Obsolete parts

[tberk at mindspring.com (T Berk)]

Jeffrey Lowe wrote:
> 
> Just got back from the Stealership, picked up a
> plastic snap clamp for the trim piece on top of MK2
> bumpers. Anyway, it?s obsolete part 533 807 809, they
> had one in stock, he brings it out and it has dust all
> over it. After I paid for it and was on my merry way
> I?m thinking to myself what an odd feeling it is to
> take the last of a VW dealers stock of an item. It?s
> bound to happen to virtually every part of our beloved
> Scirocco?s, imagine walking away with the very last
> roof molding, or better yet the very last Scirocco
> emblem, the last of that item new in existence.
> The days are numbered.
> 
> Later...
> 
> =====
> Jeff Lowe
> Garland, Texas
> '59 Euro Spec Beetle (Waiting it's turn for resto)
> '64 Type-34 Karmann Ghia (Got parts?)
> '86 Scirocco 16V
> '98 Ford Explorer XLT 4X4
> 



I see from your sig you have a Mk2 Scirocco.  Imagine the pain f the
Mk1 folks when word came that since VW no longer was legally liable to
stock parts for a car of a certain age, they had _destroyed_ the Mk1
stamps and forms, and parts in inventory.

<sigh>

TBerk