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General => General discussion => Topic started by: mattyg127 on 06 July 2011, 13:03
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just went to the local scrappy and there was 3 mk4s completely stripped with 2 in the car park not including mine!! not one mk3 or mk2 in there :shocked:
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just went to the local scrappy and there was 3 mk4s completely stripped with 2 in the car park not including mine!! not one mk3 or mk2 in there :shocked:
The peak of mk2 scrapping has been and gone, what's left is mostly being saved, there were mk3's in there but you failed to notice them as they would have dissolved...
Next time look for
(http://www.fordmuscleforums.com/attachments/garage/2945d1201653412-worst-rust-you-have-ever-seen-good-part.jpg)
Why are you shocked about mk4's in there?
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not shocked at them being there as alot newer cars go to the scrapyard just at how bare and stripped they were, nothing worth having left...
there were a few rusty puddles there, probably part of my old mk3 i put there last month :laugh:
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not shocked at them being there as alot newer cars go to the scrapyard just at how bare and stripped they were, nothing worth having left...
there were a few rusty puddles there, probably part of my old mk3 i put there last month :laugh:
Were they GTI's?
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couldnt tell no body panels, bootlids, engines or interior left pretty much ready for scrapping
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couldnt tell no body panels, bootlids, engines or interior left pretty much ready for scrapping
Prob stripped and listed on ebay... Also don't forget that other mks rape 4's for parts, how many non mk4s are running 20vt's now.
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couldnt tell no body panels, bootlids, engines or interior left pretty much ready for scrapping
Prob stripped and listed on ebay... Also don't forget that other mks rape 4's for parts, how many non mk4s are running 20vt's now.
I think there are more 20vt conversions in Ireland than there are mk4 GTIs :grin:
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couldnt tell no body panels, bootlids, engines or interior left pretty much ready for scrapping
Prob stripped and listed on ebay... Also don't forget that other mks rape 4's for parts, how many non mk4s are running 20vt's now.
I think there are more 20vt conversions in Ireland than there are mk4 GTIs :grin:
Exactly! That'll be the the score in most of Europe one day. I fear that one day there will be no such thing as a mk1 golf with a mk1 engine!
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couldnt tell no body panels, bootlids, engines or interior left pretty much ready for scrapping
Prob stripped and listed on ebay... Also don't forget that other mks rape 4's for parts, how many non mk4s are running 20vt's now.
I think there are more 20vt conversions in Ireland than there are mk4 GTIs :grin:
Exactly! That'll be the the score in most of Europe one day. I fear that one day there will be no such thing as a mk1 golf with a mk1 engine!
scary thought
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There was a column in Octane magazine this month suggesting a 'listed vehicle' scheme should be created, so certain cars remain as they were, rather than being cut about, or re-bodied, as otherwise all pre-war Bentleys will be open top and dark green eventually.
Thankfully I doubt all Golf1s will wind up as 20VTs although you might struggle to find any on standard height springs. :grin:
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There was a column in Octane magazine this month suggesting a 'listed vehicle' scheme should be created, so certain cars remain as they were, rather than being cut about, or re-bodied, as otherwise all pre-war Bentleys will be open top and dark green eventually.
Thankfully I doubt all Golf1s will wind up as 20VTs although you might struggle to find any on standard height springs. :grin:
That's not a bad idea for properly rare cars. Owning one wouldn't be so bad as being listed would proberbly increase their value.
OK my mk1 comment wasn't exactly serious but my point still stands to a degree. Once people stop transplanting because they want to, they will do it because they feel they have to eventually. There will always be purists though I suppose. I'm kind of 50/50. Certainly don't want to be modernising mine too much mechanically with parts that weren't available when built.
I say that now though :grin:
You're right about suspension, even concourse cars I see aren't even standard these days.
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I know what you mean, I was in two minds about removing the KR from my mk2 as it was a 16v oak green from the factory.
However, it's not mint and has had too many repairs done to it to ever be concourse condition so I've pretty much cleared my conscience.
Plus most people would've scrapped it when they took off the body kit and saw the horrors beneath :grin:
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I know what you mean, I was in two minds about removing the KR from my mk2 as it was a 16v oak green from the factory.
However, it's not mint and has had too many repairs done to it to ever be concourse condition so I've pretty much cleared my conscience.
Plus most people would've scrapped it when they took off the body kit and saw the horrors beneath :grin:
Here Here for keeping old cars in need on the road!.. :afro: Someone else would have scrapped mine too!