Okay so its nearly been a year since i updated this.

not a huge amount of work has been done and unfortunately a bad thing happened while i got my parents to trailer the car home from uni. the car shifted and collided with the jockey wheel. and yes it was strapped down but obviously not well enough.





all though this looks bad it wasn't a great set back as i wanted to replace the front panel and slam panel anyway as some probing had shown that rot had set it round the bottom of the front panel and the front of the wings was made of many nasty bits. And this all just meant my dad had to pay for the panels and not me.

so ignoring this for now i then set about finishing the interior floor. i had yet to patch the small hole as i was waiting for my birthday to get a welder. so carried on around it.





i then moved round to the bulk head and front of the car, the heater bowl turned up a fair bit of rot which i was expecting and a new one of these was promptly ordered. Along with a repair panel for around the base.





next up was removing the front suspension, engine and gearbox aswell as the steering column, rack and some other bits like the brake servo.






When i removed all this stuff i saw the worst rot so far at the start of the tunnel and the bottom of the bulkhead.




I gave the engine and gearbox a wash to see how they would come up and with a little work and paint they will both look great.




At some point i also picked up a fiber glass bonnet really cheap thanks to the guys at the Ultra Home Rally Team. although im not sure if i will actually use this.



having had a summer of not much time between work and other commitments to get as much as i wanted done the car returned to uni relatively unchanged from this.

This is where work on the car got really lax as 4 of us from uni started up a race team and spent up until Christmas building a Mk2 Golf GTI for the MSV Mk2 Golf GTI Championship.

We started with this.



and finished with this.



and if anyone is interested they can check out for more pictures and our build blog; http://dreamtec-racing.co.uk/

After the Christmas holidays work began again. with starting to rip the front off. I will let the pictures do the talking here as its pretty obvious.



as you can see a lot needs doing, but as everyone knows it god has not let us to have a dry day in about a month so she has been safely rapped up to try and keep her dry.

hopefully once the weather lets up a bit progress on this should move on a bit faster especially with the evenings getting lighter as well.