Quote Originally Posted by GeorgeMK1 View Post
WOOOOOW very very clean!! great find man. i love the white walls, as soon as your lower it, the look will change completely

Jarred what makes you say its South African, the only thing that i can see is that large tail lights at the back and thats about it. This grill is facing in, the S.A ones have the grill and face facing outwards. They also have a sort of L curve just behing the rear windows. (lived in S.A for a long time)
You're right George, the Citi golfs do have that grill, and the L pressing in the C pillar. But granted (if it actually is) an 81 model, it would still be a mk 1, not a citi golf. (based on the mk1 but slightly moderised & the car that's very popular in SA till this day)

I've never seen an australian delivered car with that interior (dash, seats, and door cars), nor did we ever get big taillights. Those steel wheels, as Pete Jones found out, and South African Mk 1 standard steelies, they're more heavy duty than our ones, to cope with poorer road conditions in SA. Also mostly got the 1.6's in aust delivered cars (apparently there were a few very early cars that came with 1.1's), that's if it is a factory 1.1. I don't know who would retro fit a 1.1 in a car that came with a 1.6 (if it was aus del, it'd most probably have a 1.5D or 1.6P)
Oh, and the instrument cluster also is different to the ones that we got.


I've also never heard of an australian delivered mk 1 that was later than 1980 (and it was a diesel at that too)

Anyway, they're my reasons. I'm very curious about this car actually, all very interesting!