11/78 mk1 gls

[Jace]

So this is it.
My new soon-to-be daily/long term project.

MK1's have appealed to me for a while, because they just seem like such simple cars. I made a massive mistake and bought a VR6 before this, but that's another story.
I told myself that water-cooled VAG was crap, and that I'd never own anything that falls into that category again...

I think I've made a good decision.

1979 MK1 GLS
Mexico Beige
117,000k's
Poor body repairs
Nan looked after the interior
Totally original and honest
Haven't lifted the carpets yet, but I sorta have high hopes!
Service history until about 100,000k's












...but it's what's on the inside that counts, right?

















It's zippy, compared to my current daily, which can be seen in the background of a few pics.

As for plans, this car will be a daily.
That said, it'll be slammed eventually, tuckin', more visually appealing, more cosy inside...

To be a little more specific:



Spot the spelling mistake.
For you guys on low res. screens, the major ones are:

*Stance - Fatten
*Get RWC/Rego

$950 netted me this and a fair few useful spares, which I'm pretty stoked on. Best money I've spent on a car so far!

Really looking forward to meeting up with the Melbourne guys, and the interstate guys too. Tim (golfworx) has had a good look at the car and gave me the ins and outs of MK1's in general, which I really appreciate.
Pretty excited about this!

- Jace.

[WABIT]

WOW..... JUST ......... WOW!

body stuff can be repaired, but interior bits are very hard to find, especially when most of them have a fade pattern that doesn't match the rest of your interior, so its good you have a mint interior

also be sure to take in everything golfworx tells you about mk1's or vw's in general.... top bloke and an absolute freak when it comes to this sh*t!

nice Mercedes too BTW

dom

[mikinoz]

I rate that interior. Nice find.

[captainvw]

Think that is my fav colour combo on a mach1... very cool

[Jace]

Thanks guys.

Dom, Tim went over just about everything and told me what's what. Felt smarter after having spoken to him.

One of my spray painter mates was wasted last night, and told me we could respray it soon. I'm going to hold him to that!

[GoLfMan]

top find!!!

that interior is just mint, hard to find like that these days!

looking forward to another mk1 getting restoed

[bootz]

O My God a Mk 1 in Australia with a good dash. I thought mine was good but this is great! Pity about the brown, but maybe brown is the new black!

[Jace]

Nothing wrong with brown. What the hell else goes with Beige?!
The dash is probably 90%, so it's not perfect!

[GeorgeMK1]

C'mon dude, lets get some progress happenin' here

[Jace]

I know!
I have two decent size orders on the way. It'll be a few weeks till they're here though.

In the mean time I need to get the windscreen surround rust fixed up. If I had a welder I'd have a go at it myself...


I should probably concentrate on getting a job though.