Mario's Candy Apple Red Cabby

[Mario]

Hi there,

a friend of mine (ArjenE) said to me, there is on the other side of the ocean also a community/forum with cabrio enthausiasts so yeah there i am!..

i'm mario, 32 years old, ownder of a very nice. 1990 rabbit convertible. with original 2h 1800 engine, modified exaust (spagetti, no cat etc.)
recaro interiour. vdo navigation, original votex roof carrier.. for carriing surfboards
the wheels, ar CR7 Wheels, with 7.5J 16"inch in front, and rear 9J 16ïnch , high polish

and also here are some pictures, the cabby has been repainted last year september so it's still shiny

hope you like it guys!

Cheers
Mario
Admin Golfcabrio.com

[bbrown]

Welcome to TRF. So you are the owner of that nice red cabby that ArjenE had posted along with his. Very nice. I like the color of your paint is it a custom shade? Did you replace your tail lights with the M3 style tails? I would like to know more about the windscreen that covers the back seat and the one that goes on the roll bar because I really like the look and they would come in handy for cold weather driving with the top down. Like I said before nice Cabby and welcome to the forum.

[kamzcab86]

Very nice! And I, for one, would love to see those surf boards mounted!

[Mario]

@bbrown, the paint is Candy Apple red, has always the shading, because you paint the car black with flakes, or silver with flakes.. i painted it first silver / flake, and than the candy ink over it.. that gives the shading effect.

reality is better then foto's:D

@kamzcab86. i will mount the boards next week ok?

[sixsracing]

Welcome to the forum, you have a very fine cabriolet.

[Mario]

last week, a nice present was delivered
my new project

so last time i replaced, the complete brake system for a big brake system from a corrado g60..

now it's time to give the brakes something to do as it had with the right motor!!

so my new engine is deliverd !, it's a complete 1.8L G60 and all parts are overhauled.!
with 122.000 km..
here are some pics,
the plan is, to build it in the car in the last weekend of june,

[bbrown]

That should make for a quick little Cabby. Good luck with the swap and keep us informed.

[Mario]

i think iv'e forgotten to update this topic,

the G60 engine is running perfectly, although that the cabby is now taking a wintersleep...

last pics of the cab :





power is nearby 170bhp

next step is, the new gearbox also from G60 corrado. and that will be spring 2010.

[kuklaki]

Glad to see you got that in there. That certainly is one very fine Cabby-she is amazing.

[SoCal_Cabby]

absolutely beautiful car

[Mario]

hey there all!

i'm still alive!. i saw calaltadubber on hour forum writing in his topic, so i thought, oh yeahh
forgotten the us forum

update:

at this moment i'm packing the topless rabit.. full of stuff, tent matrasses
boozzeee.. beer.. and we're going to our yearly "Jahrestreffen " means Yearmeeting.
i'm organizing it with the german website golfcabrio.de.. and we staying every year on a big Campsite... so wer'e this year with 170 golf converibles 95 % mk1..
officially it's 1 weekend, but we from golfcabrio.com go a week camping..
sort of short vacation /holliday..

pic's will be shown afterwards..

also i will update my car topic with new pics and specs:)

[Mario]

here are some updates / changes to be planned in 2011...

- Changing headlights to projector lenses HID Bi xenon.
- Air filter system on the G-charger
- Dome caps
- stability strutt under the car front.
- cleaning the engine room
- registring the G60 engine on the vehicle papers (driving about 2 years around without engine registration on paper)



here som pics as preview
Domecaps


removed airfilterbox


removed battery (making new mount)


new airfilter unit, incl pollished tube


last but not least... the self made headlight... 6000k bi xenon projector lens.


till the new update, so shoot with you oppinion about it:)

[Briano1234]

Looking sweet, now you need to get those hood struts in Chrome to compliment the strut caps and Strut Bar.

[Calimus]

Very trick. Looks great. Always a pleasure to see those two cab's.

[kamzcab86]

Nice work! And very interesting headlights; I'd love to see them lit up.