Monkey's 1981 Golf GTi 1.6 project - rust is lighter than carbon fibre

Another day at the garage today, had a bit of spare time so set about on the golf. This was the bonnet before After a very quick clean it came out like this As you can see the leading edge of the bonnet and the area under the vents are pretty badly scabbed, but in all honesty it looks pretty solid for 32 year old paint! Some minor scabs under the side decal Bum to bum with one of her descendants  Started to clear out the interior too, needs a damn good clean! P-slots have now found a new home too Started cleaning up the brightwork on the 3.0CS but ended up leaving it all for another day Oh, rebuilt the twin strombergs on the Stag the other day too, idles nice and low, sounds good too 

Excellent results mate. Amazing what a bit of elbow grease can do

Cheers bud, you're more than welcome to come and "test it" haha.

Just wanted to add that I'm not really too keen on giving her a full respray as i want to keep as much of the original paint as possible.

Might just re-spray the worst bits (bonnet, front wing, rear light panel and the larger rust scabs), as i know that if I get the paintwork and body 100% perfect I won't want to drive it!

Need to lower it a touch too. Got some coilovers waiting for fitting with some new bushes.
Lower profile wheels already lower it about 60mm or so, going to try -40mm on the coilies and see how that comes out.

Speaking of lower profile wheels, coupled with the 1.6gti gearbox it should get off the line like a little rocket haha

Started cleaning up the Scala's to use as winter alloys, not going to spend too much time on them, just a bit of sanding then getting painted in silver for now

Starting to clean up nicely.

Cheers matey, there's a long way to go yet though!!

GF went to get something from the garage today, when she came out i got a nice slap across my face for buying wheels, apparently i'm on a wheel embargo     



Didn't have the heart (or balls) to pull the tarp off the other 20 off wheels in the garage    

Not too sure whether to fit the mim deep dish'ed on the mk1, or the ATS cups instead!

I feel your pain mate. Got a few sets to shift myself at the moment after getting grief from the wife

Been busy polishing various brackets etc. for a mates mk2, done some stuff for the mk1 too.
Whilst my polishing gear was out I tried it on the Corrado



Shiny

             

Cheeky little teaser , brownie points to whoever guesses correct!

BBS front spoiler            

I guess the picture kinda gave it away huh 

Bought some more wheels from Smudge, got them polished, tried them on the golf for fitment, look pretty tasty if you ask me!

Look smashing mate. You gonna run them with or without the centres??

look nice ! top work on the car mate

Cheers lads, not too sure on the wheels yet Andy, probably without centre caps i'm leaning towards though!

sorry to highjack the thread NOS but i just had to dig out some old pics of my mk2 with these wheels on!!





 

I would agree mate without but looking at the pic above they look pretty damn good with the centres on tbf.

haha cant believe these wheels have turned up after donkeys!!

TBH i think they look more aggressive without centres!!