VW Golf 1.1L 1978. The Gnoj

Looking great now,  :clap: .  What colour is the car going to be?

Alex

Great work! :wink:  keep it up.

Dib.

welsh-mk1 said

Looking great now,  :clap: .  What colour is the car going to be?

Alex

Some very rear original VW color "LK6U racing green metalic"

This is how it looked like on my ex MKII GTI

dibbler said

Great work! :wink:  keep it up.

Dib.

Thank you Dibbler! I appreciate your opinion  :wink:


In next ten days car could get his brand new color  :cheer:  :cheer:  :cheer:  :cheer:  :cheer:






















Must say that Im very tired and cant wait to finished with restoration     :?

PS


Still looking for right mirror to buy! THANK YOU IN ADVANCE

Next week The Gnoj is on his way to get painted  :borg:  :borg:  :borg:

Clean look of engine bay and primer color













And the paint is prepared. This is how it looks. For now I dont have better picture. Better picture will be next week on the car  :cheer:  :cheer:


And some extra pictures of another MKI 2.0 ABF GTI which I bought





Is this low or what? 8)  8)

fantastic work,
I am sure your father would of been proud of what you have achieved, well done.

I have looked around and found this

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Gen-Vw-NOS-Rabbit-Scirocco-Westy-Plaid-Upholstery-Brown-_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQhashZitem53da343271QQitemZ360143139441QQptZMotorsQ5fCarQ5fTruckQ5fPartsQ5fAccessories

which is very similar to what you had in your picture.






It will look superb when it is all finished with paint.

Well done bud, the work that you've done here is nothing short of superb.

Keep it up.

plus there is a mirror here not sure if its what you need


http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/VW-GOLF-MK1-CHROME-WING-MIRROR-PASSAT-AUDI-80-/230488313000?cmd=ViewItem&pt=UK_CarsParts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM&hash=item35aa2c8ca8

Mirror for sale here,

http://www.edition38.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=314496

Not mine though.

Alex

Its been almost 4 months since my last post  :redfaced:

I was at the adriatic cost…working  :roll:  :roll:  :roll:

The Gnoj still didnt get painted but…some new stuff were bought  :twisted:  :twisted:

BBS RM 012, 7x15 i 8,5x15, ET 33, 4 x 100, with tyres 195/45 R15
rear one  8)  8)  8)

By baljulji at 2010-09-11

By baljulji at 2010-09-11

makeing a test how should it look like  :wink:
This chrom bumper is not part of this story. There are almost new one waiting to be fitted  8)

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this is how should it look like

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By baljulji at 2010-09-11

looooow  :roll:

By baljulji at 2010-09-11

This one part is precious for me! I couldnt beleived that I have found something like this here in Croatia.
This is after been polished

By baljulji at 2010-09-11

PS still looking for right mirror from swallowtail. Please PM if someone would like to sell

great work going on here, did it ever get finished

looks fantastic

Long time no write After long period mostly bad things happend to me but my car took a road Here you can see all parts plasticized and prepared to fitted

 
 


 

First I bought original GTI brakes but afterwords I took G60brakes
 

 

Some damping stuff
 
 

 

 

Everything protected with bitumen.
 


This is how the color of the car will look like.
 

 
 
 

On day light you can see that the color looks more brighter. Itl looks more like a gold
 

Here is the shadow and you can see that the color is more like a green.


 




Now this is with flash. Very funny color
 
 

 

 

Without flash


 

 

However. My Gnoj is on the road for the last 1,5years.
You will see how it looks like now and this spring there are more brand nwe stuff to come on car Chears

This is my other MK1 on the way to garage so we can replace engine and some other stuff to my Gnoj Powerfull 183PS 2.0GTI 16V ABF engine






VW MK1 & Mini S 

The Golf would destroy Mini if he meet him on the road 371
By baljulji at 2010-10-13

Nice work, love the colour  

Yeah very nice colour. Looking forward to seeing this one finished. It's been a long time in the making.  

This is looking great mate! Well done on the progress.  
Chris

Thank you for all your compliments

Radio casset player got new LED light and some new parts so he can work properly…again



 
 
 

Afterwards only I can say is YOU CAN LIVE YOUR HAT ON
 

BEFORE/LATER

 
 
 
 

 

The rest of pictures from that period of time. This was taken on 4th of December 2010


 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Again here you can see how this paint is strange. When you change angle and brightness of light the paint change from darker to brighter

 
 

Here was nice wether so I took that chance to refresh my old dashboard

So I didnt want to paint it because the Sun would destroy it in very short period of time.

I took all kind cleaning stuff and start to clean untill I didnt get from dash clean water There were a lot of job to be done to clean all that dirty from last 33years 













Dash after hard work cleaning





And so I did that hard cleaning… But than what? Dash was so old that even hard cleaning didnt helped to be as close as new
What to do now?

But than

Judge yourself. I tried to take off that what I have spread. But it dont disaper  








Smashing, isnt it?

I just adore LED light so I got few ideas.

Automatic button on/off installed






Afterwards we started to take out ABF engine




Windscreen fitted


New roof fitted





Damping finished



And few poses from my "Gnoj"










Two of mine VW "Gnoj"

I am never going to get bored of looking at skirt going on that beautiful bottom.

Lovely pics btw car coming along nicely.