another mk1 story

[cdogg]

I bought this mk1 gls over the weekend and had it delivered tuesday.
The rhr wheel arch is/was a bit hammered but with a little help form my best mates we managed to knock it into some sort of shape.










the plan at the moment is to do enough to get it registered and then later on do a decent resto.

[Water Boy]

Dodgy panel beater.

You still need that beam? Also when are we guna go crusing in the truck?

[cdogg]

hahaha
yeah still need a beam, you got one?

[MeeM]

Now I know which panel beater to avoid jks!

Lovely colour.

[Jarred]

woah, your youngest is a splitting image of you!!

Will be good to see what you end up doing with this, defiantly a great base to start with!

good work on the panel beating too!

[Preen59]

Nice work, mate.

Good to see another Mk1 being fixed up and not scrapped.

[Spyda]

I used to own that car. I talked to the previous owner at SEDF about the accident, it sounded a lot worse than it looks. Wasn't a bad car, good to see its getting back on the road.

[cdogg]

the wheel arch is the easy part, the sill is a bit nasty. from what i can tell the wheel was hit from behind and pushed into the sill.
i will bang up some more pics later

[cdogg]

a little more progress on the golf
i pulled out the rear suspension beam

and it's stuffed


and so is where it mounts to the body


yeah... this should be a bit fun to fix
as will the sill panel

[Jarred]

nasty looking.

I'm sure you'll be right though!

btw, I think I've got those two side trims if you're missing them..

[GeorgeMK1]

Beautiful !! Why pay money for someone to fix it when you can do a bit of DIY work aye ?

Good work mate, its great that its being fixed. Did the same with mine, and it was well worth it !

[cdogg]

some good news...
if you look at the photo with the youngest kid in it, you will notice around the fuel filler is all sucked in.
well i removed the screws that go through the qtr panel into the filler neck and hooray the panel came out nice and flat. the wheel has hit the fuel neck and pushed it towards the centre of the car hence this result...
happy!

[cdogg]

got a rear beam off peter jones, thanks pete. i have pulled it all to bits in preparation for painting then rebuild.
i also knocked out the mounting point on the chassis rail, still needs some dressing up but looking the goods.
pics later

[mikinoz]

Good on you for giving this a crack - I will subscribe to see how it comes off!

[Peter Jones]

Happy to help.

This is the car the beam came out of.



Sing out if you need anything else.

Pete