I know she ain't much to look at, but here is the old 79 Rabbit.... Genuine made in Germany. I acquired her in 1996, traded a Ford Tempo straight across to a guy who had kids and wanted something bigger (I only paid $800 for the Tempo, so I guess you can call that the acquisition price). It's got a 1.6 N/A in it. I'd had a gasoline Rabbit many years before and liked it so I figured this would be a good rig for a daily driver, especially when you consider that pickup behind it has a 460 in it. Then when I discovered what great mileage it got, I figured I'd keep her going as long as possible. An engine re-build in 2011 and she's still going strong.
nice man, the german built ones are hard to find, and the round headlights are so pretty.
Yeah I've always preferred the looks of the early Rabbits to anything after. When I first got this car I had a really long commute to work so I'd buy what I called 'disposa-cars', which meant anything that I could get on the cheap, and just drive them til they were dead, haul them to the junkyard, and then get something else. When I got this one, the exceptional mileage made me decide to keep her. That German engineering took some getting used to, as I'd been a Ford V-8 guy for the most part up until then. I read a quote once by an aircraft restorer who was restoring a World War 2 Fw-190 fighter plane which said "If the job could be done with fifty parts, the Germans chose to do it with a thousand." Of course I thought of the Rabbit right away hehe. While I don't think the v-dub is quite that bad, it was still a little different from what I was used to. Still though it's been fun to keep her going and has actually become somewhat of an obsession for me. My girlfriend hates it by the way, and is always pestering me to get something newer, but I just tell her "you find me something that gets this good of mileage and I'll consider it." She hasn't come up with anything yet hehe.
Yeah I've always preferred the looks of the early Rabbits to anything after. When I first got this car I had a really long commute to work so I'd buy what I called 'disposa-cars', which meant anything that I could get on the cheap, and just drive them til they were dead, haul them to the junkyard, and then get something else. When I got this one, the exceptional mileage made me decide to keep her. That German engineering took some getting used to, as I'd been a Ford V-8 guy for the most part up until then. I read a quote once by an aircraft restorer who was restoring a World War 2 Fw-190 fighter plane which said "If the job could be done with fifty parts, the Germans chose to do it with a thousand." Of course I thought of the Rabbit right away hehe. While I don't think the v-dub is quite that bad, it was still a little different from what I was used to. Still though it's been fun to keep her going and has actually become somewhat of an obsession for me. My girlfriend hates it by the way, and is always pestering me to get something newer, but I just tell her "you find me something that gets this good of mileage and I'll consider it." She hasn't come up with anything yet hehe.
You don't want a prius? I heard they get good milage
Just kidding. That's a pretty nice rabbit.
If those snotty nosed Prius owners knew what the true carbon footprint was for that Eco-friendly car they are driving they would buy a 1 ton dually pickup and be most proud of it getting 19 MPG.
You don't want a prius? I heard they get good milage
Just kidding. That's a pretty nice rabbit.
My other condition is it has to be cheap..... Doubt I could get a Prius for a price comparable to what I got the V-dub for. Besides a Prius is way uglier than any Rabbit ever thought about being hehe.
