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Title: Hi from new guy...with an early mk2 1.3
Post by: dds on 04 September 2007, 22:29: Hi All,
Have been reading the forums and stuff for help and info for the last couple of months as I bought myself a very original 1985 1.3C Golf 3 door. The car was a stereotypical 1 lady owner, garaged from new etc and had done 52k miles. It needed some tidying but was in such original unmolested condition that I coudn't resist.

The car needed a full service etc and I replaced the rear section of the exhaust but after that it sailed through it's mot. Since then I've had some paintwork done to catch any small bits of surface rust and bought a set of steel wheels and a full set of tyres. When the car was getting painted I had it all undersealed as well. So have spent a few quid...but managed to pick up the car for Ã‚£350 with six months tax and a couple of months mot so all in all it's been good project and would hope to get my money back if/when I decided to sell the car.

I'm not sure how to attach pics to show you all the car as it is too date but you can check out the link below to see it from the early stages of working on it. It's a post from a mate who's a car detailer and who gave me a hand to clean and polish the car when I first got it. It still has the original 13" steeel wheels on in these pics.

Hope you find the pics interesting and once I suss out how to attach pics to my post I'll show you how the cars looking now.

http://http://www.detailingworld.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=36511

cheers,

D
Title: Re: Hi from new guy...with an early mk2 1.3
Post by: Dinky on 04 September 2007, 22:42: welcome to the forum hun :smiley:

Dinx :kiss:
Title: Re: Hi from new guy...with an early mk2 1.3
Post by: dds on 04 September 2007, 22:46: Sussed out the image upload thing...

So here are a few pics. One of the car from when I first bought it and a couple from when I first put the new wheels on a few weeks back.

(http://i226.photobucket.com/albums/dd214/dsprott/Golf_original.jpg)

(http://i226.photobucket.com/albums/dd214/dsprott/TheGolf02.jpg)

(http://i226.photobucket.com/albums/dd214/dsprott/TheGolf01.jpg)
Title: Re: Hi from new guy...with an early mk2 1.3
Post by: dds on 04 September 2007, 22:49: Thx for the welcome Dinx...

:rolleyes:
Title: Re: Hi from new guy...with an early mk2 1.3
Post by: Neaty on 05 September 2007, 02:07: hello and welcome

get it slammed on those g60 steels and you are rockin' :cool:
Title: Re: Hi from new guy...with an early mk2 1.3
Post by: GUY_GTI on 05 September 2007, 09:50: looks good, picked up a nice tidy bargain there mate :smiley:
Title: Re: Hi from new guy...with an early mk2 1.3
Post by: boneybradley on 05 September 2007, 19:32: Hello and welcome to the forum... :smiley:

looks a clean motor for an early mk2
Title: Re: Hi from new guy...with an early mk2 1.3
Post by: vw-bob on 06 September 2007, 19:21: hey :smiley: long live the mk2 :grin:
Title: Re: Hi from new guy...with an early mk2 1.3
Post by: xzoex on 17 September 2007, 15:48: Hia and welcome hun :)

Zoe x
Title: Re: Hi from new guy...with an early mk2 1.3
Post by: tom26 on 19 September 2007, 16:00: hi there :smiley:
Title: Re: Hi from new guy...with an early mk2 1.3
Post by: Hurdy on 19 September 2007, 20:03: Welcome :cool:
Title: Re: Hi from new guy...with an early mk2 1.3
Post by: e11ie on 19 September 2007, 20:08: Wish I had your patience to polish and detail my car like that!

Any time you're in the area pop round and I'll trade you....a good cuppa for a good polish :wink:
Title: Re: Hi from new guy...with an early mk2 1.3
Post by: firstVW on 20 September 2007, 12:06: Welcome! :laugh: