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@Antoine: the technic can me mainly identical, I think, but there were differences between the Golf I and the Rabbit, too. You you have to take care with organizing the parts.
The interior is nearly totally different.
10 years ago I've "inspected" an original 1979 US-Rabbit, I've found on a Swedish scrapyard. Nearly everything for different inside. Not only different - even disgusting.
It was a light-blue-metallic car with dark green tinted windows and a -what a horror!- complete light-blue interior! Everything, incl. dashboard and seatbelts, was lightblue! In Germany we call this light-blue "müllsackblau", because it's the common colour for plastic garbage-bags. This car came directly from hell.
@Neon: a later, 1969+ one. Is it a speed-reduced version? Due the "80"-sticker on the back?
We had similar conversions in Germany, too. Since the 250 ccm micro-cars like the "small block" Isetta and the Goggomobil (built until 1969) disappeared, there were 250 ccm-conversion-kits for other cars available. For that a dozen of old workers has "survived" in the former Borgward-factory in Bremen until the 80ies (until Mercedes Benz took the plant for making the 190 [W201]). These old guys have manufactured Goggo-engines (with an old Glas-licence).
Mostly the NSU Prinz 4 was converted, also Fiat 500, Fiat 126 and a handful of other small cars.
It was made for the last people, who had -had only- a pre-1950 motorbike-license. With that you were allowed to drive all kind of vehicles up to 250 ccm. Last year this ancient regulation was cancelled. Since then every owner of such a license (who never made the actual car-license later on) was allowed to drive "real" cars. I don't know, how many people were involved, maybe a few dozen, not more.
How easy it's to get a real drivers-license. Just wait for 60 years.
These 250 ccm-converted vehicles are nowadays disappeared. 20 years ago I saw the last, also a Prinz 4, on the road. They mostly had ridicoulus low mileage, but noone wanted to have them. Some were brought back in the original condition, many were just thrown away.
Nowadays there is the opinion, that they are a kind of historic relict and worth to keep, but to drive them is really disgusting. Incdredible lame, loud, stinky and horrifying thirsty. No wonder, as you have to drive "digtal", just for getting a bit movement.
The interior is nearly totally different.
10 years ago I've "inspected" an original 1979 US-Rabbit, I've found on a Swedish scrapyard. Nearly everything for different inside. Not only different - even disgusting.
It was a light-blue-metallic car with dark green tinted windows and a -what a horror!- complete light-blue interior! Everything, incl. dashboard and seatbelts, was lightblue! In Germany we call this light-blue "müllsackblau", because it's the common colour for plastic garbage-bags. This car came directly from hell.@Neon: a later, 1969+ one. Is it a speed-reduced version? Due the "80"-sticker on the back?
We had similar conversions in Germany, too. Since the 250 ccm micro-cars like the "small block" Isetta and the Goggomobil (built until 1969) disappeared, there were 250 ccm-conversion-kits for other cars available. For that a dozen of old workers has "survived" in the former Borgward-factory in Bremen until the 80ies (until Mercedes Benz took the plant for making the 190 [W201]). These old guys have manufactured Goggo-engines (with an old Glas-licence).
Mostly the NSU Prinz 4 was converted, also Fiat 500, Fiat 126 and a handful of other small cars.
It was made for the last people, who had -had only- a pre-1950 motorbike-license. With that you were allowed to drive all kind of vehicles up to 250 ccm. Last year this ancient regulation was cancelled. Since then every owner of such a license (who never made the actual car-license later on) was allowed to drive "real" cars. I don't know, how many people were involved, maybe a few dozen, not more.
How easy it's to get a real drivers-license. Just wait for 60 years.
These 250 ccm-converted vehicles are nowadays disappeared. 20 years ago I saw the last, also a Prinz 4, on the road. They mostly had ridicoulus low mileage, but noone wanted to have them. Some were brought back in the original condition, many were just thrown away.
Nowadays there is the opinion, that they are a kind of historic relict and worth to keep, but to drive them is really disgusting. Incdredible lame, loud, stinky and horrifying thirsty. No wonder, as you have to drive "digtal", just for getting a bit movement.