'90 Mk2 VR6 Golf Smooth Bay Never Ending Project

[JoeMallett]

Quick note to say that not much has happened, but I will get some up to date photos up tomorrow and hopefully I will start to get some more regular updates for y'all soon.
Been restoring a Mk1 Caddy for someone, as well as just starting on a Mini. Haven't put any time into my car, but I am trying to push on with it now.

[PassionGarage]

woo keeeeeen !!

[JoeMallett]

Seen that I need to sort out some of the now missing photos from earlier on in the thread, ill get to that soon.

Rightyho, quite a lot has been going on since my last proper update, unfortunately not much related to the Mk2...

Been through a couple of dailys since the Skoda now haha (most reliable/boring car I've ever owned).
I was given an Audi A3 1.8t as a christmas bonus from work! absolute heap but great fun!



I then managed to get a sweet opportunity and grab this beauty for a bargain!

IMG_7325 by Joe Mallett, on Flickr

IMG_7322 by Joe Mallett, on Flickr

IMG_7318 by Joe Mallett, on Flickr

'93 GL currently with 30k on the clock. Its super super clean apart from the arches.
Hopefully I shall get these on at some point too

IMG_7346 by Joe Mallett, on Flickr



I'll probably end up with a build thread for this at some point in the near future.

Right, this is partly what has been holding me up with the Mk2 progress...

IMG_7336 by Joe Mallett, on Flickr



Full restoration on a Mk1 Caddy with partially smoothed bay, wider arches and a few other little bits. As well and a full resto on a Mini Black. Once these are out the way things should get much more productive for my cars.

Since the last update on the Mk2 I have done a bit... I checked the compression and things on the ABF and everything seems all good, so I managed to rip that out of the car and start stripping everything down with a plan to mostly rebuild it and add a few upgrades. Here's how it stands at the moment.

IMG_7348 by Joe Mallett, on Flickr

IMG_7349 by Joe Mallett, on Flickr

Hopefully I should have some more updates in the following weeks.

[Mehowski]

Defo interested in a thread for that MK3

[JoeMallett]

Cool man, thanks. Won't be going mad with it I don't expect. Want to replace wings and fix the rear arches, then probably just get everything really clean and keep it as a super well looked after daily. (I expect I will probably go overboard though. Im terrible.)

[JoeMallett]

Maybe Vento front it... (getting carried away already)

[JoeMallett]

Annoyingly I can't work out what half of the photos I have posted are, but it looks like they were all iPhone photos so aren't that important hopefully.