Description
Immaculate Golf GTI 16V for sale. Totally original, fastidiously maintained with every single receipt from new in a ring binder. Wheels refurbished with new Uniroyal tyres two years ago, ceramic coating applied in 2022 to maintain the car's shine, and a full service history from main dealer and independents. Rare spec for this year, including electric mirrors and power steering plus central locking. Everything works, no bodges, no holes in parcel shelf, just a perfect example of an iconic hot hatch that needs nothing doing to it. Comes with three keys including the unused 16V key with light in the fob. A great investment and a superb daily classic. Comes with a full year's MOT. This is one of the last of the ‘small bumper’ GTI 16V Golfs, made in October 1989. The colour is Atlas Grey (LE7L) metallic, and the car has been carefully preserved in period with its original factory specification.
The story of this car begins in London where it was bought by Kenning Leaseline from the Dovercourt VW dealership in St. John’s Wood and registered on 23 October 1989. For four years this Golf was in use as a company car, having been serviced regularly at a local VW dealership in Andover, Hampshire.
The owner clearly loved the car, as its service history reveals. Every single receipt was carefully filed, and the dealer service book stamped. When the lease was up, the family bought it from Kenning whereupon it was passed on to his wife, who ran it as her daily driver for the next 15 years – by which time it had covered some 150, 000 miles.
The family sold the car in 2007 but retained its original G160 UUU registration number. The Golf was then subsequently re-registered as G786 GVN. From there, this car moved north and was used as a daily driver, racking up another 20, 000 miles until it was finally taken off the road in 2016. It was stored up and intended to be used as a donor for another GTI restoration project but was saved from being broken up thanks largely by its incredibly detailed service history.
G786 GVN was sold once again and this time made its way to Wales, where a full mechanical restoration took place over the course of six years by an enthusiast who worked on it in his spare time. The car finally emerged from the workshop in the spring of 2022, and I bought it in October of that year, almost 33 years to the day that it was first sold.
