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.

The Bug is more obviously unique.  The Rabbit is just another econobox
to most people's eyes, nearly indistinguishable from a Ford Escort,
Chevy Chevette, or Dodge Omni.  For that reason few people have kept
them up or restored them.

Plus they suffer from the same terminal rust-out as all VWs.