Needs a good bit of maintenance work. Seems it had been sitting in a shed for a few years and was pulled out over the past few weeks. New owner wants a new timing belt installed. Starts and runs good. Needs a lot of rubber parts. The only rust is a little surface rust. New owner said he was going to get it painted.

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Jim

What's that weigh? About half of a 123?

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1977 300d 70k--sold 08
1985 300TD 185k+
1984 307d 126k--sold 8/03
1985 409d 65k--sold 06
1984 300SD 315k--daughter's car
1979 300SD 122k--sold 2/11
1999 Fuso FG Expedition Camper
1993 GMC Sierra 6.5 TD 4x4
1982 Bluebird Wanderlodge CAT 3208--Sold 2/13

Hard to read label but it looks like ~2800#.

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Jim

I bet that is the gross weight. Rabbit feels like a very light car.

The clutch in my Rabbit is about gone. I bought a 1997 tdi Passat to replace it as my farm truck. Wanted 70 mph in quiet comfort.

yeah, I'll bet that is gross too.

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[SIGPIC] Diesel loving autocrossing grandpa Architect. 08 Dodge 3/4 ton with Cummins & six speed; I have had about 35 benzes. I have a 39 Studebaker Coupe Express pickup in which I have had installed a 617 turbo and a five speed manual.[SIGPIC]

..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.

It's not that gross
Light weight is about 1700lbs, so not a whole lot of car to shove around even with that low of hp. Probably faster than the 240d still.

My first car was the gas version. 1982 I believe. Drove it to the junkyard with 458,000 miles.

Great memories

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Eugene

10 E63 AMG
93 300te 4matic
07 BMW X3
14 Ford F-150 Fx2

Those little VW GOLFs are nice little cars but these days give you that roller skate with a roof feeling - you are very much in touch with the elements in one of them!

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1992 W201 190E 1.8 171,000 km - Daily driver
1981 W123 300D ~ 100,000 miles / 160,000 km - project car stripped to the bone
1965 Land Rover Series 2a Station Wagon CIS recovery therapy!
1961 Volvo PV544 Bare metal rat rod-ish thing

I'm here to chat about cars and to help others - I'm not here "to always be right" like an internet warrior



Don't leave that there - I'll take it to bits!

I would "NEVER" trade auto safety just to save a bunch of gallons of fuel.

Cars like that little VW Rabbit really scare me.

You can't argue with the laws of physics.

Even a nonrusted, solid and good running w123 240 Diesel automatic would be a more sensible choice.

SAFETY first.

Always.

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1991 560 SEC AMG, 199k <---- 300 hp 10:1 ECE euro HV ...

1995 E 420, 170k "The Red Plum" (sold)

2015 BMW 535i xdrive awd Stage 1 DINAN, 6k, <----364 hp

1967 Mercury Cougar, 49k

2013 Jaguar XF, 20k <----340 hp Supercharged, All Wheel Drive (sold)

Our '85 cabrio had over 500.000 miles. Sold it for $500,-, we had buyers lined up.

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1979 Black on Black, 300CD (sold), 1990 Black 300SE, Silver 1989 Volvo 780, 1988 300CE (vanished by the hands of a girlfriend), 1992 300CE (Rescue).

Oh you can always argue!

The odds are stacked against you though.

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1992 W201 190E 1.8 171,000 km - Daily driver
1981 W123 300D ~ 100,000 miles / 160,000 km - project car stripped to the bone
1965 Land Rover Series 2a Station Wagon CIS recovery therapy!
1961 Volvo PV544 Bare metal rat rod-ish thing

I'm here to chat about cars and to help others - I'm not here "to always be right" like an internet warrior



Don't leave that there - I'll take it to bits!

I wouldn't do it just to save fuel either. But I would do it to go faster.

More sensible, yes. However, the rush from running even a comparatively weak 72 hp engine pushing 600 lbs of combined vehicle and rider is quite pleasant. If I decide to spend some money, I could be on a ZX-10R with about the same weight but making around 200 hp and doing 186 mph on top end.

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Whoever said there's nothing more expensive than a cheap Mercedes never had a cheap Jaguar.

83 300D Turbo with manual conversion, early W126 vented front rotors and H4 headlights 400,xxx miles
08 Suzuki GSX-R600 M4 Slip-on 22,xxx miles
88 Jaguar XJS V12 94,xxx miles. Work in progress.

Yes, they can be. Unlike MB transmissions, VW produced a number of transaxles with different ratios. If you find the right one, performance is...well...better than a 240D anyway. The Jetta that I jeopardize my life with will cruise comfortably at 65 and would accelerate faster than my 240D, except that 3rd and 4th gear syncros are shot and I need to add about a heartbeat when passing though those gears.

I generally agree with JimB about safety. I stopped DDriving the rabbit a few years ago and switched to the Mk2 Jetta, which is quite a bit bigger (a lot like a W201). More importantly, my commute starts at 5AM on secondary roads and I leave work early, so its not too bad, but I still get a few close calls even so.

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80 300SD (129k mi) 82 240D stick (193k mi)77 240D auto - stick to be (153k mi) 85 380SL (145k mi) 89 BMW 535i 82 Diesel Rabbit Pickup (374k mi) 91 Jetta IDI Diesel (155k mi) 81 VW Rabbit Convertible Diesel 70 Triumph Spitfire Mk III (63kmi)66 Triumph TR4a IRS (90k mi)67 Ford F-100 (??)

You will enjoy doing the timing belt on this. I bet it takes you less time than adjusting the valves on a 617

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I have an Army buddy that's been driving one about that year model for YEARS. It looks like it was an artillery target at one point, but he keeps it in good mechanical condition and drives it all over the place. He goes from New Braunfels, Tx to NorthWest Colorado a couple of times a year to see his sister.

He's a top notch mechanic and for some reason loves the little car.