Anyone Messing Around With VW Rabbits???

[barvarianbox_83]

I ask because I used to have a MKI 16v GTI I did some track days with, and I have tons of MKI rabbit parts. I would rather just give them to someone who could use them than have them just sitting in my garage in boxes. Maybe there is a faq'er that could use them. Pic for reference.

[Harv]

I haven't had a Rabbit since 88. And to think I could have had a Swallow Tail at one point.....

John

[Jim_75Sahara]

I had a 1981 Rabbit S. Unfortunately it was assembled in the cursed PA VW plant which meant loads of misery for me and many other VW owners. I owned it from early '83 until the fall of '89. With much better quality control and better materials, that car would have been mighty special. It was always in the shop for something. It was never the engine, some other crapola. It ate fuel pumps for lunch -- not sure why? It also broke clutch cables repeatedly.

[HarryPR]

Nice looking GTI...

I've owned a few of them, three round headlight two doors, and a silver '84 GTI. I also owned two A2's ('86 GTI and '87 Jetta GLI 8V). My kids' first cars were '87 cabrios.

[ToddK]

My nephew is big into them. He has one that he stuffed a VR6 into. It also sports 15X8 wheels with stretched 175 tires. Handles like crap because of all that weight out in front of the wheels and the useless tires. Coolest part of the car is the back half cage I built for it. He likes the car even if he barely ever drives it. I can't understand why style is so important to him, and he can't understand why HP and handling are important to me. Must be a generation gap thing.

[schivvers]

I wish the '84 Wofsburg editon was still mine.

That car could tear about with no problem...

[JohnW]

Quite possibly the best car I ever owned was an 84 Rabbit GTI bought for $700 with 134k miles on the clock. I drove the hell out of that car for four years and sold it for $600 at 230k miles. It ate front wheel bearings, outer CV joints and motor mounts. And I got to the point where I could change the clutch cable in less than 10 minutes. Other than that, the car was a tank. I sold the car back in 2000, but I see it pop up on the VW Vortex classifieds every couple of years, so it's still out there.

[Harv]

Quite possibly the best car I ever owned was an 84 Rabbit GTI bought for $700 with 134k miles on the clock. I drove the hell out of that car for four years and sold it for $600 at 230k miles. It ate front wheel bearings, outer CV joints and motor mounts. And I got to the point where I could change the clutch cable in less than 10 minutes. Other than that, the car was a tank. I sold the car back in 2000, but I see it pop up on the VW Vortex classifieds every couple of years, so it's still out there.

That's the best.

John