rocco stories.....how I feel in love... with my rocco

[pbureau@attbi.com (pbureau@attbi.com)]

in 1998, finally decided to head out to texas, always 
had driven US build car, never a german car, always 
wanted one, never could afford one.... 

Drove to Texas in a Uhaul truck, moved in and started 
looking for a new car to drive, the wife was due back in 
texas 4 weeks from me landing in the USA. 
Went a police auction and bought myself an "abandonned" 
car from police auction block,a 1979 280 CE 2 door 
Mercedes Benz, twin cam 6 cylinder, for 750$, after 
pouring 6K into repairs, it was a sweet car, some time 
later (about 2 weeks after all repairs had been done) my 
new father in law borrowed it, decide to drive it drunk 
and impaled the newly restored (and repainted) mercedes 
coupe in a 1 ton twin axle pick up that was parked in 
Corpus Christi on a rainy night....

My wife arrived from Canada, I went out and got myself a 
jeep,(no longer had cash on hadn and bank was nice nough 
to give me 17K to buy a new vehicule), which my wife 
stole the jeep under the argument that she was tired of 
shifting in traffic.

This is how I enhirited a 1985 8v scirocco, that she had 
been the second owner since 1988, it was tired, beaten 
and poorly maintained. ex-boy friends had accidents 
(running over tree trunks etc etc..). I was disapointed 
and ignored the car , drove it daily, after 6 months, I 
had gotten attached to the little car, it was very 
tired, but yet it kept on trucking along the roads, 
never asking for any repairs.

So I started working on her (and she became more 
demading with time), my 85 project is coming soon to a 
close, (going to make a 3a hybrid engine) and she will 
completely done, and you know what, even though I have a 
16v with more Hp under the hood... 

I still drive the 85 8v 4 days a week, and I still 
prefer her over any other vehicule I have had the 
pleasure of driving before (well maybe the exception of 
the 71 maverick with a 390 under the hood, but for 
different reasons). 

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ATS - Patrick Bureau
1985 8v Euro GTX 3A/JH Project
1988 16v (project car!!)