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I took a different approach. A diesel Rabbit with about 270k on the odometer. MN road salt killed it. It got to the point that when I pulled out the headlight switch the windshield wipers would activate. Under-the-hood corrosion in the electrical system connector blocks...

I pulled the engine and gave the rest away. The engine still lives - sitting on a wheeled pallet driving a hydraulic pump so it is a general-purpose power supply for a log splitter/cement mixer/high-pressure sprayer/you-name-it.

Besides the hand-crank windows it also had a hand-crank sunroof.

A long long time ago... my father's '82 Rabbit Diesel had become my recently licensed younger brother's "conveinience" car. The sunroof had been a problem, and the old man had removed the handle... for good reason.

My little brother decided he knew it all and went and tore into the sunroof, screwed up the works, and then could not secure it.

I needed to borrow the car to move some things from home while I was getting the heads worked on my '64 Skylark...

Here is the Rabbit... with a piece of clothesline tied to the structure of the sunroof (the velour interior panel was gone), and the headrest on the passenger seat. I had no time to correct dipshit's eff up, so loaded the car and went.

10 miles later, on the interstate, BLOOP! there goes the sunroof, out of the car... but recall the rope? It proceeded to fly about violently at 55MPH denting the roof all to hell. I was lucky it hadn't smashed out all the glass.

To this day, my brother has the same mechanical aptitude... I cringe at the timing belt change he is about to undertake on his '88 Scirocco.