All great artists share a common bond in their respective crafts. Renowned architect Frank Lloyd Wright, you know, the one you’re most likely to mention trying to impress strangers at a dinner party. That guy imagined the famed Fallingwater on an empty plot of land. Or television’s Guy Fieri welcoming the newest resident of FlavorTown from a pile of someone else’s ingredients. How about the talented yet nameless individuals who can sculpt Napoleon busts out of blocks of ice? They all imagined something from nothing.
While Nick Ponterio’s MK2 Golf before you might not find itself on the National Historic Landmark registry, it certainly has all the qualities of a timeless build. Although it didn’t necessarily come from nothing.
“I got the car in 2011 with the intention to enjoy it,” 35-year-old Nick opens with. “It was somewhat of a known build, being the S&L Imports orange 1.8T Golf built in 2001.” The everything orange Mk2 was a former feature car in its previous life (PVW 3/04), but little did it know it would be given a second chance.
“I figured if I bought a built car I wouldn’t have to go through all the work and time of achieving one.” While we can certainly appreciate the candor in his bought, not built admission, clearly that was a fleeting mentality for our protagonist. After driving it around for a year, and with issues creeping in and the style falling out of favour for the times, Nick parted a majority of the car, keeping just the shell to which a work of art was yet to
