Majestic Moose

Has anybody heard of this before?



In '79 a German VW dealer purchased 10 928s and fitted a custom VW Golf body to the Porsche drivetrain, widened by nearly 9 inches.




Pretty cool

https://youtu.be/e8LpnhTJGY0

Sources:
Check out the R&T article and photo gallery
http://www.roadandtrack.com/car-cult.../super-rabbit/

Scans of another article are here
http://forums.vwvortex.com/showthrea...83116-Golf-928

Want to be

Reminds me of the SHOgun

James Bailey

Yes it gets "found" about every 5 years and posted here

dr bob

There's some discussion (in Project 928 IIRC) of the factory using a few different sleeper test platform cars during 928 driveline development. The Rabbit/Golf was one listed.

Majestic Moose

Ah, I did a search before posting and didn't find anything. Nonetheless it may be informative for the newer folk.

XS29L9B

+1

Nicole

They used some Audi 100 Coupes. They were the only ones that hadn't been painted with shrinking paint - which made it possible to fit the drive train for the 928 into them.

http://flussigmagazine.com/1/post/20...coup-v3v4.html

More pictures:
https://oldtimer-veranstaltung.de/20...di-karosserie/

Nicole

A Previous Discussion Here:

https://rennlist.com/forums/928-foru...ied-928-a.html (jump to post #23!)


Videos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5ambpFawEI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDNAsK1itAU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-WvDrGhMTc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8LpnhTJGY0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9Y-TjZz594


English Language pages:

https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/threa...t-1979.315557/

http://www.roadandtrack.com/car-cult.../super-rabbit/

http://www.speedhunters.com/2011/10/...it_s_clothing/

From Switzerland (use Google Translate!)
http://www.oldtimers-im-fokus.ch/nor..._golf_928.html

About the creator of the Nortdstadt Golf (use Google Translate!):
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artz

More pictures, including the accident damage of the black one:
http://www.vwgolf.pl/2011/04/22/golf-928/

2002M3Drew

Believe it or not, I remember reading an article with that car back in the early 1980's. It fascinated me as a kid. I loved the idea of a sleeper hatchback. It planted the seed for my first car, a 1986 GTI. I wish they had made more of these - would be fun to find an Artz Golf 928!

paalw

Porsche Museum have one

Ad0911

There was one at the international 928 meeting in Leipzig I think it was 2014. I even might have a picture somewhere

upstate bob

the golfs were great drivers but I always wanted a Corrado

Vilhuer

7:30->

Chris Lockhart

I actually kind of like the green "shooting brake" or wagon from the pic "paalw" posted above. I'd drive the heck out of it. I owned a '78 Rabbit. One of the worst cars I've ever owned. Definitely wouldn't want a 928 disguised as one. LOL. Definitely a cool sleeper though.

paalw

https://www.goodwood.com/grrc/road/n...e-retromobile/