1989 Volkswagen VW1500 - Farewell my friend on page 6

[FJSigma]

I´ve been looking around for a couple of years, but now I´ve got my own Retro Ride. It´s a very cheap 1989 Volkswagen 1500 I bought last week. I can´t drive it yet, because of the insurance. I couldn´t even wash it yet. These are the pictures I´ve taken the day I met it, a month before I bought it. This weekend I´ll do a deep clean and more detailed pictures.











Compared to an Avenger, there´s not much differences, besides the production years. It has 1500cc engine from the first Avengers (we never got the 1600 engine), 61CV DIN (I don´t know the bhp conversion) and Hummer gearbox.
I have a webpage dedicated to the cars Chrysler built in Argentina in the 60s, 70s and 80s (www.argentochrysler.com.ar) if you are curious. I think you´ll find interesting the advertisings ("Publicidades") from the 70s and 80s. I´m afraid the data it´s all spanish, but just ask whatever you want through this post.


FJSigma

[lordyoung1980]

Thats an interesting car,how come VW ended up making them?Are they still in production?

[arthurbrown]

Excellent!

So they're all-avenger bar the badges then?
ALways wondered.

[briandamaged]

Wow!! Welcome to the forum!!

Not seen one of these apart from in publicity shots!



Full story of the Avenger in South America here: www.rootes-chrysler.co.uk/Avenger/avenger-latin.html

[xbo11ox]

WOW!!! Now you are talking. I fookin love it when we get a new international member with a blue-chip obscure old heap. Are there plenty of those knocking around in Argentina? I wonder how much it would cost to ship one to the UK.

[grizz]

Cool ride... comes with rare rat look, patina, and obscurity points.

Welcome to the club.

[Thrasher]

Welcome, Welcome !

Thats fantastic ! Look forward to more pics !

Can you get me a Taunus coupe please !?

[michiel]

Mad, but a cool car! I was just reading about Renault 12's becoming Ford Corcel in Brasil, and now this...

[Avenbeam]

Excellent choice of Retro Ride.

[bazzateer]

xbo11ox said:

I wonder how much it would cost to ship one to the UK.

Why not fly over there, (Don't mention 1982 ), buy one, drive it north to the East coast of the US of A then ship it to Blighty!

[rmad]

Excellent!

What an excellent piece of badge-engineering...almost as good as the (Japanese) Nissan Volkswagen Santana!

Welcome to the board.

I'm off to hunt on Mercadolivre now! ;D

[Davenger]

Magnificent!
Got any plans for it?

[bortaf]

That is so cool ;D
you get some real nice models we never got to see
do you see many cortina/taunus coupes?
I love to see these type of world car, thanks for the pics

[FJSigma]

Thank you all for the welcome.

lordyoung1980 : In 1980, in Argentina and Brasil, Chrysler sold the plant to Volkswagen instead of Peugeot, so it became a Volkswagen instead of a Talbot. The curious thing is that those years were the best selling years for the Dodge 1500 in Argentina and Volkswagen decided to keep it in production til 1991. In Brasil it ended producition in 1981 or 1982.

pogweasel : Not exactly. There were some minor differences to adapt it to our taste and technology. For example, the compression ratio is lower. Oh, and the steering wheel... is on the wrong side, je je je. We also got the 1800cc engine with 76CV DIN, and since 1974 we replaced the Stromberg carburation for a more conventional vertical Holley. There are a lot of those small differences.

briandamaged : Thank you for the link. Great page, but with some important errors. Since I have a similar page with similar information and I live in Argentina, I wrote the guy to correct the data and even to send him some scans from an original catalog. But no changes were made.

xbo11ox : There are a lot of these cars around here. The problem is that most of them are used and abused (like mine) and most can't be saved. Anyway, you have to remember that our production numbers are really small compared to Europe. I don't know about shipping, but for about u$s6000 you can buy a really god car with the 1.8 engine.

Thrasher : Sure, take a look in www.autofoco.com.ar, some nice Taunus with pictures.

rmad : In www.MercadoLibre.com.ar the prices are a little distorted. Better in AutoFoco.

Daveyboy : Plans are to make it driveable. I need to change the four wheel roller bearings (does it say so?), to check the brakes, to change the front end (all the bushings must be burned) and the gearbox selector (I don't know the english term for that) is broken. To fix the gearbox it must be taken off the car, so I supose I'll change the clutch also. As a matter of fact, the mechanic must do all that, because I don't have neither the place or the time. After that, I'll need to fix some stuff from the body. One trunk hinge is broken and the doors are disaligned also. Theres some rust on the back. After that I'll begin to play a little. One of the first non urgent things I'll do is to change all the front and back to 78-82 specs. I don't like those VW add ons. After that, we'll se what money allow me to do. Wheels and suspension comes next, I think.

bortaf : Taunus coupes were more expensive and because of that not so much seen as the 4 doors. If you want to see nice pictures (specially from the newer coupes you never got in Europe) take a look here on the Taunus Club : www.clubtaunus.com.ar (this one for example www.clubtaunus.com.ar/Auto_mes/Auto_Mes-Abr2007.htm)



FJSigma

[qwerty]

Wow what an interetsing car!! Never seen or even knew that these cars existed. welcome to retro-rides!

[xbo11ox]

Wow, $US6000? Thats about £3000 I think. About 30 times what I normally pay for cars!

[Oldbus]

Welcome aboard, nice to see RR becoming even more international.

When you get stuck into it don´t forget the photos!!! ;D

Now all we need is a Hindustan Ambassador owner from India!

[PhoenixCapri]

Now this is different! I like it, could be turned into something real nice. Good luck with it

[FJSigma]

xbo11ox : That will be collection cars. A very good one can be found from u$s3000, like this one :
www.autored.com.ar/usados/article.php?mdu=4028&id=48444048594345
But a really good GT-100 (our modest version of a Tiger) is about u$s10000 like this one :
clubdel1500.mforos.com/88121/6899746-venden-gt-100/
Life in the third world isn´t easy....


FJSigma

[gotwood]

Only ever seen one in my old 'Volkswagens of the world' book ... I absolutely love it !!!