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Obsolete parts

Tberk wrote:
>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

I tried to get the plastic trim pieces that go under the mirrors and door 
handles.

No luck. Nada, SOOL.




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





>From: T Berk <tberk@mindspring.com>
>To: Jeffrey Lowe <scirocco16v_1986@yahoo.com>
>CC: scirocco-L <scirocco-L@scirocco.org>
>Subject: Re: Obsolete parts
>Date: Wed, 07 May 2003 21:05:23 -0700
>
>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
>
>
>
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