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In other news got my Mk2GTI MOMO wheel re-trimmed this week - will be back with me tomorrow. Can’t wait to put it on. Beige stitch to match the leather.
I’ve always loved these. When I was a teenager a friend who was a VW and Mercedes mechanic had one of the first fuel injected ones. He had modified it to Porsche 356 specs, and pointed out that it was basically the same chassis layout. It was a blast!
If I remember right, my friend’s was a 1968 MY (US), which was the first year with fuel injection and double CV joints replacing the swing axle. Great fun to drive!
Got this the other week…. Must be mad… but love it..
Looks great, I had one just like it and it did wonderful service.
For those who remembered the days, mine towed the big white Volkswagen Owners Club exhibition unit about the UK. Registration mark was JUD 863W and according to the DVLA vehicle enquiry service it is still on the road and MOTd to June 2022. It had done about 120,000miles when I sold it well over twenty years ago!
Look after yours, it's an appreciating asset.
Hi @Duncan Mowlem , I hadn't noticed that you are also a Shropshire boy. I'm in Wellington and have been for the last fifty odd years, prior to that born & bred in North Shropshire.
Hi, just up the road from you.. work in ketley and live in Newport.. give me a shout if you ever want to go down memory lane and have go in the old girl.. having our first night in it tonight, many miles from home… in the garden…
Hope you have a peaceful night, we've just come home from 18 days in Scotland and currently planning a trip to brother in law in Devon.
Our Type 25 plied European roads a number of times including a few trips to VW Euro in Holland, it also brought the streets of Koln ((Cologne) to a slow with a blocked carb!
We bought it from Buckinghamshire in about 1984 and sold it in about 1994 to a buyer just out of Loggerheads.
Our Type 25 plied European roads a number of times including a few trips to VW Euro in Holland, it also brought the streets of Koln ((Cologne) to a slow with a blocked carb!
We bought it from Buckinghamshire in about 1984 and sold it in about 1994 to a buyer just out of Loggerheads.
This would be an ideal wedding car for my son next year to take him to the church if your not busy July next year he has a passion for a mk1 gti, they have a type 2 camper as there official wedding car to the reception but as a surprise I want to try and get a mk1 gti I think they would look great in there wedding pics
Mine is a Mk2 GTI, not a MK1
My uncle had one of these in red and remember fondly the 1st time being in a car reaching 100mph, going downhill on the old Roman road Northumberland. We thought we were Jim Clark, 11 at the time
