Welcome to the build thread of my 1989 Mk2 Breadvan. I bought this Polo back in January 2018 off of a family friend who's family owned the car from new.

The old girl was looking a bit sorry for herself but it was time to change that and within a week I had bought some Rotas ready to go on. (Ended up being sold for a set of BBS instead).

Sat high and mighty on the rotas 

Bumpers off (and in the bin) 

Lowered 60/40mm

Grille painted with the red lines and yellow tints on the spotlights

Front indicators mounted in the front valence

6n2 Front and rear seats fitted 

6n steels (scrap wheels to keep mobile)

As you can see however, rust was a bit of a problem. Luckily mostly surface bar a hole in the drivers door. Or so I thought

This is the part where a project gets longer. A lot longer.

Bottom half of the drivers door was really bad. Next step, volkswagen classic parts and a fresh lower half panel from Germany inbound.

Turns out there wasn't much left that was any good on the front valence either, or either wings. 

Oh and the driver's rear arch and the sill too. 🧐

With the fresh panels all on (including a second hand bonnet) it was time to do some rust prevention and primer ready for paint.

The front valance got the custom treatment with the smoothing of nearly all the standard holes for bumper mounts, tow eye etc and gussets for airflow over the original square holes. The tow eye was changed for a more modern style screw in type. The rear bumper mounts and rear valance also got the same treatment with smoothing.

 

 

Edited 12 March, 20233 yr by Gulf_Bready

Paint time!

Fresh gulf blue raptor paint

Also mounted my new metal plates (square one on the front to leave enough room for the cooling gussets and it just looks cool) and the new indicators (landrover LED ones in the wing and kit car front indicators)

And yes I know I didn't mask up my wheels 

And that brings us to today, BBS RS772 splits in Gulf orange, repainted grille and spoiler.

Cherry bomb backbox and a full JBL system from a Peugeot 206cc (was going to scrap lol)

I'm sure I've probably forgotten something but this has been an ongoing project over 6 years.

Passed it's first MOT in over 5 years with one advisory on the noisy exhaust. Result!

 

Still got more plans and ideas, the standard mirrors are next to go in the bin as I've managed to find some Caterham carbon mirrors, just need to make up the plates to mount. Interior stuff coming too. 

 

But for now, it'll be daily driven and taken to shows/meets. Hope to see you guys there 🙂

Great work dude, looked very like my car to begin with!!!!

 

are you going with gulf stripes too?

Edited 11 April, 20233 yr by Jim1500

Thank you  and I've been tempted with some stripes but want to keep it somewhat simple.

I'm sure I'll end up doing something lol