[Vwdiesel] car for sale

[Tad]

Just have to comment that the 4000CS Quattro is an incredible winter car...
unstoppable with both diffs locked, even on so-so tires.  I had a
clapped-out version with 250k miles in college and drove it back and forth
over Willamette pass in the winter many times.  After spending one cold
winter assuming that the heated seats were broken, I was cleaning the car
one day only to peer under the seats and find that they were just unplugged!
 That sure was a happy day!

The only complaints I can think of are that the vacuum-based functionality
(of which there is lots) would tend to get flaky as the vacuum hoses rotted
with age... that and the air cleaner was damned near impossible to access!
 Unless there was some trick that I didn't know about...

If only I could have that car with a diesel I'd be in heaven!

On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 9:19 PM, Brian and Ruth Decker <decker at toledotel.com
> wrote:

> Hi Bill;
>        Up here in the Northwest I usually can find a dead Rabbit that has
> little or no rust with a decent interior except perhaps the seats for 500
> bucks or under. Why those salt challenged people spend thousands of dollars
> trying to repair a rust bucket when for much less they could buy a runner
> here and drive it home to the East is hard for me to understand.
>        I have a 4 door 1981 Dasher diesel with a 1.6 engine and a long
> legged 4 speed 1988 VW Fox tranny. That has no rust, a decent interior and
> so so paint, it runs great. I would sell it for 2 grand and the person
> buying it could drive it anywhere. I did a trip with it in May across the
> United States and back over 8000 miles at an average MPG of just over 50.
>        I'm rebuilding a 1.6 diesel for my 1981 VW Rabbit pickup and will
> have it done this week or next. I also have a 1981 Dasher diesel station
> wagon that I usually use for long trips. A 1981 VW Rabbit gas pickup for
> short trips and an 1987 Audi 4000CS Quattro for the winter time. I just
> have
> too many cars and need to sell one or two. Another project I'm working on
> is
> a 1990 VW Fox station Wagon in which I am installing a 2 ltr 16 valve gas
> engine. It should surprise a few when done.
> Brian Decker
> Western Washington
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: vwdiesel-bounces at vwfans.com [mailto:vwdiesel-bounces at vwfans.com] On
> Behalf Of toensing at wildblue.net
> Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2010 3:22 PM
> To: vwdiesel at vwfans.com
> Subject: [Vwdiesel] car for sale
>
> I can't understand why you people back east will put thousands of dollars
> into repairing a rusted out hulk when there are good cars out west that end
> up going to the crusher. I have two 1981 Rabbit diesels that I would sell
> for $1000. A person living back east could fly out here, rent a large U
> Haul
> truck & a tow dolly one way, put one Rabbit in the truck & the other on the
> tow dolly & you could make one good Rabbit from the two & still have a good
> frame to build up another Rabbit.  If you did that, you would probably be
> out a total of $3000 to build up two Rabbits. These comments do not apply
> to
> some rare numbers matching muscle car or other rare car such as a Cord but
> do apply to the average collector car. I used to live in Minn. so I know
> what rust can do to a car.
> What I have observed is that interior upholstery will often survive in the
> rust belt but is ruined by the heat & sun out here in the west.
> Bill Toensing, Nevada City, CA.
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