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My '76 Passat Awesomeback
PHAT BUG - September 17th, 2011 at 12:24 PM

I've had a thing for early Passat's for a while, So when this thing came on the market, it was too nice not to buy.....

http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j92/phatvw/2011-07-23182350.jpg

A good clean up, early bumpers, rims and a little drop later............
http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j92/phatvw/2011-08-26115059.jpg
http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j92/phatvw/2011-08-26115110.jpg
http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j92/phatvw/2011-08-26115016.jpg


I borrowed a buddy's set of Ronals to see how they'd look...
http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j92/phatvw/2011-09-04115901.jpg

First watercooled VW I've ever owned and so far I'm lovin it :)

1600 - September 17th, 2011 at 02:32 PM

Hey, pretty clean example you have there, my mum drove a new one in red when I was a kid, great car.

pod - September 17th, 2011 at 04:02 PM

nice one ,one of the more forgotten veedubs:tu::tu:

grinderman - September 17th, 2011 at 07:19 PM

My dads first brand new car was a 1976 automatic wagon and this was the car that started my love affair with all things volkswagen. The 1.6 engine was bulletproof even after 280,000ks , only thing that played up was the auto choke on solex carby (we put a webber on it eventually), the plastic caps on the standard radiator cracked and the auto was replaced a couple of times. We drove our flipper blue passat to all the shows during the 80s and often had the only passat there. When it was time to purchase my own car I found a 2 door TS which I modified to be quite a quick car in its day , 186 toranas and 253 kingswoods were no match for my 1.5 with twin side-draft dellortos. I was watching an old home video from the 90s the other day and there was my beautiful TS with charcoal paint and moon discs and I thought to myself that car would be so cool today. So one day when I finish my baja,squareback,dual cab bay.....projects, I will have to find another passat!:tu::tu:

surfpig - September 17th, 2011 at 07:30 PM

so you did get it!

looks sweet with those ronals man. got many more plans for it? or just gonna keep it clean and stock?

PHAT BUG - September 17th, 2011 at 09:47 PM

Yeah shot down and picked it up the same day you were here!

I Just bought a webber and manifold for it, and would like to drop the front a bit. But other than that just enjoy it :)

Thanks for the kind words.

XXX-1.8T - September 24th, 2011 at 02:51 PM

More pics please Rhett!

PHAT BUG - September 28th, 2011 at 05:33 PM

I'll try to get some more on the weekend Costa ;)

SPRINTSTAR - October 2nd, 2011 at 10:18 AM

Damn those Ronals bring back memories..way to go Rhett, always the trendsetter..what a breath of fresh air, can't wait to see the finished car!

Notchbacktastic - October 5th, 2011 at 08:38 PM

That's a sweet, straight Passat dude... very envious.

baybuscamperkid - October 7th, 2011 at 11:40 AM

amazing that these are still sneaking around with clean low km examples. very nice clean looking wagon