84 Rabbit GTI Rally Car

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pdxphil42

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gilbrock
A non-rusted shell to cage.

Or just buy mine! It already has a cage.

Sorry, yours is about $9,500 higher than my budget.

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john vanlandingham

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A non-rusted shell to cage.

You want a Rare-bit???

Dayum a guy I knew (a crazy German born cop) scrapped 2 diesels recently.

dammmmmmmmmmmmmit! I've been looking for a diesel shell too. ugh.

No emissions, huh?

Whatcher gonna do that it has to be a Rare-bit? They're getting kinda well rare, as are the 'bits" for 'em..

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John Vanlandingham
Sleezattle, WA, USA

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Hi Jon - I have two rabbits that are caged but nearing the end of their competitive life (and the cages are not rally legal) - I want to get another diesel rabbit (so I can register without bothering with smog - which is HUE hassle in CA) and transfer all the nice bits from these cars into one good one - preferably a 4-door with a (rally legal) cage...

I think it's a direct swap for everything from the gas car over to the diesel chassis. Do you know otherwise?

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Hi Jon - I have two rabbits that are caged but nearing the end of their competitive life (and the cages are not rally legal) - I want to get another diesel rabbit (so I can register without bothering with smog - which is HUGE hassle in CA) and transfer all the nice bits from these cars into one good one - preferably a 4-door with a (rally legal) cage...

I think it's a direct swap for everything from the gas car over to the diesel chassis. Do you know otherwise?

That's a what I was thinking.
But man, finding a diesel is hard.. In the Metro Sleezattle area there was only one old codger/cumudgeon guy that would touch the diesels so most died inglorious deaths more than 20 years ago---that's why when I spoke with the crazy cop---for the first time in 20 years---it was like "damn man you just scrapped those buggers?"

There doesn't LOOK to me to be much different and I have poked at them some...If fact I use Rabbit Diesel throttle cable on some cars including Saab V4 (which are all rod linkage and can sometimes pull open the throttle if/when the engine rocks.) So i rob them when I see 'em...
3 in the last 10 years.

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John Vanlandingham
Sleezattle, WA, USA

Vive le Prole-le-ralliat

www.rallyrace.net/jvab
CALL +1 206 431-9696
Remember! Pacific Standard Time
is 3 hours behind Eastern Standard Time.

they are a little more common down here. Just recently there were two on CL for sale, but they didnt run and the owner was smoking crack asking nearly $1,000 each for them...

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they are a little more common down here. Just recently there were two on CL for sale, but they didnt run and the owner was smoking crack asking nearly $1,000 each for them...

There's that too. Jeebus. Saw some max scrod-o-fulous, like 10 years of pine needles and mildew and slime Xrattys on craigslist, non runners and gross---200 bucks max I say,
he says "
"$800 ----I could get 10 times that if i parted them out"

Holy insanity.

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John Vanlandingham
Sleezattle, WA, USA

Vive le Prole-le-ralliat

www.rallyrace.net/jvab
CALL +1 206 431-9696
Remember! Pacific Standard Time
is 3 hours behind Eastern Standard Time.