My mother bought the car in July 1987 I already had 2 storms, one mk2 and a blue mk1, my father also had a mk2. The rare picture below shows them all parked in my street back in 1989 a great picture when mk1's were two a penny!
So ULD545X remained in the family nearly being sold twice! It adorned many vw shows and I bought and sold many mk1 sciroccos and mk2,s and so did my father. But the brown storm remained until 2004 when it was locked away in a garage. Until now. Wind forward 27 years and it is now in my garage and needing some restoring.
Good news first. The doors, tops of wings, scuttle, tailgate, bonnet, roof, inner wings are rust free!
Bad news. The sills are rotten so is the rear valance and the bottom of one wing, there is a hole in the passenger floor and usual corrosion of all brakes and lines. I have started stripping the car this week ready for the restorer ( I can't weld or do bodywork) but the rest I can do.
I nearly sold the car as is but after posting on here I was persuaded to restore it and I'm glad I am, my father passed away 5 years away and I know he loved the car so for him I have to do it and after I will drive it as much as possible but not during the winter months. Hope you find this build interesting.
Oh one last thing I used to own HVV503T the original press test car but sold it back in 93 god how I regret that now!
