If you had the choice...

Right, most of us want a car with sound mechanicals AND good bodywork but supposing you had to choose?

Would you rather have a really smart looking Mk1 with fresh as the day it left the show room paint work and seats that look like they've never been sat in but the most wheezy gutless engine that couldn't pull the skin of a rice pudding?

OR

With the fittest engine you've ever driven in it, pulls like a train, corners like it's on rails and stops like it's on an anchor chain but it looks like it's been sat in a barn for five years and the interior looks like a tramp lived in it?

Personally I'd rather have a quick and scruffy Mk1 'coz they are the most fun to drive and if they ever get scatched in a car park, it's not the end of the world.  I'd rather have something I could drive hard without worrying about breakng it then something that would look smart in the line up at a show.  How about you?

I'd go smart and gutless, at least then the bodywork is out of the hands of the rust demon  :? .

Fast and scruffy - once you're sitting in the car, you can't really see the outside bodywork anyway. (With the proviso that its safe enough, and no structural bodywork is corroded to excess, etc).

id have a fast and tatty one
street sleeper style

Millenium falcon stylee!!!  

As a daily driver a scruffy looking one but mechanical bits are easier and cheaper to replace than restoring bodywork

there really is no choice is there? saying that, there are alot of people that buy a 1.1 fiesta say, and spend fortunes trying to make it look super fast. i just can't understand why they don't get an rs in the first place.?! it must surely work out cheaper.

It's gotta be go before show

fast!

faster n faster  :mrgreen:

I love ratty look cars and if they go like stink even better..
Hence why I've got a GTi now and not too fussed about it looking all bling etc..

I like nice wheels and a distinct look… My fav look is something like i saw on holiday last year 9ok its on old yank tank, but so cooooollll… IMO

Yep, that's  8)  Lawsy!!

Its got to look good for me!

Lets be honest though most GTI's go like hot snot without doing anything to them.

Trouble with looking good is you dont want to drive it fast cos you know its gonna get stone chipped!

Millenium Falcon for me really.
I just don't want it too rotten, but would love a 16v already installed.
Still looking………. :roll:

I want my car to drive well first, so that is what i'm doing, The only exterior thing i'm doing is polishing it, which doesn't cost much!!

Engine and running come first, when they are done, then bodywork.. So it would have be be the Millenium falcon for me.

my mk1's a 1.3, so for me it's definitely more show than go at the moment.


infact, it's in bits right now, no show, or go  :?

Millenium Rat every time, looking at a nice cars good but scaring ur passenger is so much more fun  8O

structurally and mechanically sound, speed is not the only thing there is to driving.

every other car i've had i almost went for the fastest version! but the golf is the first i hadn't i could not stop my self buying my van! will look nice very shortly! but so wish it had some more go to it!! having a 1.1 sucks!

chrismk1van said

every other car i've had i almost went for the fastest version! but the golf is the first i hadn't i could not stop my self buying my van! will look nice very shortly! but so wish it had some more go to it!! having a 1.1 sucks!

you never know, some one might be tempted to take it as a part ex for a GTI…….   ?