suffolkpete wrote:Don't let's start a "What is a classic?" thread.
Thanks, I used to have a TR7 and always had the.... "It's not a real TR" speech, so I'm used to sitting on the outskirts. Although now I think it qualifies, so time will tell with my 80's bunch.
Anyway, they're all still made of metal and they all need love, care and attention so someone's tips on how to control rust on a 60 year old Jag will be just as valuable to anyone. I guess I can skip the posts about how to restore walnut dashes.
suffolkpete wrote:All your cars are ones rapidly disappearing from the roads and as such should be preserved.
Quite, and that's my goal.
One of my Mk2 Golfs is a limited edition "one in ten million" campaign model to celebrate the production of 10 million Golfs. It featured a unique interior, forged alloy wheels and came in a limited selection of metallic colours.
I contacted VW History dept in Germany to get a bit more info, details are a bit sketchy but they only produced 16500, 8000 remained inland (was the term they used) so I'm not sure if that means just in Germany or across the European Continent. The other 8500 went for export and no idea how many of those cam into the UK. I've contacted VW UK and am awaiting any kind of answer.
So meanwhile... there was a choice of 3dr or 5dr although not sure if it wasn't an equal split for the benefit of this I will assume near enough. So, 4250 of each, out of that either 8v or 16v engine, so 2125 and the car was only issued in 3 colours, So that's 708.333 (Ok so not totally equal split) of each variant. So even if we were to guess the UK took a third of them, that's only 236 in of this particular car in the UK and that was back in 1988.
So loose a few to accidents, mot failures and then the scrappage scheme
I can imagine the numbers on that particular spec vehicle are very low. Oh and I nearly forgot... take away all the ones that have been modified to within an inch of their lives.... makes this one possibly the last remaining example in the UK.
Surprisingly also, and I know there's always debate about how accurate it is, the How Many Left website reports only 52 of the BMW for that year and engine configuration.