Find of the Day: Unrestored 7,000 Mile Westy

Today’s Find comes from the fantastically effective time-sink, Bring a Trailer, but we were alerted to the sale by its owner, a Vortex user who bought this 1980 Rabbit diesel a year ago. Although it pains him to see the car go, he says he just doesn’t have space for it anymore.

Even though this car is now 37 years old, the seller is only the second owner. More impressive still, in those 37 years, this Rabbit has only covered about 7,000 miles. That’s because this car was purchased in Queens and, as Philip J Fry once helpfully pointed out, nobody drives in New York because there are too many cars.

The car is so original that when the seller went to pick it up he drove it home on the factory original tires. Those tires were since, wisely, replaced with tires likelier to stay circular, but they remain on the original wheels—just not on the car. The seller also did a full service, replacing the fluids, hoses, going over the brakes and replacing the rear shocks.

Otherwise, though, the car is pretty much as it would have been in, say, 1981. It even still has the red sealing wax underneath and on the shock towers.

That’s not to say, however, that the Rabbit is perfect. For all its factory originality, it is still an east coast car, so there are a few rust bubbles here and there. But, frankly, they’re minor. There’s no better way to go back to the ‘80s short of firing up the old Beta Max machine and throwing on an episode of Knots Landing.

As of publishing, the high bid for this Rabbit is $7,685, but get your bids in quick because there’s only a day left on this sale.

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