How It All Started

Over the years of car ownership and having my little projects, my cars become like a member of the family. I have had readers rides threads and build threads on forums before, but they end up cluttered with off topic comments and the conversation ends up taking over, people voice their opinion on how they think you're doing it wrong and how you should be doing it, and what they would be doing and so on, the information becomes broken and inconsistent.

Here, with my latest addition, I am going to be keeping track of the work that goes into the car, the adventures we may go on and everything that goes with it. Hopefully managing to keep up to speed with anything that happens (as slow as progress may be), if only for my own benefit on those days when you think nothing much has happened.

How we got to this point;

Back in October/November time 2012 it was suggested due to various different reasons that it was time for me to be getting a different car, something newer, with less hassle.

I originally started off looking at something diesel, still with some power behind it, but better on fuel, similar insurance, lower tax etc. i was looking at Seat Ibiza Diesel Sports, and then moved onto the Curpa Diesel, still being in a similar insurance and tax band to my current car, but with a higher bhp and a bigger body. I didn't really have the money to be buying anything and figured I would struggle to get one without selling my current car which I needed to get to and from work. So it all kind of hit the side lines really.

My parents were looking in the papers at cars that were for sale at local garages, or through dealerships seeing what deals were available on brand new cars, things like the VW Up (basically the same car as what I was driving but with less power) a nice little car but I felt like I'd be taking a step down as it didn't really have much of anything really, or a Mk V Golf, which for the money I'd be spending I wouldn't really be getting very much, like alloys or a nice interior. All nice cars, but going from having a lot of nice things to something very basic for the same money seemed counter productive as I'd just end up spending more money trying to get them up to parr with what I was already driving.

It all just faded out after a while and I didn't really think much about it, then this car came up in the paper at a local garage. It was listed as a 1.8 GT Polo, which despite trying to look it up, didn't exist. I know that there were 1.9 GT Golfs, but I don't ever remember there being a Polo version, so I went to go see it.
Turns out it was a 1.8 GTi. A beautiful car, I loved it straight away and arranged to take it out for a test drive and as they say, the rest is history.

I sorted out the finance side of it over the Christmas period, arranged the sale of my current car, and last weekend, Friday 25th January, 2013, I went and picked her up.