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@t0nkatracker: no, it was never exported to Northern America (neither Canada, USA and Mexico). The official VW-statistics says, that one single K 70 was exported to the USA.
There was no specific US-version and no "made for USA"-parts.
Actually we know 3 K 70 running in the USA (1 in New Hampshire, 1 in South Dakota and 1 in New Jersey) and 1 in Canada (Toronto), all private imports. The white 1971 in South Dakota was brought from Farnkfurt by a retired GI in 2001, the Canadian K 70 was brought in the 70ies by a German family, which went there for some years for work.
And there is (Was? I haven't heard anything from him since many years) a K 70-engine in a private owned "Front-Wheel-Drive-Museum" in Brighton/Colorado. It's from a wrecked car, which came from Holland to the USA in the 80ies.
In the early 90ies a Dutch friend had a contact to an shop for aircooled VW-stuff in Houston/TX, whose owner shall own even 4 K 70. But when I went there at my autodriveaway-tour in 1993, it was closed due bankrupcy. So I couldn't find out, what happened with the cars.
About the Caddy: if you need help with parts, let me know. A friend of mine has a shop and restoration-garage for classic VW's, mainly aircooled, but also for the Golf I. He owned the oldest known existing Golf some years ago, I had the chance to buy it...
But I'm not sure about the differences between the US-made Caddy and that from Yugoslavia, which we had here. There are some single US-Caddies running in Germany, but officially there was never a spare-part-service for them.
There was no specific US-version and no "made for USA"-parts.
Actually we know 3 K 70 running in the USA (1 in New Hampshire, 1 in South Dakota and 1 in New Jersey) and 1 in Canada (Toronto), all private imports. The white 1971 in South Dakota was brought from Farnkfurt by a retired GI in 2001, the Canadian K 70 was brought in the 70ies by a German family, which went there for some years for work.
And there is (Was? I haven't heard anything from him since many years) a K 70-engine in a private owned "Front-Wheel-Drive-Museum" in Brighton/Colorado. It's from a wrecked car, which came from Holland to the USA in the 80ies.
In the early 90ies a Dutch friend had a contact to an shop for aircooled VW-stuff in Houston/TX, whose owner shall own even 4 K 70. But when I went there at my autodriveaway-tour in 1993, it was closed due bankrupcy. So I couldn't find out, what happened with the cars.
About the Caddy: if you need help with parts, let me know. A friend of mine has a shop and restoration-garage for classic VW's, mainly aircooled, but also for the Golf I. He owned the oldest known existing Golf some years ago, I had the chance to buy it...
But I'm not sure about the differences between the US-made Caddy and that from Yugoslavia, which we had here. There are some single US-Caddies running in Germany, but officially there was never a spare-part-service for them.