A reg mk2 CL

This is what I picked up yesterday, a 1984 1.3 CL with lovely brown interior
Please excuse the rat look, Ive been there and done that before, so it won't be staying that way,as it has no dents and especially seeing as the only bit of rot on the whole car is on the drivers side front wing, which I'l replace. The sills, floor, arches are all rot free, and all the rust on the car was intentional by the last owner. Its been lowered 60mm on springs and shocks, and has an uber powerful 1.3 4 speed goin on under the bonnet, which if all goes to plan won't be staying there (although for 200k miles it drives well).

First thing to do is the clutch as the release bearing has collapsed, meaning I had to do the 100 mile trip home with no clutch and then I can rub down the surface rust and primer it all to stop anymore rust. Then the plan is to do my first ever full respray

Anyways here she is, in all its ratness









The car has an interesting story to it, basically the last owner found it dumped next to a derelict building, and after 7 months of driving past it he knocked on a few doors to find the owner. Turned out that an elderly couple had owned it for about 16 years but it had sat there untouched for 3 and a half years, so he took it off theyre hands. After about £600 spent on it to get it back on the road and replacing the troublesome pierburg carb with a manual choke weber carb, and lots of other engine work, hes had it for 3 years and not really had any trouble with it, and obviously it was him that ratted it (but he ran it on BBS RAs and refused to let me have them with it). Hopefully I can turn it around into something nice as I don't like to see such a mint shell being a rat.

cool looks like u got a challenge there be nice to see wot u do

love it i miss my oldrat car but it is nice to get back into summats respectfull again. will be good to se it put back to its former glory

Well it won't quite be back to former glory, as I'm changing the colour

Good news is after driving it clutchless for the past 250 miles it finally has a spangly new clutch and I have to say considering its age and mileage its incredibly smooth and nice to drive!

nice car man looks sweet as a rat but gonna be interesting to see what it looks like after you have sprayed it

Rusty bonnets now for sale. Got this one off jamie

Been busy working on the bodywork yesterday, been playing with my new sander

A mate has offered to respray my car for a price I couldn't refuse, as long as I do all the prep work, so once I've finished sorting all the surface rust and got a pair of front wings and some new gutters then I can let him change the colour for me

So anyways so far I've done a fair bit on the drivers side, over the next few days I'l work my way round the back and the passenger side










I know it don't look pretty, but it can't look any worse than it did!!

Bit more progress yesterday




And I thought I'd share my voodoos




And yes that is a magic roll up you see in the mirror

done some more today but run out of primer

Decided not to be beaten by the thieves, so I'm going to finish it and get it resprayed now. Done some more today...




Removed the number plate and plinth to find I have a 100% rot free bootlid!



Started on passenger side now

Got my rev counter clocks fitted, and I also have no more speedo needle wobble!



Big thanks to jacko for bringing these over to me!

Picked up some hella headlights and an eyebrow off chimp today. Eyebrow needed a bit of repair, so started fibreglassing that.

Nothing really interesting has happened today, a few skims of filler here and there, and repaired the little accident I had with the drivers door when it rolled off the ramp. Also give the eyebrow a quick repair and coat of satin black. Will smooth it properly and it'l be painted alpine white with the car

blood hell mate your cracking on with that

I am indeed. Considering something completely different for the front of this mk2, and I might have to sell my beloved AA badge

Coming along nicely, most of the passenger side is done, also I did a few bits on the front end to freshen it up a bit

Got my wings yesterday from LA motors, bargain 30quid! Only got the drivers side one on though, will get passenger side done tonight maybe.

money well spent looks 10x better

Yea itl soon be a 100% rust free car! Just looks a bit odd with most of the front being black though

its gettin there,looks alot betta will look even betta when it painted bt what rims u gona put on?u goin 4 an old school rim or sunthing to make it look fresh an clean

I'm after a set of deep 13" weller steels or something small with some dish. Finally got my pics uploaded of the back end progress and the aerial hole in the passenger wing that I've smoothed







half tint rears

its getting there mate keep the pics coming

Got bored of how it was so treated to some blackboard paint

Dude... i want these wheels.. i know its gone now.. but what was they?

mk3 golf GL steels with the rare (mainly cuz they fall off!) outer trim. Your car should have had them as standard