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Facing a change in scirocco situation [long]



You guys sound sooooo old. Here I am at 40, no 30...
Yeah thats the ticket!

.... sheesh



Julie Macfarlane
Menlo Park Research & Development
Internet Application Developer
www.menloparkrandd.com
www.montgomeryweb.org
Amsterdam NY





>From: T Berk <tberk@mindspring.com>
>To: Joe Doty <Joe.Doty@lcnetwork.com>
>CC: 0sciroccolist <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
>Subject: Re: Facing a change in scirocco situation [long]
>Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 14:38:09 -0800
>
>Joe Doty wrote:
> >
> > I think I'm getting old.
><snip>
>
>Nothing wrong with that, it's what you want really. Consider the
>alternative.
>
>
> > So now I'm temporarily putting the '88 into retirement and will be
> > driving the '79 daily.  I'm not sure what's going to happen to it, but
> > I'd like to swap it back to the crappy, always starting, always working,
> > 30+ mpg getting, simple CIS.  It will be a mighty sweet reunion.  That
> > being said, I have a new appreciation for well-maintenanced, near-stock
> > cars.
> >
> > Joe Doty
> > IT/Development
> > joe@lcnetwork.com
> >
>
>OK, you had me scared for a minuet, I thought you were bailing on the
>whole Roc thing altogether.
>
>I like your thinking, the turbo (unless detuned) doesn't need to be a
>daily driver, make i a weekend fun machine.
>
>Put a NA two liter in the 79 and make it Roc Solid.
>
>Less really IS more after all.
>
>High on the list of Best time in a Roc:
>
>79 Champagne Edition with an 81 1.7 block (ya feel me?);
>
>"Hey!, what kind of car IS that?..." from the local youths on a corner
>of Jack London Square-
>
>The answer?  "Just a bucket..."
>
>Break out the cool sunglasses and tool around in the Mk1, it's
>understatedness will lend itself to your mystique. It's contender
>devouring mechanicals will hold up their end. It's reliability will
>astound, even you, it's owner, on those Monday mornings you really
>don't want to be at work on.
>
>TBerk
>
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