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Here is the Golf when I got it... (Paid 150 pounds)















After clearing out the crazy selection of crap in the boot, I was left with this..



After cleaning all that out, I had a nice neat boot, which was soon to be full of crap when the car was stripped..



I took off the crap seat covers (ewwwwwww) and fitted my uber budget head unit in...



This is what my car looked like a few months ago...







Then I played with some pinstripe tape..




Then I played with 16v half smoked hellas..

Before...


After...



Then I played with my new seats and carpet






Then my brother and I played with a jetta front end, a hammer, an angle grinder, some filler, some wet and dry, and some primer.






Then for my birthday my brother offered to help spray my car on my driveway...

Day 1 - (Short day stripping)

Starting at lunchtime


paintz


snack time


early dinner time



Day 2 - Prepping and Primer

Morning


Sanding up at lunch time


Too much fun meant not much pictures

Second coat


Tucked up for the week



Day 3 -






Day 4 -





I need the quarter arch and wing trim for the sides, and i need to attach the bumper, but looking a lot nicer.

Still a lot of stuff to go.








Then my brother and I started on brown detailing! (Still not finished):



The bumper iron is still bent, so bumper isn't on properly...



I think it clashes with the grill, so thats on the 'To paint:' list.


Ran out of plastic primer half way through my rear bumper... but got some more!





Basic 'shop of front end ideas. Real life always looks better than photoshops though




Thanks for reading

hmm. i don't like the jetta front ends.
and i think the brown detailing is spoling it a bit.
but each to their own mate, and i'm sure this will have me eating my hat before long

I wanted it to be a break from the usual modified Golfs you see these days, I am a bit eccentric anyway

Another Retro-Rider made it over here. Not sure about the Brown though... maybe a Brown roof?

i like it mate think it works well.

im after something like that for a cheap project for under 100 squid, so i can stick shit loads of miles on it n have it lookin cool as F**k. looks cool im not megga on jetta front ends but im sure it will grow on me

I like the fact that you got it for 150 quid and i love what you done with the pinstrip tape everything else its great expect the brown inmo you should spray the roof brown and leave the bumpers but great work dude anymore plans for it or you done ?

Ohh yeah and for christ sake slaammmm it !!

All in good time! With a lack of money at the moment things are slow!

Thanks for the replies

thats a really cool idea cant wait to see it done

I should really check RR for updates as I didn't know you had painted it! What happened to the Satin Blue idea dooood? Looks good though, liking the Brown detailing too!

this is looking sweet dude, liking the diy style spraying going to be fab when it's finished

MetroLee wrote:I should really check RR for updates as I didn't know you had painted it! What happened to the Satin Blue idea dooood? Looks good though, liking the Brown detailing too!

All the blues I found weren't what I wanted, and to be honest I've had my heart set on Beige since about March and only changed it to Satin Blue like last month.


Yeah not many people seem to check my thread on RR.. My car does get overlooked.


Thanks for the replies

So much stuff on R-R thats sometimes anything that isn't completely radical or ultra rare gets over looked. Just the way of life when a forum grows so huge.

Very cool mate i like it. Get the mo fo decked dude

Lexx wrote:

MetroLee wrote:I should really check RR for updates as I didn't know you had painted it! What happened to the Satin Blue idea dooood? Looks good though, liking the Brown detailing too!

All the blues I found weren't what I wanted, and to be honest I've had my heard set on Beige since about March and only changed it to Satin Blue like last month.


Yeah not many people seem to check my thread on RR.. My car does get overlooked.


Thanks for the replies

It's not that I just haven't looked on your thread, it did come across that way lol It's just that I haven't logged into RR for a while because it's just so busy all the time I hardly get time to read threads properly.

What rims are you going to go for?

I've always fancied seeing a set of those style steelies heavily banded. Perhaps in this case with some sort of Brown and Cream colour coding.

Once my new set of wheels are on the car, I am going to restore the steels, got a few ideas up my sleeves.

this looks like it will be really kl rattle cans ftw

Thanks... the actual paint job was done with a compressor and all that, only thing rattle canned so far is the brown details

Anyway:

Inspiration..

Its going to happen, just give me time!

Loving that golf mate thats how low you should go and get a splitter with it would look awesome

Naa, not going with a splitter, im too cool for that

more MORE!!!!

I'm straight pimping now dawg...

Yess, got to have a wheel whores sticker