'75 Swallowtail

[tallika_fan]

Here are some pics of the old girl, since i picked it up i have fitted the Ronals, and put another 500 miles on. (original mileage btw)

The car is a 1975 Golf LS Automatic, running on twin Dellorto 40's

I was due to move over to Oz in Jan '06 and the plan was to import it eventually, though that fell through i ended up selling the car and now i have purchased it back, so it's back with it's rightful owner now.


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[tallika_fan]

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[tallika_fan]

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[GoLfMan]

nice!
how does it go with the Auto?

[KI11Z]

would that make the paint original too then??!! its immaculate! nice one!

[99gti]

OMG - that's clean as! Are you going to keep it that way or do you have other plans for it?

[gtimk5]

Great loking Golf. Congratulations. It must be very hard to find a good Mk1 over there these days.
I bet the twins sound great too. Straight bumpers and GTI steering wheel, a rare thing over there I am led to believe.
Good on you and a huge welcome to the forum, its good to have you here,
Andrew :)

[Water Boy]

Oh yeah retro :D I love the Ronals :D keep it up mate ;)

[tallika_fan]

GolfMan - It goes great with the auto box though would be better when i get the carbs jetted correctly. Everyone looks round to see what that noise is coming down the road!

KI11Z - The paint is the original colour, though the n/s wing has been resprayed at some point and is dire! really badly aged.

99gti - I'm pretty much going to keep it as is, though with a bit of resto work, there are plenty of rusty bit to deal with. We're coming into winter weather over here so shall have to stop using her soonish.

I'll get a spray at some point though with the original colour.

gtimk5 - Cheers bro, with this particular car i discovered it in a barn when i had my last mk1 (a 1300cc 4speed, loads of fun!!) and to be fair i only wanted the chrome bumpers, though ended up buying the whole car. The steering wheel isn't the cars original, i bought it at a show, think it was off a Scirocco Storm.

Cheers for the welcome, i shall be hanging out here for a while i think :)

Pete

[99gti]

Glad to hear Pete - we're a friendly bunch. Keep us up to date with the resto...

[evorobin]

Super condition. Any of your mates wants some chrome bumpers I got a few sets :)

[tallika_fan]

Excellent! I shall keep that in mind mate.

Shall keep you all posted on any updates.

Cheers
Pete