Golf GTI Mk1

[Darrell]

Best colour, best wheels, single headlamp grill, no speaker holes cut out of the rear shelf and it’s the 1800. It’s even got the golf ball gear knob.
Mine was black.

MK1 VW Golf 1.8 GTI Lhasa Green Fully Restored absolutely Stunning Example | eBay

 

[HappytalkAgain]

Awesome back in their day but my goodness they look hideous now. My sister had one in black also. Never cleaned it though, that was my dads job.

 

[DSM10000]

Awesome back in their day but my goodness they look hideous now. My sister had one in black also. Never cleaned it though, that was my dads job.

112hp for the 1.8 litre 8 valve engine although kerb weight was under 900 Kg.

 

[Bobby Dazzler]

Oooof Lhasa Green too.

 

[MikeInWimbledon]

Glorious back in the day.

A good use of £/5k? Not so sure.

Is that an equivalent Mk2 at half the price we hear in the distance?

Lhasa Green is the definitive mk2 colour after all.

 

[clk320x]

Good if you need a ULEZ compliant car @Darrell

 

[Darrell]

Good if you need a ULEZ compliant car @Darrell

 

[Spider10]

MK2 was QAK GREEN 1990 in Europe and 1991 in the UK

 

[BigJase88]

Lovely car shame will need to purchase 4 tyres after spending 25k

 

[SpikyMikey]

Lovely car shame will need to purchase 4 tyres after spending 25k

Got the correct P slot wheels but Landsail tyres.......
Arrgh!

 

[Darrell]

Got the correct P slot wheels but Landsail tyres.......
Arrgh!

My one never had the Pirelli wheels though.

 

[Bobby Dazzler]

MK2 was QAK GREEN 1990 in Europe and 1991 in the UK

A J-reg Mk2 Golf GTi 16v in Oak Green with black leather, the all important big bumpers and Alojne stereo was my dream car when I was a teenager at school.

I used to catch a bus, two trains and another bus to get to TVR Central in Perry Barr, Birmingham to look at their stock, and they had a used one for a while. Beautiful.

 

[BigJase88]

Got the correct P slot wheels but Landsail tyres.......
Arrgh!

Yeah shame about the sail off land on it

 

[Will]

I don’t have particular OCD issues but that car gets to me a bit.

It’s because it’s actually such a good condition car but there’s almost something niggling in each photo - eg immaculate wheels but nasty budget tyres, the exhaust doesn’t look like it fits quite right at the back and they’ve left stickers on it, pedal rubbers need a good scrub, K&N sticker on the air inlet, ideally a set of period number plates.

Nothing major, but for £25k I’d spend a little time and money to make it as correct as it should be

 

[davymead]

My Lhasa Mk1 nearest the camera back in 2009 … shan’t say how much I sold it for

 

[Darrell]

My Lhasa Mk1 nearest the camera back in 2009 … shan’t say how much I sold it for View attachment 140545

Why? Tell us.

 

[ChipChop]

£25,000? This nice looking example sold for less than £8,500 including fees a little over a year ago.

1981 VW Golf 1.6 GTi MKI | Anglia Car Auctions | results for saturday 29th sunday 30th january

The Volkswagen Golf GTI is considered to be the car that kick-started the whole hot hatch craze, with the MkI variant regarded as one of the zeniths of the type. This 1981 1.6-litre example was initially used in Germany before coming to the UK in 1983, being registered in the UK in September...

angliacarauctions.co.uk

 

[Bobby Dazzler]

My Lhasa Mk1 nearest the camera back in 2009 … shan’t say how much I sold it for View attachment 140545

There’s a few bob’s worth sitting in the snow there

 

[st13phil]

112hp for the 1.8 litre 8 valve engine although kerb weight was under 900 Kg.

And I swear the ones without the (optional) power steering felt as though all of that 900kg was on the front wheels.

"Never meet your heroes" springs to mind.

 

[DSM10000]

And I swear the ones without the (optional) power steering felt as though all of that 900kg was on the front wheels.

"Never meet your heroes" springs to mind.

A friend had one (although he put 16V badges on his!) and I remember it as quite loud, not overly comfortable and not that quick.