Cutting my Caddy in half.

[dennis]

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.

[Baron VonZeppelin]

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.

[Syncroincity]

Caddy X-tra cab...Hmmm I like it! Keep us updated.

[catlin_cava]

Caddy X-tra cab...Hmmm I like it! Keep us updated.

X2

[R.O.R-2.0]

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.

[dennis]

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.

[Dakotakid]

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.

[theman53]

I am no where near TN, but I have a silver GTI with really good doors. 44654 in ohio.

[dennis]

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.

[VW Smokr]

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.html

Why 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

[Kantdrivefast]

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.

[Toby]

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.

[dennis]

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..