Re: Sciroccos rule

["Lee F." <general_lee_f@hotmail.com>]

This reminds me of a similar story.  About two weeks ago I was driving on 
94w in Michigan and this silver (looked kinda like an eclipse, but it had 
the pop-up headlights)car with a riced-out exhaust seemed to want to race.  
I was driving my dad's '88 Jetta GLi.  Anyhow, the car would come flying by 
me at like 110mph and then slow down and I would pass him going about 77mph 
(speed limit was 70) and he would be like a quarter of a mile behind and 
come flying past me again.  This happened a few times.  He then took an exit 
with a 180 degree off ramp.  I saw brakelights and over the edge he went 
down a steep embankment.  I considered helping him, but there wasn't 
anything I could do and there was a gas station nearby so I figured he could 
walk...and maybe think how dumb he was.  So the moral of the story 
is..."Nothing handles like a Scirocco".

Lee Folkman
'84 Wolfsburg Scirocco 8v(takes off-ramps quickly)
'84 Scirocco 8v
'88 Scirocco 16v Shell
'82 Jetta Diesel(once had a frightening off-ramp experience in the fog...and 
surprisingly handled well at >70mph)
http://scirocco84.homepage.com
http://www.andrews.edu/~folkman


>From: Timothy A Reed <t.a.reed.esq@juno.com>
>To: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
>Subject: Sciroccos rule
>Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2001 20:05:02 -0800
>
>Of course we all know that, but...
>
>I was driving home from a few errands this afternoon, and a guy in a
>Dodge Intrepid starts riding my tail just as I get off the highway,
>making it very difficult for me to slow down much.  About three-quarters
>of the way down this particular ramp, there is a sharp left turn which is
>labeled at an advisory speed of 30.  I ended up perhaps slightly beyond
>my ordinary turn-in point at (I'm guessing) about 45, tapped the brakes,
>and turned the wheel hard left.  The car responded like a dream and was
>completely *stuck* to the road.  Perhaps half a second after I apexed, I
>heard much screeching of tires behind me.  I looked in my rearview, and,
>sure enough, there was an Intrepid sliding all over the road.  I'm very
>surprised that he didn't hit the concrete wall that's right there (I
>would have laughed hard if he had).  That'll teach him to mess with a
>Scirocco. :)
>
>-Timothy A Reed, Esq.
>t.a.reed.esq@juno.com
>Moses approached the thick darkness where God was
>Exodus 20:21
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