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I'll introduce myself, my name is Ben and I'm 20 years old and living in the North West of England.
I've been wanting a project car for as long as I could remember so in June 2017 I bought this.
These are the photos from the day that I bought it.
It's a 1997 MK3 Golf GTi 16 Valve.
It's got the 2 litre ABF engine with 150ps. Thankfully it's not an 8 valve haha.
To cut a long story short, I realised that I overpaid for it after I bought it and realised the extent of the rust underneath and a few other underlying issues. I have completely fallen in love with it though and couldn't bring myself to sell it on or part it out.
Here is a selection of photos of what I found underneath :0
Both arches were goosed and the sills were like paper mache.
My current plans are to get it MOT friendly (as it had a hooky MOT on it when I bought it) and then start to mess about with the wheels and fitment. Also, I need to remove that horrendous exhaust! Hahaha
I've replaced the sills, skimmed the arches and both front wings so far, and will add photos once I'm on my next lunch break
.
New wings fitted and sprayed too, I need some new bumper bolts as the threads were completely stripped haha.
So this now brings us to the present day, I now own a rust free car at least, and have a good base to work from. Modification wise, so far she has had a set of smoked front indicators and fog blanks, I sprayed my VW emblems black, fitted pressed plates because scene haha. And fitted a Momo Shuttle wheel and Anniversary Gear Knob to replace the worn out Lupo GTi Wheel and Knob that it had before.
Fogs Before and after
Momo
This is going to be a slow build, as I'm on a bit of a budget. But I'll try to update it whenever I can.
Did a little Photoshop of my plans for her though so far,
As she sits now:
Hopefully achievable without too much effort;
THANKS FOR READING XOXOXOX
I'll introduce myself, my name is Ben and I'm 20 years old and living in the North West of England.
I've been wanting a project car for as long as I could remember so in June 2017 I bought this.
These are the photos from the day that I bought it.
It's a 1997 MK3 Golf GTi 16 Valve.
It's got the 2 litre ABF engine with 150ps. Thankfully it's not an 8 valve haha.
To cut a long story short, I realised that I overpaid for it after I bought it and realised the extent of the rust underneath and a few other underlying issues. I have completely fallen in love with it though and couldn't bring myself to sell it on or part it out.
Here is a selection of photos of what I found underneath :0
Both arches were goosed and the sills were like paper mache.
My current plans are to get it MOT friendly (as it had a hooky MOT on it when I bought it) and then start to mess about with the wheels and fitment. Also, I need to remove that horrendous exhaust! Hahaha
I've replaced the sills, skimmed the arches and both front wings so far, and will add photos once I'm on my next lunch break
. 
New wings fitted and sprayed too, I need some new bumper bolts as the threads were completely stripped haha.
So this now brings us to the present day, I now own a rust free car at least, and have a good base to work from. Modification wise, so far she has had a set of smoked front indicators and fog blanks, I sprayed my VW emblems black, fitted pressed plates because scene haha. And fitted a Momo Shuttle wheel and Anniversary Gear Knob to replace the worn out Lupo GTi Wheel and Knob that it had before.
Fogs Before and after
Momo
This is going to be a slow build, as I'm on a bit of a budget. But I'll try to update it whenever I can.
Did a little Photoshop of my plans for her though so far,
As she sits now:
Hopefully achievable without too much effort;
THANKS FOR READING XOXOXOX
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