Gunter Golf,not posing!

[gtimk5]

Just a couple more shoys of my now retired twincam Golf. Did every type of motorsport with him apart from targa. Heaps of trophies, heaps of good placings with him, stacks of class wins. Surprised lots of competitors, sometimes myself. Only 3 DNFs in six and a half years. One wasn't mechanical, T boned a Lucalier at Symmons. One was a snapped exhaust cam in Rallye of Burnie. Std 1.8 TC, lightened flywheel, last year was 2 litre TC. GTI brakes. Bilsteins, Kings micro springs, early GTI brakes with rear discs. NO rocket science!!!




Got stacks more photos if anyone wants me to post more

[worm]

I would love to see more... your golf is like the daddy to my golf ... one day it will grow up to be just like him

[16valvertwin45s]

Great pics would love to see more.
Love the second photo Golfwagon in classic pose with inside rear wheel lifted.

[gtimk5]

A few more for you. Got 100s of piccies. You want wheel lifting, check this out. Used to worry the blokes behind when the wheel would stop spinning! Since tightened the suspension for racing. Had the sealed rally springs in it when the first photo was taken. Enjoy!

[delux]

Ya bloody show off!!!!
Sweet pics mate. Love the one in the dirt.

[worm]

Im so jelous.... I want to race so bad!..... The cheapest form of motorsport I could think of was track days.... took me ages to think of what car to get.... I reckon a mk1 golf with 16v is awsome value for money.... spend 5G would have u some well wicked lap times

[82cab]

i think i've seen a pic of this car with its back wheels half in a ditch and it havd that semi locker diff set-up in it that dragged it out.
could be wrong though

[gtimk5]

Hey! Its easy to keep the costs to a minimum to start with. You've got learn to crawl B4 you walk. I started with an old passat motor and probably enjoyed myself the most before I spent bigger money. I enjoyed the road rallies & hillclimbs the most. All of the winging and talk at circuit races turned me off, plus it cost a fortune to race with licences and suits ect. I finished 3rd in one race and they put me on the second last spot of the grid in the next! Thats in a 22 car grid! Politics, I spose.
Glad I did it but would luv to do Targa. Gunter is sitting in my shed at the moment covered in birdsh.t.
And yes, you probably saw these photos! Navigator was Ben who owns the beige lowrider Golf in the Buckland drive photos

[82cab]

your heart must of been pumping on that corner.
I don't think you could of cut it any finer without it looking like a turtle on its back.
Nice shots

[gtimk5]

There was a Healy already off on that corner and you can see his OK sign in the first photo that was against the guidepost. Another 2 cars went off on that corner after us. They werent so lucky. It was 25 kms into a 26Kms stage and we were flying. Past 6 badly pranged cars before that, o ne was an upside down evo6. All I said to Ben in the intercom when I realised we were buggered was, Nuh! He looked up from his notes and held his breath! Always go in co/drivers side first!!!
We still finished that event, Rally Tas 8th outright. Took 3 guide posts on that corner. Won class too. Check out the minimal damage, Replaced the guard 3 days later and did supersprints the following weekend. And no, back then I didn't have a diff.

[Valver.]

Always go in co/drivers side first!!!

That's the way

[16valvertwin45s]

Did you drive the mk1 to events or trailer it?
wot about insurance wots that gonna cost?

[gtimk5]

I always drove to events. I had full insurance with Shannons and because I am well over 25, (and almost over the hill) it cost less than $400 per year.
Golfwise had to tow me home once from Symmons Plains after I T,boned a spinning car at the end of the sweeper. Winter, no headlights left, front shoved across. Golfwise towed with TassieGTI's Mk4 while Micheal kept me company on the 200km tow home. Was an extremely reliable hard revving car.

[Golf Loon]

Nice pics. I`m so gonna do Targa one year. i was there a week late this year. Surely a 76-83 Golf would be pretty competitive in that age and category still?

[gtimk5]

Yeah Loon but they have tightened up on the regs. Because the only Mk1 golfs with twincams were done by Okrasa, not VW, then you cannot use a twincam motor anymore without being protested against and being ruled out of the competition. There was a couple of mainlanders out to get us put out in Rallye of Burnie last year if we had beaten them. We snapped the exhaust cam in half 4kms into the first competitive stage so there was nothing done. These guys had contacted VW in Germany to find out when the twincam golfs started and were serious! So I have now sold the TC and Gunter awaits further developements.
A Golf would be super competitive in Targa, for sure. When I watch each year, some of the faster, older cars,look bloody quick but then I didnt have any problems in beating them in the 2 Rally Tasmanias that I did.
By the way, after snapping the cam I still managed to drive 350Kms home. Put another cam in it Monday & he was back to being my businesses parts pickup car. Got third in a large hillclimb down here the following weekend! Beat the GT2s ect!!