Ok well bear with me first lol, lots of pics to post!

A little tale first..

Bought the car in May 2004, as my first car. It was obvious from the immaculate service history that it had been very well looked after. However it was now a bit of a rescue case, mother nature had taken her toll and the car was very rusty, even after having replacement arches once before in its life. The arches, sills, battery tray, chassis and numerous other places were rusted.. but it was just to good a car for the scrapyard, with hardly any MK5 130specs around - I decided to restore her.

Plus being only 17 at the time, I had no license so I thought I may as well lol. Tis almost a year on now (am 18 wahay lol), and its been a few months since I got my license..and about 7 months since my car has seen my driveway

Anyways on with the pics!

First off when I got her, got a mate to drive her back - and she was beautiful the whole way down. Didn't play up or miss a beat over 100miles...not bad for a car that had only done 50miles in the past 2 years! Did it all on about £10 worth of fuel as well!
Even showed up a VTS on the way back as well in a little blat, thoroughly enjoyable to see four chavs being shown up lol.

Only bad thing with the car was it had a towbar on it, YES a towbar pmsl...but that came off first. Took a lot of levering and pulling from me and my mate as it had some feck off bolts that had rusted on - in the end I gave up with the last bolt and took it to my garage to have it ground off pmsl. Only took me 5 hours!

Well here are the never before seen pics of when I first got her, forgive the quality as they are photos...which I have taken a photo of LOL.

And yes thats me cleaning it, and standing behind it before it was cleaned






And here are some better quality photos, unfortunately I never took any of the engine bay...but let me assure you it was rather filthy, and certainly not shiny lol.
So here they are...


(yup new mats about the only mod at this time lol)




Now on with the restoration itself...