O Every neighbourhood has one. Maybe it was your best friend’s older brother. Maybe he was just an upperclassman who lived in a house at the end of the road. The one everyone looked up to. Wore the coolest t-shirts. Listened to the best punk rock compilations. Moms loved him. Bullies feared him. He was heralded. Admired. A hero to all.
Now, let’s apply that nostalgia to the four wheeled wonder before you whose story is decades old and itching to be told.
“This 1992 VW GTI has quite the local history,” 33-year-old Joe Simon tells us. “It started life off as a stock Montana Green 16v GTI that belonged to Ryan Dumaresq, the owner of a local shop called Hot Water Performance. It is my understanding that it was purchased brand new from the dealer in 1992. In 1994, while parked out front of the shop, it was hit and the accident was the root of the build.”
Like many tales, the catalyst of a build can usually be tied to a specific point on the timeline of its existence. A trigger event. In this case, there really weren’t many options for the wreck other than to build it back better. Joe, a construction management professional from Vancouver, British Columbia, continues the journey down memory lane. “The car was stripped [and repaired] and not only fully resprayed Porsche Polar Silver, but it also got an OBD1 VR6 swap with a VSR intake and some 18” Fittipaldi Tubulars.” While a MK2 on 18s with a VR6 swap may seem like old hat these days, back in the
