1975 Scirocco

This sweet MK1 Scirocco passed through my fingertips this past year. Originally I purchased it with the intention of converting it to diesel (1.6l NA VW) for my teenage daughter's first car. What a sweet and fast lil RatRod it was! At the time I owned it it was the fastest car I had ever owned, thanks to a hotrod eng/carb/exh. build by the previous owner and a very light chassis (2200lbs approx). It happened to have the perfect 5-spd trans for that diesel conversion: 5-spd FF code from a Rabbit diesel (nice and tall gearing). The idea of pulling that high performance eng and installing a 52hp Rabbit eng. was painful. Anyhow, to atone for my past Carbon sins--well some of them anyway--I recently bought the new fastest car I've ever owned. More on that some other time.....

Anyhow, here are a few pics of that Rocco that's now getting a full resto down in So. Cal.