G'day from Australia. 1981 Volkswagen Rabbit GTI

Hi, my name is James & I live in Perth, Western Australia. I have a 1981 VW Rabbit GTI. When I first got it, it was a left-hand drive automatic, it's now a right-hand drive manual. It's had a full respray and body kit, brand new canvas roof and the engine has been completely rebuilt. It has new sports suspension and disc brakes. Now I'm done on those I want to work on the interior because it is pretty tacky, well the dashboard anyway. I'm eventually looking to put a 1.8L out of a mk2 into it. it definitely needs some new wheels. I went to an exhaust fitter and told them to put the loudest exhaust on it they can. It now purrs and if you hadn't seen it you'd think it was a v8.

Well here are some pics   They really don't do it justice, the colour is something you have to see in person to appreciate.

Back in the day


Striping along the side missing


Just the other day (taken with crummy phone camera)





Cheers. James.

Hi mate nice car, my brother used to live in Perth and has since moved to Albany, so ive been a few times it's a lovely place. Cheers Baz

Great looking car.  What is the name of that colour?

Welcome.  Nice cab.

Tiger Orange. It's a Holden Commodore colour. In the pics it looks red, it's more of a metallic orange.