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Detroit, 6:02 AM
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When you're a nerdy rabbit-owning kid who is part time grocery store bagger, striking out with girls is standard equipment. But for some reason I caught the eye of a very attractive, slightly slutty, cashier named Lori.
I had two glorious dates with Lori. Actually they weren't really dates, just heaving make out sessions that, 25 years later, still make me smile. Between the brown vinyl seats and Lori's perfume-scented lithe teen body, I was in heaven.
The Rabbit got me places. But Lori brought me to places I'd only imagined. I've searched the internet for pieces of my past, but I've only found Rabbits, Lori can't be found....
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My first car sex was in a '68 Mercury station wagon... Bench seats are very accommodating.
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What you see here is the incredibly rare VW Kaypro cabrio. For a short time in 1982, everyone who purchased a new Rabbit cabrio received a free Kaypro II personal computer. Frankly, I am amazed this one is still around. It's even sporting the OE vent window as noticed by the Black Bart alarm decal. I wonder if the car's owner bought the optional cassette tape drive or went cutting edge with that new floppy disk thing?
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And was the most flamboyantly heterosexual dude you'd ever meet.
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As an aside - all my friends with Mustangs and the like loved to say "hey, that's a girl car" - which was clearly true but not in the way they intended when all the good looking girls in high school used to come up to the previously-invisible me and asked if they could go for a ride in "your cute car". Good times.
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Don't discount the possibility that those girls were all "Grace"-in-training and they assumed you were "Will"... Many pretty girls are drawn to gay men (we're "safe" and good listeners), and many gay men are drawn to white Rabbit Convertibles/Cabrios. At least in my circle of L.A. Faeries...
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Terrifyingly slow.
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Anyway, these cars were pure rubbish in my opinion. I owned a Jetta MK1 of the same vintage, and because of that car, I will never own at another VW, ever.
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1) 4 Starter Motors had to be replaced in the 4 years I owned it.
2) The Transmission was rebuilt once, then replaced twice.
3) I had to replace an engine ignition rotor, because the car progressively got harder to start over time. It finally let go and had to be towed.
4) There were various electrical gremlins that cropped up every once in a while. There was a couple of times that it smelled like burnt wires.
5) I had to replace the front struts at least once every six months, because the front end crashed when I went over certain bumps on my way to work.
6) The A/C Compressor was giving out. When I turned on the A/C, it still cooled the cabin, but the compressor made a grinding noise, like the bearings were going to let go.
Want to know what car actually replaced this "German Engineered" VW? A 1986 Hyundai Excel! What is the kicker here is that Excel was a lot more reliable than the Jetta, and I bought them both brand new! The Hyundai was traded for a Suzuki Sidekick 4 Door in 1994.