RE: Shed Of The Week: Volkswagen Golf Ryder
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Funny the early 90's was a great time for these special editions which amounted to little more than a couple of go faster stripes down the sides of the car and maybe the same on the seats. Peugeot did them alot too. 205 Look, Golf Ryder or Golf Pacific etc. these were popular in Ireland to disguise the fact that the cars were basically 'poverty spec'.
rastapasta said:
Funny the early 90's was a great time for these special editions which amounted to little more than a couple of go faster stripes down the sides of the car and maybe the same on the seats. Peugeot did them alot too. 205 Look, Golf Ryder or Golf Pacific etc. these were popular in Ireland to disguise the fact that the cars were basically 'poverty spec'.
Oh, yes. Our 205 was a "Style"... 1.1 4spd.I remember one of these being on the original Wheeler Dealers when the show focused on people buying and selling cars (with Mike and the other lanky bloke, long before Edd came along). The lady selling it tacked on a few hundred pounds because it had a 'spoiler' (read: a tiny, faded-plastic triangular piece of plastic along the bottom edge of the rear window) and that would make it appeal to boy racers. It was on the same episode with the BX which took about 30 seconds of turnover to fire up.
I don't know why I remember this stuff
I don't know why I remember this stuff
TooMany2cvs said:
That's luxury, that is.
Our 1990 205 was too low-spec to even have a clock there. It just had a big blanking plate with PEUGEOT on it. Speedo and fuel gauge, that was your lot. No clock anywhere, didn't even have intermittent wipe.
That's brilliant, I like the fact they put Peugeot on the blank to make it fancyOur 1990 205 was too low-spec to even have a clock there. It just had a big blanking plate with PEUGEOT on it. Speedo and fuel gauge, that was your lot. No clock anywhere, didn't even have intermittent wipe.
bigvanfan said:
TooMany2cvs said:
That's luxury, that is.
Our 1990 205 was too low-spec to even have a clock there. It just had a big blanking plate with PEUGEOT on it. Speedo and fuel gauge, that was your lot. No clock anywhere, didn't even have intermittent wipe.
That's brilliant, I like the fact they put Peugeot on the blank to make it fancyOur 1990 205 was too low-spec to even have a clock there. It just had a big blanking plate with PEUGEOT on it. Speedo and fuel gauge, that was your lot. No clock anywhere, didn't even have intermittent wipe.
Nah, I was a total VW fanboy, but this doesn't have much going for it.
Yes, every possible way to cram a more powerful engine into a Mk2 Golf Shell has been tried and most of them work to a certain degree - Gti 8v and 16v engines into non-GTIs, G60's, 16vG60s, 2.0 conversions of 16v engines using Audi Blocks, 2.0 conversions using Mk3 engines, 20v engines of every type, 2.8 & 2.9 VR6s with and without turbos and and a lot more even madder and badder things when a single engine simply wasn't enough.
The problems with this one:
It's a 5 door, okay the best MK2 Golf VW ever made was a 5 door, but it wasn't it's finest feature - for the level of money and commitment needed to make this thing fast or interesting, you'd start with a 3dr just because the shell isn't going to be nearly the hardest or most expensive part of the puzzle to find.
It's not a GTi, or even a Driver - which means if you want it as the basis of a 'build' you'll probably need a GTi donor car for all the endless odds and sods you'll need like disc hubs, a dash with a rev counter, multitudes of trim that's hard to find, so you might as well buy a rough GTI, they're not that much more expensive and will save you a lot of time and money in the meantime.
It's one of those 'one day' cars isn't it? You might look at the value of poverty spec cars from other brands and think one day this will be worth fortunes - but it won't, the VW scene doesn't work that way - just because it's old it doesn't mean it's worth anything - look at the value of the common or garden 70's Beetles - £800 for a rough runner - and they're an awful lot rarer than MK2 Golfs these days.
You could buy it, run it for as long as it'll keep passing MOTs and it's be slower, less economical and worse to drive than a million other newer cars you can find at the bottom of the local classifieds and scrap it when it's finally dead, or if you're quite mad - restore it to it's full glory - it'll cost thousands and one day it might be worth a few grand.
Yes, every possible way to cram a more powerful engine into a Mk2 Golf Shell has been tried and most of them work to a certain degree - Gti 8v and 16v engines into non-GTIs, G60's, 16vG60s, 2.0 conversions of 16v engines using Audi Blocks, 2.0 conversions using Mk3 engines, 20v engines of every type, 2.8 & 2.9 VR6s with and without turbos and and a lot more even madder and badder things when a single engine simply wasn't enough.
The problems with this one:
It's a 5 door, okay the best MK2 Golf VW ever made was a 5 door, but it wasn't it's finest feature - for the level of money and commitment needed to make this thing fast or interesting, you'd start with a 3dr just because the shell isn't going to be nearly the hardest or most expensive part of the puzzle to find.
It's not a GTi, or even a Driver - which means if you want it as the basis of a 'build' you'll probably need a GTi donor car for all the endless odds and sods you'll need like disc hubs, a dash with a rev counter, multitudes of trim that's hard to find, so you might as well buy a rough GTI, they're not that much more expensive and will save you a lot of time and money in the meantime.
It's one of those 'one day' cars isn't it? You might look at the value of poverty spec cars from other brands and think one day this will be worth fortunes - but it won't, the VW scene doesn't work that way - just because it's old it doesn't mean it's worth anything - look at the value of the common or garden 70's Beetles - £800 for a rough runner - and they're an awful lot rarer than MK2 Golfs these days.
You could buy it, run it for as long as it'll keep passing MOTs and it's be slower, less economical and worse to drive than a million other newer cars you can find at the bottom of the local classifieds and scrap it when it's finally dead, or if you're quite mad - restore it to it's full glory - it'll cost thousands and one day it might be worth a few grand.
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