Oldest Australian Golf

syncro · 17-12-2005, 10:27 AM

Who has the oldest Australian sold Golf here?
Post your chassis numbers. (176******)

**finemk1** · 17-12-2005, 01:10 PM

hey i had a febuary 1975 swallowtail. here i bought it for $1400 had a wing on it and pumped guards slide back sunroof. chassis number was 1763102383 its the one i chopped the roof off.... yeah i know would never of done it then if i knew now dont worry.

cheers

syncro · 17-12-2005, 06:49 PM

That's a '76.
Made in December 1975.
Do you know what colour it was?

**finemk1** · 19-12-2005, 05:05 PM

oh ok would explain why an old vw mechanic kept saying it was a 76, haha well itsaid 75 on the rego papers, ,but we all know the rta is useless at times, it was alpine white which later became pearl white, ,then orange, then black...... good times

**Golf Loon** · 19-12-2005, 10:31 PM

I owned a 5 door swallowtail, resprayed in Dragon Green and riding low when last seen. Chassis no 1763060316 I think it was Feb 76 registered in Oz.

**c-issler** · 07-05-2006, 01:53 AM

Mines a '76 LS five door. Martini Olive in colour.
2/76 chassis no. 176 3 030 347

Oh, and its a swallowtail of course.

**Golf Loon** · 23-05-2006, 07:45 PM

Heard an interesting snippet today. Apparently the first Aussie Built Mk1s were swallowtails! I saw on today that became a racecar when new and is definately aussie built and definately a swallowtail.

Golfwise · 23-05-2006, 10:10 PM

Originally Posted by Golf Loon

Heard an interesting snippet today. Apparently the first Aussie Built Mk1s were swallowtails! I saw on today that became a racecar when new and is definately aussie built and definately a swallowtail.

The old style rear panel wasn't popular in Europe so VW changed them on late models.

The oldest Golf I have seen belongs to GTIMK5 . As I believe it is a German built 75 as I'm sure it had the so called swallow tail on it before its slight altercation on the Tasman bridge.
Because of some chassis changes it may not now have its vin.
We will have to check on m5 for that one.

**gtimk5** · 24-05-2006, 07:11 AM

Yeah, thats right Golfwise. That Golf is Gunter, the competition car. It was brought over privately in 1977, tho it was a couple of years old then. I am not sure what tail it had on it as it had been sandwitched on the bridge in peak hour traffic. I think the whole car was about 18 inches (in the old language) shorter overall! The actual rear window had a bend in it but hadn't broken.
Brackie & I are going up to the block this weekend so I will get the chassis no. then and let you all know. Thanks for the body shell Golfwise. G,wise donated Gunter to me to repair & build into a competition car back in 1996

By the way, Bens old LS had a lot of zeros in the chassis no.
Come on Ben, put on a posting for a change!!!