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[brrm]

For those that don't know the story, here's a summary of Golfs my Parents Have Owned:

1) Golf GTI Mk2 - crashed, rebuilt with a new bodyshell
2) Golf GTI Mk3 - stolen while they were at a conference in Prague
3) Golf GTI Mk3 'edition' - rear-ended by a muppet while I was waiting to turn into a petrol station. About 6 months after my dad bought it as a replacement for number 2.
4) Golf GTI Mk4 - stolen in Slovenia; recovered looking slightly less complete than it used to
5) Golf GTI Mk4 - right hand drive. Bought new when my parents returned to the UK. Currently believed to be still in one piece.

Apparently, the front end of #4 was removed by the ne'er-do-wells to repair a crashed one. These photos just appeared today - all we knew up to now is that it had been 'partly dismantled'...

Comments

[chrisvenus]

Cool. Does #4 still drive I wonder? That'd be cool if it did. I suspect the engine might fall off if you tried though and it probably wouldn't be long before it overheated anyway... :) but still cool. :)

[brrm.livejournal.com]

I think the engine is still mounted properly, but it looks like it is missing a lot of parts, including as you say the radiator. The airbags have also been taken, not that they are essential for driving.

[antinomy.livejournal.com]

the front end of #4 was removed by the ne'er-do-wells to repair a crashed one

Rather than just nick yours and dump their knackered one... bizzare, though I suppose less traceable in the end.

[brrm.livejournal.com]

It might also look suspicious if you took a Golf CL in to be repaired, and got a much faster GTI back :-)
A similar thing happened to Golf number 1 - it was given a new bodyshell, and the old one turned up in Italy (IIRC) repaired and made into a second car. So when Interpol phoned my parents and said their car had been found in Italy, it was also still on my parents' drive in Cambridge. :)

[brrm.livejournal.com]

Oh, and they failed to nick the brand new tyres. Ha-ha.