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)
> >