1993 Volkswagen B3 Passat GLX VR6

[7vchvry]

Solid wagon sir, love it!

Renato
Team TWM Performance

I really havent seen many of these wagons done up at all. Cant wait to see what you come up with!

Thank you!

[7vchvry]

A few more before we tore into her:

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Finding out the hard way that the US and eCode corner light brackets are different...oops:



Questionable battery tie down:



Messy redrill:



Tired brakes. eBrakes in the rear were also partially seized:



The surprises keep coming!

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At this point it was December 2013 and I was relying on the B3 as my daily. The right coasters here will laugh, but my heater core was shot and I needed it fixed quick, and I didn't have time to do it myself. Here begins my relationship with James and the guys at #becausebags. You may recognize a few of the cars here:

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Heater core done. A bunch of maintenance done. Posted on a chilly SF morning with my JDM brethren:



Subaru Outback crossbar test fitment (don't do this... it is cheap and looks ok, but it sets your trays at an angle):

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Nardi from a Mazda MX-5:

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Rockymounts trays mounted, ran into a homie at work:

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If you know...you know:

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First team ride of the year:



First race of the year up in Sacramento:



The last time I saw her:

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At this point, the B3 was in the shop with major plans for brakes, suspension, and wheels from the ground up. In the meantime I was sourcing a full black interior swap...not an easy task, and not often completed. After setting up every junkyard alert possible and a lot of futile runs, I hit the jackpot. I came across a mint B3 Passat GL at the Windsor Pick N Pull. I abducted Roy ( @dirtywerke ) on his day off and we stripped the entire Passat revealing a factory fresh shell...nothing in it had ever been removed!!!

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This is what it looks like when you put a B3 Passat into a Toyota Highlander:



$200 and an In N Out dinner later...success:

[lower99]

I like this.

[7vchvry]

To top it off, we also pulled the A and B pillar trim and seatbelts from a B4 wagon, and came up on some relatively rare bits:

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I like this.

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Then this happened:



The first time I ever saw her aired out: