Mk1 SEAT Ibiza & Malaga Register

[HillmanImp]

Anyone have any more details? I'm guessing its near Rugby by the original posters location on Facebook. 

Do you reckon the owner fancies a Volvo, Porsche or my first born child? 

WANT WANT WANT WANT! 

Its the 1.5 with the digital clock tooI think OMG! OMG! OMG! 

[MantaGTE85]

On 05/09/2025 at 13:19, mk2_craig said:

Holy moly! I bet that’s ripe ( bumper looks like it’s started detaching itself nicely ) 

These really rotted just for fun. The front wings and rear wheel arches will have long become part of the ground by now. Also there won't be much Ritmo-based recycled steel floor remaining either.

Both my wacky-dash Ibizas already had filler repairs to their rear arches and welded plates to their rear sills when I purchased them at just 8 years old in the '90s. The front wings were already starting to go crusty around the very bottom and front edges, even sooner and even worse than they used to on Austin Metros. I soon replaced the wings on my second G reg Ibiza. Would have been a complete waste of time attempting it on my first, C reg, one. Stone me, even the headlamps went rusty on that one! I remember when the glass lens fell off the nearside front lamp on its own.

The Malaga's boot lid has survived remarkably well though, and could be worth saving if you know someone who is trying to repair another, rear-end damaged, Gambia Red Malaga. The bottom edges should typically be well-shot by now. Of course, we will never know what the hinges and boot inner shell would be like rust-wise.

[MantaGTE85]

Seeing that Malaga reminds me, I was bored in my lunch hour so I went onto the DVLA site to look up my two wonderful little System Porsche wacky-dash Ibizas. My second one, G193 BDD, a five-door 1.5 GLX in Kalahari Beige (gold), has since been taken off the system but there is also nothing on the MOT history so most likely to be scrapped sometime between 2002 and 2006. I sold it privately in January 2000.

Much more shocking is that my first one, C880 RAN, a super-early three-door 1.5 GLX in Stratos Blue, is coming up as being on SORN. This car must still exist if that is the case. I would love to see whatever the little remains of this car is like today. Amazingly, its last V5 change was on 14th October 1999, two years after I p'xed it for the gold one. It lasted a lot longer on the road than I thought it would. But the day when it was last legally driven, I don't think anyone will ever know!

I'm on the lookout for the C reg now, hopefully it may have ended up stored outside just like that Malaga.

[MantaGTE85]

23 hours ago, Volksy said:

Being an '88 it should have the wacky dash/switchgear.

It may also have the facia test feature where all the warning lights light up for a few seconds then go out every time the car is started. I remember seeing that in the handbook for my early Ibiza.