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After two cabby's 2009-2015 i finally bit the bullet as wanted to try tin top ownership :-)

I also took it to its first show with me today, and got winner in the 80's class  :thumbs: IMG_4033.JPG

 

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Congratulations Rich, your new seats look lovely :thumbs:

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Congratulations Rich, your new seats look lovely :thumbs:

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Loving this :thumbs:

When u said you've never seen another in this blue I remembered x5 pea's. Glad to see it back with original handles, a wiper and the filler cap in the right place :cool:
When it was featured there was no throttle cable so wasn't even driven

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New interior looks brill! Changed the car  :thumbs:

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Dubbuds Thanks mate, well spotted on the car when it was X5pea's I noticed the lack of throttle cable too, must have been a trailered show car . I picked up a copy of the mag it was features in off ebay last week, so that gone into the history file for the car now  :thumbs:

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MK1 is looking great Rich

There's some serious OCD going on in your garage! lol  :thumbs:

Andy

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Awesome work Rich.

Are you planning on fitting the rear bench to it?, I remember you speaking to me about it at the AGM, that would finish it off nicely.

Are the wheels bbs rs?

1991 Black Sportline 1.8 GTI Cabby - gone

1983 Papyrus Green 1.5 Auto GL Cabby - gone

1984 Nevada Beige MK2 Golf 1.6CL LHD Auto - gone

1981 Schwartz Black MK1 Golf 1600 GTI - gone

Currently Mk1less!

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Good to chat to you at Malvern and see your new tintop.  This mk1 is amazing.  What an organized garage you have - can you come round and tidy mine up haha !  Congrats on the award - well deserved.

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Your garage is nicer than my house :lol:  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:

It's all shits and giggles until someone giggles and shits 

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Hairyarse - Its not too OCD mate, I didn't measure out the gaps between the hooks for my brushes, so it really annoys me now lol

P0jy - Thanks mate, I think I am going to leave rear bench out for now. I need to buy metal brackets to add back in, parcel shelf supports and shelf if I am going to do that (and spent enough so far  :| ), and think with the outside I need to keep some things interior wise away from standard.

The wheels are rep's believe it or not. I am quite impressed with them though look really good. I ran lenso's on my old clipper which I liked by these are better, think I will consider possibly a 16inch wheel next summer . If the 16inch reps you have were 4x100 I would have been tempted on them, was gona message you the other day, I would like to air it possibly in the future and would love a set of Fifteen 52's

watson - Thanks mate, was great to see you and glad the clutch pull through you managed to sort to be able to make the show, I need to finish my garage before I start on anyone else's  :lol:

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sallyandsean - ha ha, cheers mate. I bought one of those Keter sheds used on ebay for a bargain price so meant I could clear some rubbish into that in the garden and sort the garage out finally  :thumbs: Want to paint the walls soon though.

Its deceiving though , the garage is really small, you cant works around the car, its only a tiny bit deeper than the golf so you couldn't fit something modern in it, and I have to get the angle just right to tuck it in toward one wall and not scratch it  :o

I'd like to buy the carcoon I have saw someone is advertising for £180 to keep it nice and moisture free but don't think it would work as I cant drive straight in and still get down the side of the car  :(

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Looks nice Mate and deffo the new interior is better.
I remember the car and build thread well.
It was certainly a trailered show car as the Orig builder deleted the windscreen wipers completely so it would never pass an MOT.
IIRC it was trimmed out in Beige Bentley leather, with all the gear knob etc all being Bentley too.

I'm glad to see it's still around in some form or other and gone to a good owner who will do what's right for the car.

Cheers
chortle

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chortle , cheers Carl. Yeah I remembered it well once I realised it was that car.

Remember seeing the for sale advert back then when he couldn't sell the whole car complete and decided to break it, I couldn't believe he was breaking it after all that had gone into it  :o

Its coming back round to where I think it needs to sit now though , few 90's modding scene touches still left on it, but I quite like that as part of its history

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Interior is soooooo much better, seats look as good as mk1 seats can look IMO.

Get all the niggles sorted and have a great 2016 season 👌

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Interior is soooooo much better, seats look as good as mk1 seats can look IMO.

Get all the niggles sorted and have a great 2016 season
Richy was saying at the weekend that they are not actually mk1 seats !!

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They are deceiving ! as they have been covered in the Mk1 cloth, but I believe they are actually re covered rover Recaros .

A search on the net the other night makes me think they looked like this originally

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Those seats look the business Rich, I'd love to have those in my white Cabby!   :$

Great purchase mate.  :thumbs:

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thanks golf Cabrio , I am really happy with them, and how they look in car  :thumbs:

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