Guys. I've recently had this idea, the type of idea that usually goes away after a couple days and I realize how stupid it is. But this isn't going away and I'm considering going through with it.

That idea is... buying a Volkswagen... worse, a convertible. For some reason I fell in love with MKI Rabbits and then realized that I'll only keep the car for a summer probably, so after seeing some pictures of Rabbit Cabrios I want nothing else. Slammed surfmobile on 13 or 14x8's is all I want in my life. And they kept building cabrios on the MK1 platform until '92 I think, so they're easy to find.

Help.

(plus... this one is super mint and local. http://forums.vwvortex.com/zerothread?id=4141096 White/white/white is either really awesome or really gay. I'm okay with both.)

As the owner of a girl car myself, I'm not gonna be of much help.


That one looks really clean though.

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-Dave
1987 BMW 325iC
1968 Cadillac Deville

it does look like a clean car, but i'm still not convinced it is worth 5k. The driver seat is squashed and i'm sure the rest of the interior isn't perfect. The engine looks to have a lot of the hoses and cables replaced, but it still a 16 yr old motor. Plus, its an Auto ... i just plain don't like old auto trans.

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- josh.

Word, I would never pay 5k for that. He's down to 3800 and I still wouldn't pay that much. The first thing I would do would be a manual swap.

There are other cars like this; http://forums.vwvortex.com/zerothread?id=4155928 floating around that are pretty sweet and I wouldn't feel as bad just dumping, putting wheels on, and cruising around in, but still not worth the 4k people are asking.

Keep an eye out for me! Even Mk1 hatches, if they're well done I'm interested.

slam the snot out of it, swap the trans, single rounds and some nice gold wheels..

3k or less people are hurting for money

ill jew him down

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Buy blake's M3 if you must have a drop top so you dont look like a woman?

Besides, how can you afford a car when you still owe me for my lense?

kidding!

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-Mike
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a white cabrio is pretty homo. but if you slam it on some black widened steelies, full time surf rack on it, and some other little parts it could be a fun surf beach car.

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Gifford I am worried!

I know, I know. It's incredibly not hetero. But for some reason, the image of one dumped on nice, 8J 13s or 14s with surfboards in tow has me wanting one. Plus they're cheap as hell, like only twice the price of one of those Nikkor's

we just picked up a white 92 cabby a few months back for 3200, it's in great shape with 55k (now about 56k) original miles on it, so definitely try to get it a bit cheaper....but kelly blue book still has it dancing around the 4k mark which is nice.

the cabby is the final frontier for MK1s, there are a few that have already started, but i think you'll see more and more cabbys and cabrios at shows that are done up and done right!

kate's will be all ready to go come the BlownEuroz GTG this year!!!!!

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I'm afraid I won't be a lot of help either: A guy I know just did the engine and ECU (megasquirt) on this sweet car.

damn, that yellow cabby is killer! very nice...


here's one in philly that's worth the money
http://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifie....php?id=718638

rick is an aircooled guy as well as a watercooled guy and enjoys driving his cars, so it's definitely been well maintained...

hope this helps!

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VW Barn 'O Parts ---"We've got 2000sq ft of Aircooled parts! If you need it, we just might have it!"

Oh no... in white, good mechanical condition, okay aesthetically... that's dangerous. Dumped on widened steelies and euro bumper or whatever its called and for less than $2k it'd be a fun little cruiser.

...dammit i sound like a 16 year old volkswagen kid.

fixed

but seriously giff, wtf.

I really don't know what's wrong with me.
I'd almost talked myself out of it and then i see cheap cars like that white one. I should probably just put money into cleaning up/installing the parts on my Subaru, but apparently i'm not smart enough for that.

I guess a first start would be to see if someone selling one locally would let you drive one. I've only been in one or two cabrios ever, and they're noisy and very sparse - not sure I could deal with that full time if thats your intention.

you're totally correct on the noise-they sound like boats--they should've made them rear engined to keep the noise in the back like their ancestors...but nothing beats the stereo blasting with the top down in spring, summer, and fall!

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VW Barn 'O Parts ---"We've got 2000sq ft of Aircooled parts! If you need it, we just might have it!"

I'm offended.
Girl car == 911

Fun fact; I've spent all day, every day since Tuesday with a little car kinda, sorta like this. I'll post about it soon =)

All I can say is Canada is really, really cold. And my Mk1 craving is out of my system.

Bah, been in Canada and didn't call me?

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-Mike
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hah, in Regina, Saskatchewan. Were we closer I'd have said something.
Been so busy with everything we didn't even get to go ice racing this weekend, but oh well. I'll throw up a link here tomorrow at some point when the project goes live.

lol.. ok nevermind you aren't close to me hahahahaha.

Pics, we demand pics!

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