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Just bought myself another Golf. Dragon Green 5dr 1 previous owner 106,000 Climatronic She's in ok condition but does require some TLC before I start the modifying process. Cheers Jamie

Damn I know the feeling of the gurgle on the turn of the key. Ever since I fitted Samco's on mine. Sounds like the waves hitting the rocks in a fookin sea storm. Any way looks like a nice one pal.

Welcome back pal. The vr's are just one big addiction. Lol

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Got the black cloth seats, black door cards/switches & black centre console/hand brake fitted.

Much happier with it now, prefer it greatly to the beige leather & plastics.

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This will be about all I do till after xmas as every thing that needs doing now will require a bit of saving. On the to do list is

Refurbish the S3's & put some decent tyres on.
See what welding needs doing to the sills.
Get another sunroof, headliner & rear window mechs.
Fit carpet & rest of black plastics.

Probably end up buying a breaker for all the bits as it will be easier & probably cheaper.

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So, yesterday I bought a 3dr, non sunroof GTi. The shell is in very good condition but the engine was knackered.
The plan now is to sort the shell then swap the engine & box over from my 5dr.

You can see from the pictures that it's been proper chaved up but with less than 100,000 on the clock it really deserved rescuing & it will cost less to swap the motor on this than do the bodywork on the 5dr.

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Yesterday was a productive day though.

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All in all it's a really clean shell with just a small bit of patching up to do.

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This time I don't think so Pete. If I'd have know I could get classic insurance on the E38 I would never have got the VR6 last year..... This cost the same to insure, MPG is about the same & I don't need to modify it as it has everything as it is.

So this would have been cheaper


But it won't sound half as good.
That vr grunt is like no other.
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This time I don't think so Pete. If I'd have know I could get classic insurance on the E38 I would never have got the VR6 last year..... This cost the same to insure, MPG is about the same & I don't need to modify it as it has everything as it is.

So this would have been cheaper


But it won't sound half as good.
That vr grunt is like no other.
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This time I don't think so Pete. If I'd have know I could get classic insurance on the E38 I would never have got the VR6 last year..... This cost the same to insure, MPG is about the same & I don't need to modify it as it has everything as it is.

So this would have been cheaper


But it won't sound half as good.
That vr grunt is like no other.
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Luckily I don't need to daily it & it's about the same on Fuel as the VR6, just a bigger tank.
I was getting about 200-250miles per tank from the Golf & it's about 4-500 per tank in this (80l) stop start town driving is what would kill the fuel. I did 10miles this morning taking my daughter to nursery & it was clocking 16mpg when I got home.

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This is a lovely place to sit though

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