Author Topic: Burgundy VR6 - Project Colour Code! NOW SOLD!!!  (Read 206091 times)

Offline VR6_Wherry

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Burgundy VR6 - Project Colour Code! NOW SOLD!!!
« on: 15 July 2010, 15:35 »
Right, where do i start! been on this forum for a while now, thought i best start a project thread.

Heres my old GTi i used to have:



With the GTi sold and me looking for a VR6, i stumbled upon a cheap VR6 with slight rear damage, unfortunately it had been declared a CAT C write off. I figured i would go take a look anyways as i wanted to do a conversion into a Mk2 at some stage. Turned out the damage wasn't as bad as i first thought, Channel Island garage charges are stupidly high, this being an old car, meant it wasn't feasable for the insurance company to fix it! It was bought back and in the end, ended up in my hands. I'm hoping to restore it to it's former glorey  :cool:

Any way here is when i picked her up!







Not the best pics as it was dark! lol. Looking a little worse for wear, expansion tank look like it exploeded! I've checked it over and it's all fine now, thankfully.

Alot more pics to follow!

Hope you enjoy reading it!!!  :smiley:
« Last Edit: 01 December 2012, 15:08 by VR6_Wherry »

Offline SoundillusioN

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Re: VR6_Wherry - Burgundy VR6
« Reply #1 on: 15 July 2010, 15:41 »
good find, be nice to see what the rear is like at the mo.

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Re: VR6_Wherry - Burgundy VR6
« Reply #2 on: 15 July 2010, 15:45 »
Oh when i went to pick it up they said they had replaced the rear bumper and exhaust. Bumper had been replaced but only the backbox was replaced! lol

Also to add the VR has only done 73K  :evil:

good find, be nice to see what the rear is like at the mo.

Your wish is my command  :smiley: (Note they aren't good photo's yet!) lol


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Re: VR6_Wherry - Burgundy VR6
« Reply #3 on: 15 July 2010, 15:57 »
wheres the damage? 73k on the clock.... nice.

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Re: VR6_Wherry - Burgundy VR6
« Reply #4 on: 15 July 2010, 16:25 »
The damage was behind the bumper, replaced the bumper and you couldn't really notice it. There was a slight crack where the Golf VR6 bagde was and there's about an 3mm bigger gap between the light and the boot.

Heres what it should look like:

Sorry the pictrues won't flip!!  :angry:


I took the bumper off and this is the damage:





That's pretty much it apart from the slight crack above that.

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Re: VR6_Wherry - Burgundy VR6
« Reply #5 on: 15 July 2010, 16:48 »
It's almost as if you've just bought this, but you've had it a fair while now.  :grin:

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Re: VR6_Wherry - Burgundy VR6
« Reply #6 on: 15 July 2010, 16:59 »
It's almost as if you've just bought this, but you've had it a fair while now.  :grin:

I know it doesn't look anything like that!

Just spacing out the time in which i add my list to it!!  :grin:

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Re: VR6_Wherry - Burgundy VR6
« Reply #7 on: 15 July 2010, 17:09 »
You gay.  :grin: Just get it up to what it is now, stages if you have the pictures.

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Re: VR6_Wherry - Burgundy VR6
« Reply #8 on: 15 July 2010, 17:14 »
You gay.  :grin: Just get it up to what it is now, stages if you have the pictures.

+1 I wanna see what it's like now  :grin:

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Re: VR6_Wherry - Burgundy VR6
« Reply #9 on: 15 July 2010, 17:19 »
come on wherry or we will start picking on you instead of shady :D
good find though mate!!


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