Love the red leather on the Harvard. Hope it's still there in yours! Get some Gliptone Liquid leather rubbed in to it. You will be amazed at the good it can do to the look and feel of the leather. It's not even expensive..

Start adding to those miles Rod. Plenty left in her. My mk1 is on 190k now and that's miles not KPH.

Btw any other would be buyers, I assumed that isofix would mess up fitting the seat in to other cars. So I was thinking the mk1 would need a different seat from my wifes car. Turns out that at least on some you can use the iso fix base or NOT use it. Therefore we leave the base in my wifes car and u...

We're covered right now as the Maxi Cosi Cabrio I think it's called goes in ok. When her legs get longer though it's going to be an issue. Can anyone recall what car seats they used with their baby and toddler in a mk1 please? Thank you.

sounds like a long time to me! However, was it a freezing cold day and did you have the heater cranked to full?

stalks are not expensive second hand and it's not a hard job to fit either. Take the steering wheel off, few screws for plastic etc...

I feel your pain. I've had mine scratched by jealous ideots. What really pees me off is they don't need to be jealous. They could just go and buy one for a few hundred quid. That's all mine is worth and I didn't pay much for it in the first place. IGNORANT!

NOOO! I feel so bad for you. Bodywork is the thing I'm most worried about permanantly taking my car off the road. Even an engine can be changed fairly easily but reshelling a car for the sake of calling it the same car, I'm not sure even I could do that to keep my baby alive. Although you wouldn't k...

Did he tell you how much he likes copper grease? ;)

it's much more complicated than when I was a lad! Even until a few years ago the tax could just transfer with the car.