RE: VW Golf Mk 1: You Know You Want To

[Regiment]

Lowtimer said:

That is good to know. I hate selling cars: I always feel a bit as if I am letting them down by sending them off into the unknown. But having an experience like that makes it all OK.

Hopefully the new owner will pop up on here at some stage.

They're hopefully wearing rose tinted glasses or the thread will be titled "my wife is divorcing me for doing something stupid and wasting over £3000 on an old Golf that I thought was a classic but turned out to be crap".

[thinkofaname]

I wish they would bring back more interesting flat colours like the VW green upthread. I love it. Some cars look better in flat than metallic, but these days the choice of flat colours can be meagre.

Re the scary non-assisted brakes, I had an 80's Polo with the same thing and was told that LHD models did have servos, it was just that VW didn't convert that so they just sold the RHD cars without servos. Pretty alarming the first time you stepped into one anyway. I was always careful to warn anyone who borrowed my car.

Edited by thinkofaname on Thursday 24th July 11:59

[soxboy]

thinkofaname said:

Re the scary non-assisted brakes, I had an 80's Polo with the same thing and was told that LHD models did have servos, it was just that VW didn't convert that so they just sold the RHD cars without servos. Pretty alarming the first time you stepped into one anyway. I was always careful to warn anyone who borrowed my car.

Sort of. The brakes for RHD cars had far longer linkages than LHD and hence them being scarier on RHD versions.

[J4CKO]

I always remember Mk1 GTI brakes being the only aspect of the car that was below par.