I haven't shot many Junkyard Finds involving water-cooled Volkswagens, mostly due to the fact that these cars tend to depreciate into the crush-worthy price range before age 15, which means that interesting VWs don't appear too often in self-service wrecking yards. We saw this '82 Scirocco and this '80 Dasher Diesel recently, and I've found 2/1461ths of the North American Etienne Agnier Edition Golfs in junkyards, but nearly all the Golfs I find these days are Mk2s or later, or Mk1 Cabrios (or ones that I'm helping to load up for a trip to The Crusher). Here's a genuine, numbers-matching (maybe), final-year-of-American-production, Westmoreland-built, Mk1 Rabbit two-door that I spotted in Denver a while back.
Nothing very special about this car, other than being uncommon in the junkyard.
No shortage of these engines in the world.
The Whorehouse Red Velour Interior craze peaked in the mid-1980s; Japan and Detroit did the most lurid red interiors, but VWoA made some good ones as well.
This car isn't a GTI, but the '84 GTI TV ad was so great that I'm including it anyway.
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