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Title: Hello Forum
Post by: christy 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.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v243/tellabello/GTI-1a.jpg)

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v243/tellabello/VR-6/Oct04-3.jpg)
Cheers
Christy

Title: Re: Hello Forum
Post by: topher 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:

Title: Re: Hello Forum
Post by: Horney on 14 February 2005, 12:04

Are those alloys on the MKII? They look really cool!

Welcome,

Nick

Title: Re: Hello Forum
Post by: mrwotto on 14 February 2005, 13:17

Welcome to the forum mate

Paul

Nice motors you have got by the way!

Title: Re: Hello Forum
Post by: Bronze MK1 Cab on 14 February 2005, 14:12

Welcome to the site mate  :smiley:

Is there a big V dub scene in Australia?

Title: Re: Hello Forum
Post by: gibby on 14 February 2005, 17:20

Welcome to the site, you must be a contender for highest mileage Golf on here !  :smiley:

Title: Re: Hello Forum
Post by: Dinky on 14 February 2005, 18:28

Welcome to the forum!!

Dinx :kiss:

Title: Re: Hello Forum
Post by: BOGGLE on 14 February 2005, 18:53

Welcome,
They are two mighty fine golfs you have there, the mk 2 is the nuts :wink:

Title: Re: Hello Forum
Post by: christy 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.

Title: Re: Hello Forum
Post by: Len 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:

Title: Re: Hello Forum
Post by: Overseer on 16 February 2005, 15:35

welcome!

Quote from: christy on 16 February 2005, 11:26

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.

i'd suspect another factor might be us brits importing rust-free cars from over there to replace our dead rusty ones! ;)

i know austrailia is a good source for karmann ghia bits

Title: Re: Hello Forum
Post by: Len on 21 February 2005, 13:44

One more for ya Christy!

Heard of a town called Nimbin by any chance?

Title: Re: Hello Forum
Post by: christy on 01 March 2005, 01:48

Quote from: Len405 on 21 February 2005, 13:44

Heard of a town called Nimbin by any chance?

There are plenty of disorganised air-cooled guys around there
 :laugh:

Title: Re: Hello Forum
Post by: Len on 10 March 2005, 13:21

Ha Ha! - only something i'd heard from a guy that had been there! A good place for grazing or something!

 :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: