pauldoubleyou Posted June 17, 2020 Share Posted June 17, 2020 Remember that time I told the wife I was done with buying shite? Well she’s gone to Asda in a rage. Picked this up local. An actual old lady Golf. Massive history, 117k. Thousands spent in the last two years. Poor old dear was in tears when I drove it away but she had her licence taken off her or something - one owner since 96. Needs a right good spruce up and according to the history a new rack (rusty pipes part of the rack, but not leaking?) Gonna wash it and bang it in for a test. It’s had a bit of a weldathon in the past, will see. For the price of a test it’ll be a laugh. Condition - minging Gearstick - sloppy Brakes - crap Rear wiper - missing Radio - tuned to Radio 4 Drives really nice though if you don’t need to stop. 1.8 8v. Stickers of national trust for the authenticity. Searched all through it and didn’t find any coins at all, which was odd. Pics Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Steviemillar, paulplom, cobblers and 13 others 16 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mitsisigma01 Posted June 17, 2020 Share Posted June 17, 2020 GIM, get it mot'd, prime roffle material ???? pauldoubleyou 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BorniteIdentity Posted June 17, 2020 Share Posted June 17, 2020 Nice. I much prefer the low rent MK2/3 Golfs to the GTi. I guess that’s why I like AS. I think these estates are the bee’s knees. Good luck with the MOT. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Chocolate Teapot Posted June 17, 2020 Share Posted June 17, 2020 Am i reading that correct, 16 hours of welding ! I hope the old lady was not robbed. pauldoubleyou, bigstraight6 and Tenmil Socket 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunglebus Posted June 17, 2020 Share Posted June 17, 2020 Good workhorse I reckon, interesting to see where it's needed welding 500tops 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
320touring Posted June 17, 2020 Share Posted June 17, 2020 That looks a sound enough old tub, Cannae be any more fecked than the TD one I had! pauldoubleyou 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pauldoubleyou Posted June 17, 2020 Author Share Posted June 17, 2020 Good workhorse I reckon, interesting to see where it's needed welding Everywhere by the look of things Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pauldoubleyou Posted June 17, 2020 Author Share Posted June 17, 2020 Amazing what some soap, bumper shine and a can of satin black can do. Funnily, as it’s a mk3 golf and apparently cool my 14 year old has shown an interest and we just spent an hour together cleaning it. Was quite nice.Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk AnthonyG, BorniteIdentity, 320touring and 11 others 14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnthonyG Posted June 17, 2020 Share Posted June 17, 2020 Wow, CL spec, pure luxury - I think this was the lowest you could get in the U.K, maybe there was a L in the early years of the Mk3. Have fun with it. Has the interior suffered from dog transporting - the back seat looks to have housed animals of some type! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Isaac Hunt Posted June 17, 2020 Share Posted June 17, 2020 3 hours ago, pauldoubleyou said: Remember that time I told the wife I was done with buying shite? Well she’s gone to Asda in a rage. Picked this up local. An actual old lady Golf. Massive history, 117k. Thousands spent in the last two years. Poor old dear was in tears when I drove it away but she had her licence taken off her or something - one owner since 96. Needs a right good spruce up and according to the history a new rack (rusty pipes part of the rack, but not leaking?) Gonna wash it and bang it in for a test. It’s had a bit of a weldathon in the past, will see. For the price of a test it’ll be a laugh. Condition - minging Gearstick - sloppy Brakes - crap Rear wiper - missing Radio - tuned to Radio 4 Drives really nice though if you don’t need to stop. 1.8 8v. Stickers of national trust for the authenticity. Searched all through it and didn’t find any coins at all, which was odd. Pics Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk If that garage put as much care and attention into fixing cars as they did writing invoices, then that is a place to be going. i think you may have just lost this car to your son. Teach him to drive in that, I taught both my kids, saved a fortune. I taught em to drive and when they had mastered that, I taught them how to pass their test. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuboy Posted June 17, 2020 Share Posted June 17, 2020 i was inline to get a green pissrat cl .... sadly it was borrowed by her father who crashed it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minimad5 Posted June 17, 2020 Share Posted June 17, 2020 Why do I like this ? Top bombing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pauldoubleyou Posted June 18, 2020 Author Share Posted June 18, 2020 10 hours ago, Isaac Hunt said: If that garage put as much care and attention into fixing cars as they did writing invoices, then that is a place to be going. i think you may have just lost this car to your son. Teach him to drive in that, I taught both my kids, saved a fortune. I taught em to drive and when they had mastered that, I taught them how to pass their test. I think thats his intention. Unfortunately he is only 15 this year, and i dont fancy getting him insured on a 1.8. It is nice to see his interest though, ive kind of let him go wild on it - showed him how to start it up, connect a battery etc. Would be nice to give it all a go together. In all honesty the garage in the receipts is the only garage ive used local for about the last seven years, the only one i trust at least. I think the trick is that is they did all that welding only 2 years ago, and its done 2k miles since - surey they cant fail it on their own welding lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeordieInExile Posted June 18, 2020 Share Posted June 18, 2020 10 hours ago, AnthonyG said: Wow, CL spec, pure luxury - I think this was the lowest you could get in the U.K, maybe there was a L in the early years of the Mk3. Have fun with it. Has the interior suffered from dog transporting - the back seat looks to have housed animals of some type! CL spec but 1.8l engine giving iirc 90bhp? Were they evil enough to do the estate as a 1.4? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
somewhatfoolish Posted June 18, 2020 Share Posted June 18, 2020 14 hours ago, pauldoubleyou said: Searched all through it and didn’t find any coins at all, which was odd. Old ladies have handbags with purses in them; no loose coins. anonymous user 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tamworthbay Posted June 18, 2020 Share Posted June 18, 2020 Great find! I bought my last mini off an old lady in Southampton but that had done 30k in 28 years nipping to the shops and back. The amount of clay that came out on the Motorway on the way back was amazing. I don’t think it had ever been over 40mph in its life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anonymous user Posted June 18, 2020 Share Posted June 18, 2020 6 hours ago, somewhatfoolish said: Old ladies have handbags with purses in them; no loose coins. Apart from my mother, with her it was always "Have you got any money, I've forgotten my purse" somewhatfoolish 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pauldoubleyou Posted June 19, 2020 Author Share Posted June 19, 2020 Going through the wedge of history today and there’s every receipt for every tax disk. Also the original receipt from Nov 96, £11k! Bargain Seems she got £1800 for a four door Golf 1.3 (mk1?) G824 BSD with a whopping 60,500 miles on it For those interested the welding seems to have been two full sills and under the front two jacking points, and is still nice and fresh. Which is a good thing Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk bunglebus and 500tops 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tadhg Tiogar Posted June 19, 2020 Share Posted June 19, 2020 On 6/18/2020 at 8:58 AM, GeordieInExile said: CL spec but 1.8l engine giving iirc 90bhp? .... My sister had the same engine in GL-spec, and that was very quick for "only" 90hp. "K931 EWB" was later wrecked in a collision with a van driver. Very lightly-built to the point of having tinny body panels, though, and some switches had a tendency to fall off when you pressed them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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