Model: VW Derby GLS

Engine: 1272 HH

Suspension: 60/40 Front: Gaz Adjustable Coilovers (70mm) Rear TA Technix Golf mk1 Coilovers

Brakes: Standard (at mo) (Now G40 set up on mk 2 struts) G40 set up

Wheels and Tyres: early mk1 scirocco 13" Alloys. 13x5 ET45 front with 165/65, 13x5.5 ET38 Rear with 175/60 CMS 26's 14x6.5 ET30 155/65 front 165/60 Rear

Exterior Styling: Early Grill, Crome bumpers (flush fit), Golf CL splitter.

Interior Styling: New door cards, motolita steering wheel

ICE and Security: Alpine HU, JBL Amp, JL 6x9's, JL 10 sub in custom enclosure, 2x Macrom Amps, Genesis Profile Fronts

Comments: I tracked down the Derby from an old guy giving up driving. 43k on the clock and only the family have ever owned it. Never had the seat covers of the front seat, back seat never used still has original dealer plates and stickers. Full history and always garaged.

Then I got my hands on it..... :-D

Originally

And after a couple of years with me

Hope you like

Edited 1 January, 201214 yr by Borednow

looks good. has the pass side rear quater been resprayed? looks sating finish compared to the rest of the car

great pics/location but hard to see the black wheels on whatever setting the camera was on

How did you re-trim the drivers door panel? looks very professional

Edited 27 September, 201015 yr by foy9999

great pics/location but hard to see the black wheels on whatever setting the camera was on

How did you re-trim the drivers door panel? looks very professional

Cheers Mate,

All the door cards were re-trimmed, I used some 5mm mdf cut and shaped, patterned from the originals. The only reason for using MDF was to act as a suitable base for the audio.

The panels were covered with a dense foam spray glued on, then covered with vinyl. Trick is to use a good quality vinyl so it loads of stretch in it, spray glue the back, pull it really tight then staple on the back too.

Takes a while and a few attempts to get it right but worth the trouble.

The indentation for the winder handle is pretty impressive.

Just noticed your front seat..... I bought a MK2 Polo years ago which had really cool black front seats from another VW in it but I never found out which car they were from. I can see now they were from a Derby.

VW seemed to do most of their top of range Polos (GL/GLS etc) in browns/golds with similar colour trim so I wonder what car my black seats would have been in!

Any more pics of your interior as I always wondered what the matching back seat looked like....?

I actually kept them and re-trimmed them in leather which is my avatar pic

Edited 30 September, 201015 yr by foy9999

This is the back seat mate

This is how I did the re-trim

Cut the new boards using the originals as a template. I smoothed the edges of the new boards using a plane to leave a smoother edge on the new panels.

Buy some appropriate length internal panel fixings (these were from Halfords)

Spray glue the foam to the board and then match the fixings positions from the original panels. If your using foam place the original panels over the new ones and add some pressure. The old fixings leave marks in the foam

As the foam I was using was around 5mm thick it meant that the window winder wouldn't fit anymore. So mark the radius of the turn on the foam, check it is circular with dividers, cut the circle and remove the foam. I cut the circle so the edge of the foam is at about 45 degrees not a straight edge.

Spray glue the foam and the vinyl

Pull it tight and smooth out any areas of wrinkles or bubbles. Turn it over, cut the excess vinyl off, spray glue the vinyl and the back of the board and pull tight to get nice clean edges.

I then stapled it all down with a staple gun. eh voila!

Repeat with anything that needs doing:

LIKE!

Nice one

That's a meaty speaker in the back! I wondered where the speakers were when you said in an earlier post taht you re-trimmed for that reason

Thanks for the pic pf back seat. Mine turned out pretty similar but with a narrower panel in middle. My back seat is actually the best as I was an'expert' by the time I got to that. I started with the drivers seat and that is the one I made my mistakes on.

Bigger brakes fitted up front. Its the G40 brake set up with the grooved and vented discs and the VWII calipers. All refurbed and painted. Of course the brakes wouldn't fit on the mk1 arms so swapped em out for mk2 items.Definitely better pulls up nicely now. So less brown trouser times.

New rims fitted too. CMS 26. From a renault I think given the centre bore size. 14"x6.5". Had to roll the arch's and grind a touch from the brake pad carrier (just a shave really) and get some stretch on the tyres 155/65 front and 165/60 on the back.

Took her out for a cruise along the South Coast of Cornwall in the sun. Up and down hills and narrow tracks. Handles, stops and goes like a dream! :-)

Hopefully in for a respray on the back wing and the front panel if the robbery goes well..... :-D

That is beautiful!

Nicely done! :)

My new wallpaper that last shot. Amazing!

Wow, that's stunning.

Awesome!!!

if you ever need to sell, contact me

fucking amazing!

Very nice. How did you measure up the sides of the boot? I've been thinking of doing something like that for a little while but I haven't thought of a way to measure it up accurately.

Dirty Alert! sexy car pronz

Bloody 'ell guys! thanks for the replies. Better do a bit on update I suppose on the more recent events......polished twin 40's anyone?

verrrry niiiiiiice

Well I had a nice time during the bank hloidays and the bit of time off in between. Finally managed to get the Twins stripped, polished, cleaned, re-furbed and put back together. Also painted the manifold to go with the under bonnet theme of 'black or polished'

that gives an idea of how covered in crap everything was before I started on the left and after a good 'dremeling' on the right.

The Twins:

Itchy on the right and Scratchy on the left

To get the vacuum feed for the timing we tapped the off shute from the manifold and managed to find a nice brass fitting at the local hydraulic fluids and pipework specialist

When we tried to put the manifold with the carbs on into the bay we found the brake master cylinder was in the way and the right hand brake pipes too. I was expecting this after the advice I've read but didn't really want to go cutting chunks out of the the carbs. As it happens I had another master cylinder knocking about. So we thought we'd try that instead.

Fits nicely and is a bit shorter so clears the carbs. I've been told it was a G40 cylinder so hopefully it might be a bit better too. I've had to order up some new brake lines and a 4-way connector to connect it all up properly. The new cylinder has only 3 holes so I'll connect the front lines direct to it and the 4-way will take the brake light switch, the 2 rear lines and connect to the 3rd hole in the cylinder. Well hopefully :huh:

The only slight problem was the actual activator from the pedal was too long for the new cylinder so with a bit of improvisation and careful measuring I made one.

All bolted up and in position and appears to work ok.

We got the cable attached to the pedal but the block was way to big so we cut about a third of it so it doesn't hit the pedal assembly any more. I'm sure one cable will be adequate.

Managed to get them back on and in position and checked the cable works ok.

So hopefully on the weekend we shall get the brakes sorted (again) and the carbs properly bolted up and everything working. Or then again we'll probably come across more fitting issues before even trying to get the engine running.

Oh yeah and the water pump and cam belt might as well be changed at this point.

So then a busy weekend - Down the scrapper for brakes parts, re-con brake bits, fit brake bits, fit new brake lines, mock everything up, clean and paint bits and bobs, replace water pump, replace cam belt and ....oh yeah...fit the carbs and start the engine!

So first thing on Saturday nip down the local scrappers and see what we could find iin the way of brake bits to make everything work. (I have a couple of mk3 master cylinders and numerous reservoirs now!) We manage to find a better condition master cylinder on a mk3 and a new smaller neater reservoir on a Seat Arosa that looked like they might fit.

So we dumped everything into the bay. Got the new brake line - slightly longer - from the MC to the Drivers side caliper installed, installed the 4-way and got the dinky connector pipe connected up. Then it was just a matter of beding the old pipes in such a way as to make them finally fit:

Success!

I did a bit of cleaning and painting then:

Tidied up the tupperware a bit and replaced the washer pipes cos apperently they were a bit 'manky'

After

So Sunday then installed the oil breather filter, blanked of the top of the exhaust extension

Whipped off water pump and cambelt and replaced them both.

Then it was time to fit the carbs. Bit of a pain this bit as I reckon we had to do each nut up a half turn and then move to the next in a circle and just keep going like that. Took about an hour of swearing and cursing and bad backs and stinging ham strings to get it on and tight. Which idiot came up with the idea of having such a low car and the which pillock designed the manifold with no where to put the nuts when doing it up!

Installed the fuel lines did everything up and tried her out. She started and ticked over. Sounds like a tractor but SHE'S ALIVE!!!

Fair play to me mate Rob for his help on this. I would defintely have lost the plot and either killed, broken or jumped up and down on something. Either that or have broken it all!

Just need a manifold and exhaust now to make use of all that extra air and fuel.

So this weekend will be the bleeding of the brakes and tuning the carbs. That'll make the neighbours happy

Looks great! :)

Whats with the exhaust coming up the back of the engine? Never seen that before on a polo..

Is that the switch for the brakes plumbed in there? If not, how have you gotten around the switch issue (from the early mc)

Oh, also what reservoir are you using?

Looks great! :)

Whats with the exhaust coming up the back of the engine? Never seen that before on a polo..

Seen it on one of dans MK1's, its some sort of overflow kinda thing from the carb into the exhaust lol. God knows why.

Looks sick with the carbs

Is that the switch for the brakes plumbed in there? If not, how have you gotten around the switch issue (from the early mc)

Yeah mate the switch is plumbed in there. Hence the need for a 3 way splitter thingy. The reservoir is from a Seat Arosa I think. i went and plundered the scrap yard to find one the right sort of size. Works well.

The pipe up the back is the pre-heat pipe back up to the bottom of the inlet manifold for the carb.