1979 VW Derby

Yes Inari Silver is a lush colour

The car is already lowered approx' 60mm all round, though i'd like to get it sitting abit lower at the front - perhaps 10mm lowering spring caps?

The main annoyance with it is that its been keyed at some time down the drivers side across the bonnet and across the boot Apart from this & the odd scrape or ding, the bodywork is in extremely good honest shape, so its a shame that i'll probably need to get the whole car blown over to get rid of the vandal scratches.

Other than the respray it would be nice to get the seats re-trimmed at some point as the original material has been affected by the sunlight. A Bernard Newbury re-trim would be trick but also expensive! I'd also like to tweek the original engine a bit, I've got a twin choke 'Mexico' Weber Carb lined up for it, perhaps a re-ground Cam, Lumenition points-less ignition and a bit of an exhaust.

I'm currently in the process of installing some tunes - which I think is essential in what I think is more of a 'lifestyle' car, rather than a car which would be particulaly quick or handle well.

The Derby is the bomb........FO SHIZZLE.....Pimped your ride

nuff clean !!

and another pic just for the hell of it...

Minter than a Polo... hang on theres something wrong with that statement

a lifestyle car, i like your terminology
lovely, just lovely

Inari silver - mmmm, used to have a Mk1 Jetta auto that colour, it was immaculate and I ebayed it away for 180 squid

There's one just like yours in the back of PVW this month.

*n

Well finally dug this thread up from the darkest depths of the R-R archives

I've now owned my Usernamesake VW Derby for over 4 years now & despite only covering approx' 10,000 miles in that time, its weird to think that in that time I have put on just under a 1/3 of the cars o/a mileage in just a fraction of the cars age ;D It is also the longest i've ever owned one car yet my enthusiasm for it is not waning.... helped in part by the recently formed Mk1 Polo Club forum [ftp]http://z3.invisionfree.com/Mk1_Polo_Club/index.php?act=idx[/ftp]

Reading through the first page it is apparent that i've done a few things to the car since - it pales into mere insignificance compared to the likes of Street, Slater, Mr nightmares etc etc However I have added the following.....

First was the all important tunage - some two way Boston speakers (woofers in footwell builds tweeters on top of dash) & the old Pioneer head unit that was in my Integra mounted in the glovebox - the original Philips twin knob still works independently





Then some lowering spring caps, to get that front a bit lower (but not enough IMO?)


Then some diamond cut old school rims were added in the shape of some 14" KN (UK made) Diamonds courtesy of VWDan on here (anyone know what era these would have been from?)


It broke down the same night the above pic was taken - after driving through a horrendous storm on my way home from the R-R awards which led to water getting in the coil


I have been planning to do some mild tuning to the engine (as outlined on page 1) For ages now but costs on my old T25 van kept thwarting my attempts to do anything. I sold the van but brought a house - so i'm still short of cash but with an upcoming trip planned to take the Derby over the Club Charlys show in Belgium I thought it would give me a good deadline to get something done. Unfortunately I soon realised that with a number of Stag do's and our usual jaunt down to Newquay, that I wasn't going to get everything I wanted done in time - I do however now have a spares 1272 HH head, the cam from which has been re-ground by Dbilas in Germany to 280deg, and an Ashley 4-2-1 manifold - so my collection of parts is well on its way

Blimey... last update since 2005! It wouldnt still be on most forums!

Looking good Dan Can't wait to see it with the new engine bits

I had the same problem with water in my coil, on Christmas Day nevertheless!