How long will you keep your mk1............
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How long will you keep your mk1............
How long would you keep your mk1 for ? I have promised my son who is 8 right now and he can have my cabby when he is old enough to drive !!! Question is will it last that long, I hope it does for my sake given that it's 23yrs old now and when it comes to him it'll be 34 yrs old !!! I know that there are cars on the road right now 30+ but in time they get older and older. As for my tin top that in 10 yrs time will be 40 so will a mk1 last that long……..?
So will you give up on your cars or carry them on into old age we see plenty of vintage cars at shows its hard to believe that a mk1 could one day be classed as vintage.
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It's outlasted any other car i've owned, and I now plan on giving it a proper restoration when funds and etc allow.
A policeman once offered to buy it from me when it was in a garage (there's a story, eh?) but I instantly refused him - maybe it's a rose-tinted spec's thing, but I just can't think what I would do without my mars red open chequebook.
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It's 28 years young. Gone from a scrapper to a fairly decent usable, reliable(ish) runner. There have been times when a sale has come close and pretty recently too!! :roll:
Will I keep it? Yes as long as the other half will indulge me and I can afford it.
Like Ginner, I've said that my 7 year old daughter can drive it so, fingers crossed!!
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sdi octavia (nurburgring mobile)
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i expect the sdi will be the first one to go but am toying with superchargeing it for a laugh. in all honesty apart from being different there would be no advantage over a tdi to undergoing the hassel. before i get that far though the discovery needs a few things done the mk1 may actualy be a runner soon (mid 20v) and id like a 750 for next summer.
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Daily driver : e36 325 tdi se / slammed on konis and bbs rco401's
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I plan to get both my sons mk1's as their first cars too and they are 15 and 7.
If I had space I would like a tintop GTI as well.
Chris
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my son has also decided that he`d like to take possesion asap.
he`s still only 9
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Wish me luck
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I'll probably become too old and infirm to drive it or too doolally to care but hopefully that's (a few) years away.
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Three people in that time have asked me if I want to sell it but they all got the short sharp answer "NO".
My Son is 14, now and again this summer I've have been teaching him to drive it.
He fell in love with it the first moment he saw it, so I promised him that one day it will be his!
God forbid anything should happen to me anytime soon but if it does it's his.
I could never sell it.
I'm finding hard enough excepting the fact that I have to take it off the road for the next 5 or 6 months.
The weather gets so cold here so it's not as if I can keep working on it or anything.
It's going to be a looooooooooooong hard winter for me no matter how bad or mild the weather gets!
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Can't keep using it as a daily driver though, not with the mileage I'm doing… so guess I'll just have to save up to buy a 2nd car asap :wink:
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A member on the club has always said to me, once you have bought it, its bought. The cash has been spent and the cars there so even at the exact time it breaks you cant afford to fix it, leave it there and fix it when you can.
I love my sportline, but still question whether an engine conversion and sportline interior into my white cabby should have been the route i took …
I have been quite tempted on a tin top lately, but i could not at this stage afford or have the space for two so the cabby would have to go if i wanted a tin top.
My plan is to keep my for the foreseable, and then if selling would hopefully be because i am looking for tin top, but i do see it as cash which is accesible quickly if i ever need it, the car just goes up for a little less then its worth and it should sell quick
i would like to hope whatever happens be it a project or mint show car, there is always some type of mk1 parked in me garage :-)
It will probably have to make way for the Sierra RS500 cosworth when and if i can ever afford one lol
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