We can rebuild it. 91 Golf

[Shepherd]

Any updates on this one?

[Tubaman]

Dang this car has come along way from when you got it...It must suck living in a place that has sooo many rust issues. My B3 is rust free lol. Guess thats one advantage of living in Florida.

[244Brick]

good work man, looks 1000000x better already

[renngolf]

Glad to see this still going forward! Good work so far!

Thanks dude.

Subd!

Just read the whole thread bud !! Cant believe how bloody far its come and hoooooow much rust there was haha. Im in the exact same boat with my mk1 so i know how much time you've spent on it !! Awesome work. Mind me asking whats the best primer coating to use as rust protecting??

Thanks George, saw the build thread just recently. Great work so far on bringing that bunny back. If its bare metal any decent auto epoxy primer will work good, if you want to encapsulate pitted rust etc, remove as much as you can manually then go over it with something like rust bullet etc imo.


Small update on the hatch, still working on it since I ran into some other stuff when taking off the plate light lenses.

Just read the whole thread bud !! Cant believe how bloody far its come and hoooooow much rust there was haha. Im in the exact same boat with my mk1 so i know how much time you've spent on it !! Awesome work. Mind me asking whats the best primer coating to use as rust protecting??

[Rubens]

Subd!

[99sil-teg]

Glad to see this still going forward! Good work so far!

[renngolf]

Just ran through this thread and I'm Highly Impressed! I wanna see what's going on with those BBS wheels. Lovin the work!

Thanks dude. Planning on refinishing the BBS' at some point in the future but at the same time part of me wants to pick up a decent looking one piece wheel that will suit the car and be a little different than the common choices for mk2's.




Dicked around in the garage a bit today. I didn't feel like waiting for vw to order in bolts, checked a few places for thicker washers or other flange bolts, no luck. so I just made some flanges out of some stock for the rear beam brackets.



Got started on the hatch today as well. Was glad to use one piece to get it done with the two bends and the sweep in the corner. Will look a lot better smoothed out.

[Chuckdee]

Just ran through this thread and I'm Highly Impressed! I wanna see what's going on with those BBS wheels. Lovin the work!

[P78]

i have

been following this since day one

[renngolf]

lol others would get a somewhat ok replacemant hatch

keep it up man, still subbed to this

Haha you should see the original one.
I should grab a pic of it once I remove the glass and toss the hatch out.

[P78]

lol others would get a somewhat ok replacemant hatch

keep it up man, still subbed to this

[renngolf]

Did a bunch of wetsanding today. Its slowly coming together. Decided to take a break from all of that and have a look at the replacement hatch I picked up a while back.

If you've ever wondered how to take the rear or side windows out of a golf. Pry the seal away from the lip on the inside with your hand and then use your foot to apply pressure to a corner, once it pops out the rest comes out easy. Took the glass out and lip is in pretty good shape except for the bottom left corner. Couple other misc rust spots but overall im pretty happy with its condition. Planning to delete the wiper and spray nozzle as well tomorrow so should have more updates.

[CHIF8008]

beautiful work man

[renngolf]

Bay looks tasty

I had to throw in some contrast in the engine bay. Black Gooold.

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Hey dude, I live in Oakville (Highway 5 and Trafalgar) byt the Walmart/Superstore. Great work so far, and with this great weather we are getting, no excuses GET ON THIS!!! LOL

Not far at all, good to see other local enthusiasts. Weather is amazing, the problem is I work in Sarnia and do a little bit on the weekends or if I get some time off. I think I might take some vacation time to get some work done.

this build is f**king awesome!

Thanks man, looking forward to seeing more of the ef.

Dude WOW! You have some MAAAAD restorations skills.
Thumbs up for dragging that car out of the kingdom of rust!

haha thanks, its been a good learning experience. Im not taking the project too seriously at this point. It's not going to be a show stopper but I think it will be reliable low daily that's fun to drive at the same time.

this thing is going to be killer nice

lol at this point im going for presentable.

wow !! the titanic has less rust than this build .. but this is a true project ! hats off to u mate for doin wot uv done ! iv been building mine for the last 18month but once u see it start to unfold ul just keep goin & goin .... really looking forward to some more !!!

mine was an old barn find too but i turned her round

Id say. That is an awesome example of a well sorted Mk2, really nice.
I wish more people put some more time and effort into saving these older cars.

excellent does not even begin to describe this work

Much appreciated. Hope to have something new soon. Need to order some parts for the rear beam. I wish I was at the point of bolting stuff back on.