MKII Jetta with a 6 speed tranny???

[sukchew at suddenlink.net (Chuck Blue)]

Back in the olden days before peopole were hot rodding VW bugs I had a 
slightly modified bug that would do 85 in 3rd gear.It turned lots of heads.
ole blue
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mtl-Marc" <marc_scirocco@sympatico.ca>
To: "'Mark Bednarz'" <vwsportruck@yahoo.com>; "'Sean Whalen'" 
<hareless@gmail.com>; <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2007 6:22 PM
Subject: RE: MKII Jetta with a 6 speed tranny???


> Not to hijack this thread, but my '67 Pontiac had a 2-speed automatic...
>
> Larry probably remembers these ;-)
>
> Cheers
>
> Marc
>
>> -----Message d'origine-----
>> De : Mark Bednarz [mailto:vwsportruck@yahoo.com]
>>
>> Hi Sean,
>>
>>   I wasn't a reader of the magazine at that time, but at one
>> point in life, we had a CJ-5 (Jeep) that had a 3-speed manual ;)
>>
>>   -=Mark
>>
>> Sean Whalen <hareless@gmail.com> wrote:
>>   Hey Mark, I wanna say that way back in the day (still VW &
>> Porsche), they had a 5-spd kit to convert from a 4-spd.  Does
>> that sound familiar?
>>
>>   On 4/2/07, Mark Bednarz <vwsportruck@yahoo.com> wrote:  Hi David,
>>
>>   I know there used to be a conversion kit you could buy to
>> turn a 5spd into a 6spd for A1/A2 cars so it's completely
>> possible that this is what is in there. I forget who made it,
>> but I remember seeing it from one of the tuners in European
>> Car - they even had an article about it if I remember
>> correctly (it goes back a few years).
>>
>>   -=Mark
>>   '80 Scirocco
>>   '81 Rabbit Sportruck
>>   '00 Dasher Estate
>>
>> David Brown <sharpshooter33@roadrunner.com> wrote:
>>   Hey I looked at a 87 Jetta GLI today. It looked like it
>> used to be a 16v, but is now an 8v. The owner claimed it was
>> a 6speed. Very rare? It did shift 6, but the car wasn't
>> running so I couldn't really check it out.
>>
>> Has anyone heard of a 6speed MKII?
>>
>> Thanks
>> David
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