{Vent} I keep this car why?

[pats16v at columbus.rr.com (Erik)]

You like the rest of us keep the Scirocco for at least two reasons.

#1  We are as loyal as puppy dogs.

#2 We are gluttons for punishment.

#3 When we drive down the road people look and stare trying figure out what
the hell is that car and or think to themselves damn that's pretty cool.

Two days ago my neighbor was walking her dog and asked me if my 78 was an
old Porsche.  I laughed at her for a second and told her "No it's much
better.  It's a VW."  She looked puzzled for a moment smiled and walked
away.  Life is good.

Erik
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Calimus" <calimus@techography.net>
To: "Scirocco ML" <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 10:51 AM
Subject: {Vent} I keep this car why?


> Well, Kathy might have the silver headache, but I have the Black Bitch
> of Death.  I haven't had any problems with my 16v since July and was
> starting to get really paranoid because nothing had gone wrogn with the
> car since.  Well, last week she deviated from peacfull servitude.  1st
> gear became a sometimes only gear and it was random, sometimes when cold
> other times after running just fine in traffic for a good while.
>
> To make matters worse, Friday on the way home I managed to get it into
> first gear at a stop and while compleating a turn in 1st, it suddenly
> popped into nutreal and tried to go into reverse, not good.  So saturday
> I replaced the main shift rod bushing/bracket and now I'm having all
> kinds of hell.  My bently has walked off somewhere so I didn't have the
> proper alingment procedure but I tried my best.  My best wasn't good
> enough and every time I'd make a change and see how it worked, I was
> always without at least one gear, sometimes two.
>
> As the car sits now, I can't get into 2nd, but thankfully a friend of
> mine is back from school for break and has his bently handy so I'll see
> about doing this the right way tonight.
>
> Sorry for the long e-mail, just had to vent since for now I'm sharing
> the toyota with the wife as all 3 of our VW's are out of service :(
>
> William
> -- 
> 88' Scirocco 16v (Crabby 16v)
> 89' Cabriolet 8v (dead bunneh) RIP 8/25/03
> 71' Karmann Ghia (air sucker)
>
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