my `76 GOLF 3dr

[Jarred]

hi all!
I've finally gotten around to taking some pics of my golf! as you will see, the interior is half stripped and the new suspension and wheels from golfworx are on and have settled down a bit. looks pretty good, and as this is (or will be) my daily, i think the ride height is good enough for now. the interior is alf stripped atm cause im retriming the seats which as it turns out is quite.. fun... haha its a slow process, but i want to do it right so, slow it is! happily the car is really rust free to a mk 1 which is really good but the paint will need a good cut and polish, or maybe a respray in the future, and there's a little bit of panel beating that needs to be taken car of, but nothing major!

i should be getting chrome mk 1 mirrors in the mail anytime soon from XX1.8T and the other day i also got a passat carby (from golfworx) and a new alternator and TS manifold and a few heads and other things from ausgolfer, thanks fellas!
and thanks golfman whose also helping me with alot of this build.

pics: (hopefully)

[Antdragonist]

lookin good mate, cant wait to see what you do to her
an the best part - that visor!
dub on!

[Oneofthegreats]

Nice work Jarred.

Both you bloke's aren't stuffing around. Something must have rubbed off when you were down my way.

I'll have to charge you for that next time your down

Starting to all come together & looking good.

"I love it when a plan comes together"

[static1800]

keep that sun visor! it looks hot!





no, seriously.

[Water Boy]

Hey looking good mate...

Be ace when she's got all the bits n pieces on her...

Cant wait for the next update and pics...

James

[phaeton]

^Me too

Good work Jarred

[Jarred]

just a quick update:
the seat re-trimming is going to take so long to do, just cause uni's started again, so free time is rare-ish, but wat I've don looks pretty good so far.

should be getting chrome mirrors tomorrow, they'll go on pretty quick I'd imagine and,

got an abrasive sanding disc and some kill rust, so now I can attack the very little bit of surface rust on the inner gaurds and a few smalls spots on the body too maybe then hopefully a cut and polish sometime soon.. maybe.. if i have anyspare time...

[GoLfMan]

ohh dont i know this feeling all to well... we have plenty of time on monddays thrusdays and fridays buddy

[GoLfMan]

This is good stuff mate, glad she went to someone who has some time and money to put into it!

Want these photos of the spring less ness though !

its on my phone, it was ghetto low, completly on its guts

[Jarred]

hurry up and put that photo on your comp already.. it's going to be my disp. pic i think

[Jarred]

finished retrimming half of the back seat, will post pics soon

[Water Boy]

I think we are due for an update Jarred... Some more pics to please...

Cheers James

[Jarred]

i took some pics of the centre consol but then the camera died.. my uni break is this week, so hopefully I'll get some photos up soon!

[Water Boy]

How those pics going...

[Jarred]

ah-ha!

ah-ha indeed. Holidays have come, and so therefore will the updates. I got into the holiday mood today by poping down to homie hardware to pick up some bog s/paper and primer. and naturally I've already started by boggin up the ding in the tailgate and primer'd that all of an hour ago. And no there aren't any fotos, for now at least. *mental note to charge the camera batteries tonite*

Today was a bad day to start boggin for the first time, as the high temps (around 30 degs) meant that the bog would set in about 10-15 mins and stop being plyable after about 3. Never the less good fun, and I think it came out well. Also did a small patch on the lower section of my R/h front gaurd.

Tomorrow and the next few days I'll start fixing up so other small dings here the and what not; attack the rust on mah door and sill.. hopefully on surface on the sill. door may be worse; have a proper crack at fixing my throtle cable issues for my new webber (props to stu for that).

Also the slight problem of having no exhaust or airfilter means that I can't tune the carb properly (not that I could if I had these but I'd try) It does sound awesum with out the exhaust though, even if it's a tad loud.

Will also look at getting some cutting compound or a T-cut onto mah paint to get all the old dead paint off. Will also need to get the bonnet off to attack all the rust underneath, and get it looking clean. Will I need a special heat proof paint under the bonnet? I think I will, but I'm not sure.

That's basically where I'm at for the moment. Pics will come tommoro or wednesday. Hope you can hold on that long.

and It won't be ready for DOVW unless I get an exhaust by then. Then I may be able to, just maybe. Actually with less than 1 week, it's just not going to happen I thinks.