Date: Mon, 26 May 2003 05:37:14 -0500
Reply-To: John Rodgers <j_rodgers@CHARTER.NET>
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From: John Rodgers <j_rodgers@CHARTER.NET>
Subject: Re: RAIV / Rabbits, Sciroccos, Dashers, Vanagons too!
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This was the same era when the very first Civics were introduced as
competitors to the Rabbit. Little cars, cute. I never saw one that was
any color other than yellow. At the time, the only color available for
the Rabbit was yellow. Those early Civics also died by disintegrating
into a pile of rust.
John Rodgers
88 GL Driver
Max Wellhouse wrote:
> We owned a pristine 77 Rabbit in Arkansas with no rust in 79, but by the
> time we sold it in 89, it had more rust bubbles than most Minnesota
> rabbits
> I see today, especially around the windshield seal. Cancer may have
> wiped
> them out.
>
> Max
>
> At 02:06 PM 5/25/2003 -0400, SD Kraning wrote:
>
>> Brad -
>>
>> I can relate.
>>
>> By the way - why is it that older Rabbits ('75 - '79 especially) are
>> so hard
>> to come across? I realize that they were daily drivers for many folks,
>> probably driven hard and not given much respect. By now they would be
>> fairly
>> old, right? But it seems like there were so many of them around back
>> then! I
>> am probably wierd, but I always thought the design language of that
>> generation of VW's was really cool.
>>
>> Take the original "Bug" which the Rabbit sort of replaced, for example.
>> There were lots of them around between say - '70 - '76 ... they were
>> used
>> for similar purpopses (daily eco-driver) and they are still fairly
>> easy to
>> find. Or Vanagons - designed from a similar "gene pool" as the
>> Rabbit. Even
>> early Vanagons are easier to find than old Rabbits (Dashers and
>> Sciroccos as
>> well!) What is up with that? Is it just because Vanagons have more of a
>> following and people value them more? Hmmm.
>>
>> Scott
>>
>> 88 Westy
>> 90 Vgn Carat
>> 99 Audi A4AvQ
>> 82 Fiat
>> 92 Saab 9KT
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Bradley Flubacher" <flub@ADELPHIA.NET>
>> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
>> Sent: Sunday, May 25, 2003 9:10 PM
>> Subject: RAIV
>>
>>
>> > I had to share this with everyone. I finally have an acronym that
>> > accurately describes my addiction:
>> > Redundant
>> > Array of
>> > Inexpensive
>> > Vehicles
>> >
>> > Names affectionately after the array of hard drives..
>> >
>> > Brad
>> >
>> > '81 rabbit (diesel)
>> > '82 pickup (diesel)
>> > '82 transporter (diesel) (hot swapped spare!)
>> > '82 Westy (diesel)
>> > '84 transporter (not diesel)
>> >
>
>
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