Junkyard Find: 1979 Volkswagen Rabbit 3-Door

The non-convertible Mk1 VW Golf was sold in the United States through the 1984 model year and the Cabriolet version well into the 1990s, which means that most of the examples you see in high-turnover wrecking yards nowadays are the soft-top variety. I have a friend who is trying to get a long-idle GTI project into streetworthy condition, and so I've been keeping my eyes open for a 3-door hatch Mk1 Rabbit with black interior for him. After six months of spotting Cabrios and the occasional hooptied-out 5-door, I found this '79 in a Denver self-serve yard. Not many econoboxes came with factory fuel injection in 1979. The (gasoline-powered) Rabbit was more fun to drive than most of its Malaise Era Japanese and Detroit competition, but still intolerably slow by present-day standards. Fuel economy was great, though. The round headlights indicate that we're looking at a car built in Germany, not Pennsylvania. "I owned my last Volkswagen for seven years!" from The Truth About Cars http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com

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