Land barge

Oh yes another ride thread from me, heres the story, loved my MK1 best car ive ever had then stupidly went for a consultation for laser eye surgery really wanted it down but couldnt afford it so made the decision to sell the golf Which meant I needed a dirt cheap runabout, was looking at loads of cars a mk2 van which i got let down on a merc 190e but couldnt find one with the right spec, finally I saw dapperdans estate was for sale, it was cheap and dan had done a fair bit of work mechanically so I went a brought it.

This is how the barge looked when i picked her up from Dan








A decent car for £330 had mot and tax plus dan had done

-new clutch (valeo)

-new cam belt/tensioner

-new brakes all round

-new exhaust including cat

-new gaskets etc

- new gear linkage kit

-gearbox oil changed

-recently changed front wishbones,ball joints, trackrod ends,antiroll bar bushes

Had a fair few dents and scratches but its all good.

Gave the barge a good clean today, takes hours to polish and wax an estate!!!

Started off looking pretty dirty.





Gave it a good wash

Had to stop halfway through to sell this though



cracked on with the polish and wax



After a good 4 hours work she scrubbed up.






Couple of reflections




Thats all for now, plans are to abuse it.

Dan has put coils on the front so im trying to find some rears, im selling the compomotives off the mk1 then going find some 15 or 16, roll arches and remove helper springs.

Also emailed a guy breaking a mk3 gti same colour about a few doors and a bonnet and maybe some other jazz.

now im off to chill

sweet

Nice Matt, shame to see the rabbit go but needs must

good to see the red barron live on with a nomad ..enjoy

hi guys not much of an update, struggling to find coils at the moment all seem to be expensive and the one cheap set i can find only drop to 70mm which is a big nooooooooo!

anyway after work decided to take the stickers off the car.




left a small outline mark so go the compound out




the gave the barge a bath.





got a cl splitter on the way aswell

When's it due? I joke fair play it's looking clean now we both have a car on shitty steels

its true you and chen are 14'' steel 'BROS'


and she needs a chin spoiler asap dude there are 5 mk3's up at the scrappy right now ?

good to see this still in the family keep up the good work.

gutted for you that you had to sell the cabby.... but being able to see properly is probably more important!!...... maybe.......

chenn wrote:

When's it due? I joke fair play it's looking clean now we both have a car on shitty steels

I saw your car this morning, I want it!

dapperdan wrote:

its true you and chen are 14'' steel 'BROS'


and she needs a chin spoiler asap dude there are 5 mk3's up at the scrappy right now ?

Already got one beardy man!

D.A.M IT! wrote:

good to see this still in the family keep up the good work.

gutted for you that you had to sell the cabby.... but being able to see properly is probably more important!!...... maybe.......

maybe i miss the golf soooo much

groundbreaking update!







Got a cl splitter cos all the cheapy Vr6 ones always get ruined and break after a day of owning one

buying a harness for my stereo, and some fog blanks as the car looks abit gash without them

14" twins no more just bought some banded steels 8j up front 8.5j out back

Should be on tomorrow..

You like it Mat in unsure about 4 doors tbh cheers tho!

Bet you wish you kept your Bandeds now you have this puppy

I banded steels...

shame they are all so f**king expensive and there don't seem to many sets out there for 5x100 hubs.

Car is looking nice and clean Matt.
If you need any mk3 bits that dapper Dan hasn't already shot gunned gimme a shout me and Sprout are in the process of breaking one and it hasn't got long before it goes to the scrappy in Wisbech.

Do you fancy a mint 16v gti interior for example? or maybe a new dash or whatever?

Speak to me on thursday dude.

Mk3 filth, nice one! Scrubbed up pretty well and I do like that red

chenn wrote:

14" twins no more just bought some banded steels 8j up front 8.5j out back

Should be on tomorrow..

You like it Mat in unsure about 4 doors tbh cheers tho!

Bet you wish you kept your Bandeds now you have this puppy

I <3 ur MK2 mate, nah the 14's would be to small for this i reckon

Dashworth wrote:

I banded steels...

shame they are all so f**king expensive and there don't seem to many sets out there for 5x100 hubs.

Car is looking nice and clean Matt.
If you need any mk3 bits that dapper Dan hasn't already shot gunned gimme a shout me and Sprout are in the process of breaking one and it hasn't got long before it goes to the scrappy in Wisbech.

Do you fancy a mint 16v gti interior for example? or maybe a new dash or whatever?

Speak to me on thursday dude.

Hi man forgot to mention on Thursday I do need some bits, got any fog lights/blanks? is it a 5 door?

jimwah wrote:

Mk3 filth, nice one! Scrubbed up pretty well and I do like that red

Cheers, Jim

Think dapper dan has shot gunned the fog lights and all the bumpers let me k kw if there is is anything else you want and I'll have a look

Dashworth wrote:

Think dapper dan has shot gunned the fog lights and all the bumpers let me k kw if there is is anything else you want and I'll have a look

ahh gay ill have a think

No worries Dude,

I'm selling everything super cheap anyway,

Your more than welcome to the whole interior, door cards and dash.... Literally everything for like £100

well as some of you may have seen at Thursdays meet the land barge was losing water badly and sods law my mate who I brought with me had a phone call and his girlfriend got rushed to hospital so I had to drive back to tring knowing full well I had no water and would f*@! the barge completely.

Managed to get to Tring but the barge cut out so I left it for the night got a lift to work on Friday went back Friday night armed and dangerous!



To find this..



Which lead to this on Saturday morning



And then trying to be a dodgy bastard I brought some of this



Obviously It didnt work and then ran out of options really cant be arsed to get a head skim so browsing ebay I decided to buy a new engine.



Have yet to figure out how to pick it up also could be shagged but there no fun in doing things the easy way!

Oh more importantly I got these today!!!!




S'all good

Hero

Haha land barge love! Going to be full on static lows now!

Dashworth wrote:

Hero

chenn wrote:

Haha land barge love! Going to be full on static lows now!

Thats the plan Matt been nearly a month since I felt a subframe smash tarmac! Getting withdrawal.

I meant as in it's not moving anywhere lol! But I would like too see this on the floor mind

It's going to look insane dumped on the deck

chenn wrote:

I meant as in it's not moving anywhere lol! But I would like too see this on the floor mind

Cheeky sod will be fixed in no time! maybe...

minty "TIMMY" wrote:

It's going to look insane dumped on the deck

Cheers Minty, should be on the floor for edition

I'm also planning dumping mine down for ed38......that's if I can unstick the rear coils cus they seized up,time for some bike chain oil