Volkswagen

Have You Ever Seen a Purple Rabbit?

Way back in early 1996 I bought a Rabbit.  A Volkswagen Rabbit.  Not just any Volkswagen Rabbit.  A super-cool silver 1984 Volkswagen Rabbit.  With a diesel engine.  I like cars from the 80’s.  The 80’s had a lot of cool cars.  Like the Buick Grand National.  The Alfa Romeo GTV6.  The VW Rabbit/Golf.  The VW Scirocco. The Honda Civic.  There are others, but those come to mind right away.  I like their lines. 

All of our vehicle at this time were from the 80’s.  We had the 1984 VW Rabbit. A 1985 VW Vanagon and a 1984 or 85 Mitsubishi Mighty Max.  Notice we had two Volkswagens?  Volkswagens are cool.  I wouldn’t mind having a couple right now.  My first car was a 1973 VW Super Beetle.

Anyway,  have you ever seen a purple Rabbit?  Remember the 1984 VW Rabbit I bought?  The silver one?  The one with the diesel engine?  It was cool!  But it was silver.  Faded silver.  Faded silver did not match our other vehicle at the time - the Mitsubishi Mighty Max.  The Mighty Max was faded silver too - when I bought it.  But since, at that time, we were living in Turkey, land of cheap labor, I decided the faded silver color had to go.  So, the mighty Max was now a nice Kawasaki Green!  It didn’t really look that much like a Might Max anymore because of all the body modifications we had done to it - but, that is a story for another time.  For now, just remember that our other vehicle was Kawasaki Green and the faded silver Rabbit did not look good next to it.

So, being that we were in the land of cheap labor, I took the Rabbit to the local body shop.  We knew the owner of this body shop very well, as it took him over a year to complete our truck.  I forget how much we paid to get the Rabbit painted and have the interior completely redone, but it was cheap.  I am thinking $500 or so.

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