1985 Volkswagen Golf

CALLAWAY TURBO GTI Coupe

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THE LITTLE RED ROCKET 1985 VW Golf GTI this is an original paint, no excuses example that was used to promote the new (1985) GTI, it was a venture with Volkswagen America- Callaway- and BBS. I have a large folder that pertains to this car in depth with letters (remember its 1985 no emails yet) from VW- calloway ,BBS and the PR firm that represented the Advertising and placement of display advertising on this car. I have the original window sticker, deal jacket when the car was sold original manuals etc. This is a 48000 original mile car. Featured in VW_Porsche magazine and many other publications including the cover of Autoweek ,I have all the original magazines that will come with the car. The exterior of the car stands up, the paint is original and has been properly stored inside over the years, the paint is shinny and still retains that original factory orange peel, the BBS body kit matches and fits very well, the car now sits on silver wheels that were on the car when I acquired it, the right front wheel does rub a little when there is a passenger and the wheel is turned, the tires are new. New yokahama tires are on all four corners. All jams are perfect and the car still carries all of the factory stickers. Interior is stock and in excellent condition. Leather recaro seats hold you in place, the leather is soft and not marked up. The Alpine head unit with cassette is the original one from 1985 and still works, those 6 green push buttons really bring you back when there lit up at night, period correct Alpine door speakers and rear speakers as well as two period correct amplifiers in the rear cargo area and one under the seat. There is a boost gauge and an Oetinger period correct steering wheel, everything else is stock. Dash, door panels and carpet are excellent. The original motor is in the car, it was given to Callaway and received there turbo system with intercooler, the GTI makes 185 Horsepower, 3rd gear this car pulls very nice and gets to 120MPH pretty quick. Remember it was done by Calloway not someone in their garage at home. The transmission shifts well through all the gears and no grinding inany of the syncros, clutch is great, brakes work well and the suspension feels good, there are Yellow Bilstiens on the car the front and rear struts and springs are are BBS designed . A blast too drive… and getting harder to find these original MK2 cars in this condition let alone the history and tuners that worked on this car. This was the original description of the car prior to my ownership The Volkswagen being offered here is far more than just a car…it truly is a time capsule. The car was built in 1985 sixty feet from where I am writing this description…..in the shop at Marketing Corporation of America in Royal Oak, Michigan. In the 80’s my company was retained by Volkswagen of America to help create a performance image for Volkswagen in the United States. My counterpart at Volkswagen was Mike Kaptuch who headed up VW Sport at the time and it was this business relationship that lead to Mike becoming my best friend until he died suddenly one year ago. This car was purchased by Mike directly from Volkswagen in 1987 and he has had it ever since. I am now selling it for his widow. Back in the 80’s Mike and I had some of most fun anyone could have in business doing great performance programs that often got us in trouble with the VW legal department. Mike was told what he could do and what he couldn’t do. The two most important issues were never to mess with emissions and don’t do anything to the suspension. And Mike didn’t……my company did. So when our projects attracted national press I was always the fall-guy out of the reach of VW legal. Our ideas would come out of nowhere. One day we read about the Calloway Corvette and thought “wouldn’t that be a great story for a small four cylinder car like a VW GTi?” So we contacted Calloway and they agreed. Mike arranged to get them a crush car with no vin for development. The car I am selling was the first production car although it was really a prototype as they weren’t officially being offered by Calloway then.. We were very tight with BBS so we used their trim package and wheels. Then we added the Recaro interior and a competition suspension and we had a little red rocket! AutoWeek heard what we were doing and the editor then, Richard Hinson, contacted me and asked if they could have the car first for a cover story. We said yes and thus began a great adventure with this car. We used the car in the VW Sport program for two years and in 1987 Mike bought the car from Volkswagen and has kept it ever since. All this prompted me to go into my company achieves to see what we had kept and sure enough, I came up with the issue of AutoWeek that featured this car on its cover. Then I found the consumer brochure we created that was handed out at all motorsport events where the car was featured. Of course once again it was my company doing all this and not Volkswagen. For the fun of it I called Richard Hinson who doesn’t live far from me and invited him over to the shop. When he saw the car he just smiled and said….”did you ever fix first gear/” It was always hard (you just had to know the trick) to get into first gear and sure enough….no we never did fix it. So when he drove the car once again he just laughed and said “that’s the way it should be.” Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE