Spot the dog

Capri

Can anyone spot anything wrong with this car

http://cars.donedeal.ie/for-sale/vintagecars/3854925

jimf

is that a vw steering wheel thats fitted dont look like it
but i could be wrong

Anan1

Black with white spots or white with black?

chevyv8

just a guess, drivers door interior is white. steering wheel..

Anan1

The steering wheel's standard for that car, that's the Wolfsburg crest on it. The car was white, but has been painted black. AFAIK (and here's my inner nerd coming out) the blue interior wasn't available with black bodywork.

Stained Class

jimf wrote: »

is that a vw steering wheel thats fitted dont look like it
but i could be wrong

Steering wheel is correct for this car.

I had this exact year/model of Golf as my first car. Reg 954 UZL.

I can see by the door it had a respray at some time though..

Kenny Logins

Black on the outside.

Max Headroom

Its not a grey estate........:o

Basil Fawlty

No such thing as a MK1 Golf estate, its just the laziness of the motor tax office staff that has most older cars in the wrong category.

bijapos

The Golf mentioned here was resprayed black, nothing unusual in that, it was quite common to spray just the outside of the car for cost reasons a few years back.

It looks OK to me, I think it's an OK price as well for the car although no NCT is mentioned. If I bought it, I'd budget in a new respray which will only add to the cars looks and value over the years. Golf MK1's of that year tend to be very reliable and solid, it's a weak enough engine, about 50 bhp IIRC but it would make a nice daily driver.

ciarancapri wrote: »

No such thing as a MK1 Golf estate, its just the laziness of the motor tax office staff that has most older cars in the wrong category.

....and new ones too. I imported a camper van, paid over €1600 to VRT it and it came back as Make: Camper Model: LHD. :mad: Went to complain and was told that there was "nothing they could do". Muppets. I wouldn't like to get stopped in Switzerland, Austria or a number of other countries with that.

kev1.3s

well i like it anyway! Whwer else are you going to get an irish mk1 golf that hasn't had some form ofboy racer add ons at this stage, nice honest looking basic golf.

Capri

Anan1 wrote: »

The steering wheel's standard for that car, that's the Wolfsburg crest on it. The car was white, but has been painted black. AFAIK (and here's my inner nerd coming out) the blue interior wasn't available with black bodywork.

I'd have said silver grey as it's original colour, the reg plates look like Quinn/Radiator Services originals but with letters painted silver.
Otherwise nice original Formel E Golf

bbsrs

Judging solely by the pictures and description I think calling it a dog just because of a respray is a little unfair to the owner . If you called it a dog after viewing it that would be a different story.

Anan1

Capri wrote: »

I'd have said silver grey as it's original colour, the reg plates look like Quinn/Radiator Services originals but with letters painted silver.
Otherwise nice original Formel E Golf

I think you might be right. And i'm all the more embarrassed because we had a silver Mk1 with blue interior in the family!

bbsrs wrote: »

Judging solely by the pictures and description I think calling it a dog just because of a respray is a little unfair to the owner . If you called it a dog after viewing it that would be a different story.

I thought it was because Spot the dog was black and white - not sure now whether I was overthinking the whole thing..

bbsrs

Anan1 wrote: »

.I thought it was because Spot the dog was black and white - not sure now whether I was overthinking the whole thing..

Or maybe I was under thinking it , didn't think of it that way. Maybe cleverly ambiguous by the OP. either way I can't see it as a dog or a dog.

hi5

I don't see any dogs but I do see a rabbit

Capri

Having been in the spraying line before, I was wondering WHY anyone would do such a job on a car that had so much internal painted metal without going the whole hog ??
The only innocent reason I can think of is a priest was given the car and decided to get it done in 'Clerical black' back in the day when they used to do that :P
Otherwise it could be hiding something such as ......:cool:

Max Headroom

Capri wrote: »

The only innocent reason I can think of is a priest was given the car :P
......

Or the Gardai were looking for a silver Golf seen hanging around playgrounds...;)

Capri

While we're talking ruff-ruff, 'Here Rover!'

http://cars.donedeal.ie/for-sale/vintagecars/3849638


http://cars.donedeal.ie/for-sale/vintagecars/3855381


Looks like the dog was given the camera to take the shots :D

Max Headroom

Looks like "first come first served" as regards the box of bits...........:)

twebb

In fairness, I have looked at those photos a few times and read the replies. I really can't see any reason to call that car a 'dog'. I'd like to point out I don't have any connection to the car or the owner, nor do I know too much about Golfs, but it seems that lately this forum has turned into something of a knitting circle, with people very quick to cast aspersions, particularly when such aspersions appear to be completely groundless. This is not the only thread which seems to have the same tones over the last few months.....
I really would have thought it should be about all things classic car related, and not about, for want of a better word, gossiping and curtain twitching.
Now for the seemingly compulsory smiley...

Capri

The Golf is getting to be a classic age-wise , but my question was FOR WHAT REASON was the colour changed so drastically , and if so could there be other issues with the same car - would YOU like to buy something and then find out there were issues with it.
This forum praises clean motors that are good value but theres an awful lot of tat out there being sold as 'Classics' after a wash and a bit of black shultz strategically applied , and we seem to be getting a dumping ground for UK MoT failures !
Sometimes 'knitting circles' have uses !

Basil Fawlty

twebb wrote: »

In fairness, I have looked at those photos a few times and read the replies. I really can't see any reason to call that car a 'dog'. I'd like to point out I don't have any connection to the car or the owner, nor do I know too much about Golfs, but it seems that lately this forum has turned into something of a knitting circle, with people very quick to cast aspersions, particularly when such aspersions appear to be completely groundless. This is not the only thread which seems to have the same tones over the last few months.....
I really would have thought it should be about all things classic car related, and not about, for want of a better word, gossiping and curtain twitching.
Now for the seemingly compulsory smiley...

I couldnt agree more. This really is a new low, starting threads on individual cars that are advertised just to have a bitch about a paint job. I mean really, its just an old golf at small money.

bbsrs

Capri wrote: »

The Golf is getting to be a classic age-wise , but my question was FOR WHAT REASON was the colour changed so drastically , and if so could there be other issues with the same car - would YOU like to buy something and then find out there were issues with it.
This forum praises clean motors that are good value but theres an awful lot of tat out there being sold as 'Classics' after a wash and a bit of black shultz strategically applied , and we seem to be getting a dumping ground for UK MoT failures !
Sometimes 'knitting circles' have uses !

Yes but without firsthand knowledge of a car it's not fair to criticise it unless the asking price is crazy or it's obviously described untruthfully and in this case it's neither.

unfit2006

ciarancapri wrote: »

I couldnt agree more. This really is a new low, starting threads on individual cars that are advertised just to have a bitch about a paint job. I mean really, its just an old golf at small money.

Ciarancapri,

I dont think that this thread was motivated for the purpose of "bitching" about the paint job of the car in question.
Before ever reading this thread, I had looked at the ad and wondered what reasoning or motivation could have been behind the sprayjob that the Golf had received.
The most common reason (by a long shot) is unfortunately the one that we are all too familiar with.

Might not be a dog .... but maybe a pup.

Anan1

Chill out lads, i'm pretty confident that it was a joke!