Will this Volkswagen Rabbit Run after sitting 25+ years?
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- Опубліковано 14 жов 2024
- This is my 1983 VW Rabbit LS Diesel and it hasn't run in over 25 years... If I can get it started, I'll drive it to NYC. Stay tuned to find out what happens! #NYCORBUST
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Your cinematography is fabulous. It’s a shame your channel subscribers aren’t reflecting you talent. Keep up the good work.
Fabulous! Followed you over from TikTok. Great content. Somewhat close by in Marietta Ohio. Love VW’s…. I need one so bad!
Loving the production 80s style
This is absolutely legendary.
I love these cars in their stock form. No one leaves them alone anymore which is a shame. This is a really nice example that would really look great just shined up and driven. When you said 'if it starts, I'm going to NYC in it!' I knew you were going to take the trip. These cars are way too simple. :-D
mine is 100% stock minus the camper top
Found you from tiktok and had to come subscribe after seeing I’m super local and that being the old firehouse!
Nice Hatchback collection. I have a 1981 Rabbit Pickup.
This is the first time watching your video. I watch a lot of VW guys, and they are all great. But you on the hand are too funny ! Your enthusiasm when that MK 1 started reminded me of when I was younger. Great job, greater video ! Hope your trip to NY went well. I just subscribed, so I will be looking forward for more. Thanks, RickGTI….. 🌴. PS I’m 78 and drive a GTI MK 7.5 dsg.
Bro the way you are doing your video production is super inspiring! Keep up the great work!
I did the same thing when I was 17, my grandpa's 84 Rabbit Diesel. I didn't even know how to drive standard 😂. 2 weeks of work got it running (rookie, tons of research hours) then I drove around in circles in a dirt lot to learn how to get it out of first 🤣. Good times
I just found you off of tiktok and decided to follow. from there i came to here on youtube and found that i literally love this account. the production of this video was amazing. keep up the great work bro 👌
YO! Thank you so much and thank you for coming from TikTok!
Got my 81 Rabbit diesel in 2003 for 300 dollars, had been sitting in a barn for 6 years. I miss that car.
Hi Handsome , I love the way you showed just how elated you were when it finally started . I bet you are a Great Lover ....love the videos had golfs when i was younger great cars .
I love mk1 rabbits. They're my favorite cars. I own two of them, both diesel. Just picked up one just as nice on the outside and inside as this one and I'm just replacing my clutch to let this baby go for many more hundered of thousands of miles :)
great video james keep up the great work 💪💪
This was my first car. I love how I am able to tell people that. Mine was deep brown tho. I sold it in 89 for $750. I owned an 85 also. White, 5 speed.
Cool video and story. I owned an L version and loved it--four door though.
My 1984 Rabbit Diesel was the same color blue as that one. I never finished it because it fell apart faster than I could rebuild it. I sold it to a lucky guy for nearly nothing, but it was full of parts to make it whole...
Thanks for the shoutout, the Yugo made it so this definitely will.
Run, Rabbit, run!
Is that a diesel Mercedes that I see in the background?? Most of the Volkswagen Rabbits that I encountered were diesels that sounded very similar to the Mercedes diesels from the same era that were popular around the same time. Even if the Rabbit wasn’t anything special, it was a decent looking, practical, & efficient little car. A few of my friends had gas powered ones when I was in high school in the 90s.
How exciting!
Dude is totally channeling hoovies garage.
It seems like diesel engines are much easier to get started & running then gas engines when they haven’t run in a long time. By that, I mean that they take less fiddling around to get them started then gas engines that have been sitting dormant for a long time.
Better check youre timing belt if that breaks its all over.
This had a Ferris Bueller vibe .
I was the second owner!
That's almost 40 years!
Quality content
That moment when you know it runs from Instagram/snapchat stories 😉
Is it the same engine that was in the 86 Cabriolet? Because I had one brand new and after 60,000 miles I could barely keep that thing running. I finally just got rid of it. Very unpredictable.
Nope, cabrios - especially late cabrios - were all gasoline in the US. Sadly, most of the MK1/1.5’s had CIS which definitely was an unpredictable mess.
@@JamesCooperider Continuous Injection System? Mine was 1986, automatic. It had a bad habit of not starting if you stopped to fill up with gas. It would take an hour to start up again. The auto trans had to be overhauled twice. Very expensive.
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Wrong Auto for the win!
Are you interested in a 81 Rabbit Diesel 4 speed Std? Runs good, body rusted out.
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Wrong Auto for the win!