Polo G40 1,2+3

Finally recieved a settlement in mid February 2013 - less than a week before it was due in Court. It was pretty much what I was hoping for, so I accepted it. It was finally over! Good job the black one wasn't my only ride, 9 months would have been a massive pain in the cock with no car!
This pic is from early March on the way to an MOT - the day I got my cheque!



Finally back on the road in a G40!

That is stunning, suddenly I have a hankering for a Polo!!

looks great now, hope you'll have great fun in the new one

My best friend had a red one of these about 15 years ago. It was nick named the "bread van" and the 3 things I remember was that it was very fast, the brakes were terrifying and finding a gear was a bit like stirring bricks in a bucket. We terrified ourselves silly in it and had a lot of fun.

Turned out beautifully - top marks for a top job !

i should show this to some of the local Swiss VW club boys. Then at least they would know what a G40 done properly looks like

Got it out again just before the Tatton Park show in August - had been busy with the rebuild of the blue car (thread to come soon!) so this one didn't see much use in 2014.







Seen here outside my unit after a good blast down the lanes.

Love these,& yours looks particularly nice , superb ;-))

Looks great, that blue one looks like a very later registered one!

Got there at 9am and sure enough it was at the bottom of a steep winding hill with parked cars either side of the road - this was going to be fun with a trailer and nowhere to turn round at the end of a dead end street!
The lad got the car out of a lock up and started it up. Sounded right enough so started to have a good old nosey. His idea of "concourse" was clearly not the same as mine! The body was pretty good - a couple of tiny dents on the doors, a small one on the tailgate and a bit of a ripple on the bonnet. Pretty insignificant, but I have a keen eye for stuff like this. There was very little visible rust, a bit on the slam panel and a bit on the inner wing bottom near where it joins the sill. Again this was pretty insignificant and a whole lot better than the majority of twenty odd year old Polos that have not had any restorative work done. The arches and sills were absolutely spotless though - never seen such good ones on a car this old - this was a big plus for me. The paintwork overall was pretty curse word as far as I was concerned, it had been blown over (probably before it was first sold in the UK) but everything had been masked up such as windows, lights, trims etc. It looked very good from a short distance away but up close you could see that it had been resprayed very cheaply. The finish was pretty decent but you could see where stone chips and scratches had been painted over and there were little white flecks under the lacquer over most of the car. I've been called a picky curse word over this but I've always been fussy about paint!
The interior was grubby but all there and there didn't appear to be much wear which was expected as the car had only done 53694 miles. Happy with that.
The only really curse word bit of the car - the bit that would be a massive pain in the cock to rectify - was the battery tray. Its a common problem on these cars and not many get repaired properly. This is what greeted me when I removed the battery -



Didn't know at the time what kind of mess was concealed by the fibreglass and seam sealer!