the end of my mk2Golf era

[Tjaap]

my first mk2, first car even. It all came to an end yesterday.
I bought this car 3 days after i got my liscense, and it was what started the hobby for me. Even changed my life to a degree that i gave up studying economics at the university to go to a tech-school for car development. I got tired of the slow 1.3 about 2 years ago, and i decided i liked the coupe style better anyway so i bought my recent coupe.

But what do you do with your first love? you can't sell her, that would be sacriledge.... ;) so i rented a spot in a barn to put her into storage. Hoping that one day i would get a great idea or a good opputunity to put her to good use. But as time passed i changed my mind so many times that she never got out of the barn again.

Then my friend Marc crashed his Jetta, and he needed parts for cheap, so i thought, what the hell just get them of the Golf. And piece by piece she started to get robbed of parts.

And then, about a month ago, i was given a mk1 Golf by Chris. As this will become my new project i needed the spot in the barn.

So finally i decided to put the Golf out of it's misery,.. I GAVE IT UP.
put the paperwork in an envelope and send them to Stijn. he stripped her for parts and she will leave to the junkyard in a few days.

so in a few days it will be no more Golf.
so as my tribute to her, i'm gonna make her one last picpost, so all her friends can say goodbye :laugh:

as i bought her
http://www.clubs.nl/ClubsData/47117/incoming/T-NIEUW.JPG

first mod, quad lights :D
http://www.clubs.nl/ClubsData/47117/incoming/t-true-golf.jpg

first crash
http://www.clubs.nl/ClubsData/47117/incoming/t-kapot.jpg

broken down in Belgium :sly:
http://www.clubs.nl/ClubsData/47117/incoming/Vw5.jpg
friends that drove 3 hours to come to the rescue
http://www.clubs.nl/ClubsData/47117/incoming/Vw7.jpg

fixed again
http://www.clubs.nl/ClubsData/47117/incoming/Vw4(1).jpg

her best days
http://www.clubs.nl/ClubsData/47117/incoming/tjaap7a.jpg
http://www.clubs.nl/ClubsData/47117/incoming/Dsc00016a.jpg
http://www.clubs.nl/ClubsData/47117/incoming/tjaap8a.jpg

the day i brought her to the storage (her replacement (the coupe) on the left)

http://www.clubs.nl/ClubsData/47117/incoming/Dsc00861(1).jpg

as she sat there for 1.5 years
http://www.clubs.nl/ClubsData/47117/incoming/Dsc00918.jpg
http://www.clubs.nl/ClubsData/47117/incoming/Dsc00921.jpg

the pics Stijn send me today
http://volksforum.com/gallery/wm.php?pid=358&mode=normal
http://volksforum.com/gallery/wm.php?pid=359&mode=normal
http://volksforum.com/gallery/wm.php?pid=360&mode=normal

and the one that will take her place in the barn
http://www.clubs.nl/ClubsData/47117/incoming/img_1045.jpg
http://www.clubs.nl/ClubsData/47117/incoming/img_1043.jpg

THE END :( :D

[Marcski]

Goodbye :snif:

[Stijn]

Sorry Jaap :*(

[sjampoo]

Do I spot a fine MH engine on the trailer? electric fuel pump hanging by it's lines on the right? 084 or 085 box?

[sjampoo]

Oh, and:

what's with them 'Coupe style' car?
It's a fuckin 5 door or 3 door hatchback.. The mark2 golf didn't come in much more flavours.... (or did I miss somethin')

[Tjaap]

2 door Jetta... they call it Jetta coupe in the US, and as it sound sporty, now i do too :)

[Tjaap]

the engine is great, but i have no clue if it's an MH... about 10000 km's since rebuild, and doesn't use any oil... It's Stijn's now, so make him an offer he can't refuse ;)

[Stijn]

It's an MH.

Once again made my mark: to have the engine out while it's still warm! Took me 40mins exactly.

[Marcski]

It's not Kwikfit but Kwikdismantle

[Black Devil]

It's a shame but that's life!

[VeeDubber]

Hey Tjaap, did you have the same problem as me?
That you had to explain to everybody why the hell you bought an older car then youre previous one? I bought an 83 A1 Golf GTi after an accident with my 86 A2 GTi and lot´s of people just didn´t understand why I bought an older one.....

The trouble of an A1 lover, incredible........

[Tjaap]

LOL, well i replaced the 87 golf with an 89 Jetta, so i got some understanding for that, the fact that i bought a "turkenbak" was the hard thing to explain ;) ...... the mk1 is a project, and even my non-car friends understand that projects are supposed to be old :D ...
and yeh, my roomies don't get my carhobby anyways...so, they don't even bother... and my family decided they don't even wanna know what i'm getting into anymore :D

[Allart-Ghetta]

Fuck them all, we JETTA owners take over the world.
I now own a turkenbak with thule, no one understands it.
Anyone asks what i'm going to put on the roof and I say it's for pimpin' around, then they just look funny.

[Batan]

Even changed my life to a degree that i gave up studying economics at the university to go to a tech-school for car development.
I hear ya man... :)

[shved]

1.3L engine would be really affordable with our current gas prices, dollar a liter.

u still mk2 man ;)

[Tjaap]

not really. in a mk2, with my driving.. a 1.8 is just as good for gasmileage as the 1.3 was