Mk2 2dr Project Car (1.8t swap)

[Weeman]

Update: 04/02/2023

Haven't given up but boy its hard to finish this thing off. Bonnet, roof and passenger side all sanded, cut and polished. Trying to sand the 2k clear really gets the arms pumping, especially starting at 1200 grit and working upto 2500.

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[Weeman]

Update: 05/02/2023

Andddddd... the car is now done! Got some rub throughs around drivers door which was a bit of a bummer but its over. Have to stick the badges on immediately of course... [emoji2956]

[sports racer]

Respect

Now you have to keep it, don't sell even though their value has shot through the roof.

[Weeman]

Respect

Now you have to keep it, don't sell even though their value has shot through the roof.

Crazy hey! Funny how it said that the sensible people stopped bidding around 45k haha and then the two guys bid it up to 87k... does it make them enthusiasts or idiots.. or both lol

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[Weeman]

Update: 10/02/2023

Fixed the rain gutter trims tonight by gluing brand new soft rubber to the original hard plastic bodies. Can't say I was overly impressed with gluing the $350 worth of rubber I had to buy from the US as a repair kit as the profile didn't really seat very well to the hard rubber. Bit stupid tbh, but we all know that trying to find new or even good condition used gutter trims is next to impossible. They look ok in the end, would much rather the whole thing just be brand new.

Added a few extra pics of some other parts slowly getting put back on Quite exciting!

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[sports racer]

Try sourcing your parts from China.

Up until a couple of years ago their taxi fleet were MK2 Jettas. Literally thousands of them in China, all needing parts.

Cheers

Paul

[Weeman]

Try sourcing your parts from China.

Up until a couple of years ago their taxi fleet were MK2 Jettas. Literally thousands of them in China, all needing parts.

Cheers

Paul

Gave that a shot, unfortunately no good for rain gutter trims. bit of a scarce item which is a pain.

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[Weeman]

Update: 25/02/2023

Rear window in, as well as a bunch of other rubbers. Still got the OzEdition sticker on the rear window! Slightly peeled but in pretty good condition, used to be a small following of VW enthusiasts in Tassie I believe? Hopefully someone knows a bit of its history!!

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[sports racer]

Got to keep the sticker.

A piece of history.

That's why I still have the old VW Watercooled sticker.



Cheers

Paul

[Water Boy]

OZEdtion was a tassie group of guys.
They are still around but i dont think many of them own VWs now!

[Weeman]

Update: 28/05/2023

Long time again, no golf. Life got a bit complicated so haven't been near the golf but I'm back. Rear windows in, slowly getting closer now... hopefully a bit more work over the coming weeks

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[Water Boy]

Keep up the good work.
Im sure the shed gets pretty cold in Tassie over Winter

[sports racer]

Lucky to have a shed.

I have to work on open icy ground.

In my underwear.

With sheep stealing my 10mm sockets.

Sleeping in a cardboard box in the middle of the street.

I have to get up in the morning at night at half-past-ten at night, half an hour before I went to bed, Eat a lump of freezing cold poison, work 28 hours a day on my MK1, and pay my wife to let me work. And when I went home our dad used to murder us in cold blood, each night, and dance about on our graves, singing hallelujah.

(With apologies to Monty Python)

[vwmk2]

Looking very good and well done on saving it. I often wish I still owned it.

[Weeman]

Looking very good and well done on saving it. I often wish I still owned it.

Hey mate thanks, you got any pictures from when you owned it? Would love to see it before I got my hands to it.

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