Hello, My name is Ken Engrie(pronounced: Angry), I'm a 20 year old Belgian. I've been active in the dutch section for a while, but it figured: what the hell, let's post it in the international section as well.

Please take the time to read this before commenting

Back in march 2009, I bought my Golf mk2 gti 8V, my first road car. With the littile budget I had left, I tried fixing it up...

march 2009:






May 2009:






The 29th of may 2009; I come back from the pub (drinking Ice tea ) and some Idiot in a tractor cut me off, So I crashed into it

this is what she looked like after hitting the back wheel of that thing @ 40km/h.







After a lot of doubting hether I should keep it or not, I decided to restore it!

Got to work the same day, and 2 days later, there wasn't much left:







after paint:







some new suspension(eibach pro system) and an exemple of how i treated the car against rust :




The result of this:










She's not finished offcourse, but I'm well on my way...

How she showd up for her first meeting:




thank you for reading the story on my GTI, gotta say I've fallen in love with this one.