My uncle's Mk 1 Golf GTI - black with red patterns on the black seats. He used to tear around Angelsey with my cousin, brother and me in the car. One stretch was always that "Can he hit the ton down that road?" He'd had it from new and sold it in 2004 with 150k on the clock for £5k. 2 years before I got my licence (I was a bit late getting behind the wheel).
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My dad briefly had one of these, and I hated it at the time because I didn't like not having a door of my own to the seat:
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Fell in love with the idea of one a few years later.
And then there was one of these that I really wanted:
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And then the one that I was able to realise as my first car:
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it was a 150hp low pressure turbo Design Edition, so it has Viggen wheels, silver trim where others would have black plastic, and the leather is all two-tone navy and black. Lottie doesn't drive at the moment and needs a bit of restoration, but I'm not getting rid of her.