Highlights
- Smart retrimmed check cloth and leather interior
- Recent cambelt, water pump, alternator, clutch and brake work
- Tidy and mostly factory standard car on lattice alloys
- Eligible for Historic Vehicle status from April 2025
- Practical 4 seater convertible with Golf Mk1 dynamics
The Appeal
A convertible with the handling of one of the greatest hot hatches of all time? That will be the Golf Mk1, a car that also throws four seat practicality and excellent engineering into the mix.
This tidy black 1,600cc GL would be perfect for the last sunny days of 2024. When it gets brought out again in Spring 2025 it will be eligible for Historic Vehicle status, bringing MOT, tax and ULEZ exemption savings with it.
The interior has been retrimmed in checked cloth and leather and presents very well. Less visible is the work to the mechanicals. This includes new cambelt, water pump, battery, alternator, clutch and brake overhaul. It has been little used since and is said, by the vendor, to start and run very well.
History and Paperwork
- First registered 20th November 1984
- Vendor acquired the car in December 2022
- Car has covered less than 500 miles since purchase
- Eligible for Historic Vehicle status from 1st April 2025
- Last MOT expired 28th June 2024 with two minor, easily rectified advisories
- Unfortunately the service history has been lost
- The vendor confirms the list of maintenance detailed below
- Recent work includes new cambelt, water pump, brakes, clutch, and alternator
- This work was completed between 2022 and 2024 with few miles covered since
- 118,043 miles showing on last MOT test and now on 118,059 miles
The Condition
- Presentable black paintwork with some light marks and points to note in photographs
- These include fade and scratches to front wings and other areas to check in images
- Bodywork similarly presentable with various points to note in close up photos
- Some deterioration visible to driver’s sill and other areas of localised bubbling
- No structural advisories on last MOT test in June 2023
- Underside appears to present well with points to note in photographs
- Black vinyl roof works correctly and exterior presents in fair condition
- Roof headlining appears clean and very presentable
- Fitted with lattice-style 14in alloy wheels in fair condition with light kerbing
- Standard car with auxiliary driving lights let into front grille
- Exterior fittings including bumpers in fair condition and being complete
- Retrimmed grey checked cloth and leather interior in very good condition
- We are informed that the front seats do not fold forward, likely easily rectified
- Largely standard interior with upgraded modern Sony Bluetooth stereo fitted
- Retains original factory features like the gold ball gear knob
- Some minor marks to note to interior including driver’s door card top
- There is also a crack to the passenger vanity mirror
The Mechanics
- 1,600cc 4cyl VW carburettor-fed engine delivering 75bhp
- 5spd manual transmission
- Nnew cambelt, water pump, brakes, clutch, and alternator since 2022
- Brakes have also been overhauled according to the vendor
- Fitted with factory space saver tyre
- Car has covered very few miles since the above mechanical work
- Vendor reports that the car starts and drives well
- Seller tells us that the car could benefit from wheel tracking adjustment
- No reported running or driving issues
- No mechanical or running gear advisories on last MOT which has expired
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