installing awd in a golf ?

[Tom Nas]

Kwattro at aol.com wrote:

>There were two A2 Golfs with Awd - viscous coupling setup.  Golf Country had
>raised suspension, awd-vc, skid plates, and brush bars (and I believe a 1.8
>16v, although they might have sported a 2.0 16v in 1989-1992).  Quite
>cool...hard to find though.  More common, it seems, were the Ralle Golf
>G60's, which had tqc-esque flares, awd-vc, and a supercharged 2.0 16v.
>They're also rare, but tons of fun.  One was for sale, US legal not too long
>ago in Canada, for around 20,000$.  Nice car, even at that money.  You
>couldn't build it for that much.  I don't think that the A3 was available
>with awd at all...but I may be wrong.  There might have been a VR-6 syncro
>Golf, anyone?  You can get awd golfs over here - you just have to pay :-)

The Country versions are not known for their fine on-road handling, with
their high centre of gravity.
I diced with a Rally Golf G60 recently, on my favourite back road which has
been speed-limited by building a coupla chicanes. Now I'm fairly familiar
with these roads and the chicanes :-) and I managed to lose the Golf in my
FWD 80 1.8!
I know I didn't win on acceleration or outright speed (he'd been reading
the dealer name tag on my licence plate trying to pass me earlier), so I
guess he lost his bottle when I went through the chicane doing 120 km/h...
to be fair, that's more than the 80's chassis can handle, too.

They're pretty rare cars here in Holland, both the Country and the Rally. I
see two or three Countrys and one Rally a year, on average.

Tom