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Thanks for the offer but having had three GTI's the next one has to be Laser so it could be a long wait. Its not so much the performance of the GTI that attracts me, it's the old school VW treatment to produce it. I believe the only body panel a GTI shares with any other Lupo is the tailgate. Add in the other things such as the changes to the body shell and the aluminium bonnet and doors and I think you have one special car.

Nice flex cracks.

I have two spare frames (f&r) in for sandblasting at the mo... And then I'm going to 'attempt' to get a place to galvanise them. The thing that concerns me is how to get to the inside. Being a hollow section, I imagine that during manufacture they never ever coated the inside with anything. They're not phosphate dipped like the bodyshell is, only spray painted black on the outside. Once blasted, the 'clean' steel components are pickled (whatever that is? anyone?), then oven baked then zinc dipped. That should buy me a few more years. Excellent pics. Totally shocked at the cracks on the rear frame. Never seen that before. I had assumed that when they fail, the welds quit after severe corrosion. Wow, just wow.