So with £140 to spare, I thought I would have a go at buying a complete car. Not to part out, not for the engine. No, I wanted a daily driver with tax and MOT. So after a quick look around a popular internet auction site, I came across exactly what I was looking for. Without bothering to look at the car or even send an e-mail, that car got bought! With a 400 mile round trip to pick the car up to plan, a friend with a fuel efficient car was needed. Up steps Ryan with his carb’d mk2. Perfect. So off we go to pick it up.
That’s right, it’s a brown and white Mk1 Jetta which was previously blue as anyone who ever got in it or lifted the bonnet would know. It also had the sporty 1.6 straight diesel! Never had I been more excited about a car purchase. No sooner had the car got me home that things began to happen. Poundland became the perfect place to purchase many of the wallet friendly mods. It wasn’t long before the brown became tiresome and the comedy ‘shitness’ of the car wore off. So the bottom half made friends with a can of black spray paint and some silly wheels were purchased. It’s not often that adding a set of wheels to the car TRIPLES its value!
It was starting to take shape as an acceptable ‘rat’ so it wasn’t long before it went lower and was taken to its first show. A memorable one too as it was F6’s first outing. Think we pulled it off quite well, and the F6 sofa was born too, the original car show sofa.
Not being your run of the mill car, it needed a couple of quirky mods before it went to help it stand out. These must have totalled about £6.50. Two of your standard grot mags, some spray adhesive and some pens. The result being.......
Designer retrim for the roof liner and sun visors
And when you leave some pens laying on a white car......
Post UD’s, most would have wiped all the writing off of the car. Nope, F6 use permanent markers. Just a few words taped over as the local po-po didn’t take kindly to obscenities. And that’s how it rolled for a long time, scraping its underbelly most places and regularly being the basis for many a funny story.
On to Spring Fest that year, a fine display
Eg. – Coming back from a late night trip to no rice it began to splutter and lose all power. So we pull over. It then seems to be fine, so we continue. A minute later, same again and we once again pull over. The problem is quickly put down to fuelling as the structure of the fuel filler neck resembled the inside of a crumpet, there was more than likely going to be a piece of crap stuck somewhere! So we did what anyone would have done in this situation, bypassed the entire fuelling system with 2 pipes coming straight from the pump, taped into a jerry can full of fuel which was then rope tied and semi-secured into the corner of the engine bay. Worked a treat. Ran it like that for the following week or 2 as well.
Having owned the car for over a year, it was time for a change, so the car received a few nice pics, some further bodged spraying and then the inevitable trip to the scrappy. Biggest most regrettable thing I have ever done, however at the time, seemed quite apt and provided many a laugh. Having being abused for most of the time I had it, ran on veg oil for 90% of that time too, it still managed to be loaded with 2 tonnes of scrap metal we all had lying about, and almost drive itself to the weigh bridge!
The beginning of the demise.....
The final hours, of what was one of the founding cars of F6. Many a good memory from this car and some of the parts even still live on in another F6 car to this day.
RIP
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NmXw7rE-MM
That’s right, it’s a brown and white Mk1 Jetta which was previously blue as anyone who ever got in it or lifted the bonnet would know. It also had the sporty 1.6 straight diesel! Never had I been more excited about a car purchase. No sooner had the car got me home that things began to happen. Poundland became the perfect place to purchase many of the wallet friendly mods. It wasn’t long before the brown became tiresome and the comedy ‘shitness’ of the car wore off. So the bottom half made friends with a can of black spray paint and some silly wheels were purchased. It’s not often that adding a set of wheels to the car TRIPLES its value!
It was starting to take shape as an acceptable ‘rat’ so it wasn’t long before it went lower and was taken to its first show. A memorable one too as it was F6’s first outing. Think we pulled it off quite well, and the F6 sofa was born too, the original car show sofa.
Not being your run of the mill car, it needed a couple of quirky mods before it went to help it stand out. These must have totalled about £6.50. Two of your standard grot mags, some spray adhesive and some pens. The result being.......
Designer retrim for the roof liner and sun visors
And when you leave some pens laying on a white car......
Post UD’s, most would have wiped all the writing off of the car. Nope, F6 use permanent markers. Just a few words taped over as the local po-po didn’t take kindly to obscenities. And that’s how it rolled for a long time, scraping its underbelly most places and regularly being the basis for many a funny story.
On to Spring Fest that year, a fine display
Eg. – Coming back from a late night trip to no rice it began to splutter and lose all power. So we pull over. It then seems to be fine, so we continue. A minute later, same again and we once again pull over. The problem is quickly put down to fuelling as the structure of the fuel filler neck resembled the inside of a crumpet, there was more than likely going to be a piece of crap stuck somewhere! So we did what anyone would have done in this situation, bypassed the entire fuelling system with 2 pipes coming straight from the pump, taped into a jerry can full of fuel which was then rope tied and semi-secured into the corner of the engine bay. Worked a treat. Ran it like that for the following week or 2 as well.
Having owned the car for over a year, it was time for a change, so the car received a few nice pics, some further bodged spraying and then the inevitable trip to the scrappy. Biggest most regrettable thing I have ever done, however at the time, seemed quite apt and provided many a laugh. Having being abused for most of the time I had it, ran on veg oil for 90% of that time too, it still managed to be loaded with 2 tonnes of scrap metal we all had lying about, and almost drive itself to the weigh bridge!
The beginning of the demise.....
The final hours, of what was one of the founding cars of F6. Many a good memory from this car and some of the parts even still live on in another F6 car to this day.
RIP
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NmXw7rE-MM