Anyone on here who knows me knows I still live for MK1s. They're just cool to me. Over the years there have been a few MK1s that I wanted... bad.
The '75 Swallowtail was the first one on the list. First year production, fairly rare. I found one in '02 and snatched it right up. I've been slowly (six years now) aquiring the parts to build it into a prepped roadcourse car.
Shortly after that I decided I needed a Rabbit S. This one would be a little more difficult considering all my searching has, to this day, yealded me only seeing five of these cars in person (traveled to Canada to see one, found one at an auction, one in a wrecking yard and nearly crapped when I saw one on the street). I found this one on accident, bought it and restored it for my wife.
So those are old news... this thread is really about the MK1 I got last night. The rarest of the rare. It's a counterpart to the Rabbit S and since we have a Rabbit S we just HAD to have one of these. There may be less than 5-6 of these in the whole community and probably only a few dozen in the world (I've seen three in person, Dave at oldskool, a local one that runs about, and mine)... and after years of searching... I own one.
So long story short. I'm bragging... but this is the showoff section so I get to enjoy a little gloating every now and again. I own three of the rarest MK1s ever built. I'd say the French Golf 16s is the rarest but I think it's possible they actually made fewer Sportrucks.