My Yellow 78 Series 1 - Restoration started 05/14

Lovely mate. Enjoy the show

nice! love that :-)

Looks nice this now man. 

About the price fee restoration, I know where your coming from, I'm in same boat with my Gti, it won't be going anywhere soon but I wanna know il get my money back kinda thing as I'm doing labour myself  

On a side note, mates just sold a '74 swallow that was mint with 35,000km on for £8k 

Looks cracking

Cheers for the comments. 

Few from the show at the weekend. Alive and Vdubbin @ jimmys farm in suffolk. Great show, really friendly and such a good atmoshpere!! deffinatly recommend it to anyone!!

My daughters little peg perego magica beetle probably got more attention than my car

Lovely pics and lovely car

nice car mr, love the yellow ones  

Nice Car man

New interior fitted (sorry rubbish pics)… well chuffed with it. Although they arent the same as before they are original series1 and i think they suit the car better






Also got my first panel for the restoration. Luckily stubbled across this on ebay and had to snatch it up as my rear slam panel has rotten and these are getting mega hard to get hold of.

It turned up today and is actually in better condition than it appears in this pic so happy.



Also got the lower rear valance and rear corners on order from VWheritage.

So this year i will be mainly sourcing body panels then im going to put it in for the resto next winter!!

Ive got a year or so to make some big decisions  

Nice interior matey. Care to share the big plans for the resto???

yellow or green is my main decision  

Yellow gets my vote for what it's worth

argh i think i was watching that panel on ebay. was going to throw a bid in lol

Yellow for me.... Keep it orignal i say...

browner01 said

argh i think i was watching that panel on ebay. was going to throw a bid in lol

i will have a slightly more rotten one for sale next year  

Looking awesome. Great car.

Just out of interest, when buying new body panels, will you be buying new or used?

Its a daft question but I know some enthusiasts like the whole car true through and through.

I need to purchase some new panels for my s1, but unsure when to go for them.

Dublove said

Looking awesome. Great car.

Just out of interest, when buying new body panels, will you be buying new or used?

Its a daft question but I know some enthusiasts like the whole car true through and through.

I need to purchase some new panels for my s1, but unsure when to go for them.

Cheers mate  

i am sourcing panels however possible. some are harder to come by than others as you can imagine with a 35 year old car. Panels like the one above i dont think you can get new. (correct me if im wrong).

Also doors im finding almost impossible to find 'mint' S1 doors. Looks like im going to have to buy S2 doors and use them to reskin mine or change the hinges over.

Stuff like sills, rear lower valance. corner repairs etc im getting from vwheritage/crazyquiffs.

Then other parts like the pillars near the windscreen the guys doing the restoration are going to cut out any bad bits and refabricate.

Your car is looking good - love the new seats.

Not much of an update really just pics from busjam show last weekend, have fitted new tyres and gone a bit lower since my last post