MK1 Polo Project For Sale

Well due to unforeseen circumstance the mk1 polo is up for sale. The asking price is £900 this will get you the car which is stripped and ready to be welded prepped and sprayed. We would rather see the car go as a whole and be finished but if we can’t sell we will break it for parts.

Now sold!

Started work on the engine bay

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 the respray. Were using petrol and cloths to clean the worst off it off and it works quite well although it’s hard work. If the weathers good next weekend we should be able to get this finished on the Saturday.

Sunday were off to DC10 really looking forward to this show!

Here’s a few catch up pictures of our MK1 Polo still looking very sorry for it’s self, we cant wait to see it with a fresh coat of Manila Green paint.

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Polo sanding again

Well with the weather as good as it was over the weekend I cracked on with the sanding. The roof is now down to the metal and this now leaves us with the bonnet, drivers side, tail gate and one door to sand. The it’s the engine bay were going to clean it all out first then decide what needs cutting out and smoothing. Main thing was that after the winter it was great to get back into the project!

MK1 Polo chrome bumpers

Well it took a while but I finally found a mk1 Polo chrome front bumper. The one that was on the car was damaged and I’m not sure how much it would have cost to straighten. Were going to see a man about some welding and the respray this weekend he’s been recommend by a fellow dub restorator on edition 38.

Snow snow go away

Ok it was great to have a white Christmas and some time with the family but it does mean the Polo is on hold at the moment. All were able to do is continue to source parts and plan what we want to do.

We have managed to find a welder so we just need him to come and look at the Polo and give us a cost for the work needed. I’ve also got a source in Germany who’s supplying us with new widow rubbers all round with the chrome inserts and a front and rear chrome bumper.

On another note I’m also trying to make time to recondition the MK5 Golf R32 brakes I’ve acquired I’m going to take them back to the metal then I’m going to decide if I want to keep the silver which will be difficult to keep clean. Or spray them with textured black paint I’ve brought from Frost.

The Polo’s alloys and a set of Carlssons we’ve brought are now with Dav at PureKLAS so really looking forward to how they come back. When they do come back Dav’s taking my 19″ Audi A6 BBS split rims of for a refurb as well.

So all I want now is the snow to melt and the weather to warm up a bit!

Open Heart Surgery on the Polo

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 moved on to the Polo.

It took us about an hour and a half to disconect all the pipeing and linkages to the engine but once this was done and the manifold was dropped out the bottom of the car, the engine lifted out with ease. Now thats in storage ready to be stripped cleaned painted and polished ready to go back in once the cars been repainted.

Now we can start cutting sanding and smoothing the engine bay. So were on the final push on the prep work we recon its going to be mid January that the polo can have the weilding done.

On the plus side Dav at PureKLAS is taking the Polo’s allys away to be stripped and polished cant wait to see them finished!

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Nothing to see here

Well it’s true almost. We are having a couple of weeks off the Polo mainly due to other commitments and the weather. But that hasn’t stopped work completely I’m still on the hunt for parts. Targets at the moment are window rubbers, we need a complete set of window rubbers for the MK1 Polo because ours had perished

We’ve both been on the hunt for parts for our daily drives as well. I’ve managed to pick up a set of front and rear MK5 Golf R32 brakes with carriers, calipers, disks and pads at a great price! Mark’s having a back box shipped from Austria for the Passat as no one else seems to have made one or have one in stock. We’ve also both been buying Audi R8 engine caps.

The next big thing for the Polo is the engine coming out on the 12th that will let us smooth the engine bay and get the car ready to have all the welding done.

More Sanding

Just a quick update after returning from Rayvern Hydraulics, we spent a couple more hours sanding the Polo. We are getting there slowly the roof is half done so we should finish that when we get back next week. After that the rest shouldn’t be to much, the biggest job left to do will be getting the engine out and smoothing the engine bay. We’ve managed to source an engine hoist so we just need a few good weekends and the car will be getting ready to go off for the welding.

Starting to see the light!

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. So far we’ve been over the moon with a car that’s thirty two years old, its got minimal rust and rot issues and what we have found were either replacing the panel completely or the area can be patched.  All this work now will hopefully means less prep work required by the body shop who will do the respray down to a minimum cost.

We recon two more days like saturday and we will be ready for the car to go in for the welding. We need to hire an engine hoist to take the 1.1 power plant out to give us access to the engine bay and allow us to smooth it.

While the cars away we’ll then be able to work on the engine cleaning painting and polishing and also spec out the interior retrim.

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Paint Stripping the MK1 Polo

Spent most of Saturday paint stripping the Polo panels its hard boring work but its got to be done and once we got into it when it started getting dark at 4.30pm we didn’t really want to stop.

The horrid purple paint is comming off quite easy and once we have it all off were going to sand the rest of the body work back to the metal so that the body shop have as little prep work to carry out as possible, this will save us quite a bit of money we hope.

Mark did say yesterday if money was no object he’d say “Sod it let the body shop do th lot lol” if only!

Next week if the weathers with us we recon we can break the back of the sanding the advantage of the MK1 Polo is it being so small.