Tornado red 16v ABF jenveys

What a fantastic car this once was, Unfortunately the previous owner passed away and his mum to revenge on the poor car. It was parked in a garden collecting wood shavings when i first saw the car, tyres flat and the BBS RM wheels corroding with the water seeping under the lacquer, the white gloss was even peeling off the roof with the sun and rain beating down on it for the last 18 months. I was told a year before that it may be for sale but no answer was had to a price!
Then last year I was contacted as they knew i was interested and a deal was struck, partially due to them knowing it was going to be restored to its former glory if not better ( I hope), The doorbell had been rung on many occassions by people who wanted to break it for spares or build it as a track car or even run it in to the local scrappy,But now it was mine!

this is how it arrived on a tow rope, due to fuel pumps not working





The golf came with a folder of receipts, a folder of dealer brochures, and heaps of spares, some of which where these


I will add more pics as i tell the story, enough for the minute

 

A couple of pics of how it was, sorry about quality

 

A quick run down on whats done

Koni adjustables
lowered springs
fully polybushed
new wishbones
new calipers and discs/pads
blasted and powder coated rear beam
new wheel bearings
rebuilt cyl head
fitted with electric recaros
motorsport steering wheel
BBS RM alloys (now sold) will be fitted with front mounted 15" BBS RS alloys in gold
the list goes on

 

"Mum took revenge on the car..." This needs more explanation!! Look forward to see the progress.

 

PO was ill and died young, mum was devistated and had a breakdown and covered the car in paint including the interior and slashed the interior with a stanley

 

That day i thought id try to see if i could remove the paint, first attempt was with thinners but was making a complete mess so i tried some petrol, this worked but required lots of elbow grease






It inspired me somewhat but still lots to do!!



How much better does it look, but there were still bits i wasn`t happy with as it had been painted in various places and i went through with the polisher as you can see from the pics, so i then made my mind up that the whole would get a fresh coat of paint



the wing aerial hole had a bung in it and it had an aerial on the roof so i decided to weld the hole up for a cleaner look






i cut a circle out so i could weld it into the wing, i tacked a bit of mig wire on so i could hold it in situ when welding in place



I then dressed the weld, will just need a light skim of filler

 

Jebus- some people handle grief in funny ways
:-/

Congrats on rescuing it, I will be keeping an eye on how it progresses.

 

stripped arches off and started to da the car







getting there



some of the new new lights that came with the car



bumpers off



roof was a pain to do



used a blade to scrape paint off the roof, so will now need to be rubbed down then primed



once windows are removed i will primer the whole car and wet flat with 800 grade w&d to get a nice finish,

 

had the headlamp panel and front bumper bar blasted ready to be powder coated in a semi gloss black



i then da`d the front panel off for a nicer finish under the bonnet



this was a picture last week, looks terrible!!

 

Doors and tail gate will be removed with all glass etc etc

A hint of things to come

 

Dealer brochures that came with it

 

Engine had a polished inlet and was looking sorry for itself, so i started to polish it back to how it was. Now ive done this the rest of it looks terrible so given myself a bit more work!

 

Nice to see that you are bringing back to its former glory

And sad news for the previous owner and his Mum. As Matt said above, people do show there grief in different way, and with her she took it out on something which was close to him, which can be expected.

Looks like a nice selection of parts came with the car though. Will be great to see it finished, so will be watching with interest

 

Cheers

Interior needs redoing but finding it hard to source material





I may just clean the paint of for now as they will still be usable at least, May be get covers for the time being

Headlining has done the usual and fell down, i will remove it and reglue it





I did try regluing it in place but that hasn`t worked, need stronger glue

 

Hopefully this week i should get the new fuel pumps in the post, as the last ones i ordered from gsf packed up after a day, so i ordered genuine bosch pumps, I need to test injectors as one was blocked but cant check the rest till new pumps arrive

 

This is inspiring to read and it is just fantastic to see a car being brought back to life.

When you succeed with the drooping roof cloth please let me know what you used to get it to stay up - I have the same problem.

Keep up the good work

 

Yeah, keep up the good work. Look like it's solid.

Wonder if previous owner was on here. Sad story.

 

I`ll post up progress as i go, I`ve got the glue it`s used to stick rubber down on flat roofs for houses

Yep a real solid car, a minor scab of rust on tailgate pics to follow, will post pics of underside to

Thanks for your comments

 

Please do, I have a soft for Tornado Red Mk2 16V's as I had one up until 2000 and if circumstances would have allowed I would never have sold it - what a car.