Re: My Cincy Recap & Pictures

["Allyn" <amalventano1@home.com>]

i've also mirrored these (so far) on the cincy photo ftp site. for those tho
just wanna get em all in one batch (ftp).
i think i will shortly make a seperate login for the photos.
al

Al

Allyn Malventano, ET1(SS), USN
87 rocco 16v (rieger gto - green - 'der rocco' - restoration in progress)
87 jetta 8v wolfsburg 2dr (260k, still tight :)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Marc Getty" <marc@getty.net>
To: "Scirocco" <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2001 9:56 PM
Subject: My Cincy Recap & Pictures


>
> Hey everybody!
>
> This year was my first trip to Cincy, and I very much enjoyed two of my
three
> days there out there with you guys and gals.
>
> On Friday I had the pleasure of caravaning with Jan Folkson and Scott
Williams
> in Jan's mint '86 16v, Matt in his scary fast 1.8T A4 Jetta, Rich Deede in
his
> VR6 A4 GTI, Peter (thescirocco) in his "retro" 16v Mk1, Jason Arms in his
red
> 16v, and Doug in his red 16v. We made good time considering the rain, the
> directional confusion, and my nearly killing Doug, Matt and many other non
VW
> motorists. Eventually the word will get out not to break into the middle
of a
> caravan of VWs, but until that day I will be ever vigilant and take out
anyone
> who interferes with a caravan.
>
> Unfortunately I was deathly ill for all of Saturday and had to stay in the
hotel
> nearly the whole time. This meant that I missed 99% of the tech procedure
day
> :-( and 99% of the rain :-).
>
> On Sunday with the help of Peter and his girlfriend Laurie I was back up
and
> semi healthy, and with the help of Peter I got my car a very much needed
new
> battery from the WalMart next door to the hotel. Plenty of pictures were
taken
> with the XL-1 at Daun's and I decided to drive on Daun's road rally, Eric
from
> IA/IL volunteered to be my navigator. If _The Price Is Right_ rules
applied to
> the rally (closest without going over) Eric and I definitely would have
won.
> Unfortunately I drove just a little too fast and beat Daun's suggested
time by
> quite a bit thanks to Eric's pinpoint navigation and my newly healthy car.
>
> Sunday night Peter and I drove back to Philly and I made great time, only
7.5
> hours for the 550 miles back. This averages 73.3 miles and includes the
stop for
> McD's for 20 minutes and the 10 minute stop for gas in Westren Arm Pit PA.
Not
> too shabby!
>
> Thank you, thank you, and thank you to Daun and your family for allowing a
bunch
> of crazy people to come and invade your home! You are a brave people to
let us
> come!
>
> Here are the first 120 pictures of my 350+ pictures and nearly a dozen
videos:
>
> <http://getty.net/cincy2001/>
>
> Thanks again Daun!
>
> -Marc
>
> '74 VW Thing Finally Sold in 5/01 - '81 VW Jetta Diesel Scraped 12/97
> '84 VW Jetta GLi Sold to NJ 10/99 - '84 VW GTI 8v Sold to Peter in 4/01
> '87 VW Smoking Scirocco Tornado Red 16V 200,000+ miles in Philly PA
>     since 7/2/99 - Before and after pics: http://getty.net/scirocco/
> '88 VW Scirocco Tornado Red 16V with 177,000 miles, leather, no sun roof
>
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