1982 vw rabbit
 

Picked this cream puff up this past week. She's a little rough around the edges, but she's just about 30 years old so what can you expect. I got some nice plans for it so hopefully it all works out, its a nice platform to start, not much rust at all and a great color :P

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Name is Rocket Bunneh! This has win all over it!

Please for the love of God, don't do this to it:

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Yup whatever that is called swagrabbit or whatever is straight stupid.

yea well i like saving old cars, not ruining them so don't stress :D

My mom had that exact car when I was a little kid.

The suspension on this car is wicked ! it just hugs the corners lol...

watching you leave the meet last night we had a good laugh lol

That they do. My buddy had one lowered with a VR-T and the thing was straight monster. Seriously amazing little sleeper, I have seen that car destroy tons of cars on the high way

I'm not a vw fan but these are sweet my buddy just finished his build with a sirocco motor swap

i was just poking a little fun at how much roll it has right now lol, but hey i bet this thing would handle like a go kart with the right coil set up

This could be really nice

K swap!

Haha I figured I'd do something to put a smile on everyone's face

Just over 2000lbs they're a great car to throw a 200-250whp motor in and surprise a few people

Haha yup stock suspension is nothing special. Poly bushings everywhere, coils, and a rear sway bar they a pretty much exactly like a go kart :)

I wish :( I always think of buying a beat one and doing a b series or sonething but it's probably more work than its worth

coilovers and euro bumpers should be on early next week. yeaaa buddy

what kind of coils did you get ?

racelands duhhhh haha

My buddy is restoring a 79 2door for his homie.

Full chassis restoration. Media blast and all. Just on hold now though as he just deployed to s.Korea.

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Good luck w the build. I'll check back to see what's new.

thanks for sharing, id like to do a build like that one day i just don't have the time or money right now :(

Picked up the euro bumpers yesterday and also got a set of 15" 3 piece epsilon southern ways wheels. They're porsche fitment and i don't even know the exact specs so it was kind of a shot in the dark buying them but we'll see how it goes. I'm going to refinish them real quick and then do some test fitting so i can order adapters :)

ok so heres a picture of the wheels i got. 15x7 5x130 epsilon southern ways. no bends or curb rash that can't be easily sanded out. $225 :)

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Any ideas for center color? I'm between orange, white, cream, or brown.

And heres a picture of the car with the coil overs and euro bumpers installed, the bumpers definitely make the car look 10000x better imo

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how about color matched to the body color?

considering it, but I want to get them powder coated, not painted and I'm worried they'd never really match and the difference would look awkward. Im leaning towards orange to match the pinstripe, or brown because...well it would fit in with the cars colors. I also hate that "hey look at me my wheels are a ridiculous color" look so orange worries me honestly. I like it because i think it will match well, btu if everyone is going to think I'm some scenester wanna be ass hole i wouldn't want to do it.

Honestly, I would do brown. Just seems like in my mind it would actually look good in this car, and I'm one who hates odd ball colors like that.

yea i def think it would look good. Wheel color is the last thing i have to decide on right now though. Still have to make sure the adapters i ordered are going to work out, then **** with the camber, then order tires while I'm polishing the lips up, and finally get the faces coated lol...busy 2-3 weeks ahead of me

nice,theres one by my house same color and 4 door in mint condition. wheels are awesome,good luck with the build.

Cream or brown.

Euro bumpers are good. I like the look.

yea I'm really leaning towards brown now...well see when the time comes. And thanks, i really think the bumpers made a huge difference.

just gonna leave this here. Looks like my "idk the specs of these wheels so ill just order 20mm adapters" plan is going to work just fine.

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mad stance brah ! lol

Damn. Say goodbye to your tires. Hah.

****'s mad waffled bro. The stance is going to be so epicly dope i can't wait :bigeek:

remember: toe kills tires, not camber :)

This is great man.

I'm thinking about picking up a diesel mk1 caddy as a project and parts car over the summer. Any major rust problems at all with this? I'm praying I can get lucky and find something that isn't in terrible shape.

20 mm adapters worked out perfect, brown would look good on the faces. Can't wait to see updates.

A rust free diesel caddy that runs is gonna pull $5k easily :/ but a great car nonetheless. Luckily I'm prett much rust free as well :D

And yea the wheels are getting put on hold as i just ordered some corrado steelies the other day so i can actually get the car on the road again. The epsilons will be on by show season probably though

Damn I gotta start saving and searching more then, thanks for the heads up though. I'll probably shoot you a PM if I end up finding one for some advice, still really new to the vw world haha. Glad to hear that your Rabbit is basically rust free too, i've heard some horror stories.

mk1's are up in price right now, especially diesels :/ And yea my last mk1 was a rust bucket :( But yea if you have any questions regarding mk1s feel free to hit me up

I thought you weren't gonna stance it

cool, thanks again man. :)

And save it, and not ruin it

this thing is going to be so beautiful, there's nothing better than an old VW.

So some plans changed and she's been sitting for a little bit but this weekend is looking like a good time to bring her home :) I sold the epsilons and bought my newest project (2011 Honda Ruckus), and bought a set of corrado steelies and put my 165/45/15s on them. I love the way they look and don't regret selling the epsilons at all especially since i made like $300 off of them. All i have to do is finish installing my fixed front vent windows and ill be bringing here home hopefully for good. :D

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