Great first car for a college student. Paid $450 fof it. Vinyl interior. Manual sunroof. Yellow foglights.

I don't recall a lot of the specs of this car...I'm pretty sure it had a Rabbit 1.6L engine, but
it had been tuned up and had better brakes and suspension. It went under the GTI label
but this  application doesn't go earlier than 1983 for Rabbit GTIs, which is of course
incorrect.

It had nice Recaro seats which were standard and an after-market vinyl sunroof which was
huge and opened the entire roof up which was brilliant. I bought with a reconditioned
engine but the guy who fixed it gave me a cracked head and so the thing spewed oil and
black smoke shortly after I go it. I was 18 at the time and my mum threatened to make his
life very difficult if he didn't fix it for free and he relented. My mum had that kind of power
over people!

I loved my GTI...it was great fun, handled well on the many curvy roads we had in West
Vancouver, had good performance while being economical.

Carried me through my daughters birth through age fifteen, law school, a bone marrow transplant, remission, PA bar membership, 5 years traveling between Philly and DC,revived by my dad from a fire under the hood resulting from my failure to put the oil cap back on,two break-ins, regrettably donated to charity in 2002.

my wv rabbit is a diesal and it has lots of accelaration for a car that small although the top speed is not that good (70mph) i just bought it in 2006 and the floor bords are rusted out but the engine is still quite good and the econmey is exxclent (like 40 mpg)