![]() I then seam welded the whole shell and installed a big roll cage and painted the car on my own in RAL5009 because we had our own machine paintshop. ![]() “I drove the body shell to Belgium for a ‘bath’ to get rid of the paint and underseal. I ended up doing 102 laps in two weekends! So yeah that’s when my ‘sickness’ for the Nürburgring started! 550 Laps in 2005, I then changed the engine to an 1.8-litre 8v GTI, and drove again until the middle of 2006. In parallel with the Mk2, Marco takes up the Mk1 Golf track car story “In ’97 I started going with friends for day trips to the Nürburgring, until early 2000 when we started going with our club in Holland for a complete weekend.” Marco duly picked up an early grey 1979 Mk1 GTI: “In 2003 I bought the car in Germany with the normal 1.6-litre GTI engine and started driving the Nürburgring in October 2004. Marco, a hydraulic engineer based in the east of Holland, who appears to be phased by nothing, quips: “My motto is ‘What you can’t buy, you can make!’” The stuff of legend and he still owns it. So who remembers a metallic black 16v G60 Mk2 Golf (PVW 10/01) that turned up to GTI International 2001 at TRL Crowthorne on 19″, five-spoke wheels? Well he’d made those centre-locking rims complete with hidden valves himself. We all know people by their cars, right? Or at least his previous car. Dubbers from the Nineties know Marco anyway. ![]() So when Editor Roberts got in touch to say he’d pinned down Dutchman Marco Veldhuis’s Mk1 Golf track toy, the sense of anticipation was palpable. Hands up who remembers the ‘Ring Mini Clubman van, star of many online videos in the Noughties? Well here’s another. ![]() The Nürburgring is full of motor racing legends but Touristenfahrten – public ‘tourist’ driving – has its own. Balls out at Pflanzgarten, Nurgburgring, a foot in the air at 90mph, into a fourth-to-fifth gear right hander. Opening image: Oliver KälkeĪ picture tells a thousand words’? Hmmmm. Here is Marco’s Mk1 Golf track car.įeature from Performance VW. The Golf that went Dutch, got re-registered and TÜV approved in Germany, and is now a forty-year-old tax-free ‘Ring legend. ![]()
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