Wolf in Golf's clothing - the Nordstadt/Artz Golf with Porsche 928-S inside
Summary
At the end of the 1970s, car visionary and gourmet Günter Artz had two Porsche 928s fitted with VW Golf bodies. This quite elaborate conversion combined the inconspicuous appearance of a somewhat wide Golf with the driving performance of the top sports car from Zuffenhausen. Both cars have survived and continue to inspire today. This report portrays the second Nordstadt Golf produced with 928 technology and tells the story of the project.
This article contains the following chapters
- A car gourmet with a sense for the (almost) discreet
- The first model in 1978
- Broad impact thanks to AMS
- The second example
- Bought back and upgraded
- Proven in everyday use
- A welcome rarity
- Further information
Estimated reading time: 5min
Preview (beginning of the article)
It doesn't take five minutes before someone pulls up next to us. He gets out, points to the black Golf and asks: "Is that the V8? And a conversation immediately ensues with owner Arno Albert. The passer-by turns out to be a fan and gives the Golf a connoisseur's look. This car only exists twice, so it is a real rarity, almost a one-off in fact. But there are good reasons why it is still recognized. The black Golf is thanks to the German Günter Artz. Even as a young man, he had a knack for building cars that were something special and that car magazines liked to report on. He had a Karmann-Ghia with a Chevrolet Corvair engine accelerated for himself, followed later by fast Beetles, mostly with the Zuffenhausen six-cylinder boxer in the rear. At the Nordstadt dealership in Hanover, he then reached top form when he turned a Porsche 928 into a VW Golf, or vice versa.
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