VW Golf Pickup

[dptydawg]

Every year the model club that I belong to has a build theme lottery were everyone throws their best ideas into a hat and one is chosen as a group build.This years theme was "Rancheros, El Caminos or similar phantoms. I figured that starting with a station wagon would be the easiest way to go. However a quick check of my stash only came up with a WV Golf hatchback.

I had won this kit as a door prize and had no plans to build it so I was quite willing to sacrifice it to a razor saw.

The major conversion work consisted of shortening the door length and stretching the truck bed by the same amount so that the chassis pan would stay the same.

A Dodge VTS kit donated box bed and bulkhead parts. The Wheels and tires came from a fujimi tire kit The paint is Crimson nail polish.

the truck bed scratch build. The inner door panels also came from the VTS kit

and this is how it turned out

Thanks for looking

Carl

[chunkypeanutbutter]

Awesome!!

[Danno]

Neat.

[slusher]

Very cool and unique. Great build

[Foxer]

Pretty obvious choice .. Golf's all WANT to be a pickup!

Looks great!

[peter31a]

Very cool little conversion! Kudos!

[o-man]

Thats a cool looking conversion.

[Ridgeback]

Really nice work. A 1.1 would go down a storm at Dub shows.

[Atmobil]

That's really cool. I guess thats about what a 1:1 version of the Caddy would look like if they had made one of the mkII golf. I think they only made a Caddy from the mk1. Great work

[Guest]

Cool.

[dptydawg]

Thanks Guys for all the kind words. I'm a bit lost when it comes to European autos. I figured that if it was to be a pickup it should be based on the front doors from a four door so I just shortened the door by 6mm and stuck that into the body behind the B post to keep the wheel base constant. If it wasn't for the incentive of a club theme I probably would never build this kit

Thanks again

Carl

[MsDano85gt]

i want to say vw did a real one pickup rabbit? one of their models they did a el camino of.......

[MsDano85gt]

i want to say vw did a real one pickup rabbit? one of their models they did a el camino of.......

[Ridgeback]

In Europe we got the mk1 Caddy, based on the mk1 Golf and the Mk2 Caddy was based on the Polo. There was never a caddy based on the mk2 Golf.

[Matt T.]

Nice work! Proportions look perfect. Neat little truck.

[Platerpants]

nice

[hobbybobby]

Why not? Great implementation and it looks good!