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[Steve Milberry]

As a former owner of both a Rabbit and Scirrocco I would love to see these reissued as well. I did take a stab at building a copy of my Rabbit but I got overambitious with it and now it sits in carnage in its box.

Your Rabbits looks fantastic, Steve. Really makes me wish I hadn't butchered mine. Thankfully I am a little wiser about picking my battles now.

Oh, and the Omni engine...VW actually used them in 1981 or 82, so it's a kosher swap. The distributor should be located just south of the 2-3 spark plugs, center of the block and the clutch cable would go where you have it now...but I think it can be forgiven if you leave it like that because it's just so dang snazzy.

The Omni kit I pulled the engine from was an '80 MPC 024. The kit has the base engine in it which is a VW 1.7 litre. It's the same engine as in the '78 base model Rabbit I used to have.

I didn't know VW ever used the Chrysler engine.

Here's a couple pics of the engine I'm building. It's the first year for the fuel injection instead of a carb. about 1978.

[Gluhead]

Ah, gotcha. Yep that works too then. I also see that I was off on the clutch cable location. I guess it has been 20 years since I drove that car. The memory has faded a bit.

[vwrabbit]

Steve, nice 4 banger in that bunny up there. Remote oil cooler? I miss my bunny!

Tim

[Steve Milberry]

A couple pics with the trim and glass done. Paint's polished out now too.

Edited by Steve Milberry, 28 April 2012 - 01:38 PM.

[crazyjim]

Good looking build, Steve. Love the SHINY

[Danno]

Very nice!

Wonnerful wascally wabbit!

[Rob Hall]

Neat...

[Dr. Cranky]

Nice interior pattern and detail.

[Jeff B]

Cool Steve!

Looking forward to seeing it completed

I've got two of these I plan on combining into a Rabbit pickup like I owned many years ago...made in the now-defunct New Stanton, PA plant

I always heard it refered to as "The Westmoreland Plant", so after reading "New Stanton plant," I had to Google it. I see they are one in the same. My former '89 16v GTI was built in Mexico, though. Ole!

[TooOld]

I never understood the appeal of these cars , but I can honestly say that I really like yours ! Very sharp little car .

[rmvw guy]

Nice progress! I like the seats and the green should get a lot of lookers.

[Bugace]

Love '70s cars, and maybe especially the VW's. Might be because my parents had a '74 Passat(Dasher) Wagon. My self bought a '76 Audi 80 in 1987. A car I wish I never sold.

Love Your build. The color is awsome, and that foiling is impeccable.

[Johnny]

I never understood the appeal of these cars , but I can honestly say that I really like yours ! Very sharp little car .

Commuter cars! Great gas mileage but had their own little mechanical issues that could be rather annoying and costly!
The diesel could get close to 50mpg on a long interstate highway run!
We pulled one in off the inyerstate that broke a timing belt which would result in a trashed head (diesel issue only) we delivered it to the owner. On the drive from The Marion IL. area to the North side of Atlanta GA. I averaged 52 mpg!

[Johnny]

The Omni/Horizon actually used several different engines in it's life span but ended up with the VW engine.
The VW Rabbit always had a VW engine.

[Zarana-X]

I never understood the appeal of these cars , but I can honestly say that I really like yours ! Very sharp little car .

GTI Commercial:
http://www.youtube.c...bed/3zcm4oS9IaM"

This, and watch both versions of The Italian Job. Same thing applies.
I had about 5 hours of flight time between my VW Squareback and Beetle, They are RWD, but about as big, less so in my Tercel cause it's not as fast.

Edited by Zarana-X, 16 May 2012 - 07:37 AM.

[Badluck 13]

This Lil' Dubb looks sooo sweet,all detail is so dead on and so neatly done,awesome work on the window trim!!!

[FASTBACK340]

This might be a dumb question, but are the Rabbit & Scirocco hard to find kits? I know I have at least one of each stashed away....

[surfjunke]

Very nice work on the Rabbit. The interior pattern looks great.

I would also like to see the VW kits reissed. I a had a 1/1 Scirocco & built the kit. That was one hot little car.

[Steve Milberry]

This might be a dumb question, but are the Rabbit & Scirocco hard to find kits? I know I have at least one of each stashed away....

Not terribly hard to find John but they were only released once. No harder to find than a mid-'70's issue of any other kit

Including this one I got as a built up, I have 4 now and could have bought a few more if I had wanted over the last few years.