OT: Black Jetta Highway persuit on TSN

[juliemac57 at hotmail.com (Julie Macfarlane)]

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Julie Macfarlane
Menlo Park Research & Development
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>From: "Adrian" <adrian.culda@sympatico.ca>
>To: "'Allyn'" <amalventano@sc.rr.com>,"'Dave Ewing'" 
><MK1Scirocco16v@comcast.net>,"'Scirocco-L@Scirocco.Org'" 
><scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
>Subject: OT: Black Jetta Highway persuit on TSN
>Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2003 14:19:17 -0700
>
>Hey guys...
>I though this would be interesting for u guys to hear.
>Some guy in a 87ish Black Jetta was doing 100+ MPH while running from
>the cops.
>Direct quote from the surveilance choper guy.
>"The car is doin 100+ MPH and our units are having trouble keeping up
>with it." LMAO
>My Father-in-law Looks at me ( who btw is a chevy fan ) and says
>"its just a god damm jetta! What do u mean u cant keep up with it!"
>at this im pretty much laughin so hard that im in tears.
>My father-in-law looks at me and gives me the shut up look.
>Not even 2 seconds latter the guy slams in the back of a mustang!
>Turns sharply and keeps on driving!!!
>At this the old mans like
>"you gotta be fuckin kiddin me!!! That car aint no tank!! WTF its still
>drivin?" and he was just getting more and more frustrated.
>The idiot could have still going but! The ass pulled a u turn going the
>wrong way on the freeway. I mean WTF was he thinkin.
>He ran across the freeway and tripped in some bushes but it was enough
>for the cops to catch up to him where they beat the shit out of him.
>
>Anyway... I posted this as anoather Victory for VW over a domestic,
>specialy since those domestics probably had about 3X the displacent of
>the jetta :)
>
>My Father in law finally got the message. Lots of displacement don't
>mean shit. And VW is 100X better than any Chev, Ford or Chrysler !!!!
>Like I said B4 I wont drive anything besides a VW !!!
>And I owned then all, Caravan, Sentra, Daytona(ugh, big mistake), Shadow
>(anoather huge mistake), Mustang LX, Cutlass Calais, then my first real
>car my 81 Rabbit LS :)
>Still have it to this day :)
>790K and still runing strong, errr .. I mean till my brother got to it.
>He killed the clutch and then SMS.
>Well geee.. so I bought the Passat drove it for a few years while I was
>slowly fixin up the rabbit. One day while lookin aroung the junk yard I
>saw something got towed in. to my surprise it was a Scirocco :)
>Man was I happy. Quickly popped the hood and looked around. Everything
>wads there and the car looked in decent shape.
>Looked at Rob ( my buddy who was workin there... anoather domestic fan
>guy)
>And asked him what was wrong with it. He told me that the PO couldn't
>get it started. I went back I looked areound in the engine bay and
>noticed that one sice of the coil had no wires going to it. I tough to
>myself bingo!
>I went back and the low balling began. 10 minutes later I and $50 hit to
>my bank account I was walking out with the ownership of the scirocco :)
>Went back a couple of hours latter pushed the car around a bit and
>started looking for the wire. Found it! Crimped a connector onto it and
>slit it on.
>Then grabbed the booster and trew a decent battery on there.
>I cranked her over a couple of times and she backfired. Hmmm ... I go
>out and took a look. The PO must have been a idiot! He had the firing
>order reversed too!!! OK, firing order fixed now, I got back in and she
>started right up! WHOHOOOOO !!! about 10 minutes later I went to my
>buddy and asked him to gimme a ride to the gas station cuz I want some
>fresh premium for the car. On the way to the station stoped by my
>buddies hop picked up the dealer plates and once we got back put the gas
>in started her up and drove her home :) then a couple of week later I
>spotted the silver one for sale :)
>As posted earlie rpicked that one up for anoather $50.
>2 weeks latter I got T-boned in the passat and the insurance replaced my
>car. Went down to the local yard pick up the motor and the rest off the
>stuff I needed for to swap th 2.0L into the scirocco.
>2 weeks latter my dad pick up 2 jettas and a Audi 5000 CD Turbo Quatro
>(damm him I wanted that car!!)
>anyway ..
>the silver on got scrapped after I found out that the floors were
>missing. So I pulled everything I though I would ever needed and then
>scrapped the car. Then my passats 5 speed went bad ( thanks to my dad,
>shaft seal blew out and lost all then oil in the tranny and then by the
>time I noticed what happened it was too late. 2 days after I noticed my
>dad lost 1st due to some freak accident on the highway tried
>downshifting into 3rd and when he slammed it he slamed it into 1st!!!
>bye bye syncros! Then about 2 weeks later he killed 2nd as well. So I
>started to work on the rabbit due to the fact that I ble out the turbo
>on my digi1 turbo rocco.
>So now im stuck with the trusty old rabbit. Ordered the new mounts,
>axles and a clutch kit.
>So now that car is 98% complete. And as far as the rocco, the engine is
>sitting at the machine shop, finished. Now I need to find a good
>transmission that will be able to handle the power.
>
>Sorry for the long post :)
>Thanks for reading.
>
>Adrian C.
>Project Scirocco R2.oT - "The Turbocharged 16Valves of Fire Breathing
>Fury"
>( 2.0L 16V T66 )
>
>
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