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Lee

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My Hood Rides
« on: April 14, 2010, 12:56:06 PM »
Hi.  I have a couple of Hood Rides.

The first is my completed 1984 VW Jetta GLI.  Yes, it's a VW, scroll down for non VW Hood Rides.

I got the car for FREE!  Then I put a sum total of 450 bucks and hours of work into her.  Here are some pics from along the way.

In the beginning....


Removed / Rebuilt / Refreshed the 1.8 JH engine and 4K tranny.


Prettied up the engine bay with some paint:


The End Result.  On the road now.


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« Reply #1 on: April 14, 2010, 01:14:55 PM »
My next Hood Ride was a 1982 Porsche 928 I bought for 900 bucks.  Got the dead 4.5 V8 running with some intake and fuel system work.  Did a water pump and timing belt.  Some flat black paint and it was ready to roll:

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« Reply #2 on: April 14, 2010, 01:20:20 PM »
Some pics from the past.  I will be posting my latest work-in-progress in another thread.



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« Reply #3 on: April 14, 2010, 04:23:45 PM »
Quote from: Lee on April 14, 2010, 01:20:20 PM
Some pics from the past.  I will be posting my latest work-in-progress in another thread.



whoa... that looks fun
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« Reply #4 on: April 14, 2010, 05:39:52 PM »
Crazy fun.  It's super light. 
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« Reply #5 on: May 11, 2010, 12:15:52 AM »
That westy front end would look very nice on that jetta. :dance: i wish i had cool stuff like that hangin around and the time to tinker with it would be even better.
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