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Originally Posted by speeder
That's a fantastic build...just outstanding. Those little pickups won't really carry much but they're light as a feather and this would be really quick. The other thing is that they were all delivered in the USA as diesels, if not mistaken, so that the title probably says "D" under fuel type and it would therefore never need smog check in CA.
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Actually, they came as both Gas and diesel, I've owned many over the years and did almost the exact same build back in the 80s. But a Gen 1 GTI engine and transmission and a converted from diesel to gas. Also, they were designed and built in the USA.
And it was quick too.
While these were extremely slow in the stock, tired form, (at this point, the diesels had 400,000 miles on em and still around 40MPG,) and yes, a very limited payload.
But the one you is the Turbo Diesel 82 Sports Truck, a friend had one in school, fully optioned out, and is was surprisingly quick.
David's was very similar to the one in the ad, but blue and silver, and alloy wheels.
https://www.hemmings.com/stories/2013/07/01/lost-cars-of-the-1980s-volkswagen-pickup
Funny story, I moved to Clay County in the 90s, and they didn't have emissions testing, but Duvall, where Jacksonville is, did. So I'm driving my little silver diesel rabbit truck to my girlfriend's house in Jax, and like old diesels do, it belched smoke when I shifted, and one of JSOs fineness, pulls me over to make sure I was legal (remember, this one used a Sun Dial to measure zero to sixty) well, he noticed that it smoked, and asked for my emissions paperwork, I told him that I live in Clay County, where he goes to tell me that they have emissions in Duvall, and at that point, I informed him that it was a diesel.