6waysforward
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Right where do i start....I will do this project thread as a sort of story about me and how i got into the 306 scene as some of you know me and some of you dont. Then as i have explained a fair bit, my latest project will unfold. (By this point you're probably thinking 'skip to next page so i can see pictures and not listen to this donkey drone on'
By now you have probably realise that my spelling and punctuation are not great but im sure some of you ( rikki/owain ) will correct me.
So if i do offend anyone with my spelling and lots of talking...tuff s**t, its's my project thread so read someone else's project if you dont like it.
Back in 2005 my saxo vts got rear ended.
Now for me this was as issue, not because my car was buggered but because i always knew what car i would be wanting next.
I looked at loads of things cupra's, alfa's, vw's, jap stuff etc etc.
After a few months someone suggested a 306 gti 6. Now i had never came across one round my way and didnt know much about them.
So i joined a thriving forum ( the old 306gti6.com ) and got to know about the car a bit. Then i set about trying to find one. At the time they were still selling for around 4-5k. I didnt have the budget for this as i was skint at the time and didnt get much payout from the saxo.
Now i really wanted a silver one as i had an idea to do the wheels black or grey ( yes in 2005 before every other bugger) but i could not find a silver one for my budget.
So eventually i ended up buying a black P reg early phase 2 306 gti 6 for 2.5k, this was very cheap at the time as the guy was desperate for money. (pics of the black 6 to follow as i cant find my memory stick)
My 1st thoughts of the car were quite mixed. I liked the speed but it was horrible to drive ( had a courtesy car for 4 months). I kept with it and within a few weeks, got hooked and thats when the social life and wallet became very thin.
Anyways i had the black one for 18 months and done lots of bits to it. Then one day i came across this on autotrader
Sorry for small pics. Oncei find my memory stick with all my pics, i will update this thread.
After realising is was only 5 miles away from me i swiftly got on the phone to the seller.
T reg, 60k, 1 owner from new, not modified and only £2500 but not mot or tax. ( at the time i could have mot'ed this and slung 6 months tax on it and easily got £3999 for it, but i wanted it
)So after another phone call to the parents, 'please please please lent me 2.5k, i promise to be a better son and pop round more often blah blah blah'.
I headed round to see the car with a mate with traders plates and snapped it up for £2300 iirc.
I then set about taking all the good bits from my black 6 and swapping them over to the white one
and after a few months of doing bits, she looked like this
I then sold the black one to a forum member on here and its changed hands a few time's. I belive its still floating about now.
So after having the white one for around 6 months or so i got bored of 6 ownership and sold it to my mate laura a gorgeous blonde, she charmed my pants off and got it for bugger all £2k
I set out to buy a bmw 330ci msport but could not find one i wanted ( dark blue with black leather ) so after a few months of scrounging lifts off everyone i ended up buying this
Now i'm not saying this car was s**t or anything but i fooking hated it.
The interior was nice but that was about it so after 6 months or so, i got shot of it.
By this time i had lost my 50k a year job and was potless. Moved back home and had bugger all money.
I bought a 02 plate vts for a few quid and potted about in that.
Then sold that and bought a mk6 ford escort gti and i must say, it was a great car. Totally standard and not one spot of rust.
I dont like fords really but this car was great, it never went wrong and i made my money back 2 years later.
So after a few months of unemployment, i got very bored of the xbox and my parents moaning at me to get a job.
I saw a nile blue gti 6 on pistonheads for £600 that was in my area and i thought to myself 'hmmm, i will break that and make a few quid'. ( when breaking them could earn you good money )
But i am skint, i wont sell the escort in time before someone snaps this up, so i groveled to the g/f and whola, she only went and lent me it
So i went to go and look at it, the guy had only bought it as a stop gap and now had his new car so wanted rid for cheap.
It had 100k on the clock with a stainless exhaust etc and dented wings, previously cat d. But it didnt matter as it was a breaker right??
NO..... of course that didnt happen.
As soon as i drove it home, i realised how much i missed mine. Specially as i had a escort gti at the time that would not pull the skin off a rice pudding.
After a few days i decided to look through the full service history and discovered it had been into lad motorsport
and had 3k spent on engine work.I found the previous owners number in the paper work and rang him.
He confirmed that he took it there and spent a few quid on it etc etc.
So 6 months later..
It this was dilema time, i had promised to get the gf her money back but i wanted to keep the 6.
The escort just was not selling and we was deep in recession and i could not find a job.
So i had to break the 6 as it was not worth keeping and spending money on it being a cat d and all and i also did not have the money to get the wings sorted.
Breaking day arrived.
Chris ( farmer ) came to help strip it at a mates yard.
Then owain turned up ( sorry no photo's of him and he was to busy under the car )
and we proceeded to strip the s**t out of the car.
Chris had to go so owain and myself decided to get the engine out. Now having never taken out a 6 engine ( me or owain) we decided to get a electric saw out and cut off the nearside chassis leg to make things easier
After owain had gone, my mate and me decided that the shell should be attacked with a hammer....
My mate got so hammer happy he ended up going through most of the roof while my brother and me attacked the rest of the car...
So next day i needed to get rid of the shell but i didnt have the money to pay someone to collect it so.........
I broke out the electric saw again
I then loaded this lot up in my mates van and we took it to the scrappy, who i may add had a very hard time beleving me that it was my car and its not stolen
I decided to keep the engine as it had had a few quid spent on it. I knew i would eventually get a job so i put the engine in storage ready for my next 6.
It sat there for a couple of years collecting dust and i finally got a really good job and bought another ( 4th ) 6.
Ok chaps, this is now the end of my story and it takes me up till the tail end of last year when i got my new 6
The next part of my project thread is an actual project thread, not me rambaling on about no job etc etc.
So i am sixwaysforward (ben) and this was my story of how i got into 306's and why im still here.
Hope you enjoyed the read.
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***Breaking*** Ph3 Silver GTI 6 High Boost
Posted 15th Oct 2012 at 20:59
Good effort so far Ben. I usually see that much writting on an OP and think "Nah!" You should write a book for dislexic people 
I was trying to think who owned this car as I remember the photos you posted about 6 months ago? Best Silver '6 on the forum IMO 
