Marine Blue-1988-Typ 86c Breadvan

23 May, 201412 yr

Model : September 1988 Volkswagen Polo C

Engine : 1043cc HZ

Suspension : Standard

Brakes : VW II's and Drums

Wheels and Tyres : 13" Steels with G60 centre caps

Exterior Styling/Modifications : Twin Light grille

Mk I Golf small splitter

Hella Fogs

Front clear indicator lenses

Wolfsburg side repeater blanks

Renault 5 door mirrors

80's electric aerial

Rear wiper delete

Mk III Golf style door handles

81 spec rear lights

Interior Styling/Modifications : Mk III Golf GTi 16v front seats
Porsche 928S black leather steering wheel

90's MOMO wood gear knob

VDO Voltmeter fitted in centre console

Early style doorcards

Silver striped binacle surround

Black parcel shelf

Porsche 924 Silver glovebox catch

Audi window winders

ICE and Security: JBL GTO-6429 6X4's front x1 , rear x2

Alpine DDT-S30 tweets x2

Vibe Blackair 6x9's x2

Lanzar Vector VCT-4110 Amp

Pioneer DEH-P7000UB Headunit

I bought this back in 2011 for a bit of fun as I've always wanted one and It eventually became my daily driver due to it being so much more reliable than I'd anticipated .

2011

I ran it as my daily for 17 months and covered 14000 miles in that time but due to the increasing amount of miles I decided to take it off the road and bought myself my 6R with the intention of doing some work on it and eventually putting it back on the road .

Life got in the way of things and I just never got around to it and it sat for almost 2 years without turning a wheel. It gutted me to see it sat there so I decided to get it through a MOT and use that as a starting point to see what I needed to do to get it back tip top.

When I picked it up two of the tyres had cracked quite badly and it needed jump starting , so whilst I ran it up I changed to a spare set of wheels I had and off it went to the test centre . I left it with them and got a call a few hours later and to my surprise it had passed with only a couple of advisories .

I've given it a good check over and made a start replacing some bits. First I've fitted a new fuel tank , set of hand brake cables , new exhaust front box and covered about 400 miles without any faults at all .

After leaving it stood for so long the paint had faded badly so I've clayed , polished and waxed it and given the interior a really deep clean .

Heres how it currently stands.

2014

Plenty more planned with this over summer , I'm going to clean up under the bonnet and I've currently got some bits being blasted at present ready to be painted up (Strut braces,rocker cover,air cleaner cover,distributor cover)

Looking to source some black carpet for the interior , and having doorcard inserts re-covered to match seats and need to adapt the Mk III rear seats to fit so everything will match .

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Marine Blue-1988-Typ 86c Breadvan

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