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Wolf in Golf's clothing - the Nordstadt/Artz Golf with Porsche 928-S inside

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Created on September 27, 2017

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Bruno von Rotz

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Nordstadt-/Artz-Golf Porsche 928 (1978) - no other Golf looked this stocky

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Nordstadt-/Artz-Golf Porsche 928 (1978) - it actually looks like a normal Golf

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Nordstadt-/Artz-Golf Porsche 928 (1978) - the difference in width is obvious from the front

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Nordstadt-/Artz-Golf Porsche 928 (1978) - the round headlights are really far apart

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If you combine a Porsche 928 (as on the left) and a VW Golf I (as on the right), you get the V8 Golf shown in the center

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The 928 Golf is also significantly wider at the rear than the standard Golf (right), but visually has nothing in common with the 928 (left)

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The Nordstadt Golf (928) is significantly wider than the standard VW Golf GTi from that era

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The Nordstadt Golf with 928 genes is about the same height, but significantly wider than a standard Golf

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Nordstadt-/Artz-Golf Porsche 928 (1978) - a Golf almost like any other

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Nordstadt-/Artz-Golf Porsche 928 (1978) - almost like a normal Golf, but there are small differences everywhere

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Nordstadt-/Artz-Golf Porsche 928 (1978) - the second Artz-Golf was not always black

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Nordstadt-/Artz-Golf Porsche 928 (1978) - the proportions are already slightly different from the standard Golf

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Nordstadt-/Artz-Golf Porsche 928 (1978) - it's really wide

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Nordstadt-/Artz-Golf Porsche 928 (1978) - Widescreen

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Nordstadt-/Artz-Golf Porsche 928 (1978) - when it gets closer, many an observer is amazed

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Nordstadt-/Artz-Golf Porsche 928 (1978) - something is not as usual about this Golf

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Nordstadt-/Artz-Golf Porsche 928 (1978) - significantly wider than the standard Golf

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Nordstadt-/Artz-Golf Porsche 928 (1978) - the 928S-Golf also sounds much better than the standard Golf

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Nordstadt-/Artz-Golf Porsche 928 (1978) - and it also offers more space

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Nordstadt-/Artz-Golf Porsche 928 (1978) - the 928S-Golf runs well over 250 km/h

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Nordstadt-/Artz-Golf Porsche 928 (1978) - the wide flap is of course just as much a one-off as almost all the other sheet metal parts

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Nordstadt-/Artz-Golf Porsche 928 (1978) - can be driven completely commod

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Nordstadt-/Artz-Golf Porsche 928 (1978) - it drives along wide

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Nordstadt-/Artz-Golf Porsche 928 (1978) - almost completely from the 928

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Nordstadt-/Artz-Golf Porsche 928 (1978) - the steering wheel still bears the donor's number

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Nordstadt-/Artz-Golf Porsche 928 (1978) - the entire instrument panel comes from the 928, as does the steering wheel

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Nordstadt-/Artz-Golf Porsche 928 (1978) - the speedometer does not exaggerate

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Nordstadt-/Artz-Golf Porsche 928 (1978) - Porsche instruments

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Nordstadt-/Artz-Golf Porsche 928 (1978) - five gears like the 928

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Nordstadt-/Artz-Golf Porsche 928 (1978) - center console as in the 928

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Nordstadt-/Artz-Golf Porsche 928 (1978) - Door panels with 928 elements

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Nordstadt-/Artz-Golf Porsche 928 (1978) - back then, a V8 in a Volkswagen was actually unthinkable

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Nordstadt-/Artz-Golf Porsche 928 (1978) - the 928 eight-cylinder

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Nordstadt-/Artz-Golf Porsche 928 (1978) - the Porsche crest on the V8

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Nordstadt-/Artz-Golf Porsche 928 (1978) - VAG part numbers

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Nordstadt-/Artz-Golf Porsche 928 (1978) - eight cylinders in V-shape

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Nordstadt-/Artz-Golf Porsche 928 (1978) - well-filled engine compartment of the Golf

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Nordstadt-/Artz-Golf Porsche 928 (1978) - the impression is not deceptive, the eight-cylinder engine is housed in the front of a Golf

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Nordstadt-/Artz-Golf Porsche 928 (1978) - the hood was made from five Golf parts

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The Volkswagen badge here does not really stand for a car for the people

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Nordstadt-/Artz-Golf Porsche 928 (1978) - wide BBS wheels instead of the 928 telephone rims

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American bumpers for the wide Golf from Nordstadt - the parts donors on the left and right

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Nordstadt-/Artz-Golf Porsche 928 (1978) - the 16-inch wheels also required changes to the wheel arches

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Nordstadt-/Artz-Golf Porsche 928 (1978) - other Golfs also had big wheels

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Nordstadt-/Artz-Golf Porsche 928 (1978) - the windows are tilted slightly differently than on the standard Golf

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The wide Artz 928 Golf is always being eyed with interest

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The public is always enthusiastic about the wide golf course

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Nordstadt Golf from 1978 between the two genetic donors Porsche 928 and VW Golf GTI

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1978 Nordstadt Golf between the two genetic donors Porsche 928 and VW Golf GTI

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Nordstadt-Golf (1978) - more slots for the wide Golf

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VW Golf GTI (1981) - the standard Golf has to make do with fewer slots

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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.

Welcome to Zwischengas!

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