This car has been my daily for coming up 3 years now, I gave it a clean today and took some pictures as it go's off to its new owners tommorow... Its one of those situations where I realy don't want to part with it but somthing has to give, I have 10 cars at the moment, this one is probably the most saleable and we have decided we need a Camper van, tents are too uncomfortable!!!
Anyway, enough of all that, the details are as follows;
1984 8 Valve 1800 GTI, all standard apart from a drilled airbox, it has a full Recaro interior from a late Sportline, new Newton Commercial carpet set, fresh mohair hood, rare Motor Meter dash. If you know your Golfs you will notice that the bodywork has been altered a bit... The back wheel arches are pulled an inch to cover the Custom made rear wheels, more about them in a bit, its de-bumpered, has early chrome side trim fitted and some neat Pinstriping by Neil Melliard. The boot lid is the bit that gets most people, it has been pulled out at the bottom to line up with the panel under the taillights then cut down in the middle to give it a bit of a swallowtail... It was given a fresh coat of Mars Red by my very good freind Simon, he is also responsible for the arch mods, and lowered approx. 100mm on Jamex Coil overs. The wheels are G60 Corrado steels, the fronts are reversed, the rears are G60 Centres welded to Chevrolet pick up rims so they now measure 8 inches wide rather than 6. They were done by another good freind of mine, Wayne, who made a special jig to do this, and through trail fitting got them spot on, no rubbing, no balancing weights!! It has ATE Power discs on the front with green stuff pads, Mk2 rear disc conversion with oe. ate pads. To get it this low and able to be used every day required quite a lot of mods to the front end, the front anti-roll bar was turned upside down, the left chassis leg is 'c'eed to clear the shortened driveshaft and the steering rack ends now go into the top of the stub axles rather than the bottom... oh and both rack ends are adjustable rather than 1 so as to get enough adjustment to get the tracking right!! Phew!! Anyway, heres my old faithfull car, probably going to be a big mistake selling it, I miss it already and its still on the driveway!!!
Goodbye old freind..
Anyway, enough of all that, the details are as follows;
1984 8 Valve 1800 GTI, all standard apart from a drilled airbox, it has a full Recaro interior from a late Sportline, new Newton Commercial carpet set, fresh mohair hood, rare Motor Meter dash. If you know your Golfs you will notice that the bodywork has been altered a bit... The back wheel arches are pulled an inch to cover the Custom made rear wheels, more about them in a bit, its de-bumpered, has early chrome side trim fitted and some neat Pinstriping by Neil Melliard. The boot lid is the bit that gets most people, it has been pulled out at the bottom to line up with the panel under the taillights then cut down in the middle to give it a bit of a swallowtail... It was given a fresh coat of Mars Red by my very good freind Simon, he is also responsible for the arch mods, and lowered approx. 100mm on Jamex Coil overs. The wheels are G60 Corrado steels, the fronts are reversed, the rears are G60 Centres welded to Chevrolet pick up rims so they now measure 8 inches wide rather than 6. They were done by another good freind of mine, Wayne, who made a special jig to do this, and through trail fitting got them spot on, no rubbing, no balancing weights!! It has ATE Power discs on the front with green stuff pads, Mk2 rear disc conversion with oe. ate pads. To get it this low and able to be used every day required quite a lot of mods to the front end, the front anti-roll bar was turned upside down, the left chassis leg is 'c'eed to clear the shortened driveshaft and the steering rack ends now go into the top of the stub axles rather than the bottom... oh and both rack ends are adjustable rather than 1 so as to get enough adjustment to get the tracking right!! Phew!! Anyway, heres my old faithfull car, probably going to be a big mistake selling it, I miss it already and its still on the driveway!!!
Goodbye old freind..
