I have a 86 GTI and pondering selling it for a newer 4 door Golf (95-99).
What I dislike most is the GTI trans ratio where your already at 3k rpm by the time your at 55mph in 5th. I was thinking I'd get a little better milage with a standard Golf trans plus the 4 door would cut my insurance costs a little with 2 teenage drivers in the house...
The car has 120k miles on it but the motor was replaced 19k ago with a 2.0aba block and a new (vw surplus) GTI head that I got from rapidparts.com . All professionally done.
Just about everything except the rear shocks have been replaced...
Front struts, wheel bearings, rotors, tires, shift linkage, radiator, waterpump, belts and hoses, hard brake lines, the soft brake lines were replaced with braided stainless lines. New clutch and shift linkage was installed by the local VW dealer. We did the Blaupunkt ourselves via crutchfield's wiring stuff.
What would you ask for the car?
If you have a car that's trustworthy, what do you do with it if you need a different car for a while... put it in storage? Can you store it and not plate or insure it? My son doesn't have enough $'s to insure it himself and I can't have more than 4 cars on my policy... and I'm not selling my Porsche...