The story has uncanny parallel to this recently posted readers ride thread:
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The guy bought it new in 1991, he was 70 years old then.
His son was now selling it on his behalf but it was badly advertised with no real description and only three small pictures of the exterior, other than stating a low mileage the only other "selling" point was that the cam belt needed changing. Anyway his mistake was my gain.
Here we have a 1991 Golf CL 1.6 which has done only 47200km from new! (ca. 29000 miles)
It was delivered from the dealers without a radio too! How fantastic is that.
Factory slide sunroof too, which I must admit I didn't see until after I picked it up and my wife pointed it out
It starts effortlessly, but there is no PAS so takes a bit of getting used to after far too many miles in a modern.
As bought.
There is no record of the cam belt ever being changed so that is obviously priority number one to get done.
It has a few parking dents on the rear quarters and the rear panel but otherwise is completely rust free. The old guy kept all the paperwork so I even have the original bill of sale, this also shows that the extra lights in the grill were added by the dealer before delivery.
It seems he'd had a go at giving it a good polish a few years ago but not cleaned it off the plastic on the doors and bumpers, hence the white staining.
When I picked it up it still had what I think were the original Michelen ZX L tyres, (those of you who know tyre DOT codes can maybe confirm this?) except for one at the rear which was a newer Falken from 2005. So I needed new tyres ASAP ¡V I did drive it the 4kms or so home on the Michelins though without any problems.
I think i'm right in saying that the DOT codes gives a date of week 48 - 1990
So a quick trawl of the local ads threw up 4 nearly new tyres on MK3 golf rims so the added bonus of an increase from 13¡¨ to 14". They are ET45 though against the ET38 originally on the car. I picked those up last night and put them on. I think they look quite good.
It's probably going to need a couple new sections of exhaust too but it can probably wait a month or so.
I'll get a few piccies of the interior when I get the chance, suffice to say it is pretty untouched.
I had a quick attempt at cleaning the plastic but didn¡¦t have much time, I hope to get some time free again tonight.
retrorides.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=readersrides&action=display&thread=104754
The guy bought it new in 1991, he was 70 years old then.
His son was now selling it on his behalf but it was badly advertised with no real description and only three small pictures of the exterior, other than stating a low mileage the only other "selling" point was that the cam belt needed changing. Anyway his mistake was my gain.
Here we have a 1991 Golf CL 1.6 which has done only 47200km from new! (ca. 29000 miles)
It was delivered from the dealers without a radio too! How fantastic is that.
Factory slide sunroof too, which I must admit I didn't see until after I picked it up and my wife pointed it out
It starts effortlessly, but there is no PAS so takes a bit of getting used to after far too many miles in a modern.
As bought.
There is no record of the cam belt ever being changed so that is obviously priority number one to get done.
It has a few parking dents on the rear quarters and the rear panel but otherwise is completely rust free. The old guy kept all the paperwork so I even have the original bill of sale, this also shows that the extra lights in the grill were added by the dealer before delivery.
It seems he'd had a go at giving it a good polish a few years ago but not cleaned it off the plastic on the doors and bumpers, hence the white staining.
When I picked it up it still had what I think were the original Michelen ZX L tyres, (those of you who know tyre DOT codes can maybe confirm this?) except for one at the rear which was a newer Falken from 2005. So I needed new tyres ASAP ¡V I did drive it the 4kms or so home on the Michelins though without any problems.
I think i'm right in saying that the DOT codes gives a date of week 48 - 1990
So a quick trawl of the local ads threw up 4 nearly new tyres on MK3 golf rims so the added bonus of an increase from 13¡¨ to 14". They are ET45 though against the ET38 originally on the car. I picked those up last night and put them on. I think they look quite good.
It's probably going to need a couple new sections of exhaust too but it can probably wait a month or so.
I'll get a few piccies of the interior when I get the chance, suffice to say it is pretty untouched.
I had a quick attempt at cleaning the plastic but didn¡¦t have much time, I hope to get some time free again tonight.
