I've been asked to run a thread on my previous experiences building & racing Mk1 Golfs. By the time this story is told you'll see I raced about a half dozen Mk1's over the years, but the main focus will be relating the building & racing of my last Mk1, which was very successful & fantastic fun to race.
The ode starts with me buying a brand new Mk1 LS (badly built in Australia), as a family car & promising my wife I'd never race it (dumbest vow I ever made!). So here's me in 1976 with my fresh from the dealership car. Check out that moustache... grouse!
And here's me breaking my promise at Amaroo Park hillclimb (now an industrial estate)
VW Australia took the disgusting decision to fit a single throat carburetor instead of fuel injection to the LS because they thought their assembly line workers would struggle with the latter. So the carby sat on a rubber adaptor plate, which tore under race conditions. So my first mod was to make that a solid mount with steel tube . Revolutionary modifications I'm talking here ... hahahaha. I only owned this car for eighteen months, but in that time I won my club's motorkhana championship. The guy watching me here on the day I topped the point score was also running a Mk1 -but he ate my dust that year.
Someone mistakenly allowed our car club to run an event on the Amaroo Park Motocross bike circuit. Here's me getting serious air... the day before I had to commute to work in the poor old thing
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