Stance from the past... my old '98 Passat, Circa 2001-2003

[wagonist]

Ok, so I know this is weak sauce compared to the stance scene of today, but you have to remember that back nearly 10 years ago when Mille Miglias and Superleggara's reigned supreme, and 3 piece wheels were reserved solely for Porsche's, finding low offset wide wheels with lip was next to impossible here in the US. I had to import these CR7 wheels from Germany for my 98 Passat (I have family there), they were 17x8.5f et30 with 215/45 and 17x9.5r et30 with 235/40 Dunlops.

I got a shit tone of heat from all the car boards, for one, running staggerd on a FWD car, and especially for the tire size I had, "stretched tires" wasn't a common therm back then, neither was the drift scene to back me up . I even got heat from TireRack because they refused to sell me the tires, since according to them it wouldn't fit my car. I ended up lying to them and saying it was for my "other" car, a non-existant BMW Z3 just so that they'd ship them out.

The car was basically stock except I cheap-a-fied it by getting my dad to send me some textured Euro moldings and a Euro trunk from a salvage yard in Germany. It was dropped on KW V2 coilovers that were also imported from Germany, but at that point they hadn't come out with the "Inoxline" yet (stainless) so they were the old steel body's where the threads corroded and and the adjuster siezed onto the body. There was 0 support from KW as KW USA was a one man operation back then, or it seem like it.

Anyways, here are a few pics I could salvage still as I lost most of the nice ones because its been so long:






After I parted out the car in 04, I got a new hobby of racing Super Moto bikes and got out of the car game completely 'till this summer when I got another German car, my w210 Benz

[pokey_reese]

Oh man blast from the past! This car was one of maybe three passats that inspired me like 3 or 4 years ago lol. I remember seeing it on PW and dropping my jaw. Those were the days...