Mk2 Golf a classic already or in the making?

kermitpwee

I am mad into mk2 golfs and love them in their original state, have they already reached a stage where people deem them a classic or a banger? My favourite is the straight diesel:D

bijapos

To me they are classic/borderline classic. They have gone from being on every street to being rare and prices have long since bottomed out and are rising in many cases. Ignore the ones for sale which are total rust buckets and are looking for crazy money, a nice one will show up eventually. I'm looking for a Golf I or II van in very good condition myself.

The Germans tend to call classics "oldtimers", they call cars like the Golf II "youngtimers", a phrase I've always liked.

Itsfixed

bijapos wrote: »

The Germans tend to call classics "oldtimers", they call cars like the Golf II "youngtimers", a phrase I've always liked.

I agree! They even have magazines devoted to this category. Here, some of us have taken to call younger classics 'retro', but that term is fast becoming synonymous with modified classics.

manta mad

i have to say ......... i like those golfs :cool:

theirs a lovely mk2 golf 2 door just outside toomevara ( at the hire yard )

nice yellow & the reg is PIX --- forgot to take a pic when passing !

Silvera

My brother has my father's old black 1991 Golf h/b in storage in his garage for the last few years. It's in solid clean condition, except for a tendency to overheat...new engine would sort that I suppose!

Spotted a wine-coloured 5 door with 'RIE' reg in Naas a few weeks ago (would upload the pic if my phone would connect to my laptop?!).

I've a soft spot for the MkII GTi.

Anan1

I came very close to buying a Mk2 Golf Limited about four years ago, I still think about it a lot.

Silvera

Silvera wrote: »

My brother has my father's old black 1991 Golf h/b in storage in his garage for the last few years. It's in solid clean condition, except for a tendency to overheat...new engine would sort that I suppose!

Spotted a wine-coloured 5 door with 'RIE' reg in Naas a few weeks ago (would upload the pic if my phone would connect to my laptop?!).

I've a soft spot for the MkII GTi.

Got my phone to co-operate! This is the Golf I spotted in a car park in Naas last month.

I also spotted this Passat c/w with 'running repairs' - fillers on wheelarch and sill. I havent seen such 'home repairs' since the 80's..a sign of the times perhaps?!

kermitpwee

I have a 3door 1.6 straight diesel at the moment which I will never part with, using it as my daily driver at the moment but I am going to do her up as well. Feckin love them on the look out for another one. Happy days:D

_Conrad_

I don't care much if anyone thinks they're classics or not but they're well loved by enough people to ensure a good following for another while and that at least some survive. I like them myself, along with mk1 golfs and both mk1 and mk2 jettas. I share the liking for the old 1.6d and 1.6td

Mycroft H

I've a 1.3 Mk2 out back awaiting respray, old 5 digit reg too.

I love the way "Made in W. Germany" is proudly stamped on every part on them

shawnee

Golf mk 1 an 2 were indeed a fine car in their day. The mark 1 was surely the first small diesel in the market and a huge amount were sold. The mark 2 will in time be a classic and they are getting scarce. Did all mk2 s have power steering or was it introduced on the later models.
Vws of that era were bullet proof , didn't have the electrics etc of the modern golfs . The sales of Golfs are certainly not anything like what they used to be.

Anan1

shawnee wrote: »

Did all mk2 s have power steering or was it introduced on the later models.

Only the later cars really, it was fairly common on the big-bumper ones. I had a 1989 GTI 16v with no power steering or central locking and windy windows.

shawnee

Had a mk1 cabriolet with big tyres and being used to power steering found the lack of it awkward !

BostonB

I had a '86 MK2 8v GTI for a few years. Definately no PS in that. Started getting expensive to run, repairs, leaded, so sold it for a Mrk2 CRX. While the GTI was nice solid car, it was no firecracker. Mine had the earlier mechanical injection, K-tronic I think? They seemed to have more Zip than the later 8V with the electronic injection. The 16v I tested at the time had no torque until about 4k. At the time getting a clean GTI was almost impossible, or indeed any hot hatch. At the time 3/4 I looked at had been crashed heavily and repaired, most badly. I can only imagine they are much rarer now. I tested a few Mrk2 MR2's at the time, even one with a supercharger! A few CRX including, SiR's etc. But anything decent was mad money even then.

The MK2 Golf is more of a cult car than a classic. Maybe thats the same thing?

Anan1

Even the GTI 16v was tame (& safe!) enough compared to the likes of a Peugeot 205GTI 1.9. I'd been looking for a 205 for a good while when the right Golf popped up - I bought it, and grew very fond of it, but could never lose that niggling feeling of having been somehow short-changed.

carchaeologist

Great cars except for the brakes of doom....
This one has been outside for 12 years with zero rust. Any other equivalent '80s car would have fallen apart by now. it also runs and drives.

kermitpwee

carchaeologist wrote: »

Great cars except for the brakes of doom....
This one has been outside for 12 years with zero rust. Any other equivalent '80s car would have fallen apart by now. it also runs and drives.

Is it for sale by any chance?

jimmyw

Of all the golfs I still maintain that the mk2 were the nicest.There is a German guy living here a good while about 3 miles up the road from me that has a 91 golf which is re- registered on Irish plates and LHD, but also has a modern Skoda.He uses her on a regular basis.He has also a got a German(apt) Shepard dog, so its hard to take a pic cause I do want me bum intact:D. Seriously, though the dog is not vicious but i just cant get the right opportunity.........................................yet!

carchaeologist

kermitpwee wrote: »

Is it for sale by any chance?

I don't think so, I will enqire of it. It would make s fine car, especially after surviving that long in the elements. Pity it's 4 door. I much prefer two door golfs myself.

Sids Not

kermitpwee wrote: »

Is it for sale by any chance?

Theres a nice one in the Dun Laoghaire scrappers for sale at the mo...;)

jimmyw

I bet ya if you had the key and turned the ignition, with a few coughs and splutters and a bit of smoke, she'd fire up and drive:D

Alfasudcrazy

I have a great passion for the Mk II but its very rare to find a good diesel for sale anywhere.

I also much prefer 3 door cars.

My 1990 Gti 8v is undergoing a little mechanical makeover at the moment so I hope to have it ready for the 'summer'.