My first car - 1983 Mk1 Golf

[Mk1Sam]

I managed to get my hands on a 1:18th scale Mk1 model, with gold bbs wheels on, which i paid a small fortune for as i just had to have it!



My baby also had a photoshoot with a photographer! What a treat!
Awesome guy with some great work! Lovely that he wanted to take pictures of my Mk1 when he is normally out in Dubai taking photos of supercars!

https://www.facebook.com/RobJPhotography?fref=ts

Golf by Robert James Automotive Photography, on Flickr


Golf by Robert James Automotive Photography, on Flickr


HDR 3 by Robert James Automotive Photography, on Flickr


Underground by Robert James Automotive Photography, on Flickr


Seeing Double! by Robert James Automotive Photography, on Flickr


Kissing by Robert James Automotive Photography, on Flickr

[Mk1Sam]

Recently, i managed to get the cam belt, waterpump, alternator belt, thermostat, points, condensor, plugs and rocker cover gasket changed!

She runs cooler now, and i no longer leak... out of the engine anyway!.







The heatplate has previously been painted in ordinary paint by the Muppet who owned the car before me! And when it was heated for the first time, the paint bubbled! I have another one, but i have not got round it fitting it yet as the spare engine is at the back of the shed!

[Mk1Sam]

Ive recently been thinking about changing the rear lights for an all red set! I am still undecided!
Also, i am already thinking about what i can do to her over this years winter!
I was thinking a Vr6 supercharged conversion... but having thinking carefully, i have decided it would be too much of a crime to take this original engine out as there are under 200 left in the UK with this engine in... and im sure plenty have had engine swaps and not been declared on the log books!
I have been thinking about rebuilding the 1.1, and polishing everything i can, and possibly having it smoothed in the way of no cables etc on show, but still looking original!
Just ideas that im playing with in my head, nothing is going to be decided for a while i think!

[Wyatt Lay]

Looks so good. Was skeptical (title), turned out to be really cool.

[mk1poloboy]

only just realised i saw your Golf at GTI inters! i won best Polo, keep the 1.1 they sound so good


DSC_0086 by lukeherbert1, on Flickr


DSC_0085 by lukeherbert1, on Flickr

[Mk1Sam]

Looks so good. Was skeptical (title), turned out to be really cool.

Haha cheers mate. Im guessing you were expecting chopped springs and everything sprayed matt black and colour coded lol.

only just realised i saw your Golf at GTI inters! i won best Polo, keep the 1.1 they sound so good


DSC_0086 by lukeherbert1, on Flickr


DSC_0085 by lukeherbert1, on Flickr

No way! Cheers dude! Which one is your polo? Piccy please!
I gonna keep the 1.1 in this one... then when i can afford to run a 3rd car, ill get myself another Mk1, and do the Vr conversion.

[mk1poloboy]

this one


DSC_8848 by lukeherbert1, on Flickr

[kittenpuncher]

all you are missing is a front valence looks amazing.

[Mk1Sam]

this one


DSC_8848 by lukeherbert1, on Flickr

Matey thats clean as! You've done an awesome job on it!

all you are missing is a front valence looks amazing.

Front valence? Do you mean the GTI splitter?
If i had no valence, i would have no front to my car :P

[jackjamesw910i]

Try to make it to Edition38 in Northampton 30th August - 1st September I want to see this car real time look lovely

[Dubb87]

Love the work done, so clean, more lows? the small scale is awesome, i'd be too tempted to play with it :/

[René Poulsen]

really some quite stuning work you've put into the mk1 , i really like the bbs look on a mk1 , and to top that , it's quite awesome you have a small version of your car.

[Mk1Sam]

Try to make it to Edition38 in Northampton 30th August - 1st September I want to see this car real time look lovely

Already planning on going Jack, so you keep your eyes out!

Love the work done, so clean, more lows? the small scale is awesome, i'd be too tempted to play with it :/

Cheers dude, no more lows static, thinking about bagging her next year, cant quite afford it atm due to other commitments

really some quite stuning work you've put into the mk1 , i really like the bbs look on a mk1 , and to top that , it's quite awesome you have a small version of your car.

Cheers dude!

[Rally]

You're doing a fantastic job with this! I too was a bit worried when I saw the title, but you've proven otherwise. Keep up the great work.

[Mk1Sam]

You're doing a fantastic job with this! I too was a bit worried when I saw the title, but you've proven otherwise. Keep up the great work.

Cheers dude! I hope i will!