Mk1 wrecks

jeez - they had a rabbit breeding problem in the states… there's hundreds of the bleeders

Lets hope for everyone in the bone yard, there's two still running!

This look like a Scirocco cabriolet, didn't know they existed :dontknow:

tresser

This was my car when i bought it in June from this forum!:



This is it after some love!



This is my other mk1 still in need of some love!



The GTi dead

vw_golf_nutter said

The GTi dead

Ouch! What happened to that? - I hope that there was no one in the front passenger seat at the time…

and it still goes!

That's an original farmer's Mk1 bought from the farmer himself (allegedly). The reg is late 70's from the rural County of Carlow, and they're not transferable over here, so it's probably genuine (PS: the MOT was only introduced here around 1999, which explains how this car survived that long)

More pics at the bottom of the page below - note the Jaguar-derived "rat" on the roof!

http://s33.photobucket…xi/terenure2006/?start=40

that is a scirocco convertable, i googled it, one of 35 EVER made apparantly  8O  god damn and its in a scrappie like that

all these battered mk1s and i still can't find a full lock set !! :dontknow:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TeZIn5Ov4Q

Saw this mk1 dumped at an end of a industrial estate in North London about 4 years ago, tried to find out who owned it? but no one knew not even the mechanic who had his garage 2 units at the end of this estate knew who's it was?

Tried for about 4 months to find the owner, but to no avail!!
I hadnt been to see it for a while, so one night I decided to drive down to see it, in the hope to find the owner again? but hen I saw it someone had taken the wheels and doors and it had a council removal sticker on it,
The interior was in pretty good nick so I whipped it out before it got crushed, lucky I did because the next day it was gone  :cry:

Shame it had such a good body, another decent Mk1 Gti gone to the vw heaven in the sky

no worse than some of the 'rat look' i've seen…!

such a shame!

From virtually rust free California junkyards this year:
And a Cabriolet that perhaps SHOULD be sent to the yard…..but was still running around.

http://si41.photobucke…53/dirtbikedave/stackage/

sorry about the quality of the pics, is a photo of a photo

georgieboy said

http://si41.photobucke…53/dirtbikedave/stackage/

sorry about the quality of the pics, is a photo of a photo

Ouch  8O  - would not have wanted to be in that one at the time, judging by the steering wheel & dash.

Nice all-red rear lights though - was that a Channel Islands registration?

Yeah it was a Guernsey one. ive got a caddy now and am converting it to a gti. check 'dirtbikedave' on vw caddyforum.com

the crash hit me hard and sent me into a coma for 3-4 weeks.
im just starting to chat a bit more about it since iv been getting involved with 'Headway" a head injury charity thats recently starting up over here (been on the mainland since 1979)
like i say on caddy.com, its really refreshing to find someone that 'understands'

how do you recognise the plate?

georgieboy said

Yeah it was a Guernsey one. ive got a caddy now and am converting it to a gti. check 'dirtbikedave' on vw caddyforum.com

the crash hit me hard and sent me into a coma for 3-4 weeks.
im just starting to chat a bit more about it since iv been getting involved with 'Headway" a head injury charity thats recently starting up over here (been on the mainland since 1979)
like i say on caddy.com, its really refreshing to find someone that 'understands'

how do you recognise the plate?

Oh blimey, it was you in the car… glad to hear that you're better now, but it must have been a scary time for your family while you were "away". At least you're around to tell the tale.

The plate: I just know my plates (bit of an anorak in that area  :wink: ) - would love to visit someday, to see the sights, but especially to see some lovely, low-mileage classics!

not that many low milers really. (well our average mileage is loads lower than u foreigners) saying that i heard of someone who loves his s1 rs turbos  he was working on somebody's house and took his 'mint' s1 round. the house owner said, oh ive got one of those. (the s1 freak got a semi) and when he saw it he was creaming everywhere. apparently (i havnt seen it myself) it is MINT even has stock tyres on, FSH, everything how it came out the factory, done bout 7000 miles and is the lowest mileage one in the world (apparently) he picked it up for about 6 grand!!!
i dont do fords but there could maybe be 1 exception!!!
(dont quote me on any of these figures/statistics)

The red one in my "hello" introductory thread was saved from a premature death at the final minute.

What happened was my father used to frequent the local scrappy and one saturday morning just as the gates were being shut, along comes this guy with a sad and abused looking mk1 in yellow in tow.
His intention was to scrap the aforementioned little golf and collect his blood money.   :x
My father was just leaving the scrappy as this guy turned up, but luckily he couldnt get in to do the dastardly deed.
The little golf was saved for the pricely sum of ?25 and towed home for us to have a look at.
At the time we got our hands on it, it had no seats, no carpets, rust was a foregone conclusion and was prolific and it had a pond or two in the footwells. I half expected to see a gaggle of ducks swanning around in there.  Still, it only had 68k on the clock and a 1.1 engine that didnt run. In short it needed work and lots of tlc.
And it got it too.

Makes me sad when i see so many unwanted, unappreciated vehicles like that, that could actually be made into really nice clean and loved cars for someone else.
At least i did my part for dubdom and saved one of them from the jaws of death.
I love my golfy! :mrgreen: