11/78 mk1 gls

[Jace]

So this is it.
My new soon-to-be daily/long term project.

MK1's have appealed to me for a while, because they just seem like such simple cars. I made a massive mistake and bought a VR6 before this, but that's another story.
I told myself that water-cooled VAG was crap, and that I'd never own anything that falls into that category again...

I think I've made a good decision.

1979 MK1 GLS
Mexico Beige
117,000k's
Poor body repairs
Nan looked after the interior
Totally original and honest
Haven't lifted the carpets yet, but I sorta have high hopes!
Service history until about 100,000k's












...but it's what's on the inside that counts, right?

















It's zippy, compared to my current daily, which can be seen in the background of a few pics.

As for plans, this car will be a daily.
That said, it'll be slammed eventually, tuckin', more visually appealing, more cosy inside...

To be a little more specific:



Spot the spelling mistake.
For you guys on low res. screens, the major ones are:

*Stance - Fatten
*Get RWC/Rego

$950 netted me this and a fair few useful spares, which I'm pretty stoked on. Best money I've spent on a car so far!

Really looking forward to meeting up with the Melbourne guys, and the interstate guys too. Tim (golfworx) has had a good look at the car and gave me the ins and outs of MK1's in general, which I really appreciate.
Pretty excited about this!

- Jace.

[WABIT]

WOW..... JUST ......... WOW!

body stuff can be repaired, but interior bits are very hard to find, especially when most of them have a fade pattern that doesn't match the rest of your interior, so its good you have a mint interior

also be sure to take in everything golfworx tells you about mk1's or vw's in general.... top bloke and an absolute freak when it comes to this sh*t!

nice Mercedes too BTW

dom

[mikinoz]

I rate that interior. Nice find.

[captainvw]

Think that is my fav colour combo on a mach1... very cool

[Jace]

Thanks guys.

Dom, Tim went over just about everything and told me what's what. Felt smarter after having spoken to him.

One of my spray painter mates was wasted last night, and told me we could respray it soon. I'm going to hold him to that!

[GoLfMan]

top find!!!

that interior is just mint, hard to find like that these days!

looking forward to another mk1 getting restoed

[Henri]

Interior looks amazing. I hope for your sake that the floor pans have minimal rust!

[Geoffrey Hale]

Hi. .... Looks great. The Dash looks like it's in excellent condition. I think that's a good sign. If all the window rubbers are good you might assume it's spent a fair bit of it's life garaged which should mean that rust is minium. Enjoy
Cheers .... Geoff

[GeorgeMK1]

Must agree with everyone, great interior!!!. I doubt you'd have any rust at the floor pans, just look at that interior. If all goes well, we should have another up n running little golf.

George

[Jarred]

what a rubbish interior.

no really, that interior is great and the rest of the car looks pretty schmick too! great pick up and welcome to the mk 1 world!

and listen to Tim! He knows' his stuff!

[dubai gti]

That interior is the ants-pants for originality...top find !!

BTW, love the Merc. also....W108 Mercs. have always been my favourites , having owned a couple in the past (280SE 3.5's)

[Jace]

Thanks a lot guys.
I'm pretty damn happy with it.

I feel like this car makes up for a lot of mistakes with respect to cars. Buying bad ones, selling awesome ones and regretting it, etc.

Going to get to work on the easy stuff tomorrow.

[Jace]

Turns out I'm the least motivated person ever.
I've done a few little things to the car, but nothing that needs to be done.





The car is hard-parked at my parents place. After work I usually go over there, look at the car, take it for a quick/stealthy spin just for the sake of it, then park it, without really advancing towards roadworthiness at all.

(Keep in mind I haven't even washed or polished the car yet)
I put the straight(er) rear bumper on, only to notice that the rear end is very slightly pushed inwards. I pulled off the rear garnish just after I bought the car (holes will be welded up... eventually)



There was a pretty ugly dent where the number plate would have been screwed on, so I straightened that out to the best of my abilities.


Repainted all the door handles and gave the chrome trim bits a quick polish.



Got some seat covers that my Nan approves of. Such a good match to the interior colours!



Something I picked up at Jamboree, then modified a little bit.



Got a new fuel cap and a hatch strut.



Found that I have a co-driver/navigator.


The resting place:



Found that I need to replace some exhaust gaskets at the manifold. Might be a good time to remove the emission reduction stuff too (if I can work out what's what)
I also got a wheel alignment done by a mate.
Tried to make a grommet for the most obvious shift linkage at the back of the engine bay, and failed. Felt a fair bit better before it dropped out.
I'll get a repair kit for that soon too hopefully... if my finances pick up and I find some motivation.

So there you have an update.
I want to have this thing going before winter. Once I've sold my VR6 I will hopefully get rego and maybe a present for the car (x4 )

[JoshFair]

hahaha i also have a co-pilot in my golf.... somewhere.. we've crossed paths once or twice.. and i tried to bash it to pieces.. they are flippin quick though, so i've gotta keep eyes in the back of my head

[Jace]

I'll probably **** myself when I'm driving and it crawls across my face.
It's just a baby now, by the time my car's on the road it'll probably look like Aragog.