'76 80 avant

Bandwidth Buster Joined: Aug 12, 2006 Posts: 803

Finally took delivery of this on saturday after various failed attempts,blew the tyres up chucked some juice in the carb and managed to get it running albeit briefly, but was just enough for me to drive it the 40ft or so into my workshop.I havn't been underneath it yet but I reckon its salvageable from what I have seen up top.Will have a better look at it tomorrow hopefully

Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2012 11:58 pm

Ohh.. that dash board brings back memories of a 79 passat that I had.

Nice find. Surprised

Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2012 9:42 am

AWESOME

Bandwidth Buster Joined: Aug 12, 2006 Posts: 803

I am pretty sure from the little I have read up on these that the b1 passat is essentially the same car.

Needs to get out more Joined: Jun 11, 2008 Posts: 183

Superb choise for a project! I'll be keeping an eye on this.

Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2012 6:31 pm

Dash is identical - Including the crack on the dash board! Wink

Biggest problem was corrosion at the rear suspension pivot point.

This car was the first I think I did a modification on as teenager. The instrument cluster was swapped for a GL cluster (with the clock in the centre and the fuel and temp intergrated in the speedo and tacho). I then installed the volt meter, oil temp and oil pressure gauge in the central consol.

Happy days

Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2012 6:36 pm

And the wet passenger floor! Think that was a loose grommit in the wing for the aerial.

Bandwidth Buster Joined: Aug 12, 2006 Posts: 803

yes she is a bit wet,unsure at the moment where it is coming from but will certainly look into that.Been underneath it today and it's mostly solid,worst part is the back panel/boot floor but for the most of it is pretty good.Even the brake lines are an MOT pass, I was expecting to have to rip all those off and start from scratch and I think they are the originals(appear to have been coated in something underneath the car).Fuel tank needs to come off as its got lots of shite in there but thankfully its probably the easiest to remove tank I have ever come across.

Posted: Sat Apr 07, 2012 12:33 pm

any update? (And no, I've not located the log book yet Embarassed

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Bandwidth Buster Joined: Aug 12, 2006 Posts: 803

not much to report,a never ending amount of audis to fix/break hasn't left me with much time to do much else recently