So,
as some may know, my daily is a '99 Audi A8 4.2 quattro. It's a nice car and I love driving it, but insurance is annoying as well as parts prices. So the original plan was to buy a nice retro daily - something big, comfy, with a/c and automatic, that is cheap to insure. Something to replace the Audi as my daily. I was thinking of Mercedes W126, Volvo 900s, Saab 9000s and similar cars.
Well... that didn't work out. Seems the Audi is destined to stay my daily for a while longer.
Cue two weeks ago. A friend dragged me to a gathering of the second generation Volkswagen Golf - Mk2 Elite in the Netherlands. I was somehow so excited by this, that I bid 301€ on a Golf on ebay while I was at the event. I won the car the next day for 300€.
Today I finally picked it up.
It's a '90 Golf Moda - the Golf Moda is a special edition that's bascially a fancier Golf CL (base model). Compared to the base spec CL the Moda comes with funky seat covers (see pictures), arch flares and skirts, GTI tails, painted mirrors, and was available in the color Dark Burgundy (which mine is) which was usually only available on the Golf GTI Edition One. The Moda was available only in 1990. From the factory, it also came with 15" BBS wheels, which sadly were not included with mine.
Mine's got the 1.3 NZ and the engine is bascially destined for the crap heap as it runs like crap and I want something more powerful anyways. I'm thinking either 2.0 8v or 2.0 16v or maybe VR6 or 1.8t. But since I'm a stingy bastard and **** to pay for things, I'll probably go with the 2.0 8v.
Condition wise... well, it needs work but it's not worse than I expected, but not better either. One door needs replacing due to rust. Apart from that the body looks pretty straight - I'll put it on a lift later today and a have a more indepth look. The paint... I'm not sure if that can be revided, but I think it needs at least a partial repaint. Might just repaint it a different color altogether.
Interior needs some work too. Driver's seat is crap, passenger seat and rear bench are decent, the colored Moda stripes on the door card are broken, headliner is crap.
But apart from that it drives relatively decently.
I think I'll have my work cut out for me, but I don't think it's too much for me to handle. I'll keep you posted.
as some may know, my daily is a '99 Audi A8 4.2 quattro. It's a nice car and I love driving it, but insurance is annoying as well as parts prices. So the original plan was to buy a nice retro daily - something big, comfy, with a/c and automatic, that is cheap to insure. Something to replace the Audi as my daily. I was thinking of Mercedes W126, Volvo 900s, Saab 9000s and similar cars.
Well... that didn't work out. Seems the Audi is destined to stay my daily for a while longer.
Cue two weeks ago. A friend dragged me to a gathering of the second generation Volkswagen Golf - Mk2 Elite in the Netherlands. I was somehow so excited by this, that I bid 301€ on a Golf on ebay while I was at the event. I won the car the next day for 300€.
Today I finally picked it up.
It's a '90 Golf Moda - the Golf Moda is a special edition that's bascially a fancier Golf CL (base model). Compared to the base spec CL the Moda comes with funky seat covers (see pictures), arch flares and skirts, GTI tails, painted mirrors, and was available in the color Dark Burgundy (which mine is) which was usually only available on the Golf GTI Edition One. The Moda was available only in 1990. From the factory, it also came with 15" BBS wheels, which sadly were not included with mine.
Mine's got the 1.3 NZ and the engine is bascially destined for the crap heap as it runs like crap and I want something more powerful anyways. I'm thinking either 2.0 8v or 2.0 16v or maybe VR6 or 1.8t. But since I'm a stingy bastard and **** to pay for things, I'll probably go with the 2.0 8v.
Condition wise... well, it needs work but it's not worse than I expected, but not better either. One door needs replacing due to rust. Apart from that the body looks pretty straight - I'll put it on a lift later today and a have a more indepth look. The paint... I'm not sure if that can be revided, but I think it needs at least a partial repaint. Might just repaint it a different color altogether.
Interior needs some work too. Driver's seat is crap, passenger seat and rear bench are decent, the colored Moda stripes on the door card are broken, headliner is crap.
But apart from that it drives relatively decently.
I think I'll have my work cut out for me, but I don't think it's too much for me to handle. I'll keep you posted.
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