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Offline christy

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Hello Forum
« on: 14 February 2005, 11:42 »
Hello Forum,

Nice to have a forum segment for introductions! Perhaps I'm your newest and your oldest member. I was a young iterant traveller when the GTis first began to thrash along the European motorways and for years I lusted after one. My first chance came in 1992 after VW relaunched its brand here in Australia and shipped a a few of the last rhd Mk11 GTIs this way. The silver 8v found a home right away.  Its covered nearly 450ks now and its still a ballerina with balls. In 1995 a handful of Concept VR6s were brought out to do the motorshow circuit and I snapped up the yellow example in the pic. This car has now run 260ks and its as still as tight as a drum.  I enjoy my driving and the funky toughness of these pocket rocket Golfs never ceases to be a hoot.



Cheers
Christy

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Re: Hello Forum
« Reply #1 on: 14 February 2005, 11:53 »
Jealous jealous jealous. One day I -WILL- have my tornado red mk1 gti with obligatory roof bars for surfboards and live in Australia :cool:

Welcome to the forum too :wink:

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Re: Hello Forum
« Reply #2 on: 14 February 2005, 12:04 »
Are those alloys on the MKII? They look really cool!

Welcome,

Nick

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« Reply #3 on: 14 February 2005, 13:17 »
Welcome to the forum mate

Paul

Nice motors you have got by the way!

Offline Bronze MK1 Cab

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Re: Hello Forum
« Reply #4 on: 14 February 2005, 14:12 »
Welcome to the site mate  :smiley:

Is there a big V dub scene in Australia?

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Re: Hello Forum
« Reply #5 on: 14 February 2005, 17:20 »
Welcome to the site, you must be a contender for highest mileage Golf on here !  :smiley:
......now officially dubless.

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« Reply #6 on: 14 February 2005, 18:28 »
Welcome to the forum!!

Dinx :kiss:

Offline BOGGLE

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Re: Hello Forum
« Reply #7 on: 14 February 2005, 18:53 »
Welcome,
They are two mighty fine golfs you have there, the mk 2 is the nuts :wink:

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Re: Hello Forum
« Reply #8 on: 16 February 2005, 11:26 »
Thanks for the warm remarks.
Seems to be a friendly and active site ... and mighty nice cars too.
I've got alot of browsing to do!

yes Nick, their 15" alloys

<<Is there a big V dub scene in Australia?>>
Here most of the revhead enthusiasts fall into two camps Jap turbos or local V8s. The GTI scene isn't so active as yours - or nearly so big. There aren't so many cars and they're pretty thinly spread around. We didnt get many GTis before the Mk4 came along. (No Mk1s or Mk3s and only a handful of Mk11s). In fact, -including private imports - there's probably fewer than a hundred GTIs (pre-Mk4) across the whole continent. (Its a feast to log on here and see hundreds of them). It changed a bit with the Mk4 and there's numbers of them running around but they' were always put down as too slow and unexciting to make much of a following. Pity because they're fluid and fast enough across the ground There are few R32s getting around and those guys seem to be pretty enthusiastic. If the Mk5 GTi lands at a decent price it will be a good thing. So far, all the Mk5s I've seen are tall square minivan lookalikes The air cooled guys used to pretty organised but I havent seen many of them getting around lately. Guess there's fewer and fewer still alive.


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Re: Hello Forum
« Reply #9 on: 16 February 2005, 13:37 »
Hi Christy
Just thought i'd check the age thing - i'm 52. so who's the oldest? :wink:
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