my mk1 coupe

this is a bit of a saga so the telling will take some telling..........and sorry if anyone out there is still on 56k

very sorry

basically it all started a dozen or so years ago,i came across this in a friends back garden as he was building it for his daughter after finding it in an old persons drive and i eventually bought it when his daughter professed no wish to drive about in a burgundy jehtuhhhhhh and took it back to my mates and started the first incarnation
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basically as you see its missing trim windows and style, its also missing any!!!!!!!!wiring steering column(partway through a left to right conversion)the rear right strut hence the violent sag,no engine no brakes no front seats,carpet,headlining

converted it to right hand drivechucked on some -50mm springs some bmw bbs' and some paint that included doors,bonnet,front panel,boot,ds wing. Also gave it some dodgy 'period'accesories like tinted rear lights,bad boy spoiler and tinted indicators

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this towbar actually saved the whole project on the first transport home when the rear 'strut'nee bit of scaffolding tube fell out when being towed
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also dont know if you noticed but i modified some golf bumpers to fit and some tweaked plastic arches the mirrors had been moved forward to the fronts off the door it got delocked detrimmed along the sides de-wipered and a louvre fitted in the leading edge of the bonnet

then i bought a mk2 16v jetta which had a rather tuned engine by a company called AMD with head cams lightened and balanced and a dyno print for 174.5 bhp which duly got fitted along with rear discs

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then it got kinda forgotten about as i went away to work and got kinda lost with the project and it got towed to my brothers back garden till i kinda resurrected it for the third time and started working on it again

helping me but not himself was my cousin with a bit of bad luck

recognise the wheels?i furbed them up after i had them on in the pics above and had them on one of my mk2 jettas before passing them to my cousin

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bad side
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and this after we had spent a fortnight valverising it.......ouch

but it gave me bits i needed and also desired
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i also blagged his early clip-less seatbelts and his bonnet for a damn good price

got stuck into replacing the metering head which i had also blagged
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much better nick than the old
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all due to the rather badly planned vent doh

replaced the 'modified@ airbox
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and the first of the sets of wheels for it,set of 15" pirellis i got polished up
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set of 5 which still reside in my spare room with 3 new brothers but more of them later

then i found a set of clear front indicators which id searched continents for
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and more new wheels
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which duly made it on
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then back into the garage
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better pictures
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now your maybe thinking it looks not to bad so ill let you hang on to these images before i enter stage fore(and i mean fooooooooooorrrreeeeeee)

i love it i love it i love it

love it big time

de wipering that a good idea in this country

the bottom whels look very nice indeed are they zenders?

theyre of a clio 16v and are mostly called clio turbines

this was just a five min mission by the way while i was in my mums,ill try and get a whack more pics up on tuesday

Man the car really is lookin very nice its not every day you see a mk1 looking that good I want to see more

you may not like what ive done if you think it looked good lol,got a bit carried away

swapped the suspension and wheels over from my mk1 golf
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did i mention i hate wiring
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went to international and picked up some stuff,some off which will get used and some i getting stolen for my golf

16v conversion manifold now bound for the golf
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some track tyres for both cars,theyll go on the turbines
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opening green tint quarter windows
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back quarter spats
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also picked up mk4 rear callipers and 285 mm drilled and vented black diamonds for the front but ive not got pics off them

whilst stripping the jetta i noticed the bumper frames were flaking their original coating so got them stripped balsted and powdercoated
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then came a fun bit,i got a spare bumper skin with the golf so i had a play
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then carried on with the stripping
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last pic was where i started cleaning up the engine while i was on a break

and more pics i just found hidden in a sub album before the big strip down with the turbines with bridgestone potenza 165/50x15s
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