Jetta Ute

Unlike the usual complicated kit car build, the Jetta 4-door based Smyth Ute (11-18) is built in several weekends instead of a few years. Even amateurs should be able to take their time and build these kits. Whether you go all out with air bagged suspension and great paint, or simply wrap the Ute for daily use, Smyth truck kit conversions can work hard as well as giving you a fun ticket to your local cars and coffee show.

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Cutting the car after the trunk, rear doors and seats are removed consists of making three cuts: The first cut is straight across the roof and the other two are just behind the rear doors to the trunk.  No welding is required. From there you bolt on the structural aluminum reinforcement panels and assemble the all aluminum structural bed inner panels.

 

Even the rear lights use the donor wiring harness that is spliced into new tail light assemblies. No moving fuel tanks, no building up suspensions, no messing with the engine or dash....you are simply bolting on a new structural rear box section on top of the already sturdy VW floor pan. 

 

Prime, paint or wrap the truck and you are the proud builder of one of the most unique vehicles on the road.  Fuel stops become conversations about your 45 mpg diesel small truck, or your VR6 turbo custom mill, or your 300 horse 1.8T Ute.  Throw in the ultra reliable 2.5 liter engine in the later cars and you have some amazing cars to choose from as donors. People don't ask me much when I fill up a 4 door stock Jetta, but they can't get enough of the story about the only modern small truck in the country, the Smyth Ute.