Not really sure whether this post should be in the Introduction forum or here ... so I will post it here and it can be moved if necessary
Anyway my names Rich, Im 24 and have been driving dubs since I passed my test when I was 17, already seems so long ago!
Unfortunately there have been a few none VAG stop gaps (1.9 Clio, 2.0 Tspark 156 and a 1.3CDTI Corsa) but im a dubber at heart and have always come back! The background to buying this B5.5 is basically I got a new job last year and driving a 240bhp 1.8T Bora 50 miles a day, 6 days a week killed my bank balance so she had to go
Absolutely loved that car and still really miss it, I bought a 1.3 CDTI corsa for economy 
hated it! but drove it for a year and to give it its due with it being so cheap to run and tax it free'd up some money so i could buy my mk2 Golf 20v T project (but I will get to that later) I then part ex'd the Corsa in against the passat, onwards and upwards! 
So my first car was a real stunner, very well looked after 1.0 light blue Polo breadvan from my nan! Although I didnt appreciate it at the time it would have been an awesome little car if I knew what I know now about modding! It got me through my driving test and then unfortunately two weeks later I pulled out of a junction and a 106 hit into the side of it!
Dont have any pics of it anymore but it was just standard, next was the 1.9 RT Clio bought for the princely sum of £250 just to get me to work and college til I found a mk2 Golf and this is what I did, picked up a standard 1.6 driver! This is the first car I ever played with so please excuse some of the choice modifications! Cant remember everything I did but I lowered her 40mm, mk3 GTI seats, fitted Kei 15" chrome 
alloys, mk2 GTI black carpets/trim/rev counter/headligning, big bumpers etc ...
I decided that after driving that for 6 months I decided I "needed" a black mk2 GTI project, managed to find a one in a scrap yard with the headgasket gone for £250 ... erm it needed some work
Being a college student, progress was slow but after a year working on it I got it looking alright, again still young so exuses the bling!
So with this on the road I think I had it for another year, but I just wanted something newer and my dads friend was selling his 8v mk3 GTI. Sold the mk2 and along came the mk3! Most reliable car I have ever owned, never broke down in all the time I had it! Again, bought totally standard, I then did this to it!
