Have you seen HJ's Jetta GT in the classifieds for £100!!
By chance I opened a 1986 Autocar the other day to read a full road test of the model. They really rated it with a 0-60 of 8.5 secs and 119mph max. Handling was well liked also.
From my experience of older VWs this would either give you a great deal of fun for a few months till it breaks, or it may even be worth some TLC for a longer term future. After all it is just a Golf GTi (only better looking) and one of those would be at least five times as much in similar condition.
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MM
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Bargain at twice the price.
The only troubles are:
1. It looks like a Jetta
2. You can't fit wardrobes etc in it
3. Insurance is just as horrific as a Golf GTI
If I didn't already have a Golf GTI I might even take it off HJs hands :)
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If no one takes it this weekend it goes for scrap.
HJ
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That would be a shame. I'll try and persude me Dad he needs one to run about in.
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Or, if Phil G's Dad is not interested, why not send it to auction??? Or give it away to Richard Hall?
I can't believe anybody on this forum would send a roadworthy car to scrap, especially the venerable HJ. I know I never could.
CMark
all in the best possible taste.
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Maybe you've got space for it and time for it. I have neither. Will try to give to Brooklands Motor Project which is a local charity teaching under-age kids to drive and fix up cars, but If they won't take it, then Sunbury Salvage might. Nothing wrong with the car mind. Goes, starts, stops; has decent tyres, new alternator, even a pull-out Soney Cassette radio. But no one gets the car unless they sign properly for it and can prove their address.
HJ
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HJ,
Why not put it up on ebay starting at a pound?! You often see MOT failures going for more than a hundred!
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Excellent idea. But I'd have to set up an ebay account, and they are not 100% secure. Meanwhile I have two vicars after the car, which is free to a man of the cloth.
HJ
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Vicars?
In a Jetta GTi?
Indeed, God goes to work in mysterious ways!
:)
Mental,
Having seen the hassle caused by eBay auctions (There was a well-chronicled story of a backroomer bidding for a Yugo, once), it seems more trouble than it's worth.
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Careful HJ, you could be guilty of sexual discrimination here, why is free only to a man of the cloth - do you have an ideological objection to women priests ?
Matthew Kelly
No, not that one.
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OT but I have found EBay auctions excellent. Sold for £89 a book I bought 10 years ago for £30. No hassle .
I can recommend it (they may have had past problems.. only used it for 6 months)
madf
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I'm no expert, but surely the Bible use the term 'man' to cover both male and female of the species, and predates much of this PC tosh by a few thousand years.
Regards
John S
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Thank you, John, once again.
HJ
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