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A trip to an open day at nearby VAG specialist, Carbon Motive (where incidentally his new purchase won car of show) was to change all that. With the 1979 Mk1 Golf GTI in his possession, Jon intended to just carry out a little bit of minor fettling and essentially enjoy it, getting back to the show scene and having a car for weekend jaunts. We did the deal and I drove it back from Heathrow that night”. I took the car for a test drive and it brought back so many memories of my first Mk1 Golf that I just had to have it.

I decided to view it one evening after work. I spoke to the seller a few more times before finally agreeing to take a look and do the drive to Heathrow where it was located. He regretted selling it and informed me it was a good example and that he knew it had continued to be well looked after following the original build. I managed to track down one of the previous owners and wanted to get a further lowdown on the car. With my first Mk1, I was forever chasing rust and I didn’t want to revisit that expensive and time-consuming ground. From the original feature of the car, I could see that it was solid which was my main criteria. The car was then sold twice after the original builder moved it on. I did a bit of research on it, trawling the forums and it was previously featured in Golf+ back in 2007. I had been looking online for a while and this one came up, it sold on eBay and I had missed out on it but around a week or so later it reappeared. With a young family, current daily duties are undertaken by a Mk2 Tiguan, whilst a VW Up! takes care of frugal commuting. Jon’s wife has also been loyal to the cause, previously owning a Mk3 Polo and Beetle. A brace of VW company cars followed including a Mk5 Golf and Passat Sport. It was always a great event with good people”.Ī familiar story for many of us, the pride and joy made way for a deposit on Jon’s first property.

This first Mk1 cemented Jon’s love for the scene: “I used to go to GTI international each year at TRL, Bracknell. Two 15” Kicker subs and a bright yellow respray ensured that you could see as well as hear it coming.

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This VW Golf Mk1 was textbook Brit look ticking all the period boxes with its clipper kit, smoothed tailgate and door handles, Bonrath single wiper conversion, Azev As, Koni top adjustable suspension and full retrim in leather and grey Alcantara including the Corrado rear bench conversion. I went on to own that car for around 7 years and substantially modified it over that time which was in keeping with that era”. I just loved Mk1 Golfs and wanted something different to the Vauxhall Novas, Ford Escorts, Fiestas and Citroen Saxos that everyone else seemed to have at the time. I bought a partially modified one from a local lad which I had known and seen around.

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Whilst he would have loved a Golf GTI, the 1.3 Driver was a little more insurance friendly although he recalls that his premium was still twice that of the £700 price tag of the car: “It was at the height of the max power era.

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His first car was another series 1 Mk1 Golf. Jon has an interesting car history which is mainly Wolfsburg flavoured. As a kid, I loved the Herbie films and later in life, our wedding car was a 1968 VW beetle! For me, the series 1 VW Golf Mk1 represents the start of the hot hatch era and is an icon”. Thankfully Jon is one of us and firmly an old school guy: “It’s the simplicity of the early stuff that I really like. Whilst some tech guys follow a ground-breaking route in all aspects of their life, as you can see, we’re not here to wax lyrical about the latest Tesla. Thirty-nine-year-old Jon Carter is an IT Operations Manager that hails from Rochester in the ‘garden of England’, Kent. Log on and compute the vibe with us…įeature from Performance VW magazine. Whilst the owner of this tuned VW Golf Mk1 makes a living out of new technology, he clearly gets his kicks from a more traditional source.