Model: 91 polo CL

Engine: 1.4 16v AFH conversion on standard injection, ice hocky puck engine and box front raise, shallow plated sump, shortened oil pickup, plated rear mount, GT 5speed gearbox.

Suspension: TA coilovers, shorter and harder rear springs, Tca blocks.

Exterior Styling: Full re-spray in Jamaica blue, Following work done to tail gate: de-badged / de-wipered / frenched and mk4 golf number plate lights fitted! Smoothed quarter to rear panel join (the seam under the side of the rear lights). Side trims and gutter trims removed. Rolled all arches. Smoothed lhd wiper resess. Smoothed aerial. Smoothed and colour coded rear arch spats. Smoothed front panel. Hidden and relocated a thew things from engine bay also smoothed. Stainless bonnet struts. A thew polished bolts in bay. Slim line fan. De-badged grill. Rear lights have had letters flatted out then tinted red. Jaguar xjs exhaust tip. Pressed plates. Polished handle inserts. Smoothed and colour coded bumpers. Small splitter. Custom scuttle cover.

Interior Styling: Black mk3 golf colour concept seats. Momo steering wheel. Black 'style' door cards. Beetle pedal rubbers. Oem black leather gear stick with black leather gear stick gaiter. Black carpet. Black sprayed head lining. GT sunvisors. BMW boot pop switch.

Comments: Hello I'm Beinn, I brought the polo on 08/08/2009 for £250, past my test on 17/06/2010, put the sound system in it, took the trim off the side, did the parking dents on it and drove it around with grey primer patches all over it style_emoticons/#EMO_DIR#/smile.gif. (I was going to give it a nice coat of red, 40mm springs, clear indies, de- badge grill and some nice enough wheels.. <all of which i had mounted up by this point).... BUT...on the 11/11/2010 i crashed in to the back of a fiesta van!! style_emoticons/#EMO_DIR#/sad.gif I veed up the bonnet, pushed in the front panel, bent a wing, cracked the bumper and well lets just say the iron was one odd shape! But still drove it about till 30/12/2010:) Shhh! So got all the crash repair done on my drive by 22/01/2011 and it's been there being redone up antill 10/09/2011 when i got it mot'd! Iv been driving it since! style_emoticons/#EMO_DIR#/biggrin.gif So hears a couple of pics and after that i shall start from the beginning of the build, ok.

Edited 15 December, 201411 yr by beinn

This looks like its gonna be really good when you get it finished mate. Get some more pics up!

Cheers mate! I'll start from the beginning i guess...

When i first got it and after a good clean!

Edited 3 October, 201114 yr by beinn

When i crashed it and repairing it.

Reply's much appreciated, good or bad. Please.

I actualy think ime in love with the colour. cant wait to see this mate! keep them updates coming

That is a properly nice colour! is it OEM? Or another manufacturer?

Lovely car, looking forward to seeing it complete! :)

Thanks guys. Would have loved it to be a VW colour but Iris blue and Horizon blue (1950's-60's VW colours that i liked) were not quite write. Also thought about doing it BMW Oxygen blue and many other colours along the way. Spent many lunch times looking threw profi colour cards and eventually decided on the colour you see now, which turned out to be a 1980's Hyundai colour called Jamaica blue.

any more images of how it looks now, beautiful colour choice!!

A few pics of prepping and priming engine bay and front panel.

Another engine bay picture. Little bit cleaner! :) Its a 1.3 btw! haha.

Edited 10 October, 201114 yr by beinn

this is amazzing!

that blue is amazing!

the bay is amazing!

its so clean!

keep updates coming! :)

All of the boot work/prep and preping the wings!

Oh my!!!!!!!!! This car looks special!!!!!!!!!

Where is your header tank? do you have a top fill rad?

Oh my!!!!!!!!! This car looks special!!!!!!!!!

Where is your header tank? do you have a top fill rad?

Thanks mate! The expansion tank is behind the scuttle panel.

love his colour, its coming along really well

Are you keeping it a 1.0l?

love his colour, its coming along really well

Are you keeping it a 1.0l?

Cheers mate! It's a 1.3, just got a Seat 1.0l cover on it! :) Will remove 1.0 lettering when I get round to it!

this looks so good. how did you get all of the front panel off and what did you do about refitting? thought they are fatory pressed together

this looks so good. how did you get all of the front panel off and what did you do about refitting? thought they are fatory pressed together

Cheers! Yeh they are spot welded on. I had to drill the spot welds out. Then I bolted the new one on (made working on the engine bay so much more easy).

Updates soon! :)

Hello people! :) Some more prep pics. Body, doors and bay!

Such a nice project man, would be great with a different lump in the future.

Edit: Epic colour choice too, its looks so right.

Edited 10 October, 201114 yr by slim.gt

looks like some proper graft in your driveway aswell! paint choice looks lovely and looks to be laid down well considering it was done outside! you gonna be done and going to GTI festival at the weekend?

looks like some proper graft in your driveway aswell! paint choice looks lovely and looks to be laid down well considering it was done outside! you gonna be done and going to GTI festival at the weekend?

Yeah certainly was! Did all the repair, prep, polish and refit on the drive! :) I hired a spray booth out to paint it. Even though I'm a trainee painter :) / tea boy :( at a body shop the boss wont let anyone in at the weekends! Bit shit! Would have loved to be ready for GTI but I'm a mile off... need to pull my finger out!

Thanks for the comments people.

Looks good dude, I'm another one loving the colour. Sometimes it takes a different colour to stand out. It certainly is a nice choice.

Respect for doing it all by yourself too.

Sumran Domguy

So nice, The picutre off the bay with the 1.0 cover on it, Did you fit a golf elbow as your pancake it not there?

Sickooo thread!