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1976 Volkswagen Rabbit LS I [Typ 17]

1976 Volkswagen Rabbit I [Typ 17] in The Sandbaggers, TV Series, 1978-1980 Ep. 1.02

Class: Cars, Hatchback — Model origin: — Made for: USA

1976 Volkswagen Rabbit LS I [Typ 17]

46 30 Vehicle used by a character or in a car chase

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dsl ◊ 2013-05-26 02:15	A normal US-spec Rabbit? Filmed in Leeds-pretending-to-be-Vienna. Were these made in US at all? I'll let the VWologists fill in the details and ingo laugh at the plates, while I laugh at the colour scheme of pastel blue with white interior and tombstone seats.. (note the Yorkshire one-way sign ...)
rjluna2 ◊ 2013-05-26 03:02	And I'll laugh with those sidemarkers as well -- Last edit: 2013-05-26 03:03:13
dsl ◊ 2013-05-26 04:41	What's wrong with them??
karoomay ◊ 2013-05-26 04:51	dsl wrote Were these made in US at all? From 1978-1988, the US spec VW Rabbit/Golf were assembled in New Stanton, Pennsylvania at the Westmoreland Assembly Plant and was then transferred to Puebla, Mexico. This Rabbit here is a 1976-78 by the black plastic mirror and round headlights.
Ingo ◊ 2013-05-26 13:53	dsl wrote while I laugh at the colour scheme of pastel blue with white interior and tombstone seats.. This odd colour-combination is typical for US-spec cars. It's a bromide for German car-makers, that US-Americans usually like coloured dashboards and interior, while Germans hate that. For the common German car-buyer the dashboard, carpets and seatbelts have to be black or anthrazite-grey. That's it. Time-by-time you can find other interior-colours here, but they are rare. About the US-Rabbit: there were worse colour-crimes In 2000 I saw a late US-Rabbit on a Swedish junkyard: a garisher light blue than this here, the complete interior, incl.carpets and sealtbelts in the same eye-paining light blue - and with dark green tinted windows. Yuk!
tore-40 ◊ 2013-05-26 20:42	Based on what you see, it"s a 1976 only swallowtail with plastic mirror.

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