well seeing as I've been on here a while now, and have sold a few bits to some of you i thought its only fair to show you what I'm up to :)

Been going a couple of months now....

Base car is a 1981 mk1 golf c... 1.1litres of pure power.

brakes made of actual mash potatoe!

genuine milage!!

i think

stripped and no sound deadening now yey

old sounddeadening = cheese... very old cheese

New sound deadening in!

lighter... and better :p

looking a bit sorrt for herself here

massive plans, watch this space :p

few more pics :p

started taking the underseal off the inner wings with a wire brush an an angle grinder... i dont really reccomend this as it creates a hell of alot of smoke haha.. cant imagine its the healthiest to breathe in either :p

the "rat dash"

this is the started attempT to create a smooth gloss dash... thought it would be alot easyer than it is...

this is how it looks atm..

also the roof lining was in awesome condition so wanted to keep that, didnt fancy trying to take it out and get it back in without ruining it so covered it up... took me bloody hours to get it all done... came in the next day to find it had all come undone... grr... industrial 2nd attempt :p

and my hole "ooo errr"

from this

to this

:(

todays efforts

engine was removed in the week, thanks again for the help golf gt and phataz :)

engine actually slid under the car it was so small hehe

took the top layer of the old underseal off, all suspension out, wishbones out, brakes atc all off now

just cant get the hubs off anyone got a ball joint separator haha

how she stood when i left this afternoon

couple of arty farty pics

oh and the best bit by far!!!

these bay boys affrived on thursday!

Well not a massive update but an update non the less :p

the bay now look like this wooo...

taken what feels like forever to get it even to this stage and there is stilla heck of a lot that needs doing in the bay alone!

but finally all brackets, cips, battry trays and what not removed

on the o/s there is a indentation in the inner arch, i assume this is for a pipe or something, Golf gt on here removed his and suggested i should do the same.... to a went mad with a big hammer and ttaaaa daaaa

although I'm not fully smoothing the bay (even tho i would love to) i think these little bits will make a world of difference

i also started cleabing and spraying the brackets and mounts

ingenious i think you'll agree :p

and what better drying place

And only a fraction of the goodies mr postman brought this week,

mk kitchen table is stacked high with parcels now... and yet more is due :s

brake lines

fuel pump

and 2 gear knobs... not decided which i like best yet hehe

well the polo above it well any truly stripped now!

jay... dont look lol

i started on sat, then chris n rick last night at it like a pair of absolubte troopers!

cant thank them enough!

Looks a great project

And a great use for Jays old gt engine

how does a gt engine mount in a mk1 golf? is it much fabrication?

Think it needs the polo mount welding to the golf mount?

nice project mate, keep us updated :)

LEE

Its beenas sister :-D

I shall be watching this thread

no way i wan them sill covers off that polo lol

sill covers gonneeee lol,

the effort taking them off outweighed the reward haha

thanks for the comments guys :)

loving the plate RPG **** :) and lol @ jays gt

well todays been pretty un productive,

but here are some pics

some of the new bits so far,

not including, the door cards, wings, carpets, matts, and manifold I've bought

the suspension turrets.. gettin there

aww looking very sorry for herself, rotten door now removed tho

and my party peice

also got these handles off ebay but i think they look tacky and wouldnt match the rest of the interior, so went aboutsorting that out..

what u think?

to

alright Taylor!! how you doin?

love the mk1, i had a driver in a similar colour only metallic... ahhh memories

love the progress on this, its gonna be great... how cool is the white mk1??!! who's is that!

great work, keep it up :-D

mk1 wont be staying that colour :p

how the bay is now

the white one is aruns "phataz" on edition 38 :)

lookin good :) good progres

porsche scripted handles, good effort!

mk1 wont be staying that colour :p

how the bay is now

the white one is aruns "phataz" on edition 38 :)

awesome. anymore pics of the white mk1 please? looks sweet. Baz

lol poor jays GT

Great progress though dude

not bad =]. gives me inspiration to work on my loon, but no money too =[ keep it comming

my new clocks arrived the other week

direct fit into the standard gti centre console

prepping for paint has now started red bloody rust everywhere!!

came in on moday and a door had magic'd its self onto the car... i was very impressed the car has started putting itself back together haha!

the old one was rotten at the botton and this one is better so christopher decided to fit it for me

after lots of sanding

the door has for some reason been half sprayed in white ... i was a little worried it was covering some rust of dodgey repair up but nope... all sanded back fine

wow you can see how much dust there is... i finally invested in a face mask after coughing up god knows how much crap. cant be healthy

The other side

This was the roof!

yummy... not been washed in years and by the looks of it never polished haha

SAND SAND SAND

velvet looking roof

and the workshop doodle pad :p

couple more essential bay pics... almost 100% there now

Now this is what you call a build thread :)

Edited 16 December, 200916 yr by max_crox

awesome thread mate, keep the pics coming!

Ha ha, Chris looks like a happy kid stood on Jays GT