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Volkswagen pickup

jimdeerejimdeere Member, Moderator Posts: 26,151 ******
edited April 2020 in General Discussion
How long since you’ve seen one of these?


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  • Ricci.WrightRicci.Wright Member Posts: 5,128 ✭✭✭✭
    Slow nasty VW.
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  • savage170savage170 Member Posts: 37,518 ✭✭✭✭
    My brother had diesel one talking about slow but he could go a month on a tank of fuel
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  • William81William81 Member Posts: 25,336 ✭✭✭✭
    About 6 months ago.  My brother has one he is restoring...My Dad had one for years but sold it almost 20 years ago..
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  • Horse Plains DrifterHorse Plains Drifter Forums Admins, Member, Moderator Posts: 40,032 ***** Forums Admin
    Actually there's a couple of those running around town.
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  • montanajoemontanajoe Forums Admins, Member, Moderator Posts: 59,950 ******
    ...that a GM product???
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  • BobJudyBobJudy Member Posts: 6,630 ✭✭✭✭
    montanajoe said:
    ...that a GM product???
    Nope, closer to a Ford. Read today where there is talk about Ford and VW merging because the economic shutdown has cost Ford a bundle and they are hurting. Bob
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  • dpmuledpmule Member Posts: 6,735 ✭✭✭✭
    edited April 2020
    Today.
    My Buddy and master tinkerer, has one for parts, for his Rabbit that he still drives quite a bit.

    Mule
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  • Henry0ReillyHenry0Reilly Member Posts: 10,893 ✭✭✭
    My Dad owned one in about 1965. Didn't keep it long, traded it off on an F100
    I used to recruit for the NRA until they sold us down the river (again!) in Heller v. DC. See my auctions (if any) under username henryreilly
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  • mjrfd99mjrfd99 Member Posts: 4,553 ✭✭✭
    Had a Rabbit diesel.
    Slow as a turtle but 45 MPG 
    Old ladies would give me the finger when they passed us
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  • jltrentjltrent Member Posts: 9,330 ✭✭✭✭
    I had a 1981 VW Rabbit.  
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  • spasmcreeksrunspasmcreeksrun Member Posts: 1,755 ✭✭✭
    used to buy a semi load of diesel at a time and pay for it..the co-op would store it and i would haul it out to irrigation engines as needed...co-op would never do this for gas..you had to take delivery ...????... after a couple of year of storing some gasoline on the farm i quit doing that ..nothing but a thief magnet
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  • Chief ShawayChief Shaway Member, Moderator Posts: 6,268 ******
    I had an 81 Rabbit Diesel. 
    Top speed down hill was 63. 
    I could fill up the 10 gallon tank on Sunday, drive the 3 hours to school in Indy, drive all week, then drive back home Friday night. 
    45-50MPG. 
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  • B17-P51B17-P51 Member Posts: 2,247 ✭✭✭
    If you see one , I probably painted it. Did that from Dec. 78 till July 88.
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  • RidefarRidefar Member Posts: 309 ✭✭✭

    Bought a new Rabbit Diesel in 1979. Was putting on the miles and tired of the '70's gas hogs. When it was new I was getting 50+ mpg. That was a non-turbo charged diesel, which is a real dog in a road vehicle...it was all of 48 horsepower.

    If you pulled out onto a 50 mph road, you had to have a mile of traffic free space just to not get into trouble.

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  • jimdeerejimdeere Member, Moderator Posts: 26,151 ******
    A guy I worked with had a Rabbit diesel. He drove like 70 miles to work each day. One day he stopped at a light and the engine did a runaway. The valve seals had worn so much that it was sucking engine oil and would not shut off. It finally threw a rod up through the hood. I think it had about 350,000 miles on it.
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  • dpmuledpmule Member Posts: 6,735 ✭✭✭✭
    You forgot the
    Volkswagon Thing.
    We had a mail carrier that used one for a long time.

    Mule
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  • drobsdrobs Member Posts: 22,620 ✭✭✭✭
    Reminds me of the company that sells a kit to turn your car into Pickup.


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  • BrookwoodBrookwood Member, Moderator Posts: 13,721 ******
    Way back in the early 70's, I passed a Cadillac pickup truck on the highway!  I thought I was just imagining things and blew it off to some kind of flashback from the previous decade. :/ 

    My dad loved VW's and owned about every variety that was available during the late 50's into the 60's.  He had the pickup pictured above that looked like a cut off bus.  Used it as a business truck and hauled all kinds of supplies and even Christmas trees that he sold on our lot.  I enjoyed riding in that truck sitting on the center engine cover !   Warmest place to be in that cold cab during the winter!   It was definitely a truck ahead of its time with the drop down side rails and tailgate!


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  • buddybbuddyb Member Posts: 5,366 ✭✭✭✭
    Back in the 80s my brother had a Toyota F40 Land Cruiser.It was the fashion at the time to put big,huge tires that looked like tractor ag tires on them.He wanted to show us how deep of mud it would pull through even though we tried to talk him out of it we ended up  stuck in a giant mud hole.While we were trying to figure out how to get the Toyota out,a couple of good ol boys had been out cutting a load of stove wood.They were driving a Chevette that they had made into a pick up using an ax.The mighty Toyota was pulled from the mud by a Chevette home made pick up. 
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