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My Gti History. WARNING contains gratuitous images of a Mk1 & Mk2

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mixit:
Thought I’d do a potted history of my love and involvement with Wolfsbergs finest.

Anyone who’s seen my “Rocco” thread will know my wife had a narrow escape when it was written off.
Some of her compensation went towards providing us with a replacement car and helped me realise a long standing dream.
I was also a very early member of the original GTi Drivers Club and went to the very first GTi International at Knebworth.

This is the start of the obsession.




I don’t remember the cost of the car back in 1987 but I think it was just over a year old and had 17k on the clock.




I spent about £400 at Gti Engineering at Silverstone on a full Jetex Stainless Exhaust, a rolling road tune and a free flow K&N Filter.
This was a K Jetronic car and the meaning of that would become apparent when I traded up  :ashamed:





The Alloys were “MiM’s” as I wasn’t keen to lash out on BBS at the time. The car came on 15” Steelies.


I kept the car for just over 2 years until I was lured away by the red one seen in the pic at the bottom.
Unfortunately “PAV” was written off a few years ago. It had stayed relatively local and had a heavy coming together
with a tree. … sniff….. :sad:

Up next …..  Digifant ..  :sick:

T88OMM:
Jesus!!  :surprised: That is one obsession :happy2: :jumpmove:

VC:
more more  :party:

keith:
x2 

the gti sits a little high?

mixit:
OK on to my next baby.
I px'd the Atlas Grey Mk2 for this after a couple of years. Digifant Injection proved to be a lot less tweakable and was therefore not as good a drive. The grey car had only done 37k.. I must have been mad  :rolleye:

Its ok there are some Mk5's coming soon. Sorry if Iv'e hogged the threads with old stuff.  :embarrassed:
Anyone know why my pics have got jaggies? Is it because Iv'e resized to 900 pixels wide?  :confused:





I kept the wheels from the 1st car. As someone said further up, the cars do look high but back in 1989 there wasn't
that much modding going on. RR would have hated it.  :grin:







Mk1 up next    :grin:

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