'80 Mk1 Polo GLS&'91 16v Golf GTI (Polo For Sale)

[Stu]

Got a bit of free time on my hands (at work at 8pm waiting for a server to rise from the dead ) so thought I'd post up some pics of my steeds.

What do you think?

1. 1980 Mk1 Polo GLS, inari silver metallic, 57k miles from new with luxury faux walnut dash








2. 1991 Golf GTI 16v, oak green, 139k miles (just run in) with factory Air-con, PAS, EW, EM, sunroof, leather steering wheel. Pretty standard mechanically and pushing 148bhp/124lbsft on the rollers at Stealth Racing last summer. ;D

[jizzy gillespie]

nices rides stu, poss transplant all the goodies from the golf to the polo and then sell me the rest? ;D

[ASH 54]

loving the polio, some nice 7 x 13 wheels would look good

nice oak green too

[Stu]

mrsigma said:

nices rides stu, poss transplant all the goodies from the golf to the polo and then sell me the rest? ;D

;D Not sure about that idea!

When I first got the Polo I had ideas about lowering it on ATS cups or similar but it's proved so comfortable and reliable that my g/f just uses it everyday as standard. The ride height is handy for traversing speedbumps that I would scrape the Golf sump on!

[rainking]

Looking Good Stu...

Loving the Autostadt number plate surrounds too....

[Stu]

rainking said:

Loving the Autostadt number plate surrounds too....

I thought they made a nice change from all those 'common' Autohaus Wolfsburg ones everyone seems to have now...
Free from the Autostadt, tricky to explain what they were to non-English speaking staff there though...! ;D

[Higgim]

Two lovely examples you have there Stu. I'm amazed you have managed to keep that little Polo standard!! I would have ruined it by now!

5 dr 16 Valves will always have a special place in my heart

[DerbyDan]

The Polo is looking as good as ever - i'm suprised you don't have a lid on your glovebox, you'd have thought the top-of-the range GLS would have had one

Are you going to the Retro Car Show this year? - would be nice to see our Inari cars together

Nice looking GTi too - I'm of the opinion that the Mk2 Golf GTi is one of the few great all-rounders of all time, combining classless image with classic styling, practicality and reliability yet satisfy the enthusiastic driver with sharp handling & decent performance - the valver being the cream of the crop (though I do like the torquey nature of the 8V)

[Stu]

DerbyDan said:

The Polo is looking as good as ever - i'm suprised you don't have a lid on your glovebox, you'd have thought the top-of-the range GLS would have had one

Are you going to the Retro Car Show this year? - would be nice to see our Inari cars together

Nice looking GTi too - I'm of the opinion that the Mk2 Golf GTi is one of the few great all-rounders of all time, combining classless image with classic styling, practicality and reliability yet satisfy the enthusiastic driver with sharp handling & decent performance - the valver being the cream of the crop (though I do like the torquey nature of the 8V)

I'd have thought the Polo would have a glovebox lid too! I believe that a Mk2 Polo one fits, must get round to finding one and trying it.

No, won't be at Retro Cars Show - bit too far in the Polo to be honest, I was knackered last year after about a 3 -4 hr drive each way in the little buzz box! Did hit an indicated 90mph though on the way, gosh only knows what rpm the engine is doing at that speed!

Yep - Mk2 GTI is a great all rounder. Old enough to be 'classic' but still reliable and practical enough for everyday. I prefer the 16v to the 8v now although the 8v I had did feel torquier at low revs. After some fidding with the k-jet injection my 16v is now pretty torquey to0 though for a 1.8 plus I'm averaging well over 30mpg with nearly 150bhp!

[Stu]

Polo now for sale - see For Sale section :-)

New pics from last weekend...