after 4 yrs wait the resto begins chassis legs 1st

 sill all cut out ready for new panel, i have not been working on car as much as i wanted due to family commitments but i have finished sill and drivers arch now, pics to follow

Keep up he good work mate. Maybe see you next year at some of the Scottish meets.  Hopefully mine will be finished and on the road.

Those pics of the rear chassis legs just look the same as my first project which is still lying in the garage (much to the wifes disgust) and has volunteered itself as a donor car.

Cracking work mate! Glad to see this as about to have time to start mine! Just need to buy my MIG welder and hope to start next weekend 8)

Look forward to your updates

Andy

finished ready for paint




 only the rear valance to do and then just the paint, hoped for car to be on road by now but alaso did not want to rush job either.

wots happened to the pics this time m8?

how do you mean?

dubhighland said

finished ready for paint




 only the rear valance to do and then just the paint, hoped for car to be on road by now but alaso did not want to rush job either.

Your photo link obviously cant be found as I cant see the pictures that you have last posted

dunno what hapened to ma pics.

have you deleted them from the source where they are stored or uploaded from?

slowly but surely getting bits done but trying to fit in between work and kids time, i have decided i am going to paint the car myself, i bought a devilbiss gun and im going to hit it in a mates barn, i have done single panels and touch ups and noone seems to be able to paint it for me, they want shiny vectras or focuses as homers not old golfs????

light scim of loy over welded sill and arch



fitted hadrian wing x 3 and none are any good, this was the best 1



to be honest i am swithering towards a genuine wing  because it will annoy me when car is done and ill see horrendous gap between door and wing

i bought a new engine stand of the bay for ?30 so i will strip and rebuild engine over the cold nights, i plan to do all work on this car myself 8)

Nice work. Get a heater too for these cold nights and days coming!

woZa said

Nice work. Get a heater too for these cold nights and days coming!

If his lamp is like the 500W halogen one I've just bought - he wont need to - I think I'm getting a sun tan off mine!!

Making good progress mate - if you get fed up of the wings, get decent 2nd hand VW ones and clean up :wink:

Cheers
Andy

Hairyarse said

if you get fed up of the wings, get decent 2nd hand VW ones and clean up :wink:

Cheers
Andy

I've recently fitted some pattern wings (from ecp I think - got them years ago for an old mk1 I used to have) and they fit like ****. Going to splash the cash on some genuine ones I think (or I might go for some fibreglass ones)

drivers side wing is now obsolete from vw :x  2nd hand ones are usually good but none up here and most ebay ones are pattern 2nd hand ones, will speak to gpc and see if their wings are gen vw.

Nice pics on first page ! Hows work progressing on the car ?

Cheers

ops: er well its not, it just sitting there waiting patiently, i have just finished a lhasa green full engine rebuild so kas was pushed aside, i purchased jamex coilovers and got a gen vw wing for it and thats about it just now, i will start again in about a month so its ready for summer. 8)

a wee update, not been near the car for a while ops: , fitted the coilovers and fitted the panels .


purchased new accumilator hoses last year and got loads of parts shot blasted , this is the rear engine mount blasted and painted with polybush fitted



 hopefully its going 1 mile away for paint this week, im waiting word back from the dude thats painting it 8)

glad to see the Mk1's out the garage  :y:

Lookin good, what colour are you going for?

Did you end up using that XR2 tailgate?

I haven't had time to clean the drivers seat I got from you yet, its still sitting in the garage ops:  - hope to get round to it soon tho  

Eck said

glad to see the Mk1's out the garage  :y:

Lookin good, what colour are you going for?

Did you end up using that XR2 tailgate?

I haven't had time to clean the drivers seat I got from you yet, its still sitting in the garage ops:  - hope to get round to it soon tho  

its staying white, the tailgate is for the caspian blue xr2 i am using the white xr2 just now, and its going up for sale when this golf is ready

looks good so far!