hi all, been looking through this site for a while and decided to enrol. Not a boy racer, but rapidly approaching middleagedom, however been vw since my late teens, had a few beetles, 1200's 1303's, bay window vans and campers, but my real passion is (are) golfs (golves)?, lost count (well not really) but had a few, 2 brand new including a mk3 anniversary (which i'm currently trying to re locate with a view to buying back, as sold it when it was a year old to buy a bmw to satisfy the then 'er indoors, but turns out, got rid of the wrong girl!!! Really enjoyed a 170 gtd mk5 a couple of years back, but had to get a bigger motor due to addition to family, not a mistake!, and was wandering about like a fart in a spacesuit, as had no vw for first time in a lot of years, so plumped for a mk4 gti that was fairly local and lightly damaged (NEGLECTED) onl;y a 115bhp but goes ok and have started to make subtle changes. bought a set of almost new 18' bbs le mans replicas last year but weren't for me, have recently bought a set of what i believe may be borbet 17's and much happier with them. Car is very clean as is bay, and only 90k on clock, probably gonna change the donk sometime for a 1.8 or V5 V6 etc but just enjoying driving it and keeping it spanking at moment, will upload some pics when the sun shines, but spent around 5 hours today, vacuuming and polishing and fiddling, sad really! This looks like good forum so look forward to partaking and hopefully meeting a few in the future. as for my username, the story behind it goes a bit like this; a good mate who is a first rate mechanic and I were lying on the beach at puerto rico on xmas day 1999 and observing some flange, (girls) and decided that their swim suit lowers resembled the bonnet from herbie, its worth a look, next time you ogle at some holiday flange the long bonnet curves are there to see. Merry xmas and happy new year when it comes, one and all.
