Hey, most of you already know me but for those who don't my name is Jordan i'm currently a 17 year old highschool student in year 12. I'm just about to start my trials so this is me procrastinating/rewarding myself for not doing anything. I earn little to nothing a week so progress is slow but well thought out (usually).
I have always been a VW guy, originally i wanted a beetle or a Kombi but for the money i had i couldn't afford anything without it being a major project which i didn't have the time, resources or knowledge to take on such a task. So i ended buying my first car which was this lovely Black Magic Four door GL.
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It was getting to a stage of completeness and only needed a little here and there. Unfortunately i was being stupid and going to fast in the rain and span which caused me the break several important parts of the car.
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These things made dad and i decide it would be easier to just buy a new car and start again rather than repair everything that was broken. So i set off on the various car sale sites and started searching for a nice little golf to drop my parts on or start again. I hadn't decided yet. Whilst browsing eBay auctions one night my father stumbled upon a very poorly worded ad for this little gem.
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Both dad and i messaged the man via eBay then the day after the next we set off the a little settlement 20kms out of Canberra to the old girl in the metal. After some inspection the came up pretty clean apart from a scratch here and there, some odd dents. We took for a test drive, and Christ this thing is slow in comparison the VR we drove down it literally feels like it will never be able to get to 100kph but everything worked the engine seemed well maintained for the most part. It being an eBay auction the man didn't want to part ways with the car till the auction was over, so we set back off home and deliberated as to whether or not we wanted the car. I made the decision i didn't want it originally being an auto and all. So i put my dreams of owning a two door aside and continued our search into other fields.
Alas the night of the end of the auction came and my father reminded about the car and said **** it lets see what happens, we put a bid for $1000 on the car and left if we were outbid, we were outbid. To my honest content we weren't outbid. Again the day after the next we set off on another trip to a little settlement 20kms outside of Canberra and met the man again, who owned a new TDI Toureg i may add. We swapped money for documents that state the car was now under our ownership shook hands and i drove the little two door terror the way home. I then proclaimed myself the new owner of this lovely 1995 Red two door CL.
The drive home was terrifying seeing i had to pull out onto the highway from a standstill, the car seems to hit the barrier at about 30kph which is terrfying pulling out into holiday traffic in your newly purchased child. the drive home apart from that was drama free and very relaxed thanks to an aftermarket cruise control unit installed by the owner before the one i bought the car off.
DSC_0357 by Smeeeb, on Flickr
Odd little thing it is, very easy to work to my delite though.
Since arriving home i haven't done much to her apart from today, just drove around the place enjoying my last school holidays as a public school student.a
Today though i was sick of not having a working headunit and pulled the old one to discover after some electrotherapy that it had a blown fuse. I then installed the old headunit out of my car.
I went from this old retro and radbutnotworkingness.
DSC_0348 by Smeeeb, on Flickr
To my relatively new working pioneer headunit.
DSC_0360 by Smeeeb, on Flickr
As for plans for the car the always the basics, low, wheels and loud. Apart from that i have a almost perfect 2.0 manual engine with timing chains, belts and waterpump recently done sitting there collecting dust, so after i figure out what i need, i shall be enlisting the help of a few friends and attempting to smash that out over a weekend. I also have my lovely vento front which will most likely grace the front end of my car but needs painting again....
I also have a mass number of bumpers sitting around so i shall be attempting my hand at making a shaved bumper. How that will go i am unsure of but i hope well.
That will be it for a couple of weeks seeing i am about to start my trials and commit suicide in the english essay portion of the exams, who's smart idea was it to make 17 and 18 year old write 3 essays on different topics and authors in a crowded hall in 2 and half hours. Who ever came up with it, i hate you.
For now i am off to destroy my liver at my best friends 18th birthday.
Thank you for reading, chow until next time.
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