Mk1Amino!
Amino is more than just an organic compound (amine, really). It's also a favorite automotive suffix for people who've just sawed the back off of their vehicle and created a pickup bed where once there wasn't one. Short on information but holding a very intriguing picture in his hand, Dan Strohl at Hemmings has found what appears to be a very custom Rabbitamino. There was, of course, a pickup-truck Rabbit produced by Wolfsburg, but that came after the 1978 date code on the back of this particular slice of Kodachrome. Real Rabbit pickups had different doors and rear quarter panels than this one, and they also lacked the, ahem, third axle. Barring any kind of documentation, the best we can do is gaze longingly at the Chicklet-worthy orange and try to decipher yet another artifact from the halcyon days of the late 1970s when the smog ran thick and cars were weak.
[Source: Hemmings]
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TriShield 1:59PM (5/19/2008)
Jalopnik post of the day.
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Geza 2:07PM (5/19/2008)
VW Caddy first generation.
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Dan Roth 2:17PM (5/19/2008)
Not a first gen Caddy - the taillights are totally different, as is the shape of the rear quarter's terminus.
Mehdi Cheddadi 2:07PM (5/19/2008)
I smell Jalopnik, and I don't like it...
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ugg.tryptophan 2:32PM (5/19/2008)
why?
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