1990 Golf MkII

[MiniDan]

Evening all

Just brought this ;D Haven't acually got it yet, I've gotta wait for my insurance to come through so I can get some tax for it. Going to be picking it up on Tue/Wed.





Only rust its got is a small amount of surface rust on a dent on the front n/s arch. As shown below:


I will get some more pictures probably next weekend.

Haven't got any plans at the min, just going to tap with the stick.

[Mark]

Cool beans man - what kinda money/engine etc?

[mattherat]

nice mate, looks good

[MiniDan]

mark said:

Cool beans man - what kinda money/engine etc?

Unfortunatly, its only a 1.3 Aparently still pretty nippy though

Price... Ah... Thats telling. It was cheap though

[Mark]

Mate had one of these when I had the Mini in Uni - maybe yours is in better health than his, cos his was brutal slow! Great fun though and it was a trusty steed!

[Robinxr4i]

very nice 'n' shiney, what going to happen to it?

[MiniDan]

Not too sure yet. Definatly needs to be lower.

Hadn't thought about it too much.

Due to the headgasket problem (in general section) if the engine is knackered, I may be putting a bigger one in. Otherwise I will leave the 1.3 in. Cheap tax, insurance and and petrol

[Adam]

Love the font on the numberplate!

I'd stick with the 1.3 anyway, you can pick them up for £20 or so

[trg1984]

ive drivena mk2 1.3 and they're not too bad, they don't accelerate too fast but they're nice to drive.

[MiniDan]

locoster said:

Love the font on the numberplate!

It is pretty cool looking.

I'm not sure wether to get german plates or not The look good, but the whole scene tax thing

[MiniDan]

Quick update:

I will have some more pictures up either Saturday or Sunday, depends when I get a chance to give her a wash.

I pick these up on Wednesday:





;D

[Deleted]

Now polish them till you got wanking muscles the size of Ahrnuld`s biceps! ;D

[MiniDan]

Got some new pictures today after giving it a good wash and shine.













Also picked up the P-Slots and the eyebrow today, heres a pic of the P-Slots after a quick wash:

Not too sure wether to keep them silver or get them polished?

and here a picture of the eyebrow test fitted on. Going to respray it in red the weekend and fit properly.


Just about to order a few bits off eBay now. After that I think I'm going to just get some springs to lower it a bit and leave it ;D

[trg1984]

i prefer it without the eyebrow ifim honest. really like em with single spot grills too.

id just spray the wheels, otherwise ull be out bffing em all the time, itl drive u mad

[MiniDan]

trg1984 said:

id just spray the wheels, otherwise ull be out bffing em all the time, itl drive u mad

Good point... Didn't think of that

[Kris]

Looks great, similar to my old one except without the arch spats.

I've got some clear front lenses for one of these, I was gonna put them on eBay but I can't really be bothered, you can have them if you want.

[MiniDan]

Right, I got round to painting the eyebrow today


Haven't fitted it properly yet die to not having any screws lying about.

[coggers]

i like it with the eyebrow , looks good.

nice clean condition too

incidentally if those plastic number plate mounting thingies are original then its a north east car cos 'colebrook + burgess' are the firm i worked for in the early '90's . the audi/vw branch was at 'silverlink ' , wallsend to be precise... and i remember the big display they had in the showroom which was full of BBS alloys - not cheap !!!

new alloys look good , i'd keep them silver tho

[MiniDan]

^ Yea, definatly keeping them silver. Gotta get some prices for powder-coating and referbing them.

I think the plate surrounds are original. All I know is that an old boy had the Golf before the guy I brought it off. It had bog standard steels on when he owned it though. The BBS's were put on by the previous bloke.

[trg1984]

ive changed my mind about the eye brow, its cool.