1st Mk1 caddy

[jimbo198966]

hi guys, picked up a mk1 caddy yesterday, after a 400 round trip, £100 in diesel, £60 hired trailer and a lovely drive

my previous cars;
'74 beetle (my first car )


2nd; mk1 '84 golf

then some1 pulled into me


3rd and current cheapo mk3 gti golf;


4th (the project) The Caddy!!





now the bad bits;








and the work i got to do today!

[Peanut]

Feck me might want to resize your pics matey.

[jimbo198966]

ahh bugger lol thought it might of resized them
i'll have to do it tomorrow
least you'll get a close up

[jimbo198966]

sorted

[Peanut]

Top lad good to see your bringing her back to life

[jimbo198966]

didn't get much chance to work on it this weekend (prodigy gigi last night... )
had this afternoon though;

got the wings off, D/S will be replaced, its fooked!



jet washed ready for underseal

should i underseal the inside of the wings aswell?

also took the front bumper and grill off;


then started on the welding
first bit of mig welding i've ever done on a car, wasn't too hard though
as theres a fair few holes in and around the bed, started on them


and bam;

[freakytate]

hi mate.

glad you started the caddy and fair play to you, youve dug straight in there! didnt expect that to happen.

whats the truck like now you have ripped it apart? is it rotten or solid dude?

looks like youve got a nice bit of room there to get on with it and your other motors look pretty slick.

i think i am keeping my blue caddy now man. they are cool as fcuk

nice 1

[jimbo198966]

hi mate, hows it going
theres a few rot holes like you said, but need to get it on its side (don;t wanna weld upside down!) so i can weld up the floor pan!
yeah, can;t wait to get it on the road though! maybe another month!

[jimbo198966]

attempted my first ever 'welding a plate in' this evening
went alright too

i'll let the pics do the talking;
(one wings ****ed so i cut it up to aid the other!)




and wollah!


but didn't stop there!;
(forgot to take a pic of before, but its the rot hole just to the left of the left bumper mount thingy!)


(took about an hour to shape it!!)



then the welder ran out of gas....!

also undersealed the innerwings
;

[jimbo198966]

gonna wip the engine out, so started on that this afternoon, ready for it to come out tomorrow;



bloody chickens!!

[dawn64]

go on jimbo, you are like a man possessed, i like your thread,,,, letting the pics doing all the talking, keep it up

[jimbo198966]

haha cheers (i think)

[jimbo198966]

go to removing the engine yesterday afternoon...
all on my own although i did have a tractor to help me!! (who needs engine cranes!)







all went smoothly (suprisingly!)

Also collected some bits from skeldog (cheers!), but on the way down went to check out an engine....
collecting it on sunday!! mk3 2.0 16v piper cams, ZX9R bike carbs
CAN'T WAIT!!!

[S2Dicky]

Looking good mate, like your work

[vdub mic]

making it lookeasy there bud lol, not easy doing it on ya own i no, something all always goes wrong for atm lol

[jimbo198966]

cheers

bad news regarding the engine though, the guys not picking his phone up

[jimbo198966]

well in the end i got the engine today
picked up some bits too



swit swoooooo
off to chill now, bbq, beer. sorted, being my birthday n'all

[rimexboy]

for feck sake slow down just a little bud you will have this done in a couple of weeks at this rate....

im liking this thread nice pics as well and we all love pictures...

good work

[jimbo198966]

Originally Posted by rimexboy

for feck sake slow down just a little bud you will have this done in a couple of weeks at this rate....

im liking this thread nice pics as well and we all love pictures...

good work

it would be nice too
just want to stick the engine in now, and drive it!!
cheers

[Rich_T]

Excellent progress and you're not hanging about either. hell, I've been spending the last 4 years or so just thinking about starting my Mk1.