Re: MK1 S: should i trade.

["the mad bastard" <the-mad-bastard@home.com>]

    i'll have to disagree with you on that one, mark.  or at least doubt
you...

    i've seen more than 1 example of the blue/green sort of "tealish" hue
that jason is speaking about.  if i'm not mistaken, list member ben harder
has one.  ben, what's the eal, i need back up here ;)

jason
the mad bastard

> > Ok, here is the story.  I have a line on an '81
> > scirocco s.  It is a
> > blue-green, sort of a teal color.  andyone know what
> > this color is called?
>
> No idea, if it's an "S" - this is not the original
> colour.
>
> The Scirocco S came in:
>
> Cosmos Silver Metallic
> Cirrus Gray Metallic
> Mars Red
> Black
> Alpine White
>
>
> > It had black cloth seats with red stripes.  These
> > seats are perfect, no rips
> > tears or dammaged foam.  The car is 100% original,
> > this person bought it
> > from the original owner about 2 years ago.  He has
> > ALL documents including
> > original window sticker etc.  Bad things are as
> > follows:  sometime early in
> > the cars life something happened that caused someone
> > to replace the right
> > rear quarter pannel.  it was replaced with a new
> > dealer part.  Whoever the
> > dumbass was who replaced it welded it at a slight
> > angle.  When you shut the
> > door, the top of the door is about 2mm closer than
> > at the bottom.  At the
> > bottom where it was welded to the rocker pannel,
> > there is rust on the seam,
> > and a small rot hole.  This whole pannel needs to be
> > repainted also, the
> > paint is all scractchy looking.  There is a couple
> > small bubbles of rust at
> > each bottom corner of the windshild.  Also, last
> > summer the VW MECHANIC who
> > currently owns the car tboned a f*****g honda! Good
> > thing was that it put a
> > big ass dent in the side of the honda. Consequently,
> > the right half of the
> > grille, right outer headlight, and turn signal and
> > front corrner of the
> > fender are slightly dammaged.  I think that i have
> > access to the body parts
> > that it needs in my local scrap yard, and if not, im
> > shure one of you guies
> > have the stuff. Doors don't hang down when you open
> > them, original wheels.
> > Overall though, the Body is very clean with
> > beautiful orginal paint.
>
> ==Are you sure it's original? - look at the original
> window sticker . . .
>
>   No
> > rust on floors or leaks.  Engine is orginal 1.7 with
> > pretty high miledge,
> > but he is a vw mechanic so everything works good.
> > Here is the deal.  I have
> > him interested in trading it for my '84 Jetta GLI.
> > My GLI's body is
> > perfict, 200k no rust what so ever, but it has been
> > having some pretty bad
> > engine trouble.  Is this a good trade, should i owe
> > him $$, should he owe
> > me$$, or shold it be an even trade?  Or should i
> > keep my GLI and keep
> > looking for a more clean MK1 S?  I have fallen in
> > love with the color of
> > this car, i really would like to know the name of
> > this color.  Thank you and
> > i cant wait for your responces.
>
> It sounds like a scary car . . . I would keep the GLI
>
>
>
> =====
> Mark Peele
> 1981 Scirocco, 1982 Scirocco, 1978 Scirocco, 1987 Golf GT
> http://www.scirocco2.de/mark.htm
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