Holy crap my old pickup is looking good

"505Turbeaux" (505turbeaux) 10/16/2014 at 08:25 • Filed to: None

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from the VWoA facebook page, taken at H20i. Dude I sold it to did a damn fine job - and kept the square headlights! I only knew it from the rust pattern on the tailgate and the rims. Awesome

Coty > 505Turbeaux 10/16/2014 at 08:48

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Y U NO GIVE TO ME

505Turbeaux > Coty 10/16/2014 at 08:51

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I sold it long before I knew you!

Coty > 505Turbeaux 10/16/2014 at 09:09

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I'd have put a pancake motor in the back.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > 505Turbeaux 10/16/2014 at 09:21

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I might ought to see where mine is now, but I don't know if I could. If it shed the Leer fiberglass cap, got new bumper end caps, and got a proper repaint, it'd be pretty much indistinguishable from any other - and those were all things it needed. The Leer cap was worth keeping, but was sealed with a metric ton of caulk, so would have been coming off at some point.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Coty 10/16/2014 at 09:21

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I didn't give you mine either. Deal with it.gif

Coty > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 10/16/2014 at 09:22

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But Tim loves me.

twochevrons > 505Turbeaux 10/16/2014 at 09:23

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Nice! I've got a JH engine and 020 transaxle kicking around in my shed. Always thought that it'd be fun to drop it into one of those and make a Caddy GTI. The only ones you see here have almost completely dissolved, though.

505Turbeaux > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 10/16/2014 at 09:24

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yeah I sold mine with the cap. I remember you commenting yours did too when I posted about it. Just glad this thing got saved. Made some loot on it too!

505Turbeaux > twochevrons 10/16/2014 at 09:26

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yeah I was surprised about this one. I bought it for pennies from a friend and sold it shortly thereafter. It was a diesel but man did it rip for 60 hp. 90 from a period GTI would be nuts. They do rot like hell though up here as well

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > 505Turbeaux 10/16/2014 at 09:28

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Mine went for $2k at 242,000 miles, so I didn't take a hit on it. It had one or two places of light surface scuff rust underneath and a warped drip edge, but the body was in the main straight. It had working factory air, but getting it that way was a real biznatch.

505Turbeaux > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 10/16/2014 at 09:32

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how much slower did it get when you hit the compressor?

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > 505Turbeaux 10/16/2014 at 09:33

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Not as much as you'd think, but the Real Ultimate Top Speed Test of 83 diesel mph was on a day with it off, natch.

505Turbeaux > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 10/16/2014 at 09:47

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lol I bet it was off. At least there wasn't much interior volume to cool. Not like the 78-79 busses with a/c!

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > 505Turbeaux 10/16/2014 at 09:48

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Yeah, it was nicely fresh inside on days that were not the days before I recharged it, or the days after I took a pebble to the condenser.