New car!

[Teq]

Yesterday, after yearning for a golf of my own for a long time, i finally picked one up as my first car

Its a red 97 GL, with a little over 170k on the clock

Sorry to dissapoint, but no pictures yet, hopefully this afternoon when i get home

[Stephy]

Nice! Can't wait for pictures!

[TazzyVR6]

Mk3s make for good solid first cars! Mine was

[DubSteve]

Congratulations on the purchase mk3s a still a awesome car. Take some pics and post them up, any mods planned for the future?

[Teq]

Here's a few pics i snapped when i got home this afternoon before it got too dark

enjoy

[xrayshaggy]

Nice.
Awesome safe car for a first timer, that is cool at the same time!
Best bit has to be having so much potential to work on it yourself in the future (if that's what you want)!

[thestu]

nice rig mate!!!

[coops]

congrats mate, welcome to the mk3 club, and from the gold caost aswell, i am from carrara on the gc, i will prob cya round somewhere, nice car, very clean

[Lorenz]

Great first car and that is one hell of a clean MK3, nice find!

Any plans to mod it?

[Teq]

Best bit has to be having so much potential to work on it yourself in the future (if that's what you want)!

Id love to learn to do a bit of work on it myself, so I'll start shopping around for a good manual (I gather the Bentley ones are the best?)

Any plans to mod it?

Got loads of plans, although they'll probably happen slowly, as I'm a (relatively) poor uni student, and I'd like to make sure iv got enough to keep it running before i put cash into its looks etc.

list as it is now:

black dummies
wooden roof rack basket
debadge
joey-mod headlights
mk4 or other shift knob
coilovers
wheels
exhaust
tint
badgeless grill

other things I've got to take care of are:

a small spot of rust under the black strip on the roof,
brakes need replacing in the next few months
clutch action is very heavy / creaky across the midpoint, so possibly will need a new clutch cable?

[rayray086]

Looks clean! Congrats on the purchase.

[jettapilot]

After making a few enquiries here I chose the mk3 as my girl's first car, too.

I love the red!!!

And the little alloys. Ours is earlier and has steelies.