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Cutting my Caddy in half.
by
dennis
on 04 Sep, 2010 17:15
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Im looking for a doner 2 door Rabbit body in the Clarksville / Nashville TN area. Im gonna use the longer doors and some of the metal to give me some extra leg room in the Caddy.
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#1
by
Baron VonZeppelin
on 04 Sep, 2010 19:01
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If nothing comes up in your area - there is a clean 2 door 1981 Rabbit in Seagrove NC. Nice doors (lt blue) and interior panels (dk blue).
He'll let you cut it - or buy whats left.
No front end or drivetrain, nor dash.
Private Owner, not a boneyard.
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#2
by
Syncroincity
on 05 Sep, 2010 11:27
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Caddy X-tra cab...Hmmm I like it! Keep us updated.
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#3
by
catlin_cava
on 05 Sep, 2010 11:34
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Caddy X-tra cab...Hmmm I like it! Keep us updated.
X2
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#4
by
R.O.R-2.0
on 25 Sep, 2010 10:19
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Caddy X-tra cab...Hmmm I like it! Keep us updated.
i always thought a caddy crew-bus would be kinda cool...
a 4 dr rabbit grafted to the rear half of a caddy.
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#5
by
dennis
on 26 Sep, 2010 11:17
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Still in search of a donor car. A gasser preferably. I have an acquaintance who has a few dead rabbits on his farm. Just waiting for the the copperheads to hibernate.
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#6
by
Dakotakid
on 29 Sep, 2010 21:24
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I saw a pickup extended like this over 20 years ago at a Bug-in south of Dallas. The damn things should have been sold like this with the longer doors and space behind the cab.
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#7
by
theman53
on 30 Sep, 2010 04:54
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I am no where near TN, but I have a silver GTI with really good doors. 44654 in ohio.
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#8
by
dennis
on 30 Sep, 2010 08:09
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I saw a pickup extended like this over 20 years ago at a Bug-in south of Dallas. The damn things should have been sold like this with the longer doors and space behind the cab.
Yeah. Just bein able to recline the stock seat a bit would make it so much more comfortable. The same guy witht the dead Rabbits out on his farm has a 90 or so Jetta GLI with Recarro seats Im gonna get. Should make a nice combination.
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#9
by
VW Smokr
on 01 Oct, 2010 00:54
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I saw a pickup extended like this over 20 years ago at a Bug-in south of Dallas. The damn things should have been sold like this with the longer doors and space behind the cab.
They were... sort of... in Brazil
http://www.volkswagen.com/br/pt/carros.html Note the Saveiro and Amarok models. Saveiros
were really more like Dasher/VW Fox 2 doors (engines mounted longitudinally), plus more room behind the seat than a Caddy, plus the shorty p.u. bed. Don't know about the 'new' Saveiro models; their motors may be transversely-mounted.
The VW Mexico site has some nice pix of their Saveiros and Amaroks
http://mx.volkswagen.com/vwcms/master_public/virtualmaster/es_mx/0/Saveiro.htmlWhy doesn't VW sell 'em to the Yanks & Canucks? Can't think of
any possible good answers to that. Seems like they could easily be 'federalized' and sold here; to my untrained eye, both those models look to be based on the Golf station wagon. C'mon V W... not everyone in America del Norte wants or needs a Touareg.
J.R.
SoCal
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#10
by
Kantdrivefast
on 03 Oct, 2010 14:21
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Vw wont sell the amaroks or any other truck like vehicle in north america. Not as long as their subject to the chicken tax anyways.
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#11
by
Toby
on 22 Oct, 2010 02:49
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I am in the process of stretching a Rabbit pickup myself. I have had several and just can't get in and out of them w/o pain. I have a gas 2 door Rabbit shell and a pickup that has been tagged on the nose pretty hard. I am off to pick up a Norwegian Frame Bench in the morning to use while grafting the two together. The NFB is a section of Kenworth frame that is long enough and straight enough to use as a frame bench. I am going to section the top and bottom in V cuts; one pointing forward and one pointing backward.
Before I get to cutting the 2 door, I am going to build a couple of V shaped braces that tie both door hinges to the striker. That will establish the exact width of the door openings when I bolt the striker on the back half to the brace on each side. The back of the doors are different so I suppose that I will graft the caddy bits onto my 2 door doors.
I'll post pics when I get to cutting.
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#12
by
dennis
on 23 Oct, 2010 20:49
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I look forward to the pics. One of the techs at my shop use to work at a shop that made limousines. He is gonna be the one who cuts mine when I get time and space and a donor car..