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That laugh would make a fantastic ring tone.

I dunno what you're talking about.

Yes, like Clancy Brown (The Kurgan) in “Highlander”.

There was a KZfaqr revived one down in limerick direction a while back, Cannibal Cars was the channel

@@thesteelrodent1796 The Rabbit was the name VW gave the Golf when they launched it on the US market.Its true that there were some differences - modifications to lighting and bigger( uglier) bumpers etc but it was the same car.Still see an odd one around here- super car.

What's humorous here is in the mid 90's I saw a Saab in Bellvue WA....had a vanity plate that read "SNAAB"!

LOL, cream puff!😂

My grandfather and I picked up a 68 95 wagon with the V4 as a project. I love the car, they’re so quirky and neat.

Grandpa was just funing you

Neither his brake lines nor your floors would have rotted if they had been spray waxed before they were parked, at almost any self serve car wash, or pressure washer bottle or trigger sprayer, and silicone tire shine, from a trigger sprayer, for exhaust. The rear trailing arm mount rusted out on my Rabbit, I first fixed it by bolting in a piece of an old fence post, and later I crudely welded it. I think the fence post was actually the stronger fix. My other fence post repair worked well too.

Back then I worked with a huge guy that drove one. It would leave a black mark on his shirt where his belly rubbed against the steering wheel. It was a tough little car and got something like 60+ mpg.

Man, those caddy's are selling for over 10k now. Lol. I never owned one of them but I owned over 30 rabbits in every variation. I love them

Always wanted the diesel pickup version.

I don't know anymore if it was a diesel, but around '82 we had a "sampling dropoff" at our farm for the sweet corn company. A guy would visit the fields in the area to get crop samples (as harvest time approached) and then dropped them off in a pile to be picked up later by someone else later in the day. He drove a baby blue VW pickup based on the rabbit. I think that is the only one I ever saw in real life back then.

Then you should know what horrible examples of “superior German engineering” these awful cars were? The Yugo was arguably better engineered and more reliable.

@@sharedknowledge6640ll I know. I knew a college professor. Has one of these. And it went 400k miles

And so relatable to anyone who drove old clunkers in the rust belt. Metal that has become crunchy orange dust.

Worked with a guy, who was the project supt. on job my employer was doing. He swore by the diesel rabbit, wouldn't drive anything else; back in 1979.

@@jdmccorful It got traded for a GT Mustang, I'm not sure it was the smarter trade, but that mustang was fast.

Needle-scaler Garage!!!

Nah. Mortske-esque.

Don't sully Wes' name with VGG.

I'm excited

This is the unique content and style that put you on our map Wes. Thank you for being the consummate teacher/entertainer!!

A bag of hammers....hadnt heard that one before...hilarious

I gave a ride to a guy one time in my '79 diesel Rabbit and when I started it he said "if this isn't a diesel, you got some serious problems." ha ha

He was asking about it...

And Wes had to cut out the panicked swearing as he was about to roll into that red truck.

it's been 10 minutes and I'm still laughing

@@TomWood60 He was getting ready to do the Fred Flinstone stop--And he didn't even need to open the door! LOL

@@WatchWesWorkA Prius transmission for propulsion(near 200bhp is possible), 3 hybrid battery packs, Prius electric steering, GTI bits(South African upper rear c-posts..) making a 150+ mile EV oh an hybrid batteries like big discharges and fast charging current....

It’s easy to replace the head gasket, and a lot of things.. I had two of those.. the only reason I gave it up , that it wasn’t passing emission.. the cis was a fragile system, and I couldn’t afford the expensive diagnostic tools to troubleshoot it..

They had lots of names in various markets. I seem to remember reading when the MK2 came out, they slapped a stylised rabbit badge onto the MK1, added a bunch of extras from higher-spec models and sold it as the Golf Rabbit in Austria, for the price of the base-spec MK2, which ended up being a fairly popular deal. There was definitely a MK2 Golf Rabbit as well, not sure about the later ones. One of my aunts drove a beige Beetle well into the early 2000s and then swapped it for an almost equally ancient MK1 Golf the same colour, probably also gone by now. In a place where cars rust as badly as in Wes' neck of the wood but that has strict yearly safety inspections, cars that age are either fully restored vintage cars kept in a heated garage 95% of the time or simply gone. By now, MK1 convertibles might be more common than any other body styles even though much fewer of them were sold new, simply because convertibles are rarely driven in snow and salt and because they were built until the MK3 was launched, there never was a MK2 convertible. My dad test-drove a MK1 Golf when they were new, hated it and refused to ever drive a VW again, at least until he could be convinced that a 2009 Golf was an entirely different car and bought a secondhand one in 2017. It drives like a charm (if it starts) but it's burning money almost faster than petrol.

Den bedste bil er så absolut Golf II ❤️ er stadig ikke træt af dem ☺️

I learned to drive on two of those. Scary merge, but drive all week on $ 6.

had a few of them and turned up the pumps. they worked better after that (and belched a lil black smoke). also put a turbofold on one when the ears broke off the exhaust manifold, and it turned it up some more. worked pretty good after that :)

I have never been so scared driving at night into Texas from the West at night. All over the rest of the USA trucks drive the speed limit. In West Texas the big 18 wheelers run as fast as they can possibly go. Scariest moment of my life till I could get off North. Looked like 95 was low ball.

They were downright dangerous with respect to power. 93 North in Boston out of the Sumner tunnel...uphill and crazy traffic. Lucky if you got it up to 35 MPH to merge in to 60MPH traffic. Sort of unsafe and made for tense moments for sure. However, they were reliable, great on fuel (50MPG)and started very very well even at -20F. That pull out knob is just a timing advance. It makes no difference pumping the pedal on start.

Is that how they say DFW these days? It's been a minute but it's the first time I've seen it made like that.

My buddy and I lifted his with chunks of pressure treated 4x4s😂 good times

I had a couple of fiestas those things were great especially with that Weber 2 barrel in them.

I had a mk1 fiesta 1.1 popular plus as my 1st car. Was a great little car and cheap to run. 12inch wheels look tiny these days.

Aber bitte, Fahrvergnügen mein Herr!

@@shoots2001 they look tiny until you park next to a Mini with 10's :)

@@rennkafer13 yeah thats true lol

Valve and piston can not occupy the same space - for very long at least! :) You are going to be in for a pleasant surprise how we changes the belt with all basic mechanic tools! Actually pretty genius!

Splitting hares… 💀

Do you have one of those machines? Had a friend who complained her roommate had one in his room and was always printing and ran the electric bill up. Said it always smelled like burning.

@@LAactor mine uses about 90 watts, and doesn't really smell, but ymmv big time.

@@LAactor depends on the material being printed. ABS will smell. I've been printing for 4 years and never even used the stuff. I stick with PLA, PETG, TPU and a couple of other higher end materials. And as the other person said, these things use less power than a coffee maker or tea kettle. I saw more of an impact on my electric bill (lower) by using LED light bulbs than I did running 2 3D printers nearly every day.

Diesels have many distinct advantages due to fuel that is stable and lubricating(sort of like it's own WD-40, which BTW makes a fair starting fluid test..fires on WD-40 might be salvageable)

@@charlesangell_bulmtl I came here to say the same thing. Bringing a small diesel back to life is almost always easier than a gasser. No spark issues and no old gas. But if that injector pump is bad... all bets are off.

At least in Mk2 and Mk3 a Jetta is still just a Golf with a backpack. Looking under it you can even see the mounting points for the Golf rear bumper and the 25cm they just added to the trunk floor.

@@dranoelr Yes, and the even more rare Derby was a Polo with a backpack. The one and only Derby I've ever seen is a greyish-green one that hasn't changed owners since at least 1990 (in Austria you can tell from the plates, if they're black the car last changed hands before January 1990 when the whole plate design was changed). The Dasher was sold as the Passat in most markets.

43:22 Yeah the rod style gear linkage is trash, I hate it but thankfully in later Golf 3 models they switched to cable style which is much better

I'm very happy to see economy car revivals as too many are muscle cars or luxury V8s. I especially want to see Datsun 610s and F10s. I think I did see a Datsun 620 pickup, but ruined by plans to put in a v8, ruining traction and economy. Pefectionism is not economical either, but reliability is.

I might have changed my mind. Like mine, this car might have too much structural rot to be worth saving, unless he is and efficient rot welder. It should probably be parted out for other diesel Rabbits, including from the desert, where they need plastic and vinyl parts, and engines because desert engines get sand in them.

Well those 1 horsepower ones are real sleepers.

@@LAactor Some Amish call them Oatsmobiles.

Fantastic!

There used to be a CS on there. It’s the cold start knob.

Wes has the best attitude…

There is an interesting video from ShopDAP where they ran some mk3 Jetta without coolant and it never died :D

@@rkan2 those 2.0 Aba are just as indestructible 😂

Oh yeah, might actually be worth swapping the engine into the parts car, although it's hard to tell without having seen that from underneath.

Bought a Minivan with a blown engine to pull the gearbox, swapped the motor from the daily (all gears had become a slipping drive) and the rear window (had wiper mount) and did 40k miles

@@Ragnar8504 Time to jack it up and crawl in the weeds and mud. That's always fun:)

Something ill advised.