Mk1 4 dr GTI????

**Oneofthegreats** · 18-01-2010, 01:52 PM

Got you! haha

I think its a GTI Engineering built 4dr GTI. Still pretty cool too I reckon

Would be a nice car to cruise in. Especially if it had 240+hp!

I also dug up some info that GTI engineering use to have as an option of a long range fuel tank which sat in the spare wheel well!

Now get this! It ave you an extra 9 gallons (approx 40L)! It used the standard fuel filler neck & standard fuel level sender through the stock fuel tank!

Thats a fuel capacity of a VN Calais 5L. 80L!

I'll try & dig up some pics of this option.

**Tim** · 18-01-2010, 01:58 PM

was nicer with the bonnet closed!

Nothing beats a nice clean OEM style

**16v_kid** · 18-01-2010, 02:08 PM

don't know if this one is GTi...

**Oneofthegreats** · 18-01-2010, 02:08 PM

Originally Posted by Tim

was nicer with the bonnet closed!

Nothing beats a nice clean OEM style

Agreed! haha

Its pretty hard to keep a car that mint for that long I reckon. Especially under the bonnet & in those type of conditions too!

Finally found a pic of the long range fuel tank option

Couldn't find it in my GTI Engineering Catalog either!

Might have to keep on searching for the extended GTI Engineering version one to add to the rest of the collection of sought after Catalogs.

**Tim** · 18-01-2010, 02:12 PM

the tank looks like a relatively simple concept. After last weekend in the high country someone should develop something like this for the Polo. Those things really dont seem to have much range

**Jarred** · 18-01-2010, 02:13 PM

The engine sounds pretty much like the spec of your old 8V beater engine Tim!

**Oneofthegreats** · 18-01-2010, 02:13 PM

I'm still not 100% sure on if the factory ever produced a 4dr version of the Mk1 GTI.

All I can find is "hear say".

I don't doubt that they would have built a prototype, but I think thats as far as it went.

Looking at the one Gordan posted up, its still missing the grill trim, GTI stripes, the side mould blackouts, door handle blackouts & blacked out roof lining.

It does have the widened GTI steelies, GTI A-piller trims & appears to have the tarten interior material too.

Might have to leave it as "unknown" I reckon

**Oneofthegreats** · 18-01-2010, 02:22 PM

Originally Posted by Tim

the tank looks like a relatively simple concept. After last weekend in the high country someone should develop something like this for the Polo. Those things really dont seem to have much range

Yeah, it sounds like a good idea, but I'm not sure on the engineering legality side of it.

From memory you can't fit a fuel tank into the cabin unless it was fitted from factory.

But I'm pretty confident there wasn't any hatch built fitted with a fuel tank inside the passenger compartment.

Of all the cars I know of that had fuel tanks fitted inside their boots, the boot was separated by a parcel shelf, seat or body panels incl. Mini, Escort, Mazda, Audi etc.

**16v_kid** · 18-01-2010, 02:24 PM

Originally Posted by golfworx

Looking at the one Gordan posted up, its still missing the grill trim, GTI stripes, the side mould blackouts, door handle blackouts & blacked out roof lining.

It does have the widened GTI steelies, GTI A-piller trims & appears to have the tarten interior material too.

Might have to leave it as "unknown" I reckon

Yeah, i noticed that too.

I think it might be a GLi.

But like you said, its unknown.