Four years, £45,000 and a lot of blood, sweat and tears, how's this for a Mk1 Golf GTI with a twist?
You know that feeling of getting carried away – of being swept up in the moment? It's all too common and can happen, say, after a few too many, so going out turns into going out, out, as Micky Flanagan described so hilariously. Or you might end up spending a few quid more than you’d intended on a shopping spree, or £45,000 on resto-modding a Mk1 Golf GTI. That's what happened to Chris, who owns this Mk1 Golf GTI.
I asked him whether he’s really spent £45,000 on it, as the advert says? ‘Oh, at least that, but probably more,’ he replied, with just the hint of resignation in his tone. The problem is Chris is a perfectionist. In fact, to use his own words: ‘I don’t do things half-arsed’. That’s obvious when you read the advert, which, he said, he tried to keep to the point not to bore people.
You may be wondering why, after spending all this time and money, Chris is selling it? Well, for a couple of reasons. Firstly, he said his original dream of a simple track car evaporated as the financial heat was turned up. There’s no way he’s going to risk it on a track day now, so the end goal morphed into creating a show car – a drivable one, mind, not one chauffeured everywhere on a trailer. And on that point, he’s taken it to a couple of events.
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