Many hours were spent on this little gem, teaching pieces of Rabbit, Cabriolet and Scirocco to play nicely together. Many more were spent on wiring diagrams, trying to match fuse box pins to the Cabriolet dash harness and the Scirocco rear wiring. Did you know that the order of the pins is different on the European tail lights? Before this project, I didn’t either.
Then there was grinding the rust off of old things to make them new again, and installing many new things — brakes, suspension, ball joints, wheel bearings and that sort of stuff. And there was the challenge of finding all the missing pieces that you cannot just buy new.