couple of days i hope u like

sounds sweet mate

cant wait to see pics