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 For any guy, the “girl next door” implies a good-looking woman who shows subtle beauty. She probably uses little makeup and is no slave to fashion. However, that doesn’t keep her from being a major hotty.
With that in mind, we think we know of a Mark II (Mk2) that qualifies as the “Golf next door.” This particular gray 3-door GTI was one of the personal projects for Brad Beardow, formerly of fifteen52design and now a member of the VWvortex staff. Read more ---> HERE.
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| Re: VWvortex Feature: The Golf Next Door (George@VWvortex) | « » 1:14 PM 11-12-2003 | |
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Is this the start of the "vortex featured cars" ?
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| Re: VWvortex Feature: The Golf Next Door (thelumpya2) | « » 1:26 PM 11-12-2003 | |
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George, you leaking top secret info here?  . I still think Scott or Randy's car should have be feature car's. Mine cars will be soon 
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| Re: VWvortex Feature: The Golf Next Door (George@VWvortex) | « » 1:32 PM 11-12-2003 | |
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I love that car, I have the picture on my wall. This is the one that made me want to do a vr swap in mine.
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| Re: VWvortex Feature: The Golf Next Door (thelumpya2) | « » 1:33 PM 11-12-2003 | |
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Wait a second...this car was already featured on here...like 2+ years ago. Why the re-tread?
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| Re: VWvortex Feature: The Golf Next Door (vr6swap) | « » 1:56 PM 11-12-2003 | |
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No, we never ran the article. The pics have been up in the gallery for at least a year, but we never ran the article.Feature cars are going to be MUCH more regular on the site. This is the second Feature Car this week, and we're doing general Features (not just Feature Cars) Monday, Wednesday and Friday normally. As we missed some last week due to SEMA and lack of connection, we're doing daily Features this week, and thus far have done.... Epic S8
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Golf Next Door Additionally, we're doing a new staff column every Monday (Jamie was a day late  this week), so please keep an eye on the front page.
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| Re: VWvortex Feature: The Golf Next Door (George@VWvortex) | « » 1:59 PM 11-12-2003 | |
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Brad definitely builds some of the sickest dubs i've ever seen, his sense of style and what to do and not to do with them is amazing...
that being said a few things i found interesting or funny "For the most part, the VR6 motor was left stock. A Z-Engineering supercharger was installed to help gases going in..." basically stock, we just superchargered it a little bit 
and geez come on Brad use G11 coolant, don't think that nobody notices the green prestone crap in there
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| Re: VWvortex Feature: The Golf Next Door (George@VWvortex) | « » 2:00 PM 11-12-2003 | |
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Re-tread or not it is still a beautiful car! Thans for the article.Anyone know how to sourse the VW Motorsports A-arm and rear beam bushings?
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| Re: VWvortex Feature: The Golf Next Door (George@VWvortex) | « » 2:11 PM 11-12-2003 | |
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Great article George! I'm lucky to have driven that car a bit, and it was as fun as the article states. Of course, I was more into pimpin it around town 
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| Re: VWvortex Feature: The Golf Next Door (jamesn67) | « » 2:23 PM 11-12-2003 | |
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very impressive car 
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| Re: VWvortex Feature: The Golf Next Door (ELECTRODYNE) | « » 5:01 PM 11-12-2003 | |
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Nice car built by a good guy...I was at 1552 a couple years back, visited with Steve and John a bit... great people.
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| Re: VWvortex Feature: The Golf Next Door (Fly952.0) | « » 5:28 PM 11-12-2003 | |
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I still say that 1552 were the best tuners around to date... especially Brad's rides. His blue DE and this car are my absolute favorites. He really knows how to make a great ride still look clean. This is by far my favorite MK2 Golf ever. I only wish to do the metal flares like brad's. I think it will be something I will have planned for the future. I still represent 1552 too; I always wanted my car to be a 1552 ride.
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| Re: VWvortex Feature: The Golf Next Door (danny_16v) | « » 5:49 PM 11-12-2003 | |
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I like the fact that your going to do feature cars every week. Im diggin the color on the gti...very nice
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| Re: VWvortex Feature: The Golf Next Door (danny_16v) | « » 5:56 PM 11-12-2003 | |
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beautiful car, no doubt.
what ET are on the Compo's?
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| Re: VWvortex Feature: The Golf Next Door (vwtoys) | « » 6:49 PM 11-12-2003 | |
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RichPugh's car is a good candidate for 'Golf Next Door'.
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| Re: VWvortex Feature: The Golf Next Door (vwtoys) | « » 6:50 PM 11-12-2003 | |
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| Quote, originally posted by vwtoys » | beautiful car, no doubt.
what ET are on the Compo's? |
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| Re: VWvortex Feature: The Golf Next Door (danny_16v) | « » 10:58 PM 11-12-2003 | |
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sweet car
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| Re: VWvortex Feature: The Golf Next Door (snott) | « » 11:16 PM 11-12-2003 | |
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beautiful!!! i especially love the arches and the paint!
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| Re: VWvortex Feature: The Golf Next Door (GTiRacer85) | « » 11:30 PM 11-12-2003 | |
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brad's cars are sick, I miss 1552  , but I know the members have all moved on and are really getting things together, but I still cry a little on the inside brad and his nimbus grey, how many of his cars are painted that color????????
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| Re: VWvortex Feature: The Golf Next Door (tivs31) | « » 11:34 PM 11-12-2003 | |
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I remember seeing that car in person at the 1552 show in '01 and its just amazing.
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| Re: VWvortex Feature: The Golf Next Door (George@VWvortex) | « » 11:45 PM 11-12-2003 | |
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Killer GTI! Great article. I've been driving Project X every day since May and I can tell you it's a well built car! I've done a couple of small things to it myself, but I don't plan on changing a thing other than performance-wise, I'm even keeping the stock grille on it.....I've racked up over 10k miles since then and still going strong, even at 95k.
My GTI has sat since June! I love this car, and I'd love to drive that latest creation! I'm not looking forward to putting her away for the Winter....  
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| Re: VWvortex Feature: The Golf Next Door (vwaudichris) | « » 1:02 AM 11-13-2003 | |
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Sorry I don't mean to be confrontational but isn't this kinda just another reason to post and read about "the usual suspects" I think we all know those cars....sorry just my .02 
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| Re: VWvortex Feature: The Golf Next Door (Pedmaster) | « » 11:52 AM 11-13-2003 | |
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Hmmm, well I guess you could look at it that way if you want to. Although, I tried to make it really clear in the article, our staff is really sweet on a lot of the cars that Brad builds. That said, I'm not missing the irony that Brad is currently the one spearheading our own search for more feature cars. Plus, this car (again mentioned in the article) is hardly a rolling exhibit car for any one line or any one tuner. It's a mix, even in building it.
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| Re: VWvortex Feature: The Golf Next Door (George@VWvortex) | « » 12:31 PM 11-13-2003 | |
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A very nice car.
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| Re: VWvortex Feature: The Golf Next Door (155VERT83) | « » 1:50 PM 11-13-2003 | |
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Yet another awesome awesome car to come out of the hands of Brad...
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| Re: VWvortex Feature: The Golf Next Door (passatrcr) | « » 2:19 PM 11-13-2003 | |
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i thought someone else bought that car and turboed it? thoes photos are like over 2 years old
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I love that car almost as much as the coupe, and that color is gorgeous! The only thing better would be a Nimbus Grey MkII coupe
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| Re: (papaboo) | « » 11:48 AM 11-14-2003 | |
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This car and Brad deserves all the attention it gets, even though it's an older project! It went in a direction at the time, that no one else was doing. It's beauty and originality are unmistaken. It's unfortunate that others don't accept that and whine about the timing of the feature. I am sure others will be featured that deserve to be. I hope others can stop and give props to every top quality VW that has been built regardless of timelines...
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| Re: (astrodub) | « » 11:55 AM 11-14-2003 | |
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I would seriously
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I'm confused. I called 1552 before they closed and they said that this car was sold long ago.
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| Re: (Andrew McDermott) | « » 5:08 PM 11-14-2003 | |
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Anyone got pictures of the arch work being done????? What is Brad up to these days anyway???
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| Re: (gruppe5) | « » 5:43 PM 11-14-2003 | |
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| Quote, originally posted by gruppe5 » | | Anyone got pictures of the arch work being done????? What is Brad up to these days anyway??? |
I have some pics of the archwork being done, but they're not hosted. I'll try to find them and send them to you via email. And I'm now a full-time staffer here at VWvortex
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I like the car and you've done a good job.
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| Re: (Hiten) | « » 7:43 AM 11-18-2003 | |
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| Quote, originally posted by Hiten » | | I like the car and you've done a good job. |
Coming from you Hiten (you PVW readers really oughta know who he is), that's a very nice compliment, thanks. But I'm shocked you didn't say the car isn't low enough
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| Re: (brad@vwvortex) | « » 8:07 AM 11-18-2003 | |
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| Quote, originally posted by brad@vwvortex » | | But I'm shocked you didn't say the car isn't low enough |
Allow me, IT AINT LOW ENOUGH!! j/king Ive alway's been in love with the car. When i first seen the car in Eurotuner, i wanted to paint my car Nimbus. Who own's the car now Brad? Were those custom arches as i want a set.
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