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Slegato acquisition - part 1 (long)



Hey that was a very lucid (well maybe not) and a morning post at that....maybe the coffee is super-charged around here this morning.....hey and it is Mike that hangs out with me.....
jajajajajajaja (spanish laugh)
 
El Tony

Dan Bubb <jdbubb@verizon.net> wrote:
You been hanging around with Mike and drinking to excess lately???

From: "Neptuno" 
Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2005 10:18 AM


> Dear D,
>
> I'll start by saying that your ever-growing-stable of a signature makes 
> most of us have mix feelings.
>
> On one hand we are so very happy that it keeps growing as we know that 
> means one fewer rocco converted into nice office furniture or even worse, 
> raw metal that is farmed out to Japan to later be sold around the world as 
> accommodating bathroom partitions at the airport. (yeah you all know the 
> ones, The Shiny ones!! )
>
> The second emotion is that of being revolted by the seemingly unspeakable 
> amounts of Sciroccos I will NOT have (or can not) You monster!!! spending 
> obscene amounts of time and energy on the road to world rocco domination. 
> Going into Canada even to take the roccos finely kept by the white winter 
> wonderland. The malicious intent to keep the brothers and sister of that 
> land with universal health coverage without one more rocco. Imagine alone 
> the repercussions of your actions. Another teen negated his/her dream of a 
> Slegato or the Grampa having a coronary for your endeavors.......Oh Daun 
> we Salute you.....(where is that beer?)
>
> In any case,
>
> Here is my Happy Bunny Coffee cup (that reads "your morning breath smells 
> like butt") held high up in the sky in Cheers of acknowledgment!!!!!!
>
> To You!!
> El Tony
>
> Ps, Hell you did say Paprika Red? Nice...BTW paprika is the dust of dutch 
> red peppers :^)
>
>
> Daun Yeagley wrote:
> It's been a long journey to get this far, but I now possess
> a Paprika Red Slegato.
>
> A few of you might remember the failed attempt to retrieve
> said car from Montreal in March - and promptly blew the
> transmission in Mark F's Audi before even leaving Hamilton.
>
> Finally over this past weekend, I snagged mom's F-150 and
> headed north of the border, using Cathy's as a base of
> operations. She and I headed out on Sunday afternoon for
> the 7 hour drive to Marc's. (We knew it was going to be
> either a really good trip, or a really bad trip by the
> parasol umbrella we saw within minutes of leaving that was
> gently wafting down to the ground from 200-300 feet in the
> air.)
>
> We met up with Marc for a few minutes Sunday evening (after
> a couple wrong turns in scenic Montreal) and checked out
> the car. It's a wee bit rough around the edges, but it's
> quite solid enough to work with (almost no rot underneath),
> unhit with original paint, clean interior and mechanically
> taken care of.
>
> Monday morning we met back up with Marc in search of
> breakfast and a tow dolly. (while acquiring the dolly we
> had a dual Scirocco sighting at the shop next door. We
> spoke with the mechanic who owned both and he knows about
> the list but has no web access at home...) With breakfast
> and dolly both acquired, Marc did the honours of driving
> the Slegato up onto the dolly and then he and Cathy stood
> around taking lots of pictures while I cinched "Gino" to
> the dolly. (Normally I don't name cars, but this one stuck
> from the first attempted retrieval and it seems to fit.)
>
> The trip back to Cathy's was relatively uneventful, with
> her occasionally asking questions like "is that damn red
> car still tailgating us?" Gino towed wonderfully, and we
> arrived back at Cathy's exhausted around 10:30 Monday
> night.
>
> Now if the importer wasn't on vacation, I'd leave Gino on
> the dolly and take him home. However, it looks like yet
> ANOTHER trip to Cathy's (oh darn!) is in order before long.
> This might give me time to actually diagnose the coolant /
> oil mixing and fix it so I don't have to tow him the rest
> of the way back to Ohio.
>
> Huge public thanks goes out to Cathy for everything she's
> done so far, and allowing me to leave Gino with all the
> rest of her "fine German scrap metal" as she puts it. Also
> thanks to Marc for the immense amount of patience it
> required to actually get the acquisition accomplished after
> what, seven months?
>
> I just can't stomach the thought of a seven hour drive home
> today after living in that F-150 since Friday. Besides, I
> have a new toy to play with, home can wait another day....
>
>
> Daun Yeagley - Wilmington Ohio
> '81 Scirocco S '85 Scirocco 8v
> '86 Scirocco 8v '88 Scirocco 16v
> '88 Scirocco Slegato *still Canadian, but on it's way Stateside*
> '96 Passat GLX Wagon '56 Cessna 172
> The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts - 
> Ehrlich's Law.
>
>
>
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