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welcome back to the channel guys in today’s video we’re going to be looking at Julian’s caddy Sport and Tisha [Music] combo I’m waiting till the moment I’ll be waiting till the morning light I’m waiting on the other side you got me Julian this is your caddy sport which is quite rare a lot of the people watching this are probably from America as well so they they aren’t familiar with the caddy sport they had the sport truck but this is the UK’s version or is it Europe as well I think it was just UK they allegedly made 200 of them uh for the UK Market we’re not sure whether those 200 were ever made uh we’re trying to track that down but yes this is a right hand drive only using a z Zender body kit modified and various bits from Volkswagen I think the wheels are the same as srao storm the interior bits of Polo bits of Soko okay um but it but it’s got the 1.8 GTI uh injected engine in it as standard with a five-speed box and this is how it came from the factory I haven’t modified it at all really so is your like quest to try and sort is your your main thing like to make everything OEM and original is now yes um we all went through a phase of saying I’d like different wheels and lower it this that but now I think the caddy is a Bonafide classic and the best way to keep a classic is to keep it as original as possible is my view at the moment excellent and how long have you had this for I’ve had this caddy I started with a just a bog standard 1.6 had this one for about 15 years 15 yeah wow and the tissir I got just 3 years ago been looking for one cuz I knew they made the tiser specifically for a caddy yeah uh which is why it fits like a glove and a lot of people think it’s a permanent feature but it’s not it actually Dem mounts and put legs on it and then drive away um but it is Timber framed and a lot of them suffered from wats so you’ve done a lot of work we’ve seen but you know the things that you’ve done so perhaps what I’ll do is I’ll put on the screen now a few photos of what it looked like when you got it and then you know what it is now it’s incredible what you’ve done and I like the uh the decals on the side the decals are a copy of a later model but it fits well with the sport decals if I ever get around putting them on yeah oh it’s great do you go camping in it quite a lot or um three four times a year mhm uh but I found I need to have dry storage for it for the winter it doesn’t like sitting outside for um but it’s amazing uh amazing pie piece of Kit the truck does drive like a fully laden truck when it’s on which it is um so you’re not going to win any races um I have modified the rear suspension only by putting Monroe load adjustable shocks from the states on right which you can pump up with an air hose and just stiffens up this is the behind the seat job behind the seat yeah wow so I don’t have an onboard pump I just go to an airline and Pump It Up of course tell us cuz there’s going to be people out there that want to know numbers tell us about the wheels and the wheel size the tire size the wheels um I’ve gone back to completely original those are just 5 and A2 j13 alloy wheels the same as you got on the Mark 1 srao storm yeah and then with proper sized tires it fits the Arches nicely but it’s away from Modern stand of having big wheel and skinny tires yeah but it it actually gives you a better ride and and all the potholes in the UK at the moment actually he saves the wheels you know so did you say this is one of many caddies that you’ve got I have literally over the last 6 months I am convinced that the caddy sport is rare and valuable yeah and so I’ve taken some money out my pension okay and I’ve invested it instead of in stocks and shares I’ve invested it in three other caddy Sports so you have four caddy Sports I have four caddy Sports this is the only one which is they’re all drivable but this the only one that’s rot free and roadworthy that’s mad so they all need a probably in the today’s market 10K spending on them right yeah but I’m hoping they’re going to be 20 North when they’re done yeah is this the nicest looking one out of all of them oh yeah definitely you can just pick parts and put put them all in the what I’m trying not to do is to Rob parts off one of the ones I’ve got cuz then you end up with a complete what theine we call a hanger Queen you’ve taken so many bits off it right You’ never get it running again right but it is useful if I’m I’ve got a cold start issue so I can actually steal a cold start valve off one and try it without having to buy one and yeah El do you know many other people in the UK that have got the cad sport I’ve bumped into maybe four or five at various meets yeah but I don’t think there’s many more we’re trying to find out it’s very hard to track people down I don’t think there’s more than about 20 25 that’s mad isn’t it so rare and unfortunately people the caddy was didn’t sell well it was overpriced it was over 11,000 in 1989 which is a lot of money yeah and it didn’t meet either criteria being it wasn’t sporty enough it wasn’t utilitarian enough it just sort of fell between two stores and people bought them got them cheap and they said oh I don’t like the body kit I don’t like this and they’ve taken bits off and thr them away so wow so now trying to get a body kit is almost impossible the interior seats are okay cuz they’re on a mark 2 golf but the door cards are impossible really absolutely impossible to find Goodness Me Do you know much about the history of the caddy sport was were you saying yesterday that Volkswagen intend didn’t really have a plan for this they just sort of Chuck stuff together and the story I’ve heard and these are all just internet rumors the story I’ve heard was that a bit like the GTI the engineer said oh we can do something with this yeah um and I said okay go away play see what you come up with so they came up with the Zender body kit is the same as the the Clipper the cavet kit yeah uh from the front back then they Zender made a special rear arch for it um and that’s the bit you can’t find cuz you can find a body a Clipper body kit which takes you back to just before the front the rear wheels yeah um but the rear section hint teth but I have an original one there so I can get it copied so it’s not excellent and of course there’s certain differences between a standard UK caddy and a and a cadd sport obviously the rear bumper being one of those the rear bumper was a a bumper toeb bar yes uh modular item um again they’re quite rare quite Des desable cuz that fits really nicely with a roll pan if you take the square bumpers off the back yeah you can just put your tubular bumper on the back with they built-in swan neck and of course you were saying the your mirrors for having the tissue you’ve got T25 the the caddy sport even though it was a sport came with the elephant here mirrors and I’ve just modified those with T25 units just so they’re slightly longer so I can see past the caddy the tissue you got the white ones at home yeah yeah I’ve got the original ones at home they shouldn’t be white they should be black but I I went through a CLE coordination phase oh I see so the door handles are wrong on the car for any eagle-eyed people well speaking of the tissue let’s have a look inside shall we yeah sure let’s give us the grand tour the MTV style cribs welcome to my office so this is this is the T-shirt 235 235 um I’m in the bed of the truck now so it overhangs the truck by about Americans to say 2 ft uh for us you know 45 60 cm um so I’m in the bed of the truck and then with the pop top I got full standing head room so I’ve got more room than you have a you know a normally camper in some ways this is the overhang over the cab it’s where the double bed is very cleverly slides out half way um and that gives you a full KingSize bed actually this is also a pull out single bed so if you don’t want to make the bed up you can just pull out that you have sink Cooker grill I’m a big fan of the brownness that’s very sort of at well it’s the interior has never been touched this is totally original yeah it’s lovely and brown but it’s got it came complete with the original chopping board which then fits over your drainer so that all drains outside behind you if you want to swir around we’ve got a three-way fridge which is conveniently Lo loaded with beer and wine which is good amazing uh so that works like any Caravan fridge can be gas can be Mains and it runs off the battery when the engine’s running so I had to do some wiring modifications so it’s just like a caravan where you plug it into the vehicle when the engine’s running it charges the second battery and uh runs the fridge wow and you got power points down there you’ve got a PowerPoint a couple of sockets dotted around so one unplugged in like it is here um you come to a campsite plug in and you can uh of course charge your phone and boil the kettle even so and it’s also got an original gas heater which is a bit temperamental but when it works cool you warm up really quickly in here trumatic S 2000 yeah sorry but thing inside is original so how many people can it sleep maximum of two or three it can sleep three you got a single here and a double in the top uh when I bought it um the guy actually had seat belts in the back which is completely illegal uh in the UK you he the vehicle is still only W to carry two people yeah this is the thing when I was talking to the guy before who had a a a Bish goof Burger whereas he said um it could sleep I think he said it could sleep four but of course you can only have one passenger in the front so it’s like where are they going to go unless they drove with you in another car this would actually make a perfect support vehicle if you got some mad friend who wants to cycle the you know of course yeah yeah they can go cycling off and you just tickle around after them and set up camp I see you’ve got the uh how to keep your is it rabbit alive how to keep your Volkswagon just say how to keep your Volkswagen alive so oh yes cuz obviously you’ve got the kjet I’ve got yeah got the kjet engine and this is one of the even though it looks like a comic it’s one of the best books oh yeah the illustrations are insane yeah I don’t know if you I’ve got a copy at home but that’s that’s almost going along with a classic theme you know I love it it’s retro it’s classic absolutely and then you got a wardrobe so you can have a porta potty but we don’t want to go into that did I already ask about the year of the caddy sport no what year is this one this one is registered January 90 1990 so the way the UK uh registration numbers you can tell the year of a vehicle by the letter on the plate so it’s registered as an 89 CU I go April to April um but that’s too much detail so it’s 89 this one probably built in 88 or 89 I believe they only Built the caddy sport from 88 to 92 oh really um again all European caddies were actually made in Yugoslavia and there was a war on in the late ‘ 80s early ‘ 90s so production was halted abruptly in 91 or something wow uh but you’d still see some 92 registered Vehicles wow history on the channel tell us about the uh the wind screen is that the original screen apparently so yes the Cy Sport and some of the campaign uh golfs had a blue tint wind screen mhm so even though this one’s been out because of a resay we managed to get it out and in without breaking it which which is great so it’s an original top tint wind screen which I’ve never seen before on a Mark 1 to be fair I know it’s a tiny little thing and probably nobody really cares about it that much but yeah I’ve never seen that we keep thinking it’s really all the clouds upe really dark and menacing but oh no it’s just it’s just blue now tell us about this then this is one of your latest purchases is it yeah this is um a canopy from tough Trek so UK importer they are designed for roof racks basically they’re designed to just clamp on the side of if you got a roof tent or something like that mhm so I just modified the mountings I thought it would fit quite nicely but it’s a I think they call it a bat wi awning so it it sits on the side of the the vehicle permanently you unzip the cover and you it’s got a a hinge at the the back and so it rotates all the way around the side of the vehicle all the around the back of the vehicle and then great that and you get this sort of star shaped uh hinge at the back but it means with a because I don’t have a side door I can get out from the back walk around the vehicle undercover and it gives you a as we found out last night a massive party area yeah we were here last night a bunch of us having some uh few bevies in the rain kept dry absolutely so but that all just folds back in and it’s just a looks a bit like a pipe tube on the side of the vehicle when you’re done yeah now is there anything any modifications or anything that you’re going to be doing to this in the future what’s the plans or is it done is it done and dusted it’s virtually done and dusted I would like to put some solar on the Roof oh yeah and I might um replace the fridge which is 35 years old with a pure electric modern fridge MH uh which will be run off the solo or the the vehicle batteries or plugged in when you’re so I’d like to possibly be able to go more uh off- grid camping and I’ve only got a single you know battery but with LED lights these days a single car battery run lights for a week on it so it’s wow amazing yeah just possibility of Towing something but then we’re reaching the limit of our the poor little trucks capability tell us about those um I just wanted at the time I wanted flush handles I thought I think these are guess what Chinese you know copies but they’re curado handles or copies of Cado handles and they just fit perfectly oh that’s that’s nice that’s nice and plush so yeah it just fits in but I’m on a mission to put the old ones back on I see to to make it original and are they the same as all Mark 1 handles yeah that’s just the trigger handles with the Chrome insert you were saying about the uh interior how you the door cards are really hard to find yeah the the interior the this Tartan pattern is not very common but it is available on Mark 2 Golf GTI mhm um and then they made these door cards with a similar single red stripe in it so you can’t steal material from the seats and make a door card so this door card pattern is ridiculously rare yeah you probably could get somebody to make some up for you and it probably cost you 300b of meter or something if not more um but it’s also slightly molded very slight detent in here and around so it’s got some shaping in it wow but the the rest of the door hardware is straight out of a you mark one golf with the door pockets and everything for the people out there that are unaware of the caty sport what are the differences between your standard UK caddy and a caddy sport uh first one is the engine it’s got the 1.8 injected um engine it’s a JH engine code which I believe is the same as the the closest you can find is in a cabula right um the wheels are obviously different but the the other main difference is the the actual rear springs are slightly flatter a lot of people want to lower their caddies because when it’s empty it sits it tail end in the in the air this sits flat when it’s empty right so uh if you didn’t want to lower your Caddy will flip the axle so if you didn’t want to flip the axle you could if you can ever find them get some caddy sport Springs it’ll just lower the the the truck or just get a good spring manufacturer to make your opposite it which just slightly flatter wow it’s easier still is it same gears same exactly the same gearbox it’s just a five-speed gearbox a five-speed yeah cuz there are some CES that have four speed aren’t they yeah the sport came with a five speeder standard and of course the interior same with the the American sport trucks they have red Accents in the inside red trim I don’t have any trim accents just the um GTI tarten interior and the smaller steering wheel and you do the the actual Dash has the GTI Dash so you’ve got your rev counter and digital clock but it’s not MFA okay for the purists wow and the steering wheel steering wheel um believe it’s used on a polo GT okay um but it’s just a 14in fairly nice very nice comfortable steering wheel seems to fit quite well suits the vehicle yeah definitely but the rest of the dash is just a a black vinyl dash as standard lovely uh it did come with uh center console um what from Factory from Factory came with that center console but it just had the blanks in it so I’ve put the the actual gauges in got those working also known as the CIS fuel injection in America I suppose I’ll take your word for it that’s what um a lot of the people watching are probably think so I just put a bigger alternator on it to coope with the fridge and the second battery so you’ve put a new altern a bigger alternator it’s physically the same size just got a 90 amp output so wow thank you for watching today’s video make sure to to like the video If you enjoyed it and subscribe to the channel if you’re new and we will see you in a new video of the80s sounds of the80s the greatest hit the day my mama made me 99 Problems why I don’t look J I’m lazy W in a grave my w is Wy I’m glad he made me Jesus that to save me took a few looks the good books the page is crazy got a few looks turnning scripture to is like is what it is you want a fist or a kiss huh