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Re: Lock Down Rebuild 1984 1.3 CL (daughters first car)

Reply #16 –
So when looking around the car found a hole in the windscreen scuttle that had a poor repair, which was just a load of filler some had smoothed over. So though I would cut it out and weld it up.

IMG_1879 by Karl Bartlett, on Flickr

IMG_2228 by Karl Bartlett, on Flickr

And finally ready to be collected. Which was at 10 am this morning,  I will keep people updated as I do more bits and bobs.

IMG_9797 by Karl Bartlett, on Flickr

IMG_2879 by Karl Bartlett, on Flickr

Re: Lock Down Rebuild 1984 1.3 CL (daughters first car)

Reply #17 –
The amount of progress you have made in such a short time is astounding!!  Your daughter is going to have a great car when you have finished :D
1988 8v GTI, 3 door in black.  It's a bit like me, doesn't look too bad from a distance but up close.......:D

Re: Lock Down Rebuild 1984 1.3 CL (daughters first car)

Reply #18 –
Wow! The amount of effort you've put into this is staggering! 8)

You'd better prey she doesn't discover boys and decide cars aren't cool any more!! :-X
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Re: Lock Down Rebuild 1984 1.3 CL (daughters first car)

Reply #19 –
Seeing all of this has made me think I should give the underside of mine a go myself. What welder did you use? I've signed up to the mig welding forum and it's always something I wanted to learn.

 

Re: Lock Down Rebuild 1984 1.3 CL (daughters first car)

Reply #20 –
Quote from: pfnsht on
Seeing all of this has made me think I should give the underside of mine a go myself. What welder did you use? I've signed up to the mig welding forum and it's always something I wanted to learn.

Hi, thanks for the comment as for welder, I used a Budget Welder (Wolf Mig 140) it's not bad and did the job, but if I were going to do it again I would get a better one something mid-range with a euro torch fitment rather than fixed.

I used 0.6 wire and Argon 5 gas (93% Argon, 5% Carbon Dioxide, 2% Oxygen).

 

 

Re: Lock Down Rebuild 1984 1.3 CL (daughters first car)

Reply #21 –
Just read your whole thread, it looks amazing and I can't wait to see updates! Such a good thing to do with your daughter too, my dad and me collected my first mk2 together and he taught me to drive in it, it's great memories (:

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Reply #23 –
awesome work!!

Re: Lock Down Rebuild 1984 1.3 CL (daughters first car)

Reply #25 –
wow that work is mega on the driveway, that will be one cool first car when its finished, is it going to stay red?

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Reply #26 –
Quote from: spacy on
wow that work is mega on the driveway, that will be one cool first car when its finished, is it going to stay red?

Hey thanks for all the kind words it’s not going to stay red, my daughter has chosen nardo grey, and a set of 13x 6.5 minilites that she wants in a candy copper colour.

Re: Lock Down Rebuild 1984 1.3 CL (daughters first car)

Reply #27 –
Oooooh that sounds nice, can't wait to see it!

Re: Lock Down Rebuild 1984 1.3 CL (daughters first car)

Reply #28 –
Awesome! Really well done - got into it really quickly!

Re: Lock Down Rebuild 1984 1.3 CL (daughters first car)

Reply #29 –
Looks awesome ! I'm currently doing up my 1.3 and I'm looking at getting some new coilovers, what do you think to the stance coilovers?