scirocco like vw

[pilotlars at yahoo.com (Lars Bruchmann)]

ah, i do not know about that.. i was like 7 when the
change happened, heehee.  by 1st gen, i meant prior to
the later passats i remember in germany, which were
called quantums, here, or something like that.  hard
to get work done on it, you have to find a 'quantum
mechanic', lmao.  ok..
i don't know what colour it was, it was at night, i
was totally blown away by the fact that it was a
passat.  
--- Eric S <scirocco@vintagewatercooleds.com> wrote:

> 
> Lars, you are correct.  That is a B1 Passat,
> however, a Mk2 B1 Passat. 
> They got a body change for 78 model year.  The Mk1
> B1 Passat you speak of,
> it a Robins Egg blue coupe?
> 
> -- 
> Eric
> www.vintagewatercooleds.com
> 
> 1981 Scirocco S (TDI swap project)
> 1988 Audi 90 Quattro
> 1990 Corrado TDI
> 1991 Cabriolet (2.0 crossflow 8v project)
> 
> Lars Bruchmann said:
> > that's a first generation passat, same period as
> the
> > golf, scirocco and jetta Is.  it also came as a
> > station wagen.  from around 1974 to the early 80s.
> > the new line of water-cooled, front drive sedans
> and
> > coupes that VW produced.  we had one in the
> family, it
> > got passed around a lot, it was bright orange..
> what
> > can i say, it was the wild 70s.
> > there is one like that here in okc, it is in
> really
> > nice shape, i actually stopped to stare at it,
> quite
> > rare, these days.  non-existent in europe.
> > --- Eric S <scirocco@vintagewatercooleds.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> Dasher coupe, like this?
> >>
> >> http://www.visi.com/~bhjelt/Images/dasher.jpg
> >>
> >> --
> >> Eric
> >> www.vintagewatercooleds.com
> >>
> >> 1981 Scirocco S (TDI swap project)
> >> 1988 Audi 90 Quattro
> >> 1990 Corrado TDI
> >> 1991 Cabriolet (2.0 crossflow 8v project)
> >>
> >> Jacob Hawes said:
> >> > I just dropped my brother off at bowling
> practice
> >> and on the way there I
> >> > saw what at first I thought was a mk1 rocco. I
> >> could not find it on the
> >> > way home but what I saw as I passed was:
> >> > vw logo.
> >> > 4 round head lights, mk1 like.
> >> > 2dr hatchback.
> >> > back panel windows seemed mk2 ish but there was
> >> metal behind the windows
> >> > like a mk1. The window did not end in a point
> at
> >> the back but instead
> >> > the glass made two points like this _>. The
> >> indented "rim" around the
> >> > glass did end in a point though _\.
> >> >
> >> > I know this description is probably very
> unclear
> >> but I can't match the
> >> > window to any rocco pics I can find at
> >> scirocco.org nor does it match
> >> > any pics I find at vw vortex. I hope you can
> kinda
> >> picture what I mean
> >> > with the bad ascii though. Please don't let
> this
> >> be a vw-ified honda.
> >> >
> >> > --
> >> > 	--Jacob Hawes
> >> > Cars:
> >> > 	'78 Lincoln mark V "QE2" nearly abandoned work
> in
> >> progress
> >> > 	'80 Scirocco mk1 searching for a name
> >> > 	'92 Ford Tempo "the... ford" soon to be
> replaced
> >> by rocco as DD
> >> > Sharp pointy things:
> >> > 	18" HI Kobra "pillow knife"
> >> > 	17.5" HI Ang Khola Villager "camp axe"
> >> > 	~48" Custom two hander. unnamed
> >> >
> >> >
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