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Tuesday, July 5, 2016

Volkswagen Type 2 T1 Single Cab Pickup

Friday, April 22, 2016

Friday, January 1, 2016

Sunday, May 17, 2015

Bothell Crocs at the Olympus Rally. I did some spectating at the Olympus yesterday. It was the first stage rally I've been to since the 1989 Pacific Forest SCCA Pro Rally. Back in the 80's I used to regularly attend the SCCA Pro Rallies in the Olympia WA area. You can see some of the photos I took of those events on my other blog: Vintage Northwest Motorsport. In among all the Subaru WRX's there was some interesting old stuff.

1967 Ford Cortina

Merkur XR4Ti. This car had a 2012 Ford Ecoboost turbo in it.

1979 VW Rabbit with a turbo!

2 of the 3 Volvo 242's in the event.

Volvo 940 Turbo

Acura RSX

Toyota Celica. It reminded me a lot of the factory rally cars from the 80's.

Here's the Subaru factory team car that won the event at Service 1 at the Ridge Motorsports Park:

Saturday, April 25, 2015

Volkswagen Cabriolet

Thursday, November 20, 2014

Update: Where is White Rabbit now?

A couple months ago I sold my 1984 Rabbit GTI on Bring a Trailer. I would recommend using them if you have an interesting classic for sale. The fees were reasonable as compared to EvilBay and you can avoid the fun of selling via Criagslist. It was also good in that I knew the car was going to go to a good home where it's originality would be preserved.

My former car was bought by Ted in Newport Beach, CA. Ted has continued the work we were doing to preserve the car. He has fixed the deteriorating rear seat and had a dent wizard take out some of the dents. Ted recently took the car to Cars and Coffee in Irvine, CA. I always thought that would be a good venue to show it off. Thanks Ted for sending these.

Monday, October 27, 2014

Volkswagen Rabbit L

Beige, round headlights and GTI wheels...

Tuesday, September 9, 2014

Volkswagen Rabbit L

Wednesday, August 20, 2014

Volkswagen Beetle Cabrolet

Friday, July 25, 2014

Gianni's cars part 10: 1984 Volkswagen Rabbit GTI

The latest addition to Scuderia Gianni is a 1984 Rabbit GTI (the Ur-GTI in America). I was in high school when these came out and they were a revelation after the cars of the late 70's. Especially for a kid growing up in rural America. So one of these was on my bucket list for ever. I found this one thru word of mouth. It was purchased new in the Seattle area at Carter VW in Ballard. The original owner owned it until 2011 then it went thru two owners before I bought it. It is amazingly stock, since the original owner kept it so long, it was able to keep from getting Fast and Furious-ed when it hit the bottom of the depreciation curve. We've had it for about two years and we've been replacing stuff as needed - since it is stock it still has a lot of the 30 year old original parts on it.

Friday, June 27, 2014

Gianni's cars part 6: 1996 Volkswagen Passat GLX Wagon

We sold the Honda Civic sedan in 1996 and bought a Passat wagon with a 5-speed and the VR6 engine. A lot of VW fanboys talk up the VR6, but owning one along side the Alfa V-6, I can say the VR6 didn't impress and was lacking in acceleration, willingness to rev and soundtrack. It always seemed lazy to me (maybe it was the gearing of the Passat) and really didn't encourage you to hit the rev limiter like the Alfa V-6. That said, the car was great in snow with a set of Blizzaks on it. This is the only picture I have of it on a camping trip to Idaho in 2003.