Do you get many people diss your MK1?

[10:27]

The sad thing is its 7.00am on a sunday morning and i am talking ang thinking about my vw.

Am i really that sad :embarassed:

No you are just like the rest of us if im not doing uni work then im thinking about what im planning for my car for the summer and when im going to do it

[Purple Monster]

Didn't know whether to take it as a compliment at 1st...... I'd just bought my MkI and was parking up and a couple of about 65+ stopped and starting talking to me saying what a lovely car it was. Pretty damn surreal, the oldies normally complain about the noise?

[carrie]

stu, what killed the british car industry was strikes and building unreliable, low specced, out dated heaps of sh!t simple as that.

you go dinx ?
some nice generalisation there boys, and probably the reason for so few female mechanics. i know loads of men who know sod all about cars but it never gets mentioned. women in engineering need to work 3 times as hard to get 1/2 the recognition no wonder why they leave. comments like are you shure you know what your doing love and crap was the reason i decided to throw it in.

[Stu.750]

surely that means you let them win carrie

[carrie]

yeah i know but it just got tireing, the constant having to prove yourself all the time. 

[Stu.750]

i left school at 16 n went to be an apprentise , i know its not the same but you still gotta prove your worth before the blokes will listen and or pay attention , goin streight from high school , to bein on a par with somethin a mechanic thinks he`s trod in is hard work , lots more should do it cause it sorts you out , tho out of a class of 45 when we started after 3 years there was 20 left , some just cant take it , spose its what your made of , i wouldnt change it for the world got some amazin memerys and me some fantastic people , plus im at uni now , doing it all again , this time hopefully there will be less being set on fire , taunted , tied up , put in boxes , sent out in the rain , or ritual stripping   

[Clipper Dave]

I'm very lucky as i get to work from home most of the time.
I get stressed by deadlines, difficult e-mails to people i don't like, writting presentations for things i don't care about.
 
All i find i want to do is spot the change in the weather, drop the roof and blow my wig away!!

then all is well in the world

I don't think people get what a raw driving experience you get from a MK1.

It all come from the car you learned to drive in all those years ago. 60% of the time it would have been a fiesta. 99% of those just would like a bigger more appointed / powerful fiesta SOULLESS

Keep running from the Fiesta people!!!!!!

[Madone_si]

I'm waiting for comments on my cab - as hardly anyone has seen it - including my friends and family... so I look forward to the comments once it's finished...

E.g.

So what work did you do on the car then?
I can't see the difference from a standard golf cab..!!
Why don't you buy a new cab?
How much did you spend?

Who cares really - once the suns out - then the cabs rule on the road...

[welshgirl]

the number of times i hear 'why dont you sell your golfs and get a decent car'.

then they moan about how their brand new cars are having to go in for work cos the electrics/gearbox etc is playing up and it makes my day 

 

[DANO]

I get the p*ss ripped out of me all the time in my office by everyone and when i get home my missus starts with the 'that bloody red car!!'...I say 'Yes it is red!!'

Up to now I have entered it in a few show n shines and have to date taken,

1. Top Ten place at VWoodstock 04
2. First place at Mk1 meet at gaydon for the best standard Cabby
3. First place at Dub Freeze 05 for best standard Cabby

Each time I win a trophy I take it into work just to get my own back!! When one of the lads starts I have gone back at him with 'how many trophys has your woodwork bench won then??' that usually does the trick!!

No pics (how do you up load??) but see this months Golf+ for the Dub Freeze report, apparently the car is in there I haven't seen it yet!!

Cheers Dano