Bathurst Mk1 GTIs?

[Golfboy666GTI]

Does anyone have any pics/info/specs/where abouts of the MK1 GTI Golf that racing at Bathurst in the late 70s early 80s?

Were they factory cars? I was told they were owned and raced by a Sydney VW dealer back in the day?

[EndlessMKI]

Wow would be great if someone had pics.............I never thought about the MKI's racing at bathurst. I guess back then it wasn't just a two car manufacturer sence.

[gtimk5]

Hi and a big welcome to you on joining the forum!
The Golf ran at Bathust from 77-80 I think. It was entered by a dealer out near Parramatta and was driven by Chris Heyer. It was an LS built up to 1.6GTI specs except it had quad throttle bodies with Hilbourne mechanical injection. The longe range fuel tank took up the whole boot area up to the parcel shelf!
It was always very quick and in one Bathurst race it was 1 1/2 laps clear of the next car in its classbut unfortunately it suffered mechanical problems often. A fuel fire during refueling one year and a broken accelerator cable of all things another year!
20v kitcar on this forum now has that GTI but he doesn't get on the forum much these days. Golf loon could help you with contacting Steve maybe if you wanted to check it out one day?
I had a ride in it years ago, with the Bathurst gearing on a country road in the dark. No headlight lenses and sitting on a slick tyre for a passengers seat made for an interesting ride!!!!
Fantastic car though with a lot of history.
I hope you enjoy the forum, good to have you here, cheers, Andrew

[gtimk5]

They had it on ABC lagends last friday night from an old race at Sandown.
It finished 3rd or4th I think. Looked great!

[Golfboy666GTI]

Hi and a big welcome to you on joining the forum!
The Golf ran at Bathust from 77-80 I think. It was entered by a dealer out near Parramatta and was driven by Chris Heyer. It was an LS built up to 1.6GTI specs except it had quad throttle bodies with Hilbourne mechanical injection. The longe range fuel tank took up the whole boot area up to the parcel shelf!
It was always very quick and in one Bathurst race it was 1 1/2 laps clear of the next car in its classbut unfortunately it suffered mechanical problems often. A fuel fire during refueling one year and a broken accelerator cable of all things another year!
20v kitcar on this forum now has that GTI but he doesn't get on the forum much these days. Golf loon could help you with contacting Steve maybe if you wanted to check it out one day?
I had a ride in it years ago, with the Bathurst gearing on a country road in the dark. No headlight lenses and sitting on a slick tyre for a passengers seat made for an interesting ride!!!!
Fantastic car though with a lot of history.
I hope you enjoy the forum, good to have you here, cheers, Andrew

Thank you for the welcome.

Ive never seen pics of the car, I had a 75-85 Bathurst video and all it shows is the fuel fire but the car cant be seen.
Id love to have a look at the car (pics?) but sady I live to far away (NZ)

[roccodingo]

Good to see this car still survives

I remember seeing it racing on the TV years ago and always wondered where it ended up...A local golf with a racing pedigree... nice ..

[EndlessMKI]

would kill for pics hey.

Loon hook up some pics for the needy bra : ).

[gtimk5]

It was on ABC2 "legends" show the other week. Alan Grice won the race at Sandown in an RX3 followed by 2, 3 litre Capris and then the 1.6 Golf ran 4th!!!!!
We need pics of it, surely someone here can dig some out? I might try google? Cheers!

[aliasmk2]

i have seen the actual whole race on a (optus) pay tv sports channel about 3 years ago
i can remember the comantary giving a lot of praise to the new breed of VW
it is a pity that the mainform of motor sport in this country has sunk to the level of world championship wrestling, by just promoting & protecting 2 substandard manufacturers

[static1800]

pity that the mainform of motor sport in this country has sunk to the level of world championship wrestling, by just promoting & protecting 2 substandard manufacturers

post of the year right there.

It's a shame the production car class the r32's were running in have kinda disapeared, you never see it anymore on tv, It was awesome seeing them leave wrx's and evo's behind

[gtimk5]

it is a pity that the mainform of motor sport in this country has sunk to the level of world championship wrestling, by just promoting & protecting 2 substandard manufacturers[/QUOTE]

And egos too! Well put.

[Golf Loon]

I actually could have had a ride in this Golf last time I was up at Steves place, but it had run out of Petrol!!!

I`ll make the pilgrimage up there with a Camera and some petrol and post em up.

Its a mad car, Swallowtail 76, never road registered, was a race car from new. Has crazy injection system and some mad stress fractures in the body. Looking a bit sad these days, but the glory is still there.

[gtimk5]

Yes, Mullers had it painted up in the "Sprite cola" colours when I saw it. It hit the wall in practice at Bathurst one year very hard and you could see where it had been repaired. It would be great to restore it tos original deep red paintjob. Hillborn mechanical injection gives an induction noise like the racing BMW M3s used to make. Awesome sound, made the hair stand up on the back of my neck!!
And Loon, the slick tyre for a passengers seat isn't all that comfy either!!!

[syncro]

Chris Heyer

I have some photos

[gtimk5]

Thanks for that Syncro. That was the later paint scheme which it ran on the ABC thing the other week. Yellow with red