Well the sanding is completed. Were just waiting for our body shop to come over and show us where they want the pannels cut for the new ones to go on.
We’ve started to clean the ziebart off the engine bay so that we can cut the rear tray out and smooth it all ready for [...]
Sorry for the delay in updating the blog just been so busy!
Anyway last Saturday was the big day for the engine coming out. After spending an hour rebuilding the front of the Passat, Mark had installed new headlights and it was a bigger job than it looked. Then we got the engine hoist delivered and [...]
Well the metal!
We’ve spent another six hours stripping and sanding the MK1 Polo and it’s starting to show progress. We have decided to take the outer shell back to the metal so that it can have a proper job done on the respray and we can makes sure that there is no underlying rust issues. [...]
Well we spent our first day working on the MK1 Polo stripping it down. So we can see what we have to work with, and to be honist were really happy. Apart from the damage and rust to the off side rear quarter and sill which we have replacements for the rest of the car [...]
Finally we’ve got our 1977 mk1 Polo! I wasn’t able to be there to pick it up. But Mark with the help of a mate with a car transporter picked up the Polo Saturday morning. It’s now sitting in our lock up waiting to be stripped. The stripping starts next week photos to come!
Well I’ve spent the last couple of nights trying to source the body pannels we need for or 1977 MK1 Polo. It’s not been as tough as I thought it would be I think you just need to look and ask in the right places. So big thanks to Juan for pming me with the [...]
Well after a chat with Dave at Base21 weve decided to go for it so now we are the prowd owners of a 1977 MK1 Polo originally Manilla Green but at the moment metalic purple, dont worry it will be Manilla Green again!
The Base21 guys have said that the pannel can be replaced and we’ll [...]
Well arranging to go see a few cars next week on the list to see are:
1977 Polo – This is a started project and has been made fairly solid already. I quite fancy this as it’s different to a Golf that little bit rarer. It was also originally a cool flat green like the one [...]