81 left hand drive mk1 rabbit cabriolet project

[JET20L]

Hey guys I'm new to all this forum stuff but I love watching other ppls cars come together during a build so I thought I would track my progress of the build on here....I recently purchased a 81 rabbit cabriolet fuel injected mk1 all original, imported from the states in 2001 for a movie shoot and then just sat around for years doing nothing. The rabbit is running but needs some TLC, brakes, service etc. the only rust I have spotted so far after pulling it all apart is under the windshield just 2 little bubbles which have already been takin care of...
Plans are gun metal grey respray nice set of rims I'm keeping the interior pretty standard as it is in amazing condition just need to steam clean it all and will come up a treat... 2L turbo is on the cards aswell...will post some photos when I figure out how lol

[JET20L]

[JET20L]

[JET20L]

started pulling it apart for the respray and ive decided to go the standard colour as I wanna keep it as original as possible ..ive ordered the original GTI seat fabric from the uk cause it looks neat in the original pattern

[shramma]

I think a mk1 in United Grey from the mk5s would be well nice! Have seen one online before but it had too much chrome from memory.

what movie was it in??

[JET20L]

Yeah me 2 I think that colour is awsome but if I did a colour change I would want to do it properly and rip all the gut out oft the shell and paint everything ive done that once before and I just dont have the patience to do it again...so ill just keep the original colour as the inside of the car is in pretty good condition in regards to the colour and it was in a movie called Last dance im pretty sure it was an Australian terrorist movie ive downloaded it but am yet to watch it...

[JET20L]

Does anyone have a spare left hand fender I could buy as my one has some damage and I wanna try and stay away from bog on this car....sydney area would be good

[JET20L]

Did some more stripping on the mk1 on the weekend getting ready sandblasting...still no rust pretty happy with that


Sorry bout the bad photos I will take some better ones outside in the next few days

[EwenHayton]

Did u fond out what movie it was used on?

[EwenHayton]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUeYcMh_6T4&feature=youtube_gdata

[EwenHayton]

Moa's last dancer was the film

[JET20L]

Yeah that could be it but that was filmed in the states ive got paper work from the rta saying that it was driven on the streets of sydney as a movie prop lol not sure anyway thats pretty cool thanks for clip ill look it up

[JET20L]

Yeah thats it mate lol I just checked it out

[JET20L]

Havnt really done much to the mk1 in a while apart from strip it...I waz doing some research today as I have minimal paper work on this car and found out that its a 1.7l built in Wolfsburg germany but im gonna do a engine # check aswell to make sure. .pretty excited to get this thing on the road so im gonna get into it over the next month and get a whole lot done...anyone have any advice on what break set up would be good at a decent price?

[JET20L]