How many Mk2 squareback owners???

Mk2Adam · Post by **Mk2Adam** » Sun Jan 08, 2006 4:09 pm

Jim1500 signed up the otherday and i suddenly thought theres hardly any on this forum???

as far as i can tell the list stands at a huge 19 members...

Mk2Adam (me)
GroovyCarrot (soon to be gone

)
PoloKris
Jim1500
Omicron
SpikeyG40
Polo Joe
Meekey
Bob
poloCK
Hypojam
Jonicus
Breadman
Mk2Dave
Demon
tupac2makaveli71
k4lps
Steveo3002
squareback steve

i see loads of mk2 hatch's about so why only 19 people on here?

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the list is gaining more each day and ruining my point)

omicron · Post by **omicron** » Sun Jan 08, 2006 4:11 pm

5

Currently having a resto.

Jim1500 · Post by **Jim1500** » Sun Jan 08, 2006 7:12 pm

Think a lot of folks are still using these as ordinary cars and not really into them yet, eventhough they are now between 24 and 16 years old!

Mk2Adam · Post by **Mk2Adam** » Sun Jan 08, 2006 8:15 pm

i think it's a great car, got a reliable engine, cheap parts, if you do an engine conversion then it turns into a great little street sleeper.

alot of the cars i see on the road are being run into the ground so maybe in a couple more years there will be less around and they'll become a bit more loved

Jim1500 · Post by **Jim1500** » Sun Jan 08, 2006 9:19 pm

It's basically that they aren't viewed as classic yet as they are a victim of their own success!
There are still a lot of mid 80s MK2s on the road, and those that get scrapped probably fail MoT on a petrol tank or something stupid.I've seen loads scrapped in recent years and can't find anything wrong with them! Because they are relatively common in terms of other 20 year old cars they don't get preserved like other cars of the same era would. Golfs would be the same, but they're normally made into GTi replicas.

As you say class wee cars that are unltra reliable and basically bulletproof. easy to see when you think about how many mid-late 80s Fiestas/Micras etc you see.

omicron · Post by **omicron** » Sun Jan 08, 2006 9:46 pm

Funny thing is, for the first time ever, I had bother finding one in a scrapyard the other week.

Gareth_GT_Hatch · Post by **Gareth_GT_Hatch** » Sun Jan 08, 2006 9:53 pm

Ive had a couple, most reecently this:

Although I don't have it anymore.

SpikeyG40 · Post by **SpikeyG40** » Sun Jan 08, 2006 11:04 pm

i have a mk2 squareback! shes a real bute! currently stored in a garage but as soon as my blue mk3 is sold, she'll be coming back out on the road as my daily driver! i have a few plans for her as well! currently have no pics but i can tell you shes a B reg 1043cc, white with a red wing! she has 80 odd thousand miles which isn't that bad for a car of that age! this was also my first car which i learnt to drive in and used for my first year!

DanDiesel · Post by **DanDiesel** » Mon Jan 09, 2006 4:58 pm

same here. i used the same car for my first year of driving before i gave it to doug to learn in!
real nice car, starts first time even on cold mornings!!

Gareth_GT_Hatch · Post by **Gareth_GT_Hatch** » Mon Jan 09, 2006 5:24 pm

yeah a B reg 1043 will still have a manual choke I think? Manual chokes rule.

omicron · Post by **omicron** » Mon Jan 09, 2006 5:28 pm

The model revsions were 85-86, so it could be either a manual choke solex carb or an autochoke pooberg.

SpikeyG40 · Post by **SpikeyG40** » Mon Jan 09, 2006 5:47 pm

Gareth_GT_Hatch wrote:yeah a B reg 1043 will still have a manual choke I think? Manual chokes rule.

ya, my mk2 B reg (1985) is a manual choke! so bloody useful!

Jim1500 · Post by **Jim1500** » Mon Jan 09, 2006 6:45 pm

I've a mate with 4 MK2 hatches at the mo, 3 of them were his own cars and he couldn't part with them so they're stored in a barn now, a 83,84 and 85!
I reckon the earlier ones were actually better too, far better rustproofing!

SpikeyG40 · Post by **SpikeyG40** » Mon Jan 09, 2006 9:06 pm

Jim1500 wrote:I've a mate with 4 MK2 hatches at the mo, 3 of them were his own cars and he couldn't part with them so they're stored in a barn now, a 83,84 and 85!
I reckon the earlier ones were actually better too, far better rustproofing!

yeah you can say that again! i had to get a wing off one in the scrappy! we were hours digging out the bolts through all the wax! not a spot of rust!

Polo_joe · Post by **Polo_joe** » Mon Jan 09, 2006 10:49 pm

ive got one!! n its my 2nd