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BUILT NOT BOUGHT

So, this story starts with a rather mint Black MK2 16v. I’d bought the 16v locally as a non-runner with a blown head gasket. It was relatively low mileage, but the paintwork was tatty. Unfortunately, on our way home we had a little accident whilst towing the 16v and so the already tatty bodywork required some repair work and a full respray. When I got the 16v back from the body shop it was mint and with the help of my friend John Davis at Kent Volkswagen I put it back together again and absolutely loved it. I was living on a main road near a busy pub and it was constantly getting damaged, so I decided to sell it and buy a cheap project car to smoke around in.

With a few quid burning a whole in my pocket I started looking for a replacement Golf. I would regularly hang out with (annoy) John at Kent Volkswagen. One day I was chatting with him in his yard and spotted this pink B reg Mk2 1.3 C (poverty spec) with a cool number plate sitting in the corner looking rather sorry for itself. John had bought it as a non-runner and was using it as a spares car. I had a quick look around it and it had everything that I wanted. Back then in our area everybody wanted

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