Spotted this little baby sitting unloved in the parts for sale on eBay a few weeks ago. The auction ended and reserve not met, bit after a bit of a haglle with the owner, I became the next name to appear on the log book! Now here's the good bit. It has covered a very genuine and fully documented 23,400 miles from new!!! Every year the old chap who had it wrote down how much it had cost to run than year and how many miles it had travelled! I got one of my drivers to pick her up from Dorset and bring her back up to the Midlands. When it arrived 2 weeks ago yesterday, it had travelled further that day than it did in the entire of 2003! The most miles it did in any year was in 1984 when it did 1512 miles! They must have gone on holiday that year!!!
Anyway, my goal was to get it looking as good as possible on a zero budget, which meant no lowering or no deep dish alloys, and just using what stuff I'd got in my unit, so here goes the detail!
Here she is as I first saw her on eBay hidden away in the parts section.
The whole of the underside was covered in mud and so were all the inner wheel arches.
A nice mix of TFR, and a jet wash and a soft brush soon loosened the dirt and much to my amazement, the inner arches were blemish free, just a small amount of waxoyl which ain't been shifted yet!!
The whole car was first Jet washed to remove about 5 years of grime off her, then a good 2 bucket wash.
Now I could finally see the "Kupfer Metallik" paint start to shine once more, but even after washing it still looked filthy
So out with the clay bar to remove some of the bonded rubbish that has probably been stuck there for nearly 30 years!!
Then cracked open some Menzerna PO85 RD3.02 and some new Lake Country Pads and set to work on getting her like new again! First question was, is 30 year old VAG paint as much as a curse word to polish as 5 year old VAG paint? Well, yes and no, it may have been but the RD3.02 soon sorted out that little problem!
Here's a 50/50 shot of the bonnet!
then going down to the PO85RD.
This is as far as I've got with the polishing so far!
The wheels were looking tired as well. The thought of putting on a set of Borbet A's or Ronals and dropping it 60mm did cross my mind for a few seconds, but then sense prevailed and the "Keep it stock" train of thought came out on top! So a quick wash, degrease and a session with the wire brush and some AG silver wheel paint saw them looking a darn site better than they did!
and after a quick wire brush and spray with AG wheel paint...et voila!
Sorry, no powdercoating or anything fancy, remember, the budget set aside was a big fat zilch!!
Anyway, my goal was to get it looking as good as possible on a zero budget, which meant no lowering or no deep dish alloys, and just using what stuff I'd got in my unit, so here goes the detail!
Here she is as I first saw her on eBay hidden away in the parts section.
The whole of the underside was covered in mud and so were all the inner wheel arches.
A nice mix of TFR, and a jet wash and a soft brush soon loosened the dirt and much to my amazement, the inner arches were blemish free, just a small amount of waxoyl which ain't been shifted yet!!
The whole car was first Jet washed to remove about 5 years of grime off her, then a good 2 bucket wash.
Now I could finally see the "Kupfer Metallik" paint start to shine once more, but even after washing it still looked filthy
So out with the clay bar to remove some of the bonded rubbish that has probably been stuck there for nearly 30 years!!
Then cracked open some Menzerna PO85 RD3.02 and some new Lake Country Pads and set to work on getting her like new again! First question was, is 30 year old VAG paint as much as a curse word to polish as 5 year old VAG paint? Well, yes and no, it may have been but the RD3.02 soon sorted out that little problem!
Here's a 50/50 shot of the bonnet!
then going down to the PO85RD.
This is as far as I've got with the polishing so far!
The wheels were looking tired as well. The thought of putting on a set of Borbet A's or Ronals and dropping it 60mm did cross my mind for a few seconds, but then sense prevailed and the "Keep it stock" train of thought came out on top! So a quick wash, degrease and a session with the wire brush and some AG silver wheel paint saw them looking a darn site better than they did!
and after a quick wire brush and spray with AG wheel paint...et voila!
Sorry, no powdercoating or anything fancy, remember, the budget set aside was a big fat zilch!!
WOW! Absolutely stunning, and I'm glad you decided to keep it stock. IMHO that's the best decision regarding a car like this. 
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