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Oh man, did I ever have the most styling 1980 deisel rabbit on the planet! At least thats what I thought back in 1986 during my sophmore year at school.
She was that lovely beige color. But......I did my best to improve her a bit.
I installed a set of brown cloth sport seats from an Audi 5000 (junk yard), a three spoke steering wheel from a Scirocco, along with a set of Scirocco alloys I bummed off a Fraternity brother whose VW was literally rotting in our parking lot. She wore Vredestein (sp?) sprint steels in the winter, and P7s in the summer. In the interest of improving upon VW's already sleak lines I put on a Kamei front spoiler that prompty got ripped off that winter while doing pizza delivery duty for Dominos. I also had swaybars front and rear that I put on.
She wasn't fast in a straight line, but man could she corner.
I was too poor to afford proper repairs so I can remember one round trip from Worcester, MA up to Burlington, VT I had to make with ear plugs because the exhaust pipe had fallen off. A deisel wide open is not quiet.
In fact the first time I met my girl friends parents (now my wife), they were waiting for me in her room at school to go to dinner. Her Dad heard me coming in the Rabbit with the wide open pipe from blocks away. He said "I hope thats not him coming is it?"
Well, they musta liked me fine since they let me marry her.
One cool thing about the Rabbit is that once you got it started, you could disconnect the battery and it would still run. An important thing to know when you have a dead battery and no money for a new one.
I finally parted ways with her in 1988 when the coolant tank burst and I over heated the motor on the MA pike. The head warped and I sold her to someone who had the time and money to put a fresh motor in, because I didn't then.
My first car
Chris Bunker
78 SC
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