Jetta Mk1

BrianD3

Saw a Mk1 Jetta in a car park today. Reg was BZS xxx where "xxx" was a number in the high 400s. Anyone know what year this would have been?

I'm not really a VW fan and can't stand the Mk2 Jetta but the Mk1 is pleasant enough looking. Also it was formerly a common sight here but now rare so it is a nice to see one still being used.

If anyone has an interest in Mk1 Jettas or Golfs and wants to talk about them here then feel free

Max_Damage

Was it a red one? I saw one recently, can't remember where or the reg., but your right, they are incredibly rare nowadays, especially for a car that was fairly common back in the day.

BrianD3

Nope, was navy.

PanhardPL

BrianD3 wrote:

Saw a Mk1 Jetta in a car park today. Reg was BZS xxx where "xxx" was a number in the high 400s. Anyone know what year this would have been?

I'm not really a VW fan and can't stand the Mk2 Jetta but the Mk1 is pleasant enough looking. Also it was formerly a common sight here but now rare so it is a nice to see one still being used.

If anyone has an interest in Mk1 Jettas or Golfs and wants to talk about them here then feel free

BZS was first issued in Dublin in May 1984 and lasted just one month.

Spitfire666

there was a black mk1 jetta with cream leather in PVW magazine a few issues back. it looked amazing.

cxcully

BrianD3 wrote:

If anyone has an interest in Mk1 Jettas or Golfs and wants to talk about them here then feel free

I wouldn't say I've an interest in Jettas but I do have a fondness for them-I'd regard them as the quintessential 80's rural Irish workhorse.I've seen three on the old plates on the roads in Galway in the last year-a really old farmer in one parked in Gort,stuck behind one between Mountbellew and Moylough (one of the few occasions when I don't mind being held up) and near Williamstown (ZM plates).
Incidentally there's a blue Mark 2 (more rounded than the first sharp-edged one) Golf on old plates tootling around Moylough.

junkyard

I've got 6 mark 2 GTI's and a 67 Beetle, they're the only VW's I'd have an interest in tbh.

G Luxel

A neighbour of mine has I2 mark 2 golfs scattered around his property in all states of repair. I have seen some Mark I jettas but it was the rarer two door version that I thought was interesting. There was also a higher spec jetta sold in some countries which made the jetta sold here look like something that you could only find in developing countries. A company in Germany in the late 80s used to build Mark 2 Jetta 2 door convertibles by chopping off the roof and fitting a cabriolet top similiar to the Golf.

Jason_G_KE30

It wasn't in Cavan by any chance Brian D3?? I know of one that's still in regular use there, in fact I know of another two!!:D Another one is also in daily use by Farmers in the locality, and another wine one is on the show circut in the Northwest. Were they pretty much based on the early 80's Audi 80?

8~)

I know of a couple still in daily use locally.
I know of another that is available to buy for restoration if anyone is interested.

colm_mcm

I know someone with a 1985 Jetta LHD from the US. with a 1.7 fuel injected engine, aircon and power steering. lovely car.

Spitfire666

Spotted a blue one in a garden about 10kms from kilcock if coming from the cavan road.
Looked like a farmers daily runabout.

JohnBoy

junkyard wrote:

I've got 6 mark 2 GTI's and a 67 Beetle, they're the only VW's I'd have an interest in tbh.

Hi Junkyard, are you breaking those gtis?

or just amassing a collection?

i could be interested in a power steering setup and maybe an interior too oh and if u had an unmolested parcel shelf that could also be nice.

just bought a 1990 1.3 at the weekend and i fancy sprucing it up a bit, not mad crazy shammed up stylee just giving it some minor, reversible mods.

tips on who might insure it as a second car for reasonable money would be nice too.