Early westy front?

[Retired]

Hey all, I really like the look of early westy front ends on Mk1s



these ones if anyone doesn't know the differnce between early and late ones.

Does anyone have one for sale? I am guessing its just the rad support, grill and obviously lights that are different?

[rayray086]

I like the look of them too. For history sake, what's the story behind them? I remember reading an article in PVW about the Westmoreland design coming out of the Westmoreland (in America) VW factory around the early 80's as a "revamp" on the Mk1 front-end... I guess that means it was a US-only release?

[Jarred]

Fat chance finding one of them in oz i Reckon cam..

Everyone on the tex gets all giddy when some one finds and early westy, so I reckon they must be a bit rare.

try some of the rabbit spare parts places, they might be able to sell you a rad support. then it's just lights and grill I believe.

[Jarred]

I like the look of them too. For history sake, what's the story behind them? I remember reading an article in PVW about the Westmoreland design coming out of the Westmoreland (in America) VW factory around the early 80's as a "revamp" on the Mk1 front-end... I guess that means it was a US-only release?

AFAIK, that's right ray.

Can't say I've ever seen one in europe, or here for that matter.

[Retired]

I like the look of them too. For history sake, what's the story behind them? I remember reading an article in PVW about the Westmoreland design coming out of the Westmoreland (in America) VW factory around the early 80's as a "revamp" on the Mk1 front-end... I guess that means it was a US-only release?

Yeah Ray, the Westy rabbit was just a US built Mk1 as it must have been costing VWoNA a pretty penny to import. The reason they have the square front is because people in the states wanted a more 'modern' looking car. The early ones look great but I don't really like the later ones.

Fat chance finding one of them in oz i Reckon cam..

Everyone on the tex gets all giddy when some one finds and early westy, so I reckon they must be a bit rare.

try some of the rabbit spare parts places, they might be able to sell you a rad support. then it's just lights and grill I believe.

Yeah I don't think I have much of a chance finding one here but hey, worth a try right? Just like theres <1% chance of finding a hard plastic early mk1 dashboard (hint hint to all you people )

[gtimk5]

The early ones are like my Caddy with the indicators on the outsides of the headlights.
I tried to source a rabbit GTI grill for the caddy yesterday but no luck just yet..

[Retired]

The early ones are like my Caddy with the indicators on the outsides of the headlights.
I tried to source a rabbit GTI grill for the caddy yesterday but no luck just yet..

Like this



BTW: DROOL

[Golf Loon]

Are they the same as the square scirocco America ones?

I have a couple of sets of them from stateside that I will never use.

[Retired]

Nah, they are single headlight ones like the above green one with no bumpers and the white caddy at the top of the page.

[Jarred]

The early ones are like my Caddy with the indicators on the outsides of the headlights.
I tried to source a rabbit GTI grill for the caddy yesterday but no luck just yet..

are you sure Andrew??

All the American GTI's [83-84] have the indicators on the side, but 79& some 80 models had just the square lights no indicators. I believe your caddy to be 'late westy'

This is just what I've picked up from vortex

ref:

http://forums.vwvortex.com/zerothread?id=4103834