Where's all the real Passats??

[Phat Bug]

Where's all the early Passats???

I don't really understand how anything made after 1980 can be considered interesting,
boring modern stuff, So where are all the early birds??

[hertz]

Man Ive got Passat FEVER at the moment. Gotta find me one.

[Phat Bug]

Man Ive got early Passat FEVER at the moment. Gotta find me one.

Fixed it for ya

What body style are you chasing??......

Fastback





Squareback (Also commonly referred to as an Awesomeback)







Then theres the shitback





One of these cars is not cool like the others,
Which one is it do you know
Can you tell which one is the shitback
And I'll tell you if it is so!

[tassie_euro_mk1]

I have one at the moment as a daily. Love it.

[Phat Bug]

Man thats nice!

I'm loving them at the moment..............

[Jarred]

I'd love a passat wags!

just slammed to the deck on the some school rims, nothing fancy!

one day...

[Phat Bug]

I scored this '76 recently, the plan is exactly like you said Jarred, slammed, rims, cruise




Although nothing will happen for a while, as i've got acouple of other VW (aircooled) projects to finish first.

[Jarred]

perfect patina on that bad boy!

[PassatB6]

Owned one of these in 1977!! Cracker of a car,same colour. Only 1300 cc too.

[hooba]

Just phor you.

[PassatB6]

Nice video! In Australia the single headlight were all 1300cc L, the twin headlights were TS 1600cc and the rectangular headlights the most common 1500cc LS.

In comparison:
My Mk 1 Passat:
40kw
950kg
approx 7.0 l/100km
0-100 11-12 secs

My B6 Passat:
147 kw
1600kg
approx 8.0 l/100km
0-100 7.8 secs

[Peter Jones]

The very last B1s imported were the facelift model that came out just before the B2.

A lot of them were diesels.

Here's ours. Link to resto thread is in my sig below.

[Golf Houso]

I had a 76 LS for about a month, fun car. It was virtually rust free bar the trunk lid!!!

[brad]

Where's all the early Passats???

probably turned into tincans.

I had a few customers with them in the early '80s. At the time I was getting ~$300 a week & it wasn't uncommon for me to hand them a quote for $1000 for repairs. IIRC, the brakes (pads, rotors, sensors) were very expensive. Was there a pressure limiting valve in the brake system? And the radiator had plastic tanks which nobody could fix.

Most of them would ask me to do a cheap job & go straight up to the local Holden dealer & buy a Gemini.

Back then, there were a lot better cars you could choose from. (sorry for the -ve sentiment)

[PassatB6]

probably turned into tincans.

I had a few customers with them in the early '80s. At the time I was getting ~$300 a week & it wasn't uncommon for me to hand them a quote for $1000 for repairs. IIRC, the brakes (pads, rotors, sensors) were very expensive. Was there a pressure limiting valve in the brake system? And the radiator had plastic tanks which nobody could fix.

Most of them would ask me to do a cheap job & go straight up to the local Holden dealer & buy a Gemini.

Back then, there were a lot better cars you could choose from. (sorry for the -ve sentiment)

If there were, the Gemini wasn't one of them!! They were complete rubbish. $1000? Are you sure?!. The car only cost $3,500 to buy new in 1974!