Ratty Mk1 Golf

[RatJack]

cant wait to see new wheels

Me either mate! A lot of people are telling me I should put white walls/flappers on my steelies but I'm more keen on my meshies haha

[RatJack]

(apologies if the pics aren't great quality)
So this has happened over the weekend...

I finally finished cutting my roof racks down and added wooden slats


And then a good friend of mine from Team floG Motorsport helped replace my passenger driveshaft which had the blown CV joint on it. As well as replacing that, we changed my bonnet, now baby blue and not flat grey, added the eyelid piece, changed a cracked headlight, replaced exhaust rubbers, wound the front coils down to match the rears and I started addding woodgrain vinyl accents in the dash


Stay tuned!

[Nick475]

cant wait to see new wheels

[RatJack]

Blew a CV joint today ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff fffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff

[RatJack]

you could have at least vacuumed before that inside pic

and they did clean up nicely

Meh, ratty Golf is ratty. Haha

Cheers, gonna get them acid dipped after I get my tax back, there are places my sandpaper just can't get to

[P78]

you could have at least vacuumed before that inside pic

and they did clean up nicely

[RatJack]

Have some more photos

Here's the gearstick I made, ~400mm long with a proper 8 ball atop.

Why? Because fuck you and I like it ☺

My shitty rims after I put some elbow grease into them. Starting to look kinda okay I guess.....

[RatJack]

OH :/ thought you were saying springs all fancy like. Yes

[P78]

springlespranles => click

[RatJack]

The only way to go！

All question marks man :|

you need better springlesprangles

I know, I was sent the wrong coilovers from veedubmachine in the UK otherwise she'd be sacked

[P78]

you need better springlesprangles

[RatJack]

Test fitted my poorly sized badly offset meshies today, needs moar low etc

[RatJack]

Scored myself some free shit

Caught up with a bloke in Adelaide who's owned around 12 Mk1s, who's building a crazy Mk1 racecar, along with owning a beat-up ratty Mk1 that he takes to shows. Got a bit for under the steering column to tidy up my wiring, along with one of these eyelid things:

mine will be flat black to match the grille. He also has like 10 sets of side trims so a set will be gracing my Golf soon


Off topic, this is my mate's VP Calais. Family owned from new, tidy as sin, low with flappers and polished factory alloys. Thought you guys might enjoy this randomly found the photo in my Photobucket album

[RatJack]

needs more low to be worthy of that windshield sticker.

I know, but I live in a rural town with both shitty corrugated dirt roads and and even worse bitumen roads, that practicality needs to be an option for my daily (read: 30min driving on shitty country roads to go anywhere)

Looks promising. I'm not a fan of the grey hood, but I love the remaining patina.

don't really like the hood painted love the old vw wheels. In for more progress.

i'd keep the meshies as they are, those gold insert will work fine with your white

also, take off the hood, and pls DO NOT add rusty panels

yah dont paint the meshies they look perfect as is

Bonnet is 1000% better than the shitty spotty rust spots that were on it, but will be doing something with it shortly. (For you Yanks) here in Australia the police are fucking brutal when it comes to roadworthiness and modification so the less dodgy my car looks to Mr Policeman the longer I have it on the road (ﾉ◕ω◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧

As for the wheels, I'm halfhearted either way. They look scruffy as hell in the flesh even with a clean but painting them means effort. Ehhhh

[Stupid Kid]

yah dont paint the meshies they look perfect as is