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The town of Ballymena sits more or less in the dead centre of Northern Ireland. Halfway between Belfast and Derry, it\u2019s a typical country market town, built around an old town square that\u2019s been modernised with a shopping centre. Mostly, it\u2019s famous for being the hometown of Liam Neeson but for one brief moment, Ballymena became the epicentre of the 1970s hot hatch revolution.<\/span><\/p>\n

By 1976, it was pretty clear that the classic two-seat roadster had had its day as an affordable form of fun motoring. The likes of the MGB and Fiat 124 Spider would soldier on for a while yet, but deep in the heart of Wolfsburg, Volkswagen was cooking up a recipe that would end the roadster\u2019s day almost forever. Well, at least until Mazda created the MX-5 in 1989\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

While Volkswagen had had its fingers burned trying to make sporty versions of the Beetle that no-one bought, within the company there were those who realised that the new Golf hatchback had potential to be rather more than just an economical family runabout. Against the wishes of the upper management, VW Press Department head Anton Konrad and engineer Alfons L\u00f6wenberg set about creating what was then called the \u2018Sport Golf.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n

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Of course, you know the end of the story. Sport Golf became the Golf GTI \u2014 with all of 110hp from its E287 engine, thanks to the fitting of Bosch fuel injection \u2014 and success begat success. We\u2019re now on the eighth generation of Golf GTI and, bar one or two clangers along the way (MkIII, we\u2019re looking at you\u2026) it has ever since been the king of the hot hatches.<\/span><\/p>\n

That\u2019s the end of the story. But what about the middle?<\/span><\/p>\n

You see, when Konrad and L\u00f6wenberg created that original Sport Golf, it was a \u2018skunkworks\u2019 project, a Saturday afternoon job. When the VW high-ups got wind of it, they sighed, rolled their collective corporate eyes, and said: \u201cOK, you can put it on sale. But we\u2019ll probably only sell 5,000 of them\u2026\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Such a short production run meant that there was no likelihood of right-hand drive. Although the regular Golf was on sale in the UK by then, VW\u2019s engineers not only reckoned that converting this new fuel-injected model to RHD wouldn\u2019t be cost-effective, it might not actually be physically possible at all.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Robert McBurney wasn\u2019t going to have any of that. McBurney\u2019s father, Roger, had been one of the very first Volkswagen dealers on the island of Ireland, and Robert had taken over the running of the dealership by the mid-1970s. As well as successfully flogging Beetles and Type 2 vans to the good burghers of Ballymena, McBurney was a rally driver. A really good rally driver.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cRobert is one of the very few people that I know who could drive a rally car very well.\u201d The speaker is Dr Beatty Crawford, and he\u2019s a friend and fellow driver, who knew the late Robert McBurney well in the 1960s and 1970s. His high opinion of Robert\u2019s skills as a driver aren\u2019t the mere kindness of and old comrade, though \u2014 Crawford has driven and co-driven rally cars alongside the very best of them, from Vatanen to Waldegard and all in between.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHe was chosen by Rootes to be a third driver on the London to Mexico rally in 1970\u201d says Crawford. \u201cHe was more a long-distance type driver than a sprint driver.\u201d Crawford got to know McBurney well while completing his medical studies at the main hospital in Ballymena. McBurney was frustrated, though \u2014 he wanted to compete in rallies, but he also wanted to stay loyal to the VW brand that he represented. VW, at the time, had nothing in the cupboard that could compete with contemporary Fords and Fiats, though.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Nothing, until McBurney got wind of the Sport Golf project, and the eventual LHD Mk1 GTI. \u201cAt the time, Volkswagen Beetles reigned supreme in Irish rallying. Robert was a brilliant mechanic too, but if he had a fault it was that he stayed loyal to Volkswagen for too long. Everybody was clamouring to get a Golf GTI in right-hand drive\u201d recalls Crawford. \u201cBut the Germans said no, and if you\u2019ve ever dealt with Germans in business, once they make their minds up, that\u2019s it. It\u2019s very difficult to turn a German!<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhat Robert did was basically to go to the spare parts catalogue, and he just built a right-hand drive GTI. Then Reggie McSpadden, who was the head of VW sales at Agnew\u2019s in Belfast (indeed, it was McSpadden\u2019s wife who donated her own personal Golf to become the bodyshell for the right-hand drive GTI project) \u2014 and with whom Robert had done some rallying \u2014 mentioned this to the VW high-ups. Who said it was impossible.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

McBurney would take his home-baked GTI to a second-in-class result on the Circuit of Ireland rally, which back then was a gruelling five-day event that actually circled the entire island. VW heard about its success, and summoned McBurney, McSpadden, and the GTI with its steering wheel on the wrong side to the factory in Wolfsburg. \u201cThey couldn\u2019t believe it. Well, they had to believe it once they saw the car in front of them\u201d says Crawford.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Given what a wild success the Golf GTI turned out to be in the UK market, as well as other right-hand drive markets, you\u2019d have thought that VW would have struck a medal for McBurney, or even given him some kind of parade. Sadly, no.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt seems hard to think of it now, but back then Volkswagen was struggling for sales, couldn\u2019t sell a car\u201d says Crawford. \u201cThey\u2019d lost their way, and Robert had over-extended himself, investing in a big new paint facility, and lost a lot of money. And one day Volkswagen just sent a big transporter and they picked up all the cars from the dealership and took them away. He was bankrupt. Everything was gone in a fire sale.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

McBurney would eventually end up working for Agnew\u2019s Volkswagen, a rival dealer based in Belfast. But he wasn\u2019t quite done with creating rapid under-the-radar VWs\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

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Crawford spent many years living and working in the US, in Connecticut. \u201cRobert would come over and visit us, and spend two or three weeks in the summer. At the time, I had bought a Volkswagen Jetta saloon, and guess what? You couldn\u2019t get the GTI engine in the Jetta\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Seizing upon this, McBurney arranged to have a GTI engine shipped to Connecticut. \u201cI had gotten to know the local VW dealer\u201d says Crawford. \u201cWe asked if we could borrow an engine hoist, and a few days later I had the only Jetta GTI in the United States\u2026\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Two creations on two continents that changed the face of fun motoring. Robert McBurney deserves to be better known.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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