"rat" mk3 golf

right a quick low down on my daily atm (il get pics up this evening)

i brought it for £100 with a busted clutch and tried to drive it back from london, which is an epic story in its self.

heres what it looked like when i first brought it


after that got it taxed and moted (all it needed was a bulb and 2 read brake lines :O )

next was the "euro" grill, 15 squids of ebay. started smoothing the front bumper myself for shits and giggles, turns out its a lot of work lol .

next came the coilovers which i put on last night, now my cars a tad low. the rears are all the way down without the smaller springs and the front have about 20 threads left.

heres what happens when you dont care about the paint and you get bored with a mate


plans are finish off the bumper. and rattle can the entire car satin black (its sanded down already and i have 15 cans at home. just waiting untill a sunny weekend

lol kit says to marc "take me down the road show me this body roll" Comes back ten minutes later fook me thats a boat i have a lump the size of an egg on my head to prove it! lol Get it sprayed max! ill drop round to look at how low it is later this eve after work. How long did it taje dale to lower it?

tis no longer a boat, its about twice as hard as dales car lol .

im waiting untill i have the time and the front bumper done! but it will be in the next few weeks. dale took about 2 hours with mine and marcs help

ah fairplay i might wai till my car is taxed n motd again and do mine up dales.

are you bringing this to the next cambs meet? hope so..

Ashley wrote:

are you bringing this to the next cambs meet? hope so..

Fraid not, im going to new york on the 24th till the 6th. but the one after that its a definite

new york!? cool!

is that a textured bumper you're smoothing or not? looks like a black textured bumper.. does look cool though. im hoping to get a project for the summer which i'll be able to paint and do crazy things to, looking forward to see how you get on with this.

yeah it is a black textured one.

heres how she sits atm (yes it was taken out of my work window on the sly )

sweeeeet man

lowerrrrr

billybug wrote:

sweeeeet man

lowerrrrr

both have the little springs taken out and the backs as low as it will go.

would love to but the only way to get my house has a mega speed bump which i got harboured on the other night so any lower and i wont be able to leave my house

lol its almost marcs escort low! needs to go more fella i would wait till they settle in first

Yeah about to say I scrapped my exhaust hard on that hump! Bob was right it is a sh1te heap love the stance though

right me and my mate were working on the "ratmobile" all day today.

i managed to get all the door cards off and stick some bits of sheet aluminium that i had lying about the garage (cut up to about an inch square) across the back of the holes left by the bump strips.

that allowed me to get fillering, got most of the holes done on both sides and the holes left on the rear by the badges.

these pics were taken about 3ish so obviusly there was more done. also sprayed up the grill and worked on the bumper.









fingers crossed there will be good weather tomorrow so i can finish up and get the car masked up

max wrote:

right me and my mate were working on the "ratmobile" all day today.

i managed to get all the door cards off and stick some bits of sheet aluminium that i had lying about the garage (cut up to about an inch square) across the back of the holes left by the bump strips.

that allowed me to get fillering, got most of the holes done on both sides and the holes left on the rear by the badges.

these pics were taken about 3ish so obviusly there was more done. also sprayed up the grill and worked on the bumper.









fingers crossed there will be good weather tomorrow so i can finish up and get the car masked up

got your monkey wrench then

right a quick update(pics will be up tonight)

just got back from NY and have to get my arse in gear if im going to have this done by sunday (billys bbq). sanded the entire thing down, just finishing the filler on it, my friend has finished the bumper for me now all i need to do is sort out the large rear dent and mask everything off.

fingers crossed

i hope your painting it bright pink.

billybug wrote:

i hope your painting it bright pink.

lol na matt black mate.

im going to do the roof and wheels in a bright colour though. thinking lime green

matt black? everyone does matt black.. do matt green or something

lol na. im not the sort of person that cares what everyone else does, just what i do

plus matt green would be horrible lol

max wrote:

lol na. im not the sort of person that cares what everyone else does, just what i do

plus matt green would be horrible lol

i was going to do the matt black look too! lol. 

pics from yesterday















im getting there slowly

theres a polo with matt black paint, green wheels and roof, looks the tits, id say get some pressed plates sprayed the same green and put em on at a wonk

like ya style btw

aztec wrote:

theres a polo with matt black paint, green wheels and roof, looks the tits, id say get some pressed plates sprayed the same green and put em on at a wonk

like ya style btw

cheers dude.

i think i know which polo your talking about was this one at the gti yeah ?



my mate who was with me when i took that pic used to laugh at my idea and when he saw the polo he said "you know what max, do it" lol

ive already got some pressed plates sitting in my room but i plan to use them on the road so no paint is going to be touching them im afraid.

Lo?

thats the 1 buddy