1979 VW Golf

The interiors pretty good, no major rips or tears, the only thing is it needs a new parcel shelf front and rear.



Check out the styling Morrisons bag. It contains the lowering springs that the previous owner very kindly agreed to let go with the car. Time to get this mutha closer to Earth!

Looks KWALITAAAAA Scott.

I smell some fat £££ to be made on this one

Chrome bumpers, P-sluts, in the weeds and jobs a good 'un. Excellent work!

Nice to see another old Golf. As for the wheels, Golf Mk2 GTI/Driver 14inch steels always look nice and can be got cheap or free pretty easily. I've got Ronal's on my '75 Mk1 which look rather tasty, there's a thread with pics on here somewhere.

Ah I see, well on a tight budget I'd keep an eye out for the 14inch steels then. If it has to be alloys then P-slots always look cool (when they aren't white!) or other OEM VW wheels. There were quite a variety of alloys fitted to Mk1 cabs, can't think of the name of them now but they look good and should be cheap.

wouldnt say no to one of them myself nice buy

if you want 14" steelies gimme a shout,
i've got 5 to clear out, too many wheels
clogging up my storage ATM.

I really don't know how this keeps happening. At least this one hasn't got a red interior though! ;D

Well I decided to brave the elements today, and finally managed to get out to do some work on the Golf.

First job was to fix the seat to the subframes properly. I found out these needed doing on my first drive in the car. Unfixed seats + brakes not used for a year = scary moments!

Next job was to start cleaning up the bodywork. As it was so cold I decided to start on the inside with the boot/spare wheel/under rear seat area. A few minutes figuring out how the seats worked ( ), then ungluing the boot liner revealled this;



Thankfully there's no major grot, and it's all pretty superficial. Some heavy cleaning/rubbing down later and things were looking much better;



I couldn't be arsed to remove all the glue under the rear seats, especially seeing as all I'm gonna do is glue the lining back in anyway. I also decided to dispose of the spare wheel straps, as they were well beyond saving. Hopefully I can pick some up at some point, but I think I can live without them!

Been out there again this weekend, carrying on with the clean up. First job was to finish off the boot/rear seat area. All this really needed was for me to put everything back in, so a nice easy job. Only problem was that now everything was so much tidier, the parcel shelf looked like cack. Thankfully a quick couple of PMs on the Mk1 Owners Club website turned up a nice near mint one, which by now should be somewhere in the postal system as I type.

The main focus of the weekend was the engine. The engine runs superb, and pulls like a train considering it's a 1.1, but it looks like it's driven to the moon and back:



Easily solved.
1) Find man with steam cleaner.
2) Befriend said man.
3) Turn up at their place of work at 9 on a Sunday before they open.
4) Get engine cleaned!
5) Come home and clean/wire brush/paint manky bits.

There's still quite a bit of cleaning to be done, mainly the hard to reach places. However, with next weeks plans including removing the front grill to access the slam panel, and also to take the front suspension apart, I'll leave it til then to do these areas.

Anyway, heres a pic at close of play today;