Hi Charlie ... if I may ... Your confusion may stem from the confusion. :wink:
Michael's VW Polo / Audi 50
VW Golf/Rabbit
VW Dasher/Passat
Michael's VW Polo / Audi 50
VW Golf/Rabbit
VW Dasher/Passat
Old Car Thread
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Apparently confusion abounds, CJ.I saw your post and started thinking about how much Michael's car looked like a Rabbit/Golf. As it turns out; " ... her name was McGill ... she called herself Lil, but everyone knew her as Nancy ..."
krysh
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2 years later my polo was destroyed in an accident while I had it left parking on the street.
from the insurance money I got myself one of these in indianared, a 1979 VW Scirocco:
this one was really nice, espcially when I sold it. it had to get a new carb and was faster than ever. :shock:
hhmmm, btw. up to which year is a car old in this thread?
if 1993 still counts than I can show off my complete car history. :mrgreen:
from the insurance money I got myself one of these in indianared, a 1979 VW Scirocco:
this one was really nice, espcially when I sold it. it had to get a new carb and was faster than ever. :shock:
hhmmm, btw. up to which year is a car old in this thread?
if 1993 still counts than I can show off my complete car history. :mrgreen:
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Yup, me too. Redline around 9 grand, flames from the exhaust, and sucks gas like a private jet! My first rotary was an rx-7 in '88 and 20 years later they're still a blast.
krysh
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another 2 years later (1989) I bought a 1982 Passat GL5 like this:
in dark blue metallic.
there is a line somewhere: all VW and growing hp:
Polo: 50 - Scirocco: 85 - Passat: 115hp, 5-cylinder engine with around 205 KM/h topspeed :mrgreen:
I kept this one for quite a while until 1996.
in dark blue metallic.
there is a line somewhere: all VW and growing hp:
Polo: 50 - Scirocco: 85 - Passat: 115hp, 5-cylinder engine with around 205 KM/h topspeed :mrgreen:
I kept this one for quite a while until 1996.
krysh
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1996 I did a brand change to Audi.
And this was the car of my choice, A 1990 Audi 100 Avant Quattro Turbo in silver with 165 hp exactly like this one (mine had additional chrome roof rails):
Great car, which I drove until it ran only with 3 cylinders and in october 2004 was sold to russia. :mrgreen:
not to offend VW, capn. :mrgreen:
And this was the car of my choice, A 1990 Audi 100 Avant Quattro Turbo in silver with 165 hp exactly like this one (mine had additional chrome roof rails):
Great car, which I drove until it ran only with 3 cylinders and in october 2004 was sold to russia. :mrgreen:
not to offend VW, capn. :mrgreen:
Of course notkrysh said:
... besides ... the Russians probably didn't know how many cylinders were supposed to work anyway ... My brother and sister-in-law have an Audi (A-6?) ... it's about 10 years old and starting to give them trouble. Maybe your next Audi could be one of these ... to carry your gear to your gigs ... maybe not as fast but it has the cool suicide doors
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krysh
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yeah that's a nice one, only too small and too old to be reliable. :wink:
which brings me to my momentary car which unfortunately is stored for a while at the moment:
a 1993 Audi 100 Avant 2.8 quattro, like this one in dark green metallic with 174 hp:
which brings me to my momentary car which unfortunately is stored for a while at the moment:
a 1993 Audi 100 Avant 2.8 quattro, like this one in dark green metallic with 174 hp:
krysh
Guildarist in the mod squad
8)
:lol:
well, it is fast enough. the top speed I did with it was 245 km/h shown on the speedometer which should make it around 225 for real.
but much too much traffic on the autobahn most of the time, anyway...
but it is huge (edit: for a german station wagon). I can pack almost a whole small band into it, and definatively a trio. :wink:
:lol:
well, it is fast enough. the top speed I did with it was 245 km/h shown on the speedometer which should make it around 225 for real.
but much too much traffic on the autobahn most of the time, anyway...
but it is huge (edit: for a german station wagon). I can pack almost a whole small band into it, and definatively a trio. :wink:
adorshki
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You are correct about the Golf/Rabbit, but Michael's car is a Polo, which didn't actually make it the US, probably due to the domination of the Ford Escort in that class at that time. It wouldn't have been competitive here.Chazmo said:
The Dasher and Polo were actually Audi-based cars.
As an amusing story, I had a friend with a Rabbit Diesel once, 200kmi on the clock, and it still just "ticked". He took me out on his private property in the Santa Cruz Mountains one day and proceeded to just drive it off the pavement onto a little foot path barely wider than the car ( :shock: ) and the front wheel drive just pulled us all the way to the top of a hill with a magnificent view of the seashore above Santa Cruz. I finally understood why FWD was a hugely practical thing. For Europeans. :lol:
krysh
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ok, then I am a cosmopolitan. I love QUATTRO! :mrgreen:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=9067377697790610698#
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=9067377697790610698#
adorshki
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What I found interesting was that no matter how I drove the first one, it got 22mpg. I realized later it must have had the nice tall rearend and o/d gear, because the 85 GSL-SE I finished with could never beat 18..and it needed 4100rpm to cruise at 80 (on the 1.3 liter motor), while the first one did it at 3800 on the 1.1 ltr motor), overall a much more relaxing "tourer".RussD said:
RX-8 is probably on the top of my list for the next "#2 car". A nice used one will probably fit the budget perfectly. I like to find 'em with low mileage and keep it low. 8)
kevin the bass man
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Well since old cars now apparently go into the 90's :shock: I guess I can talk about my land yacht- 1986 cadillac fleetwood brougham (pronounced br O m.) still has under 67k miles, although she finally got hit some old lady in a malibu cut into my lane, jhit my fender, and wiped out because after hitting my fender, she accelerated and turned into me more (apparently my car lives up to the name "tank" getting hit in that behemouth felt like a divot in the road. unfortunately the hit damaged my transmission (enngine and trans wont stay connected, so I can only limp it around at 40 mph with the motor screaming at about 4000 rpm (the car should be just above idle (coasting) at 40mph) body damage is at a minimum- a couple dents in the fender, wheel well trim scraped, bumper shoved over half an inch and scuffed.
unfortunately I dont have a pic of the car that hit me (01 malibu), but the rear drivers door looked like a piece of tin foil the cat played with- there was a dent in the door about the size of the door itself and a couple inches deep, plus a dent around the wheel well. the malibu ended up sitting about 5 lanes over against the curb on the other side of the road facing the wrong way
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some old lady in a malibu cut into my lane, jhit my fender, and wiped out because after hitting my fender, she accelerated and turned into me more (apparently my car lives up to the name "tank" getting hit in that behemouth felt like a divot in the road. unfortunately the hit damaged my transmission (enngine and trans wont stay connected, so I can only limp it around at 40 mph with the motor screaming at about 4000 rpm (the car should be just above idle (coasting) at 40mph) body damage is at a minimum- a couple dents in the fender, wheel well trim scraped, bumper shoved over half an inch and scuffed. unfortunately I dont have a pic of the car that hit me (01 malibu), but the rear drivers door looked like a piece of tin foil the cat played with- there was a dent in the door about the size of the door itself and a couple inches deep, plus a dent around the wheel well. the malibu ended up sitting about 5 lanes over against the curb on the other side of the road facing the wrong way
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Hope everyone's OK, but I can only wonder if any Guilds were damaged. :wink:
Joe
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Hi Kevin; sorry about your car ... I'm not that much of a car dude but that isn't the straightest line between the wreck, your body damage, and engine/transmission issues. Way back in yesteryear, the condition you're describing would have been called 'slipping bands' ... high revs but no power to the drive wheels. Alternatively, that somehow the transmission had backed away from the engine but I think you'd have big fluid leaks if that happened ... got leaks?
Since a new car starts to depreciate as soon as the Bill of Sale is signed, any car - new or <ahem> 'vintage' is old and qualifies for this thread ...
Good luck with getting yours fixed!
Since a new car starts to depreciate as soon as the Bill of Sale is signed, any car - new or <ahem> 'vintage' is old and qualifies for this thread ...
Good luck with getting yours fixed!
krysh
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capnjuan said:
+1
kevin the bass man
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thanks for the well wishes for my car guys.
unfortunately I have more bad news.
my dads 91 olds wagon was in a bad accident today. a car made a illegal left on red right in front of him as he was going through an intersection and he plowed through the side of the car. I would get pics, but we dont know where the car went. he was taken away in an ambulance to the ER (has a broken nose, and bruised up face from hitting the steering wheel, as well as neck pain). the car was hauled off by the police so we will have to track that down on monday. its a shame too- it was a clean well optioned car with a new motor and low miles for the age. looks like I'm going to have to take up walking.
unfortunately I have more bad news.
my dads 91 olds wagon was in a bad accident today. a car made a illegal left on red right in front of him as he was going through an intersection and he plowed through the side of the car. I would get pics, but we dont know where the car went. he was taken away in an ambulance to the ER (has a broken nose, and bruised up face from hitting the steering wheel, as well as neck pain). the car was hauled off by the police so we will have to track that down on monday. its a shame too- it was a clean well optioned car with a new motor and low miles for the age. looks like I'm going to have to take up walking.